Hawkins himself was much more modest.
“Aw, dude, c’mon man,” he said at the top of a BBC 6 Radio Music interview in 2019 after being compared to Stewart Copeland of The Police. “I’m not that good!”
But he not only was that good, he was always willing to talk at length about music and drumming as he did in this nearly 50-minute “Masterclass” for BBC 6 that’s receiving renewed attention:
