Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters Drummer Dies at 50

Too soon, too early, too painful

Araci Matos
3 min readMar 26, 2022

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I wish I weren’t writing this…

Well, everyone that knows me, knows I’m a Rock and Roll fan. I have always been and always will.

Growing up in the 90s, Nirvana and all the grunge scene had a particular impact on me, but if it wasn’t that, I was screaming Alanis Morissette’s songs out lout, where Taylor was also a drummer during the Jagged Little Pill tour.

So, I don’t need to delve more into this, you read the tittle and you know what is this about.

Today when I woke up and heard about Taylor Hawkins death I couldn’t believe it. Yes my friends, it’s unfortunately true. Taylor died yesterday, 25th March 2022.

I thought I was still dreaming when my husband woke me up and said

“You cannot believe it, but Taylor, the Foo Fighters drummer died”

So, I turn on the tv. But tv doesn’t care about music anymore. There’s too much going on, but for me, this is today, the main sad news. So, the only thing I had to do was to go to Foo Fighter’s page on Twitter, and then there it was:

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Araci Matos

Trying to be the Portuguese Annie Ernaux or Elena Ferrante