Taylor Hawkins, the drummer of the Foo Fighters, died this Friday in Bogotá hours before the band performed at the Estereo Picnic, a music festival on the outskirts of the city. The group announced it through its official Twitter account: “The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and eternal loss of our beloved Taylor. His musical spirit and his infectious laugh will live with us all forever.”

Hawkins, born in Fort Worth, Texas, was 51 years old. The public, at night, had not found out what had happened and waited in front of the stage for the American band to come out to play. The organization of the festival communicated through the screens of the venue that due to a “very serious medical situation” the Foo Fitghters were not going to act.

Foo Fighters is one of the most recognized rock’n’roll bands in the world. Like The Rolling Stones, they symbolize the golden age of rock and roll and the thrust of the youth counterculture of the sixties, despite the incontestable passage of time and its irreparable conversion into a musical multinational, Foo Fighters, whose first album came out just one year after Kurt Cobain committed suicide, is the world representation of the time of the nineties, of that generation X that emerged on the margins of American consumer society with its plaid shirts and its disenchanted existentialism.

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