Rock music fans were stunned and saddened on the weekend to hear Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins had died in his hotel room in Bogota, Colombia on Friday. Yesterday, authorities released a preliminary report on his death that said he had 10 psychoactive substances and medicines in his system, “including THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids”. The cause of death was not confirmed. Hawkins was widely credited with giving the Foo Fighters its sense of fun. The drummer with a big personality went from Alanis Morissette’s touring band to the band founded by Dave Grohl after Nirvana disbanded when its lead singer Kurt Cobain died in 1994. “Hawkins and Grohl had such an easy, natural camaraderie that they gave the impression that they were lifelong friends,” said one critic, but they only connected in the late 1990s. Hawkins was 50yo, and his bandmates said his “musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever.”