What will happen to the Likin Park group now? Why did lead singer Chester Bennington from Linkin Park hang himself?
Hello dear readers and friends. Ruslan Miftakhov is with you as always. You've probably heard about the bad news that on July 20, 2017, the vocalist Linkin groups Park Chester Bennington was found dead in his home.
As the funds report 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.
No one knows what pushed him to such suicide, 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 as a child he became a victim of sexual violence and the thought of suicide had visited him more than once before.
Someone writes that the singer took the criticism of listeners and fans very seriously and his last album, released in May 2017, disappointed many.
Others find a 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 it to him.
Only God knows what was going on in his head when he put the noose around his neck. Why, why did he do this? It doesn’t matter anymore, the person no longer exists and nothing can be changed.
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 express it. This is one of the groups, in my opinion, where most of the compositions are Shedefre!
Usually, as it happens, one or two songs in an album are hits, and the rest are so-so. U Linkin Park it's the other way around. Below I will briefly describe Linkin Park, the history of the group and their endeavors.
I first learned about this group in 2004, I don’t remember exactly, I asked someone in a correspondence what you do, and in response I received a text message: - I listen to Linkin Park, if you haven’t heard of this group, listen, you’ll like it.
Then I didn't betray it great importance, but still asked a friend to bring the LP album, since the Internet at that time was poorly developed and simply downloading a song was a problem. Not like now, there are too many movies and music, I don’t want to download them.
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 only, I repeat, not only music has not touched me so much, even without understanding the words of what it is sung about, with the music of Linkin Park the energy is transmitted on an emotional level.
It’s like going through together those difficulties and sufferings of life that most people go through, when you feel broken and insignificant.
I’ve always been indifferent to rap and rock separately, but probably no one has ever managed to combine them together and get something like that. The ability to cross rock, rap and electronics into one whole is simply amazing.
And to this music I loved to race Need For Speed Most Wanted, you probably know the most famous computer racing, which is translated as Need for Speed - Most Wanted.
So in these races, my favorite car was a Mitsubishi Lancer 9 and I had no equal, it was simply useless for the police to chase me, and all this music helped.
Just listen to the drive, only in a real car In real life, I don’t recommend turning on this music; you just want to step on the gas and speed it up.
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, this one, and note that it’s all from one Meteora album, other albums are not almost worse, but even better in some ways. Total LP albums on this moment released 7.
A little history of Linkin Park
I'll tell you a little about the creation and composition of the LP. The group was created in 1996 and was first called Xero. The founders are Brad Delson - guitar, Rob Burdon - 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 achieve success without him. After vocalist Mark left, the remaining members of the group began to look for a new vocalist.
They constantly held castings, but to no avail, but somehow they were given the phone number of that same Chester. The guys contacted him and sent him a demo tape. On this day it was Chester's birthday and, having forgotten about it, he recorded vocals and played the recording to the guys on the phone.
What am I telling you here, watch the video if you are 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 group member was asked to come up with a new name. Chester suggested calling it, as it is now called, after Lincoln Park, through which the singer walked every day to rehearsals.
In 2000, their first album was released, which brought them worldwide fame. They then released their next album in 2003. Competitors and envious people expected that their next album would be a failure, as with most people the first is the best, and then complete trash.
But no, they didn’t guess right either, the second album turned out to be simply superb. It shouldn’t be any other way, as the band members themselves say, they made several versions for each song, changed the words somewhere, replayed the guitar somewhere, until all their colleagues liked it thoroughly.
They worked on each album for 3-4 years. This is the 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 saw 3D in the movie? No, I only recently found out while watching videos on YouTube.
I watched both parts of the film Adrenaline a long time ago, but I didn’t suspect that this was the same vocalist from the LP group. It is said that Saw was his favorite film.
What will happen to the Linkin Park group?
A group that hasn’t changed its lineup for the last 17 years, I don’t think, can just change the vocalist like that. Moreover, a vocalist like Chester, who had a huge vocal range that allowed him to surprise his listeners, simply cannot be found. Although they say there are no irreplaceable people, apparently not always.
Here I think there are two options for the outcome of the group:
- The band remains as is with 5 members, vocals are taken by Mike Shinoda, but without Chester
- The group breaks up and fades into history. Linkin Park without Chester is no longer the same Linkin Park and probably this option will soon await them.
Let's wait and see what happens to the group. And what do you think?
On this note I will end the article, may he rest in peace.
P.S. For those who are fans of the band Linkin Park, you probably found an error in the article, write in the comments what the error is. Who is the most attentive?
Best regards, Ruslan Miftakhov
American rock band Linkin Park has released an official statement regarding the death of its frontman Chester Bennington, who committed suicide on July 20. The appeal was published on the group’s website and in its accounts in 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 read.
On behalf of Bennington's wife Talinda and his family, the band expressed gratitude to everyone who mourns 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 that nothing can fill.<...>The demons that took you from us were always part of the deal. After all, it was the way you sang about those demons that made everyone fall in love with you. You fearlessly flaunted them and, by doing this, united us and taught us to be more humane,” noted the team members.
“Our love for creating and performing music is undying. While we don’t know where the future will take us, we do know 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 message said.
Meanwhile, rallies in memory of Bennington are being held around the world. A spontaneous memorial was formed at the American Embassy in Moscow in honor of the Linkin Park vocalist.
The day before, a page dedicated to the memory of the artist was opened on the official Linkin Park website. 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.
Let us remind you that the 41-year-old vocalist took his own life, so on the page, in addition to memorial messages, there are contacts where you can contact specialists if you have suicidal thoughts.
The band also announced the cancellation of its North American concert tour in support of the band's seventh studio album, One More Light.
The Linkin Park One More Light North American Tour has been cancelled. Refunds available at point of purchase. Our thoughts to all affected.
— Live Nation (@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 had 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 Linkin Park lead singer committed suicide two days after a page with information about his death appeared on the social network Facebook. It turns out that even before Bennington’s suicide, MediaMass published news about the artist’s death, citing a Facebook page created on July 18 called “Rest in Peace, Chester Bennington” (R.I.P. Chester Bennington).
About a million people subscribed to this page, expressing condolences over the artist’s untimely death. Later, MediaMass, caught in clickbaiting, was forced to publish a refutation of this information, but soon the first reports 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 band's last concert on 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 did not have time to be restored after the terrorist attack on May 22 at an Ariana Grande concert. Then 22 people died and about 120 more were injured.
“Only yesterday I realized that I was at the last one in history Linkin concert Park. I am sure that without Chester the group will no longer exist. I got there completely by accident, having decided to go to Birmingham right before leaving for London.<...>I don’t even know why I’m writing this here, this is completely atypical for me, but I can’t remain silent. We have to get through this somehow, right?” — Nadezhda Kosovich notes.
Bennington and his friends, in particular the actor and vocalist of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars Jared Leto, remember the tragic death of Bennington.
“When I think of Chester, I remember his smile... His laughter, intelligence, kindness and talent. That absolutely unforgettable voice that was at once gentle, fierce and always full of emotion,” Leto wrote.
“Both his family and the group were an endless source of inspiration and pride for him. And it is obvious to me that he was deeply grateful both to the people around him and to his life. My heart remains with his family, friends, band and fans. Tragic loss of a 100% legend. We will miss you,” Leto concluded.
At the end of June, the wife of Linkin Park vocalist Talinda Bennington also thanked Chester for his smile during one of the group’s European concerts.
“My love smiles at me when I smile at him.”
The frontman of one of the world's most popular bands, Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, was found dead in his home in Los Angeles. He was 41 years old. According to the tabloids, the musician committed suicide. remembers Bennington and his team, which became a symbol of the 2000s generation.
“I’m shocked, heartbroken, but it’s true. Official statement will follow as soon as we have it,” Bennington’s colleague, rapper Linkin Park, wrote on Twitter.
By a strange coincidence, the death of the Linkin Park vocalist occurred 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. by Stone Temple Pilots. Found in December 2015 dead ex frontman Scott Weiland. From 2013 to 2015, Bennington took his place in this distinguished team, which he admired since his youth.
Bennington had serious and long-standing problems with drugs, and Shinoda probably knows more than people on the outside. For fans of the group and those simply following the music, with all the number of 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, was truly shocking.
Linkin Park was one of the most commercially successful groups 2000s - in an era when alternative music has become mainstream. They brought nu-metal to a state close to pop music. They had a lot of haters, but they still had many more rabidly 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, passions around the team did not seethe so violently, but the group regularly released albums, and accusations were also regularly made that the musicians had worn themselves out, had become completely oppressed, and so on. In May, the group's last, seventh album, One More Light, was released. Discussing this work, the peace-loving Bennington lost his temper and threatened to “punch” critics and detractors.
Returning to the 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 it affected him greatly. As a teenager, he began drinking and using every drug he could get his hands on.
At the age of 17 he began to sing in local group Sean Dowdell and His Friends, but things weren't going well for this team. Chester found another band, Gray Daze, and recorded three albums with them in the second half of the 1990s. He was not satisfied with the result, 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 the promising young Los Angeles band Xero. Bennington became friends with Mike Shinoda and other Xero members. After some time, the team renamed itself 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 his talent - the first record became multi-platinum in many countries and diamond certified (more than 10 million copies) in its homeland.
From an unemployed drug addict and Burger King employee, Chester Bennington at the age of 23 turned into a superstar and millionaire, owning 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 he could not be saved.
Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington was found dead at his Palos Verdes Estates residence in Los Angeles, California. Before this, 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.
In total, Bennington recorded seven with Linkin Park. studio albums. Five of them subsequently went platinum. Among other things, the group Linkin Park is a Grammy Award winner. Chester Bennington has been with the group since its inception and also came up with its name.
As the online publication TMZ notes, his death came as a surprise to the rest of the group. The day before, the musicians planned to have a photo shoot, and exactly a week later - to go on tour.
It is also reported that one of the Linkin Park musicians, vocalist Mike Shinoda, arrived at Bennington’s house after the law enforcement officers and was “completely shocked” by the news of his death. Chester was going to be taken to a photo shoot that day.
“I’m shocked, heartbroken, but it’s true. An official statement will follow as soon as we have it,” Shinoda wrote.
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 show business representatives 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 with a big heart and caring soul. Our thoughts and prayers are with him at this time. wonderful family, his bandmates and many friends,” the head said in his address record company Warner Bros. Records Cameron Stang.
“Nice, kind and humble. Rare combination for rock and roll. Deeply saddened,” the drummer wrote Metallica Lars Ulrich. Singer Rihanna, in turn, called Chester’s talent the most outstanding of all that she had encountered in her life.
"Rest in peace, Chester Bennington. We will never know someone's pain. Prayers are with his family during this tragedy. If you need help, reach out,” said Kiss rhythm guitarist and vocalist Paul Stanley.
“Probably our most famous fan,” this is how the team of the English club Ipswich Town remembered 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.
Lumen vocalist Rustem Bulatov, who himself is a Linkin Park fan, commented on the news of Bennington’s death in an interview with RT:
“This is a serious blow for the fans, and I count myself among this number. I was always looking forward to new albums. It's a pity that this creator is no longer in the world. The load that fell on him turned out to be so heavy that he could not cope. Chester left behind six children - that's a large human tragedy", he said.
In his opinion, the group and Chester Bennington himself changed rock music.
“With his creativity he greatly influenced the whole of rock. A striking example how music different styles and directions can mix into something interesting. It was theirs distinctive feature— the lines between hip-hop, rock and electronic music", he told RT.
In turn, the leader of the “Crematorium” group Armen Grigoryan said that “the actions of rock musicians are often not related to their commercial success.”
“It’s 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," the Associated Press reported. The date and time of the funeral have not yet been announced.
Chester Bennington returned to his native Los Angeles from vacation on Wednesday. Linkin Park had another photo shoot, the premiere of the Talking To Myself video clip, and final rehearsals for the tour, which was supposed to start on July 27.
Now one can only tragically guess why the 41-year-old singer decided at the peak of fame - in the midst of work and success. But only now do you begin to pay attention to the fact that, perhaps, Chester has inexorably accumulated fatigue, grief and even despair...
At the moment of his death, Chester Bennington was alone in his home in California (his wife remained in Arizona, where she preferred to continue the vacation that they had started together) - and now it’s difficult to say whether they had a fight or quarreled before leaving?! But if the wife returned with lead singer of Linkin Park, then perhaps she could have saved him from the fatal step... It’s a pity that she wasn’t there...
Actually, now comparing the facts, you can see that the artist has accumulated fatigue. Next album Group One More Light was released in May 2017 and, as usual, became No. 1 in the charts. Including the most important thing - the BillboardTop-200 - compiled based on the results of sales of CDs, LPs and digital copies.
Moreover, the music of this disc was very different from all previous releases; it was no longer screaming, tearing, furious rapping, grinding guitars and despair of riffs that prevailed here. No! “There Was Another Ray” was no longer as heavy as the group’s previous albums. But rather - even if it’s tough! - but at the same time even a little relaxed, meditative, piercingly philosophical and nervously suicidal. Yes, and it began with the song Nobody Can Save Me (“Nobody Can Save Me”) with the first lines of the song, and the entire album I’m Dancing With My Demons (“I’m dancing with my demons”…). For some reason I thought about this furiously and sadly right now.
Maybe this is how Chester intended this disc? And the cover is quite metaphorical and philosophical-existential (before Linkin Park were always more straightforward, with the possible exception of the Meteora album) - against the backdrop of deepening twilight, people without clothes (adults and children) enter the ocean... In the distance - black waves, behind them - the thickening darkening sky, behind which there is still a little light - that’s where the people in the cover photo are looking.
Maybe Chester himself saw the truth like this eternal life and farewell to everyday life? Now we can only guess about all this...
By the way, he himself, although he was usually the inspiration next album, but this time I composed unusually little. He became a co-author of only two tracks on the disc. Including in the hit Heavy, that is, “Heavy,” also with rather tragic lyrics, beginning with the words “I don’t like what’s happening in my head...” And this is probably not a coincidence?! But everyone didn’t think about it, didn’t understand that he probably wrote extremely confessionally and sincerely, sobbingly?! Maybe saying goodbye? Who knows now?!
IN recent months Chester drank a lot and suffered from depression. But then, too, no one was nearby.
Now that the leader of Linkin Park is no longer with us, you think about all this with tragic and furious sadness, pain and sorrow that is no longer able to save...
