Paying tribute to a legend. Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters took the stage in California to honor the band’s late drummer, Taylor Hawkins, with friends and family – including Queen’s Brian May.May, 75, was one of many stars who contributed to The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert on Tuesday, September 27.
While the rocker didn’t initially plan to sing the band’s hit “Love of My Life,” special circumstances sparked a change of plans.“I wasn’t going to sing this song tonight because we all decided this was a party, and this was a time to celebrate, right?
Then something happened,” the England native explained. “I sang this song in Wembley [at the U.K. tribute for Hawkins] when we did this a couple weeks ago and it’s a song written by a young man called Freddie Mercury.
And I wasn’t going to do it, but then I got a message from Alison Hawkins. And she said, ‘Brian, I want you to do this song.
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