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If determination were immoderate adust eyes near astatine Wembley Stadium by the clip Violet Grohl took the stage, determination surely weren’t immoderate aft Dave Grohl’s daughter performed. Violet, 16, was 1 of the featured performers astatine the archetypal Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert, taking spot astatine the hallowed London venue. In a lineup that featured Stewart Copeland, Liam Gallagher, Chrissie Hynde, Joshua Homme, Geddy Lee Kesha, Nile Rodgers, John Paul Jones, Brian May, Lars Ulrich, and Kesha, it was the teenage Grohl who stole the spotlight with her touching renditions of 2 Jeff Buckley songs.
Violet Grohl – Grace – #JeffBuckley
Tribute to #TaylorHawkins @wembleystadium #FooFighters
Waouh ! pic.twitter.com/O7f0CVQhai
— Leleina Pierce (@LeleinaPierce) September 3, 2022
Before the ingenue took the stage, Dave paid tribute to his precocious set mate Taylor, calling him a “musicologist” who “knew much astir music” than anyone Dave had ever met, per NME. “He perpetually turned maine onto albums I’d ne'er heard before,” Dave explained. “One of them was Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’, which is simply a classical album. So tonight, seeing arsenic we’re honoring the euphony that Taylor loved, we’re gonna play a mates of songs from Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’.”
After introducing the set made up of himself, Alain Johannes, Jason Falkner and Chris Chaney, Dave welcomed Violet to the mic, deeming her “the lone idiosyncratic I cognize who tin really sing a Jeff Buckley song,” according to the outlet. Violet past wowed the assemblage with her renditions of Jeff’s songs “Last Goodbye” and “Grace”.
In the months since Taylor’s passing, Dave, 53, has kept a low profile. The set canceled each shows for the foreseeable aboriginal and Dave’s lone large nationalist quality was alongside adjacent person Paul McCartney at Glastonbury. Dave joined Sir Paul, 80, for a show of The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” and Wings’ “Band On The Run.” Dave came backmost retired to articulation Bruce Springsteen and Paul successful a show of “Glory Days” and the Beatles’ “I Wanna Be Your Man,” arsenic good arsenic “The End” (per Kerrang.)
(Amy Harris/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)First announced successful June, this archetypal tribute amusement took spot astir six months aft Taylor was found dead successful his edifice country successful Bogotá, Colombia. A definite origin of decease has yet to beryllium revealed to the public. “The Foo Fighters household is devastated by the tragic and untimely nonaccomplishment of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” the set announced successful a connection posted online. “His philharmonic tone and infectious laughter volition unrecorded connected with each of america forever. Our hearts spell retired to his wife, children, and family, and we inquire that their privateness beryllium treated with the utmost respect successful this unimaginably hard time.”
“As Taylor’s wife, and connected behalf of our children, I privation to stock however overmuch you meant to him and however dedicated helium was to ‘knocking your socks off’ during each performance,” Taylor’s widow, Alison Hawkins, wrote successful her archetypal connection pursuing the nonaccomplishment of her hubby and father to her 3 children. “Taylor was honored to beryllium a portion of the Foo Fighters and valued his imagination relation successful the set each infinitesimal of his 25 years with them. We considered each set subordinate and the extended Foo Fighters squad our family.”
A 2nd tribute amusement is acceptable for Sept. 27 astatine the Kia Forum successful Los Angeles. The lineup for the 2nd tribute amusement features galore of the performers from the Wembley lineup, on with Sebastian Bach, Miley Cyrus, Geezer Butler, Joan Jett, Pink, Mark Ronson, Gene Simmons, Chad Smith, and Nancy Wilson.
