While touring South America in March 2022, according to Rolling Stone, Foo Fighters were scheduled to play the Festival Estéreo Picnic festival in Bogota, Colombia. The night before the event, per the Associated Press, emergency medical personnel were summoned to the Four Seasons Casa Medina, the band’s hotel, after drummer Taylor Hawkins experienced chest pains. By the time they arrived, another, private ambulance was on the scene, by which point Hawkins had gone unconscious. Revival attempts were unsuccessful, and Hawkins was pronounced dead at age 50.
An initial toxicology report by the Prosecutor’s Office of Colombia showed 10 controlled substances and medications in Hawkins’ body at the time of his death including prescription antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills, marijuana, and opioids. An autopsy pinpointed another possible or probable cause of the musician’s untimely death. According to a report obtained by tabloid The Daily Mail, Hawkins’ heart weighed in excess of 600 grams, about double that of the average, healthy heart of a man his age. In the wake of the death, Foo Fighters canceled all future scheduled tour dates.”Let’s take this time to grieve, to heal, to pull our loved ones close, and to appreciate all the music and memories we’ve made together,” Foo Fighters said in a statement.
