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The Grammy Award winner — known for chart-topping hits including “Right Here Waiting” and “Endless Summer Nights” — tweeted Friday night that he wascollaborating with Hawkinsshortly before he died at age 50.
“Gutted. Completely gutted,” Marx, 58, wrote on Twitter following the announcement of Hawkins' death. “We just recorded something together a month ago. Can’t even process this right now. Let’s hold Taylor’s wife and children close to our hearts.”
Marx, who has collaborated with musical artists ranging from*NSYNCtoLuther Vandross, was among the slew of celebrities who paid tribute to the late drummer on social media.
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Circumstances surrounding Hawkins' death have not been revealed. The band is currently on tour in South America and played at Lollapalooza Argentina earlier this week.
They were set to perform on Friday at the Festival Estéreo Picnic in Bogota, Colombia. However, at the festival, organizers announced that there had been a medical emergency and the band, who were the headliners, would not be appearing.
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“I thought it was neat the way he did the speech and he sort of made the parallels between Dave [Grohl] being inNirvanaand that being this crazy tornado, and then out of that Dave found his way to the Foo Fighters, and we slowly kind of made our way up,” Hawkins told Stern.
“He said it was sort of a similar story like [going to] The Wings from the Beatles,” Hawkins added. “I always kind of thought of us like The Wings. I love The Wings.”
source: people.com
