Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins in solo 80s throwback video

A still from the Range Rover Bitch video
A still from the Range Rover Bitch video

Foo FightersTaylor Hawkins pays tribute to the early Eighties in his video for Range Rover Bitch.

The drummer’s retro-style promo from his recently released Kota solo album features picture-in-picture screens, a cowbell and the man himself with blonde hair and a dark moustache.

Hawkins tells Rolling Stone: “Liam Lynch did an incredible job on the Range Rover Bitch video. I think our shared love of that pre-MTV late 70s/very early 80s direct-to-video late night television Don Kirshner, Midnight Special vibe really shines through on this video. He really captured that Kim Carnes, Nick Gilder feel.”

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Last week the drummer said the meaning behind Range Rover Bitch was a reference to his star-studded neighbourhood in Calabasas, where members of the Kardashian family also live.

He told Consequence Of Sound: “I look around at my life, and outside of being onstage and all the wonderful crazy fucking shit that we get to do as a band, I lead a very normal life. I have three kids, a wife and we have a date night every week.

“So I look around and think how I never ever thought that picking up this pair of drumsticks would make me one of these well-to-do adults. I’m looking around going, ‘Look at these idiots, and how did I become one of them?’”

Meanwhile, Hawkins recently revealed that the Foo Fighters’ management didn’t want his song Cold Day In The Sun to appear on 2005 double-album In Your Honor – because it meant there would be one less Dave Grohl composition on the tracklist.

Foo Fighters are in the process of revealing a European summer tour for 2017, with five dates announced so far.

Foo Fighters European tour 2017 so far

Jun 29: Open’er Festival, Poland
Jun 30: Roskilde Festival, Denmark
Jul 02: Rock Werchter, Belgium
Jul 06: Mad Cool Festival, Spain
Jul 07: Nos Alive, Portugal

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