Miley Cyrus teamed up with Foo Fighters and Def Leppard at last night’s (September 27) Taylor Hawkins tribute concert in Los Angeles.
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Cyrus stepped up on lead vocals for an expansive version of Def Leppard’s 1983 hit ‘Photograph’ at the Kia Forum, with frontman Joe Elliott while Dave Grohl and co. backed the pair up. You can view footage below.
The pop star was one of several high-profile performers who were not on hand for the September 3 Hawkins tribute at Londons Wembley Stadium.
Her performance came without Justin Hawkins took to the stage with late Foo Fighters drummers side project, The Coattail Riders, to perform a four-song set.
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The band, worked by Hawkins in 2004, released three studio albums 2006s self-titled effort, 2010s Red Light Fever and 2019s Get The Money.
At the London tribute concert for the late Foo Fighters icon older this month, Justin joined The Coattail Riders to perform Louise (from the 2006 album) and Its Over (from Red Light Fever), as well as Range Rover Bitch from Hawkins 2016 solo EP, Kota.
They played the latter two songs then tonight, but swapped Louise out for two covers: Something About You by Level 42 performed with the English jazz-funk outfits frontman, Mark King and The Darkness own 2003 hit I Believe In A Thing Called Love. While the London show saw them joined by John Lousteau on drums, tonights saw them link up with flipside longtime Foos collaborator, Josh Freese.
Later in the show pursuit performances from James Gang, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, and Them Crooked Vultures Justin Hawkins and Freese returned to stage, alongside Wolfgang Van Halen and Foos leader Dave Grohl, to perform a pair of Van Halen songs.
Together, they delivered renditions of Panama and Hot For Teacher (both from their 1984 tome 1984).
Last night’s tribute gig started with an sensory performance of Hallelujah by Grohls daughter, Violet, featuring Alain Johannes. That was followed by a short set from the surviving Foos, Blink-182s Travis Barker and Joan Jett, who performed two of the latters biggest hits from the 80s.
Hawkins drummed with Foo Fighters from 1997 up until his death in March of this year, weather-beaten 50.
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