Linkin vocalist Park Chester and Bennington was found dead at his residence in Palos Verdes Estates, in Los Angeles, California. Before that, the musician was vacationing with his wife in Arizona, but then decided to return home alone. This circumstance allows the police to claim that Chester committed suicide either on Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning. Chester passed away just a couple of hours before the premiere of the group's new video.
IN last years Bennington's problems with alcohol and drugs were reported. He was married twice. He left six children.
Total with the Linkin group Park Bennington recorded seven studio albums. Five of them went on to go platinum. Among other things, the group Linkin Park is a Grammy Award winner. Chester Bennington has been with the band since its inception and also came up with the name.
According to the online edition of TMZ, his death came as a surprise to the rest of the group. On the eve of the musicians planned to arrange a photo shoot, and exactly a week later - to go on tour.
It is also reported that one of the musicians of Linkin Park, vocalist Mike Shinoda, arrived at Bennington's house after law enforcement officers and was "completely shocked" by the news of the death. Chester was going to be taken to a photo shoot that day.
“I'm shocked, my heart is broken, but it's true. An official statement will follow as soon as we have it,” wrote Shinoda.
Bennington's death came on the birthday of Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell, who committed suicide on May 18 this year. Cornell and Bennington were friends.
A number of musicians and representatives of show business have already reacted on social networks to the death of their colleague.
"Chester Bennington was an artist of extraordinary talent and charisma and a man of big heart and caring soul. Our thoughts and prayers are now with his beautiful family, his bandmates and many friends,” the head of record company Warner Bros. Records Cameron Stang.
"He's cute, kind and humble. A rare combination for rock and roll. Deeply saddened,” Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich wrote. Singer Rihanna, in turn, called Chester's talent the most outstanding of all that she had ever met in her life.
Rest in peace, Chester Bennington. We will never know someone's pain. Prayers with his family in this tragedy. If you need help, reach out," said rhythm guitarist and vocalist rock band Kiss Paul Stanley.
“Probably our most famous fan,” this is how the team of the English club “Ipswich Town” recalled Bennington. “It was very sad to hear this news. Everyone in the club is transmitting best wishes Chester's family and friends."
Russian fans of Linkin Park launched a hashtag on social networks dedicated to the death of the band's frontman.
Vocalist of the Lumen group Rustem Bulatov, who himself is a fan of Linkin Park, commented in an interview with RT on the news of Bennington's death:
“This is a serious blow for the fans, I include myself in this number. Always looking forward to new albums. It's a pity that this creator is no more in the world. The load that fell on him was so heavy that he could not cope. Chester left six children - this is a great human tragedy, ”he said.
In his opinion, the band and Chester Bennington himself changed rock music.
“Very strongly influenced the whole rock with his work. A striking example how the music different styles and directions can mix into something interesting. It was theirs hallmark blurred the lines between hip-hop, rock and electronic music”, he told RT.
In turn, the leader of the Crematorium group Armen Grigoryan stated that "the actions of rock musicians are often not related to their commercial success."
“It is not clear why this happened,” he said.
The Los Angeles County coroner confirmed Bennington's death. According to coroner's spokesman Brian Elias, Bennington's death is being investigated as "an apparent suicide, but no further details are available," according to the Associated Press. The date and time of the funeral have not yet been announced.
Linkin Park is one of the most famous rock bands planets. Formed in 1996 under the name "Xero", it is to this day one of the flagships of rock music, and not only in America. This article will tell about the formation of the team, about its members, albums.
"Xero" (Xero)
The team with this name was assembled by two boys from the same class: Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson, who are still members of the Linkin Park group. There were six people in the group in total. After the first failures related to the search for labels that would want to sign a contract with a little-known band, Xero left the soloist and one of the musicians - went to other projects.
After a long search, a new vocalist was found in Arizona. His name was Chester Bennington. After meeting in absentia on the phone, and listening to demos with the voice of a potential soloist, the group invited Chester to join them. Thus arose a collective, which was called Hybrid Theory.
Under this name, the group did not last long, as electronic group with a similar name already was, and wanted to file a lawsuit on the subject of "plagiarism". At the same time, Chester suggested calling the band Linkin Park.
In general, the name was originally conceived as "Lincoln Park" - in honor of the famous politician. But in English language The surname Lincoln is spelled as Linkin, because the group received such a name. The composition of the Linkin Park group with a photo is presented below.
First album and first success
An album called Hybrid Theory was released in 1999. Apparently, the guys did not forget how they were almost sued for using this phrase in the band's name, so they decided to "recoup" with the help of the album. The young team was waiting for a real triumph.
This album was published with a circulation of thirty million and the entire circulation sold out. For the song Crawling was received in the nomination "Best performance in the style of hard rock". The video, which was filmed for the song In the End, was broadcast on MTV and received an award as the "Best Video Clip of the Year". The group took part in many rock festivals in America and gave more than three hundred concerts in a year.
Meteora
This is the title of the band's second album, released in 2003. The composition of the Linkin Park group has not undergone any changes - in fact, until the death of soloist Chester Bennington, the composition will remain stable.
This album has become one of the most successful in the history of the group. Popular chart Modern Rock Tracks called this album the best in the history of alternative rock. The song Numb from this album became the most popular in the United States and topped the chart, becoming the song of the year. The album's sales were also strong, with about six million sold in the US and over twenty million in the rest of the world. The instrumental track Session was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. This album was the last to be released in the nu metal genre.
Linkin Park Group: composition (2004)
The members of the band, with the exception of soloist Chester, gathered back in 1996. This:
Above is the entire line-up of the Linkin Park group with photos, which has not changed for about twenty years. We will talk about the band's vocalist, Chester Bennington, below.
face and name
The legendary lead singer who made Linkin Park what we know it to be. Without belittling the merits of the other members of the group, it is worth recognizing that it was the bright and charismatic leader who made the team a leader in many charts and one of the most famous "rock bands" in the whole world.
The musician was born on March 20, 1976 in small town Phoenix, which is located in US state Arizona. The boy's father served in the police, his mother worked in a hospital. Little Chester was attracted to music from childhood - he listened to Depeche Mode and Stone Temple Pilots "to the holes".
After Chester was eleven, his parents separated. The boy stayed with his father, with whom the relationship was very bad. Heavy memories of childhood tormented the soloist for the rest of his life: bad company, first drugs, alcohol and bad sexual experience, humiliation, and sometimes real harassment from peers who were bigger and stronger...
Perhaps the only outlet at that time was music and drawing. A little later, at the end of school, Chester will work as a waiter. He will remember this period of his life like this: “Only work and music forced me to get up in the morning - I didn’t want to do anything, I was so tired of everyone.”
In 1993, he began to sing in a very popular for hometown Phoenix to the Gray Daze group, but Chester did not work out there. In the late nineties, having quarreled with the band's musicians, he left in search of a new project.
Appearing in the group, which was originally called XERO, it was Chester who suggested renaming it to Linkin Park. New team with a new vocalist and new songs, it just took off to the top of the charts around the world.
With his signature vocals became the face of the new team. Combining various styles of rock music, electro and hip-hop in their work, the group became very popular. Bennington himself was engaged in one or two more projects that did not become popular and did not have great success both critics and ordinary listeners.
In 1996, he married a girl named Samantha Olit. The young did not even have money for wedding rings, so they made ring fingers tattoos. A few years later, in 2002, they had a son, who was named Draven. But even the birth of a son could not save the family - the couple broke up when the name of Chester became a cult for millions of rock lovers. Drugs, alcohol, big money - all this broke the relationship.
Almost immediately after the divorce, the lead singer of Linkin Park married Playboy model Talinda Bentley. The girl bore him three children, the couple adopted two more.
Album Minutes to Midnight
This album was released in 2007 and immediately received a lot of feedback - from positive to sharply negative. The group moved away from the style in which they played before. New album was very different from the two previous ones, and this is what the musicians were often reproached with. The band itself has stated that this style is exactly what they would like to play.
In September 2008, the group became the winner of the MTV channel in the nomination "Best Rock Clip". In the same year, a disc was released with a high-quality recording of one of the concerts of the tour, which the group undertook after the release of the album.
Songs from this album sounded in the films "Twilight" and "Transformers".
Further musical activity of the group
After the release of the album Minutes to Midnight, the band releases new albums or singles almost every year. As the participants themselves said, while they were preparing to record the album, about one hundred and fifty songs were written. Of all this volume, nineteen were initially selected, and then twelve, which were included in the album. Now the musicians worked on all the rest of the material.
A lot of directors wanted the music of Linkin Park to sound in their films. The sound of all parts of "Transformers" was written by LP. The musicians themselves starred in such films as "Saw", "Adrenaline" (and in two parts) and "Artifact".
Style
A very successful mix of Chester's unusual vocals and Mike Shinoda's recitative, hard rock and lyrical music - all this makes the group original, unlike others.
For example, the bass guitarist of the Phoenix band says: "Let the styles of each of us be very different, we try to make it sound as harmonious as possible. And it seems to me that we succeed - judging by the albums that we write, and you - listening."
Shinoda talked about how he makes the group's recordings: "I write each one separately, and then, on computers, I make sure that everyone sounds very harmonious, complementing each other, but not interfering. It takes countless hours, but the result is always worth it" .
“We write about emotions that overwhelm a person,” says the same Mike Shinoda. “We write about routine, we write about how to get out of it. These are songs that will “catch” each of you. And when the text is combined with high-quality music - it's going really well."
Death of Chester Bennington and further plans for the band
On July 20, 2017, the whole world was shocked by the news that the leader of the legendary rock band Chester Bennington committed suicide. He hanged himself at his home hours before the band's photo shoot was scheduled. For everyone, this was a real shock - the group was at the peak of popularity, new songs were written, concerts were planned, but, apparently, the soloist could not overcome everything that had tormented him since childhood - fears, complexes, which were expressed through addiction to alcohol and drugs. An empty whiskey bottle was found in the musician's room.
Another fact: the singer hanged himself on the birthday of his very close friend Chris Cornell. A few months earlier, the second also committed suicide.
On email The group received hundreds and thousands of condolences over Chester's death. Many musicians, critics and ordinary listeners mourned the loss. Together with Chester, a whole milestone in the history of not only the Linkin Park team, but also the world of rock music, has gone.
Line-up of the Linkin Park band on this moment has not changed, with the exception of the deceased soloist. Now the musicians are preparing for memorial concerts.
The lead singer of the group, Chester Bennington, was a real fan of tattoos - he had almost twenty of them all over his body. On the lower back - the name of the group, which he was stuffed in honor of the fact that her first album became one of the most successful in the world at that time.
The group has released two applications for iPhones, passing which, as rewards, you can get exclusive singles of the group.
At a concert in Moscow, the band held a flash mob for the first time, which was later repeated in the USA.
The entire Linkin Park team loves to play basketball. Once Chester broke his ankle during a game, because of which the tour even had to be interrupted.
Lineup of Linkin Park (2017), despite the bereavement, will continue musical activity, possibly with a new soloist.
Hello dear readers and friends. With you, as always, Ruslan Miftakhov. You may have heard of the bad news that on July 20, 2017, Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington was found dead in his home.
As reported by the funds mass media he was found hanged at 9 am, only half a bottle of alcohol was found in the house, no drugs were found in the house.
What prompted him to such a suicide is not known to anyone, but it is known that long years he abused alcohol and drugs. He was also married twice, had six children and was 41 years old.
In some sources, you can find that he was a victim of sexual abuse in childhood and the thought of suicide visited him earlier and more than once.
Someone writes that the singer took criticism from listeners and fans very close to his heart, and the last album released in May 2017 disappointed many.
Others find the connection that the day of Chester's suicide coincided with the birthday of his friend Chris Cornell, who hanged himself two months earlier. This song from last album Chester dedicated to him.
God only knows what went through his head when he put the noose around his neck. Why, why did he do it? It doesn’t matter anymore, the person is no longer there and nothing can be changed here.
Why do I like Linkin Park?
I decided to write a post about this because I am not indifferent to their music and creations. What they created is just something, I don't even know how to put it. This is one of the bands, in my opinion, where most of the songs are Shedefre!
Usually, as it happens, one or two songs in the album are hits, and the rest are so-so. Linkin Park is the opposite. A little lower I will briefly describe the history of the group and their endeavors about Linkin Park.
I learned about this group for the first time in 2004, I don’t remember exactly, I asked someone in correspondence what you do, in response I received a text message: - I listen to Linkin Park, if you haven’t heard about such a group, you’ll like it.
Then I didn't betray it great importance, but still asked a friend to bring an LP album, since the Internet at that time was underdeveloped and just downloading a song was a problem. Not like now, there are plenty of films and music, I don’t want to download it.
After listening debut album Meteora I immediately fell in love with their music. How could he know that I would like this music, but he was right. This is without a doubt the music of the 2000s generation.
Not one, I repeat, not one music touched me so much, without even understanding the words of what it is singing about, with the music of Linkin Park, energy is transmitted on an emotional level.
It is as if you are going through the difficulties and sufferings of life that most people go through when you feel overwhelmed and insignificant.
I have always been indifferent to rap and rock separately, but probably no one has ever managed to combine it together and get something like that. It is simply amazing from the ability to cross rock, rap and electronica into one whole.
And to this music I loved to drive Need For Speed Most Wanted, you probably know the most famous computer races, which in translation Need for Speed is the Most Wanted.
So in these races, my favorite car was a Mitsubishi Lancer 9 and I had no equal, the police chasing me was just useless, and this very music helped everything.
You just listen to what kind of drive, only in a real car in real life I don’t recommend turning on this music, you just want to press the gas and drive.
Have you noticed that the ending of one song Easier To Run and the beginning of the song Faint are the same, how would the continuation go?
Well, I’ll publish the last one here and note it all from one Meteora album, other albums are not nearly worse, but even better in some way. The LP has released 7 albums so far.
A bit of Linkin Park history
I'll tell you a little about the creation and composition of the LP. The group was created in 1996 and was originally called Xero. The founders are considered to be Brad Delson - guitar, Rob Bourdon - drums, Joe Hahn - DJ and Mike Shinoda - vocals, MC, keyboards, rhythm guitar. Vocals were performed by Mark Wakefield.
Chester was not yet in the group and they could not succeed without him. After vocalist Mark left, the rest of the band started looking for a new vocalist.
They constantly held castings, but to no avail, but somehow they were given the phone of that same Chester. The guys contacted him and sent him a demo tape. On this day, Chester had a birthday and he scored on it, records vocals and plays the recording to the guys on the phone.
What I'm telling you here, watch the video, if you're interested of course.
After the arrival of a new singer, the group changed its name to Hybrid Theory, but as it turned out, this name was already taken by another group and the copyright holder was already preparing to sue them.
Each member of the group was asked to come up with a new name. Chester suggested naming, as it is now called, after Lincoln Park, through which the singer walked every day to rehearse.
In 2000, the first album was released, which brought them world fame. Then they released the next album in 2003. Competitors and envious people expected that their next album would be a failure, as most people have the first best, and then complete trash.
But no, and they didn’t guess right, the second album turned out to be just superb. It should not be otherwise, as the members of the group themselves say, for each song they made several options, changed the words somewhere, replayed the guitar somewhere, until all the colleagues liked it inside and out.
They worked on each album for 3-4 years. Here is such a success story of Linkin Park.
Chester Bennington in movies
By the way, did you know that the singer starred in the movie Adrenaline 1-2 and drank 3D in the movie? I didn't, I just found out while watching videos on YouTube.
I watched both parts of the film Adrenaline for a long time, but I did not suspect that this was the same vocalist from the LP group. It is said that Saw was his favorite movie.
What will happen to linkin park?
A band that hasn't changed its line-up for the last 17 years, I think, can't just take and change a vocalist like that. Moreover, such a vocalist as Chester, who had a huge range of voice, which allowed him to surprise his listeners, is simply not to be found. Although they say there are no irreplaceable people, but apparently not always.
Here I think there are two options for the outcome of the group:
- The group remains as it is in the composition of 5 people, the vocals are taken by Mike Shinoda, but without Chester
- The group breaks up and goes down in history. Linkin Park without Chester is no longer the same Linkin Park and probably they will soon have such an option.
Let's wait and see what happens to the group. And what do you think?
On this note, I will end the article, may the earth rest in peace.
P.S. Those who are a fan of the Linkin Park group must have found an error in the article, write in the comments what the error is. Who is the most attentive?
Sincerely, Ruslan Miftakhov
American rock band Linkin Park has released an official statement following the death of frontman Chester Bennington, who committed suicide on July 20. The appeal was published on the group's website and in its accounts in social networks.
“Dear Chester, our hearts are broken. Sadness and denial are still with us as we come to terms with what happened. You have inspired so many lives, perhaps more than you could ever imagine," the statement said.
On behalf of Bennington's wife Talinda and his family, the band expressed their gratitude to all those who mourn the death of the vocalist: "We want the whole world to know that you were best husband, son and father."
“Your absence leaves a void, nothing can fill it.<...>The demons that took you from us were always part of the deal. After all, everyone fell in love with you because of the way you sang about those demons. You fearlessly put them on display and, by doing this, rallied us and taught us to be more human, ”said the members of the team.
“Our love for making music and performing it is unquenchable. While we don't know where the future will take us, we know for sure that you have made each of our lives better. Thank you for this gift. We love you and miss you very much. See you! LP," the statement said.
Meanwhile, Bennington's commemorations are taking place around the world. At the American embassy in Moscow, a spontaneous memorial was formed in honor of vocalist Linkin park.
The day before, a page dedicated to the memory of the artist was opened on the official website of Linkin Park. Thousands of messages from the social networks Twitter and Instagram dedicated to the memory of Bennington and containing the hashtag #RIPChester (rest in peace Chester) are automatically added to it.
Recall that the 41-year-old vocalist took his own life, so the page, in addition to memorable messages, contains contacts where you can contact specialists with suicidal thoughts.
The band also announced the cancellation of their North American tour in support of their seventh studio album team one more light.
The Linkin Park One More Light North American Tour has been cancelled. Refunds avail at point of purchase. Our thoughts to all affected.
— LiveNation (@LiveNation) July 21, 2017
At the same time, neither relatives nor friends of Chester Bennington have yet announced the date and place of the musician's funeral. The vocalist is survived by his widow Talinda and six children.
Singer, for a long time who experienced problems with alcohol and drugs, committed suicide on July 20, the birthday of his close friend, Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, who also committed suicide two months earlier on May 18.
It also turned out that the lead singer of Linkin Park committed suicide two days after social network Facebook has a page with information about his death. It turns out that even before Bennington's suicide, MediaMass published the news of the death of the artist, referring to a Facebook page created on July 18 called "R.I.P. Chester Bennington" (R.I.P. Chester Bennington).
About a million people signed up for this page expressing their condolences on the occasion of premature death artist. Later, MediaMass, caught in clickbaiting, was forced to publish a refutation of this information, but soon the first reports began to arrive about real death singer.
The concert tour with the One More Light program started on May 6, 2017 in Buenos Aires. Linkin Park managed to play four shows in South America and 17 performances in Europe.
The last concert of the band as part of the tour took place on July 6 in Birmingham, England at the Barclaycard Arena. The next day, the European leg of the tour was supposed to end with a performance in Manchester, but the Manchester Arena sports and concert complex was not restored after the terrorist attack on May 22 at the Ariana Grande concert. Then 22 people died and about 120 were injured.
“I just realized yesterday that I was at the last Linkin Park concert ever. I'm sure there will be no more band without Chester. I got there quite by accident, deciding to go to Birmingham right before leaving for London.<...>I don’t even know why I’m writing this here, it’s completely atypical for me, but I can’t be silent. You have to get over it somehow, right? Nadezhda Kosovich notes.
Remember the tragically deceased Bennington and his friends, in particular the actor and vocalist of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars Jared Leto.
“When I think of Chester, I remember his smile... His laughter, intelligence, kindness and talent. This absolutely unforgettable voice, which was at the same time gentle, ferocious and always full of emotions,” wrote Leto.
"Both the family and the band were for him inexhaustible source inspiration and pride. And it is obvious to me that he was deeply grateful both to the people around him and to his life. My heart goes out to his family, friends, band and fans. The tragic loss of a 100% legend. We will miss you,” Leto summed up.
At the end of June, the wife of Linkin Park vocalist Talinda Bennington also thanked Chester for his smile during one of the band's European concerts.
"My love smiles at me when I smile at him."
Frontman of one of the most popular in the world Linkin groups Park Chester Bennington found dead at his home in Los Angeles. He was 41 years old. According to the tabloids, the musician committed suicide. recalls Bennington and his team, which became a symbol of the generation of the 2000s.
“I'm shocked, my heart is broken, but it's true. An official statement will follow as soon as we have it," Bennington's colleague, rapper Linkin Park tweeted.
By a strange coincidence, the death of vocalist Linkin Park fell on July 20 - the birthday of the frontman of Soundgarden and Audioslave, who committed suicide on May 18 of this year. Cornell and Bennington were friends.
Another grim statistic: this is the second vocalist to die in two years Stone bands Temple Pilots. Found in December 2015 dead ex frontman Scott Weiland. From 2013 to 2015, Bennington took his place in this well-deserved team, which he admired from his youth.
Bennington had a serious and longstanding drug problem, and perhaps Shinoda knows more than people on the outside. For fans of the group and those who simply follow the music, with all the deaths of musicians over the past year and a half, the departure of Bennington - a handsome man, a favorite of girls, a figure albeit pathetic, but not tragic, turned out to be really shocking.
Linkin Park were one of the most commercial successful groups The 2000s is the era when alternative music became mainstream. They brought nu-metal to a state close to pop music. They had a lot of haters, but there are still many times more frenzied devoted fans. For the generation of the 2000s, Linkin Park is a symbol, even if someone did not listen to them and did not like them. They were everywhere, there was nowhere to hide from the Numb song.
In the 2010s, the passions around the band did not seethe so violently, but the band released albums regularly, and accusations were regularly made that the musicians were exhausted, completely insane, and so on. In May, the last, seventh disc of the group, One More Light, was released. Discussing this work, the peace-loving Bennington lost his temper and threatened to "stuff the face" of critics and detractors.
returning to strange coincidences: The album was released the day after the death of Chris Cornell.
Chester Bennington was born on March 20, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona, the son of a police detective. He was 11 years old when his parents divorced, and this had a very strong effect on him. As a teenager, he started drinking and doing all the drugs he could get his hands on.
At the age of 17, he began to sing in a local band, Sean Dowdell and His Friends, but things weren't going well for that band. Chester found another band - Gray Daze and recorded three albums with him in the second half of the 1990s. The result did not suit him, and he was already thinking about quitting music.
Photo: David Longendyke / Everett Collection / East News
But suddenly he was lucky: producer Jeff Blue, who worked with and, appreciated the Gray Daze vocalist and brought him together with a promising young Los Angeles band Xero. Bennington became friends with Mike Shinoda and the other members of Xero. The team after some time was renamed Linkin Park. Jeff Blue also helped with the contract: the group released their debut album not just anywhere, but on the giant label Warner Bros.
It didn't take long to convince listeners of their talent - the first disc became multi-platinum in many countries and diamond (more than 10 million copies) in their homeland.
From an unsettled drug addict and Burger King employee, Chester Bennington at 23 turned into a superstar and a millionaire who owns the minds of millions of teenagers. But this successful and, according to some, "pop" man, the father of a large family, continued to live on the edge of the abyss, from which they could not save him.
