Foo Fighters Close Emotional Tribute Concert With Taylor Hawkins’ Son & Paul McCartney
Foo Fighters played a career-spanning encore to wrap up tonight’s Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium in London, with a break in the middle to welcome surprise guest Paul McCartney for some Beatles songs. During the Foo Fighters performances, Travis Barker, Josh Freese, Nandi Bushell, Rufus Taylor, Omar Hakim, and Hawkins’ 16-year-old son Oliver handled drum duties.
McCartney, who inducted Foo Fighters into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame last year, took the stage with Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde and introduced a song “that I haven’t done since I recorded it 100 years ago — I’ve never done it as a duet, but we’re gonna do it tonight for the first time.” They then did the Beatles’ “Oh! Darling” with Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, and Omar Hakim, and followed it with “Helter Skelter.”
Watch some clips from the night’s final stretch below.
Foo Fighters Setlist:
“Times Like These” (with Josh Freese)
“All My Life” (with Josh Freese)
“The Pretender” (with Travis Barker)
”Monkey Wrench” (with Travis Barker)
“Learn To Fly” (with Nandi Bushell)
“These Days” (with Rufus Taylor)
“Best Of You” (with Rufus Taylor)
”Oh! Darling” (the Beatles cover) (with Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde, and Omar Hakim)
“Helter Skelter” (with Paul McCartney and Omar Hakim)
“Aurora” (with Omar Hakim)
“My Hero” (with Oliver Shane Hawkins)
”Everlong” (Dave Grohl solo)