Taylor Hawkins: “I used to do a lot of fucking drugs… I believed the bullshit myth of live fast and die young”

For as long as he can remember, music has always been part of Taylor Hawkins’ life. Growing up on a diet of The Beatles, Bee Gees and ​“the pop of the day”, just as he began to play drums at the age of 10, he scored tickets to see Queen perform at the newly-built Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre on September 11, 1982.  The band, who were touring North America that year in support of their latest album, Hot Space, irrevocably changed the young Taylor’s life. With a setlist which opened with Flash and closed with We Are The Champions, it’s not hard to see why it had such an emotional impact.  “After that concert, I don’t think I slept for three days,” he remembers today. ​“It changed everything, and I was never the same because of it. It was the beginn...

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