Taylor Hawkins, the flamboyant and hard-hitting drummer for the lasting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Foo Fighters, which has produced seven platinum albums and garnered 12 Grammy awards, has away at the age of 50. The death was verified in a statement that was written by the band's publicist and uploaded to social media late on Friday. Mr. Hawkins had been residing at a hotel in northern Bogotá, where the band was slated to perform Friday night, according to the attorney general's office of Colombia. Preliminary testing, according to the office, revealed that Mr. Hawkins had a number of drugs in his system, including opiates, marijuana, and benzodiazepines; the cause of death was still being looked into. On recent Foo Fighters tours, Mr. Hawkins would take Mr. Grohl's…
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