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This Day in 1984: Van Halen’s Original Lineup Plays Final Concert [VIDEO & AUDIO]

September 2, 2021 —by VHND Leave a Comment

On this day in 1984, the original lineup of Van Halen — David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony — played their very last show together.

A total of five “Monsters of Rock” Festival dates in Europe were to be Van Halen’s last shows of their massive 1984 tour. Those festival dates kicked off on August 18th in Leicestershire, England , and ran through Sept 2nd in Nuremburg, Germany where the band performed at Zeppelin Field. Today’s date marks the anniversary of the final concert with the original lineup, and the final date with Roth until he rejoined the band in 2007.

Below are a few videos featuring a German TV report and performance of the band’s #1 single “Jump”:

A German TV Report On Van Halen

Van Halen Performing “Jump”

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1 “Unchained” 2 “Hot for Teacher” 3 Drum Solo 4 “On Fire” 5 “Runnin’ With the Devil” 6 “Little Guitars” 7 “House of Pain” 8 Bass Solo 9 “I’ll Wait” 10 “Everybody Wants Some!!” 11 “(Oh) Pretty Woman” 12 “1984” 13 “Jump” 14 “Guitar Solo” 15 “Panama”

Encore: 16 “You Really Got Me” 17 “Happy Trails”

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12 Landmark Eddie Van Halen Shows: First and Last Concerts

Eddie Van Halen was most at home onstage.

The six-string virtuoso revolutionized hard-rock guitar with his dizzying two-handed tapping, harmonic squeals and wild dive-bombs. But Van Halen was no mere bedroom shredder. Tantamount to his otherworldly chops was his dynamic stage presence. When you think of Eddie Van Halen now, it's nearly impossible not to picture him flying through the air while doing one of his signature split jumps, megawatt grin plastered across his face.

Van Halen began getting his live-performance reps while he was still in elementary school, playing piano in a group called the Broken Combs with his brother, Alex , on saxophone. Eddie and Alex eventually graduated to guitar and drums, respectively, and continued to cut their teeth on the Pasadena backyard party circuit with various iterations of the band that eventually became the mighty Van Halen .

By 1974, Van Halen had become the house band at the West Hollywood nightclub Gazzarri's, where they built a reputation as the hottest ticket in town. During those formative years, they further honed the chops and stage theatrics that would take them to the top of the world and keep them there for nearly four decades, until they retired from the stage in 2015, five years before Eddie's death in 2020.

From his high-school party days to his final curtain call, here are 12 Landmark Eddie Van Halen Shows from his illustrious career.

Circa 1964-1965: Eddie and Alex play in Broken Combs

Eddie and Alex Van Halen’s musical bond dated back to their childhood. While they were still in elementary school, they played in a band called the Broken Combs, featuring Eddie on piano and Alex on tenor saxophone. Dana MacDuff, who went to school with the brothers, recalled seeing them play in the book Van Halen Rising : "I was a third-grade student at Hamilton Elementary School. We’d have lunch outside near the pergola, and there'd be performances for the student body. One day there was a band playing; it was Ed and Al, and their band was called the Broken Combs. I was totally unaware that they were budding musicians."

Summer 1973: David Lee Roth plays first show with Mammoth

David Lee Roth made his live debut as an official member of Mammoth, the band's pre-Van Halen moniker, in summer 1973 at one of the myriad backyard parties the group played in its early days. It was an inauspicious beginning, with Roth recalling in his autobiography Crazy From the Heat that “the audience hated it!” One problem was that Roth, an avowed fan of glam, pop and soul music, was neither familiar with nor interested in the Van Halen brothers’ heavy metal repertoire. Roth eventually convinced Mammoth to add some pop and dance numbers to their sets, and their local profile continued to grow.

June 1974: Classic Van Halen lineup plays first show

Michael Anthony ’s indoctrination into Van Halen’s backyard party scene came in June 1974, when Don and Mary Ann Imler embarked on a monthlong trip to Mexico. In their absence, their kids — 22-year-old son Denis and teenage daughters Debbie and Karen — planned a house party and booked Van Halen as the evening entertainment. It was a predictably rowdy show that further established Van Halen as local kingpins, but Anthony was more rattled by the mandate to wear eye-catching stage clothes — the kind of threads that helped them stand out on the Sunset Strip when they served as the house band at Gazzarri's. "My [future] wife had made a gold lame outfit for me," Anthony recalled in Van Halen Rising . "I could barely bring myself to walk through the crowd wearing it."

Sept. 2, 1984: Original Van Halen lineup plays final show

A diamond-selling album and No. 1 single weren’t enough to keep Van Halen intact; in fact, the band members’ disagreements over what musical direction to take on the poppy, keyboard-heavy 1984 presaged their collapse. Despite his cheerful facade while talking to the press, David Lee Roth distanced himself from his bandmates on the 1984 tour, traveling to sold-out shows by himself . The trek ended with a Monsters of Rock Tour stop on Sept. 2, 1984, in Nuremberg, Germany. It marked the original Van Halen lineup’s final show, and Roth’s last show with the band until 2007.

Read More:  When Van Halen Played Their Last Concert With the Original Lineup 

March 27, 1986: Sammy Hagar plays his first Van Halen concert

Van Halen MKII made their triumphant live debut on March 27, 1986, at Shreveport, La.’s Hirsch Memorial Coliseum. Sammy Hagar later told UCR it was "stupid" that the new lineup "rebelled against our pasts" by featuring so much of Van Hagar's three-day-old debut album,  5150 , rather than more familiar songs from both artists’ catalogs. Nevertheless, the sold-out show was a huge success from the opening notes of “You Really Got Me” to an encore performance of Led Zeppelin ’s “Rock and Roll” (which Hagar and Van Halen had previously played together at 1985's Farm Aid, where they announced their new partnership — sort of ). The rapturous audience response even emboldened Hagar to sport a “Dave Who?” shirt at one point during the set.

Read More:  When Sammy Hagar Played His First Van Halen Concert 

Nov. 5, 1995: Sammy Hagar's final first-tenure Van Halen show 

Van Halen’s exhaustive, injury-plagued Balance tour staggered to an end on Nov. 5, 1995, in Honolulu. Sammy Hagar’s first tenure with the band would soon follow suit. In his 2012 memoir Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock , Hagar recalled receiving a 2AM phone call from Eddie that hastened his departure. “‘What are you going to do when we get back?’ he said. … ‘I don’t know,’ I said. ‘Take some time off. What are you going to do?’ ‘I don’t know yet,' he said. ‘When I figure it out, I’ll let you know. I’ve got some plans, but I’ll let you know if it involves you or not.’ ‘Okay,’ I said. ‘Fuck you.’ I hung up the phone.”

Read More:  The Phone Call That Began the End of Sammy Hagar and Van Halen 

April 10, 1998: Van Halen kick off tour with Gary Cherone

Van Halen kicked off their first and only tour with longtime  Extreme front man Gary Cherone  on April 10, 1998 at Wellington, New Zealand’s Queens Wharf Event Centre. Far away from the U.S. media’s glaring headlights, the new lineup tore through a career-spanning set that included a few Hagar-era hits ("When It’s Love," "Dreams," "Right Now") and a generous helping of Roth-period classics ("Unchained," "Panama," "Jump"), plus resurrected album tracks like "Mean Street," "Romeo Delight" and "Somebody Get Me a Doctor.” They also played a half-dozen tracks off the newly released Van Halen III , which underperformed critically and commercially and led to Cherone’s quick departure. At first, though, they were living it up, and their April 20 concert in Sydney was later broadcast on MTV 's  Live From the Ten Spot. 

( Note:  Van Halen did play one show with Cherone before this — on March 12, 1998 at Billboard Live in Hollywood. It was a promotional, invite-only performance for the world premiere of Van Halen III . The III Tour properly commenced on April 10, 1998 in New Zealand.)

Read More:  When Van Halen Played Their First Show With Gary Cherone 

Nov. 2, 1998: Van Halen's last show with Gary Cherone

Gary Cherone's brief tenure fronting Van Halen might not have had the headline-grabbing drama of his predecessors, but it also lacked the critical acclaim and massive album sales. Less than a year after making his live debut, Cherone performed his last concert with the band in Yokohama, Japan, on Nov. 2, 1998. The tour, much like the Cherone-fronted  Van Halen III , was met with lukewarm sales, and almost exactly one year after completing the trek, Cherone was dismissed on Nov. 5, 1999.

Read More:  The Day Gary Cherone Left Van Halen

June 11, 2004: Van Halen launch Sammy Hagar reunion tour

After reconciling and recording a trio of new songs for 2004's Best of Both Worlds  compilation, Van Halen launched a disastrous reunion tour with Sammy Hagar that kicked off on June 11, 2004, in Greensboro, N.C. The 80-date trek was marred from the start, as the Van Halen brothers no longer wanted to work with Michael Anthony, but his involvement was non-negotiable for Hagar. Anthony ultimately participated in the tour, but only after taking a pay cut and signing away his rights to the Van Halen name and logo.

Read More:  When Van Halen Mounted a Disastrous Reunion With Sammy Hagar

Nov. 19, 2004: Sammy Hagar's last Van Halen show

Van Halen’s ill-fated reunion tour with Sammy Hagar ended on Nov. 19, 2004, at the Anselmo Valencia Amphitheater in Tucson, with a performance infamously referred to as “Black Friday” among some fans. Hagar later described it as “the worst show we’d ever done in our lives,” noting that Eddie “played so bad” that night. The guitarist smashed his guitar onstage and reportedly told the audience through tears, “You don’t understand.” Hagar later called Van Halen’s 2004 tour “some of the most miserable, backstabbing dark crap I’ve ever been involved with my whole life."

Read More:  The Night Sammy Hagar Played His Last Show With Van Halen

Sept. 27, 2007: Roth returns, Wolfgang makes live debut

After more than two decades away, original Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth reassumed his position at the mic on Sept. 27, 2007, when the band's tour kicked off in Charlotte, N.C. It wasn’t a full-fledged reunion, as a 16-year-old Wolfgang Van Halen had replaced Michael Anthony on bass. Still, the youngest Van Halen capably filled Anthony’s shoes and injected youthful energy into the set, which featured several Roth-era classics and deep cuts like “Hot for Teacher,” “Ice Cream Man,” “Little Dreamer” and “Beautiful Girls.” During "I'm the One," Roth made a wry nod to his 23-year employment gap with Van Halen, quipping, "It only took 20 years to get this fucking far!"

Read More:  The Day Van Halen Reunited With David Lee Roth

Oct. 4, 2015: Van Halen's final show

Van Halen's final concert was a hometown gig on Oct. 4, 2015, the second of two nights at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, almost exactly five years to the day before he died. The 23-song show opened with “Light Up the Sky” and ended with “Jump,” and both Van Halen brothers got their moments in the spotlight. Alex played a mid-set drum solo following “I’ll Wait,” while Eddie incorporated elements of "Little Guitars," "Mean Street,” "Spanish Fly," "Eruption" and "Cathedral” into his solo. On Oct. 4, 2021, Wolfgang acknowledged the show in a tweet . “It was the last show we ever did, and it was the last show I ever played with my dad. I’ll never forget it,” he wrote. During the previous night's show, David Lee Roth  thanked his longtime sparring partner for 40 years of magic "The best years of my life, the high points of all my life — onstage with you, homeboy," he said. "I will always do the half-Jesus towards you, Eddie Van Halen."

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CHULA VISTA, CA - SEPTEMBER 30: Musicians Eddie Van Halen (L) and Alex Van Halen of Van Halen ... [+] perform on stage at Sleep Train Amphitheatre on September 30, 2015 in Chula Vista, California. (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)

Alex Van Halen recently did a tell all interview with Rolling Stone in which he went into full detail about the rumored Van Halen tribute tour that was supposed to take place, following the death of his brother Eddie Van Halen in 2021.

What Was The Van Halen Reunion Tour?

In 2022 a Van Halen reunion tour was rumored to be in the works to honor the late great guitarist Eddie Van Halen and the band’s legacy. The rumored tour supposedly was to feature the band’s iconic vocalist David Lee Roth and even original bassist Michael Anthony, who had been left out of the band’s previous Roth era reunion in the 2010s. Additionally, former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted has come out and stated that he was asked to join the tour as well.

Guitarist Joe Satriani was who Roth and Alex were eyeing to perform Eddie’s parts, and Satriani has since publicly stated why he chose to decline the tour. “No way. I can’t do this. This is too hard,” Satriani told Alex Van Halen three weeks after agreeing to do the tour. “But he convinced me that I could do it, and then another couple of weeks later, it was the same kind of thing. I thought, ‘Man, some of these songs are… they’re just not me.’ Eddie played in a completely different way. Where he put his timing… it’s so different from what I cultivated in my playing for decades. So that was the hardest part; I was just always pushing like Eddie did, and I was always trying to find the deepest pocket.”

Why Did The Tour Fall Apart?

In his interview with Rolling Stone, Alex points out that the tour ultimately fell apart after David Lee Roth had an outburst when discussing the idea of honoring and acknowledging Eddie Van Halen in the tour.

“The thing that broke the camel’s back, and I can be honest about this now,” Alex told Rolling Stone, “was I said, ‘Dave, at some point, we have to have a very overt — not a bowing — but an acknowledgment of Ed in the gig. If you look at how Queen does it, they show old footage.’ And the moment I said we gotta acknowledge Ed, Dave f**kin’ popped a fuse.… The vitriol that came out was unbelievable.”

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“I’m from the street,” he says. “‘You talk to me like that, motherf**ker, I’m gonna beat your f**king brains out. You got it?’ And I mean that. And that’s how it ended.” Rolling Stone notes that Alex is still baffled by Roth’s comments. “It’s just, my God. It’s like I didn’t know him anymore. I have nothing but the utmost respect for his work ethic and all that. But, Dave, you gotta work as a community, motherf**ker. It’s not you alone anymore.”

Rolling Stone stated that Roth declined to comment.

Roth’s reaction certainly seems out of left field, especially if the entire point of the tour was to honor Van Halen’s legacy, which Eddie Van Halen was largely the face of.

Regardless of whether or not Roth’s reaction was in fact the straw the broke the camel’s back, Alex does go on to admit that he would have been physically unable to do the tribute tour anyway, due to his recent spinal injury. “It’s too bad on one hand, but it’s fine on the other,” Alex says. “Because now, in retrospect, playing the old songs is not really paying tribute to anybody. That’s just like a jukebox, in my opinion.… To find a replacement for Ed? It’s just not the same.”

Rolling Stone’s interview with Alex Van Halen was the drummer’s first public interview since the death of Eddie Van Halen in 2021. Throughout the last few years Alex has been working on a new memoir entitled, Brothers , which looks back on his childhood with Eddie up to the end of Van Halen’s original lineup in 1984.

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Van Halen reunion canceled after David Lee Roth refused to pay tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen, brother says

A reunion tour for the legendary rock band Van Halen was axed because the group's lead singer, David Lee Roth, refused to pay tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen, his brother, Alex Van Halen, revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone .

Alex Van Halen, who founded the band with his brother, opened up to the magazine for the first time since his brother's death and shed light on infighting within the band that led to the collapse of the latest planned tour.

Eddie Van Halen, the virtuosic and revered guitarist, died in October 2020 after a bout with cancer at age 65. 

Alex Van Halen confirmed to the magazine, in a piece published Tuesday, that rumors of a planned tour after Eddie Van Halen died were true and said there were even early rehearsals featuring himself on drums with Roth, the band’s original lead vocalist. However, the plans fell through after an explosive argument over paying tribute to the band's late co-founder. 

“The thing that broke the camel’s back, and I can be honest about this now,” Alex Van Halen revealed, “was I said, ‘Dave, at some point, we have to have a very overt — not a bowing — but an acknowledgment of Ed in the gig. If you look at how Queen does it, they show old footage.’ And the moment I said we gotta acknowledge Ed, Dave f---in’ popped a fuse. ... The vitriol that came out was unbelievable.”

Alex Van Halen said he had several phone conversations with Queen’s Brian May about how the band performs while still honoring the group’s late singer, Freddie Mercury. But he said Roth simply refused to pay tribute to his brother. 

“It’s just, my God. It’s like I didn’t know him anymore. I have nothing but the utmost respect for his work ethic and all that. But, Dave, you gotta work as a community, motherf---er. It’s not you alone anymore,” Alex Van Halen said. The magazine noted that Roth declined to comment.

Ultimately, he said that he feels OK about canceling the tour and that he’s still in touch with Roth.

“It’s too bad on one hand, but it’s fine on the other,” he said. “Because now, in retrospect, playing the old songs is not really paying tribute to anybody. That’s just like a jukebox, in my opinion. ... To find a replacement for Ed? It’s just not the same.”

Alex Van Halen said that his brother’s death left him in the throes of “oceanic grief” and that he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He's set to release a memoir on Oct. 22 titled "Brothers," following his childhood with Eddie Van Halen up through their original band lineup.

“I just miss him,” he said. “I miss the arguments. I live with it every day. And I can’t bring him back. I can’t make things right.”

He said he feels his brother's spirit at times.

“Ed’s been around a couple times,” he told Rolling Stone. “He was  there  this morning.”

He said he believes he and his brother achieved “what we came here to do.” Speaking of his brother, Alex Van Halen said, “Wherever he is — he’s fine.”

Marlene Lenthang is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.

Flashback: Eddie Van Halen Plays Explosive ‘Eruption’ at Final Concert

By Andy Greene

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Sunday’s Grammy Awards may have received some of the show’s best reviews in years (even though viewership plummeted to an all-time low), but hard rock and heavy metal fans were not happy with the broadcast’s tribute to Eddie Van Halen . He wasn’t mentioned at the top of the show when Little Richard, John Prine, and Kenny Rogers were cited as examples of people we lost in the past year, and when the In Memoriam segment came, it featured a mere 20-second clip of “Eruption” against a shot of his Frankenstein guitar on a stand. (By contrast, Kenny Rogers received a two-minute tribute by Lionel Richie.)

As it turns out, the Recording Academy did at least try to put together something more substantial. In a tweet the morning after the ceremony, Wolfgang Van Halen said he was approached about playing “Eruption” on the broadcast. “I don’t think anyone could have lived up to what my father did for music but himself,” Wolfgang wrote, explaining why he declined. “I didn’t realize they would only show Pop for 15 seconds in the middle of four full performances for others we had lost.”

“What hurt the most,” he continued, “was that he wasn’t even mentioned when they talked about artists we lost in the beginning of the show. I know rock isn’t the most popular genre right now (and the academy does seem a bit out of touch) but I think it’s impossible to ignore the legacy my father left on the instrument, the world of rock, and music in general. There will never be another innovator like him.”

We don’t know if they approached other guitarists after Wolfgang opted out, but it’s easy to understand why they couldn’t find anybody. How could any guitarist, no matter how skilled, play “Eruption” and not seem like a poor Van Halen imitator? It’s Eddie’s signature solo that goes all the way back to the first Van Halen album in 1978. It can be duplicated by skilled guitarists, and there are plenty such attempts on YouTube, but nobody plays it like Van Halen himself.

Here’s video of “Eruption” from the final Van Halen concert, which took place at L.A.’s Hollywood Bowl on October 4th, 2015. As always, he slips snippets of other songs into the mix, including “Little Guitars,” “Mean Street,” “Spanish Fly,” and “Cathedral,” but it all builds to an incredible climax of “Eruption.” At the nine-minute mark, the band returns to the stage and kicks into “You Really Got Me.”

In a perfect world, Van Halen would have ended with the mega stadium tour they were planning in 2019 that would have featured the return of Michael Anthony, and Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth taking turns on lead vocals. But they had to scuttle the idea when Eddie’s cancer returned. But at least he lived long enough to make one last album with Roth and play three arena tours with him between 2007 and 2015. That was a better gift to the fans than anything the Grammys could have put together.

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Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth WVH announce second album and share lead single

Watch the 'Another Celebration at the End of the World' video

Wolfgang Van Halen will release his second Mammoth WVH album, ‘Mammoth II’, on Friday 4th August 2023 via the band’s new label BMG.

Featuring 10 tracks, the follow-up to June 2021’s ‘Mammoth WVH’ features 10 songs and it was recorded at the legendary 5150 studio with esteemed producer Michael ‘Elvis’ Baskette.

As with its predecessor, ‘Mammoth II’ was written entirely by Wolfgang Van Halen and he also played all the instruments in the studio.

Ahead of the album’s release this summer, Mammoth WVH have premiered the video for euphoric lead single ‘Another Celebration at the End of the World’, which you can feast your eyes and ears on here:

Commenting on ‘Mammoth II’ and its lead single, Wolfgang Van Halen said: “I knew that I wanted the new album to contain elements of what people heard on the debut, but also giving me a chance to branch out a bit.

“‘Another Celebration at the End of the World’ is definitely a song that showcases what people can expect from the new album. It is a high-energy rocker with some fun guitar moments on it. I also pushed myself vocally and it is a song I can’t wait to get out and play live. I can see it being a fixture in our live set moving forward.”

Mammoth WVH will support Alter Bridge at their ultra intimate Edinburgh O2 Academy show on Tuesday 6th June before playing Download Festival two days later.

Wolfgang and his live band of Frank Sidoris (guitars), Jon Jourdan (guitars), Ronnie Ficarro (Bass) and Garrett Whitlock (drums) will then return to the UK & Ireland in July for stadium shows with Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe .

Mammoth WVH’s ‘Mammoth II’ track-listing:

2 - Like A Pastime

3 - Another Celebration At The End Of The World

4 - Miles Above Me

5 - Take A Bow

6 - Optimist

7 - I’m Alright

8 - Erase Me

9 - Waiting

10 - Better Than You

Mammoth WVH’s UK & Ireland tour dates:

Edinburgh O2 Academy – Tue 6th (w/ Alter Bridge)

Download Festival – Thu 8th

London Wembley Stadium – Sat 1st (w/ Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe)

Dublin Marlay Park – Tue 4th (w/ Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe)

Glasgow Green – Thu 6th (w/ Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe)

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Gaz Coombes at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

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Wolfgang Van Halen with Justin Hawkins

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Together with Chris Chaney and Jason Falkner, Violet Grohl and Mark Ronson covered 'Valerie' by The Zutons.

Brian Johnson at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

Together with Foo Fighters and Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Brian Johnson performed AC/DC's 'Back in Black' and 'Let There Be Rock.' Justin Hawkins also appeared on stage briefly.

Lars Ulrich at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich joined forces with Foo Fighters and Brian Johnson.

Brian Johnson with Dave Grohl

Brian Johnson with Justin Hawkins

Brian Johnson with Chris Shiflett

Brian Johnson with Nate Mendel

Stewart Copeland at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

Joined by Foo Fighters and Supergrass' Gaz Coombes, The Police's Stewart Copeland performed 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' and 'Next To You.'

Rush at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

With Dave Grohl and Omar Hakim filling in for the late-great Neil Peart, Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson arrived on stage to a hero's welcome.

Rush's Alex Lifeson at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

Rush performed '2112: Overture', 'Working Man' and 'YYZ'

Queen's Roger Taylor at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

With Luke Spiller, Roger Taylor, Justin Hawkins and Sam Ryder on vocal duties, Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor performed 'We Will Rock You', 'I'm In Love With My Car', 'Under Pressure' and 'Somebody To Love'

Queen at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

Dave Grohl performing with Queen's Roger Taylor and Brian May, plus Rufus Taylor on drums.

Sam Ryder and Brian May at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

Eurovision runner up Sam Ryder belts out 'Somebody To Love' with Queen.

Brian May at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

The Queen set ended with Brian May performing 'Love Of My Life' acoustically.

The crowd during Queen

Foo fighters at the taylor hawkins tribute concert.

Dave Grohl breaks down in tears during set opener 'Times Like These'

An emotional Dave Grohl during 'Times Like These'

Chris Shiflett and Dave Grohl

Nandi Bushell at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

12-year-old Nandi Bushell played drums on 'Learn to Fly' with Foo Fighters. The band were also joined by Josh Freese, Travis Barker, Rufus Taylor and Omar Hakim throughout the set. Taylor Hawkins' son Shane poignantly performed 'My Hero' in honour of his late dad.

Paul McCartney at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

Foo Fighters were joined by surprise guest Paul McCartney and Chrissie Hynde for versions of The Beatles' 'Oh Darlin' and 'Helter Skelter'.

Paul McCartney with Dave Grohl and Pat Smear

Foo Fighters take the final bow after Dave Grohl's performance of 'Everlong'

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