Lots of publicity for several reasons:
1) Foo Fighters is a popular, fairly known band among Xers and Millennials.
2) Foo Fighters recently mandated that concertgoers must be vaccinated to attend their concerts. So that brought lots of (negative IMO) publicity.
3) Hawkins was a fairly young guy, so many thought cause of death may have been from vaccine toxicity which would have been ironic seeing that the band mandated vaccines.
4) Again, fairly popular, well known band, fairly young guy, had a wife and kids, there’s a sudden death which usually means that there is some amount of publicity. Oh, and did I mention that Kurt Cobain (who committed suicide) was in a band called Nirvana and the drummer for Nirvana was David Growl who became the frontman for Foo Fighters. So the music community has been affected from several angles.
Didn’t Dave Grohl start the Foo Fighters band...I thought he was the drummer.