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 lead singer of Linkin Park Chester and 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 for many 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. Chester dedicated this song from his last album to him.
God only 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 value, 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 to Meteora's debut album, 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 drive 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, but 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, 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 at the 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 the 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. 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
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. An 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 the girls, a figure, albeit pathetic, but not tragic, was truly shocking.
Linkin Park was one of the most commercially successful groups 2000s - an era when alternative music became 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.
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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, father large family continued to live on the edge of the abyss, from which they could not save him.
Latest album Group One More Light was recorded in a slightly different direction - the musicians worked with famous pop composers Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter, and also collaborated with British grime artist Stormzy.
In 2015, the band collaborated with Steve Aoki to record the song "Darker than Blood" for his album Neon Future II. This song released on April 14 as a single. On February 28 of the same year, part of the song was presented at Aoki's concert in Chicago. On April 15, 2015, a lyric video for the song appeared on Steve Aoki's official YouTube channel, and on June 25, the official video clip was posted online by the Ultra Music label. The clip shows Mike Shinoda and Steve Aoki trying to create a product which could would cure people from a virus that turns the planet's population into zombies.
The TMZ report also states that Bennington committed suicide on his friend's birthday - leader Soundgarden band Chris Cornell, who died on May 18 in a Detroit hotel. Forensic experts confirmed that Cornell also committed suicide.
Soundgarden, along with Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, had a huge influence on the development of American rock music in the early 1990s, becoming one of the Seattle Four groups that brought the grunge genre to the mainstream. After Cornell's death, Chester Bennington posted an open letter on Twitter thanking his close friend for his support.
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.
“New Divide” quickly made a career on the radio, becoming the third single to simultaneously reach the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 and Alternative Songs (up to that point, only two songs had achieved this - Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound” and another Linkin Park track “What I've Done"). In addition, "New Divide" became the band's career-best song to debut on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the best debut single on the alternative charts in more than a year. Linkin Park is one of only five groups to have three singles debut in the Top 10 of the alternative charts in their 20-year history. In addition to Linkin Park, U2, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, and Red Hot Chili Peppers managed to do this.
On May 15, 2007, the album Minutes to Midnight was released, with which the group moved away from the previous hybrid style and came closer in sound to classic rock. Significantly decreased the number of recitative inserts, the music became more melodic. The band's fans had mixed reactions to the album, with ratings ranging from enthusiastic to extremely negative. Chester Bennington himself said in an interview that on the Meteora album the band was forced to follow fan pressure, copying the style of the debut Hybrid Theory, but now, with the new sound, Linkin Park “feels comfortable.” On September 7, 2008, the group became a laureate of the MTV Video Music Awards in the category " Best clip in rock style." On November 25, 2008, the DVD Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes was released, which recorded one of the concerts as part of the European tour. The song "What I've Done" became the title track of the film Transformers, and the song "Leave Out All The Rest" was heard in the credits of the film Twilight.
At the age of 17, he began singing in the local group Sean Dowdell and His Friends, but the team was not doing well. 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.
On September 12, 2013, the band's official website announced that it would be released on October 29. new album Linkin Park remixes called “Recharged”, which will be remixes and interpretations of songs from the group’s 5th studio album Living Things. The title of the album is related to the title new game Linkin Park LPRecharge. The limited edition version of the album will include an interactive 3D sculpture, created with an eye to the artwork of the Living Things album, a 48-page art book, Living Things and Recharged CDs, a magnetic stylus that will interact with the liquid in the 3D sculpture to create unique patterns and designs inside sculptures. The album was released on October 29 on vinyl, CD and digital formats by Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings.
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All these years when we communicated with you, your passion was contagious. Your absence leaves a void that can never be filled - your fun, ambitious, creative, kind and generous voice no longer resonates in the room. We try to remind ourselves that those “demons” that took you were always a part of your life. After all, the way you sang about those demons immediately made everyone fall in love with you. You fearlessly put them on display and did it in a way that brought us all together and made us more human. You had a huge heart, and you didn't have to hide it.
“Linkin Park is the greatest band of our time. It’s so strange, because it seems to me that having achieved such success, all you can do is live and live and be happy. Because this is one of the brightest rock bands of our time,” he said.
Our love for music will not fade. While we don’t know what will happen in the near future, we are sure that thanks to you, the lives of each of us have become better. Thank you for this gift. We love you and miss you very much.
You have changed so many lives, perhaps more than you could ever imagine. IN last days we receive so much love and support from all over the world, publicly and personally. Talinda and the whole family are grateful for this and we want the whole world to know that you were best husband, son and father; the family will never be complete without you.
Linkin Park's successful trick was to combine elements of metal and rock with rap and hip-hop, which took the form of a nu metal style in songs such as Crawling, In The End and Numb.
Bennington struggled for many years with alcoholism and drug addiction, which was reflected in many Linkin Park songs. The musician has repeatedly stated that he wanted to commit suicide due to the fact that early childhood was sexually assaulted by a man.
According to Zaldostanov, such famous people By committing suicide, they can set a bad example for their multi-million army of fans.
On September 3, Warner Music Group DE posted a 28-second excerpt from Linkin Park’s next single, “Waiting for the End,” on their official SoundCloud profile. September 7 full version The band presented this song on MySpace, and the full release took place on October 1, 2010. The single allowed the band to top the Alternative Songs chart for the tenth time, and the track also became one of the band's most played singles on radio. The video clip was nominated for the MTV Video Music Awards in the category "Best Special Effects".
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Bennington committed suicide on the birthday of his close friend Chris Cornell, leader of the band Soundgarden, who also committed suicide in May of this year due to prolonged depression. caused by past problems with drug use.
“Shocked and heartbroken, but it's true. An official statement will be released as soon as it is ready,” Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda tweeted.
Tabolid TMZ notes that Bennington had problems with alcohol and drugs for many years. In one interview, he stated that he was considering suicide due to being sexually abused as a child.
“I’m shocked, heartbroken, but it’s true. An official statement will follow as soon as we have one,” Bennington’s colleague, Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda, wrote on Twitter.
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On May 18, 2009, a new Linkin Park single called “New Divide” was released. The track was specially recorded for the film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which was released on June 24. The video for "New Divide" by Linkin Park was released on June 13. On YouTube, this clip has received more than 290 million views.
The first single, “The Catalyst,” was released on August 2, an excerpt of the track was presented by the band in the trailer for the video game “Medal of Honor,” directed by Joe Hahn, and the full single premiered on BBC Radio 1. On August 26, the band presented the video clip for “The Catalyst” on the mtv website .com, also directed by Joe Hahn. The video was included in the top ten best video clips according to MTV Best Of 2010 - Top 10 Most Watched Videos..
A month after the release of the debut single, the promotional song from A Thousand Suns - “Wretches and Kings” premiered, and on the same day a new LPTV episode entitled “Megaphone Brad” was posted on the official Linkin Park YouTube channel, which shows how Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson collaborated on the song "When They Come for Me", and several excerpts from the song can be heard in it.
“I’m shocked, I haven’t realized it yet. I really liked the group, the guys were successful, everything was ahead of them. The suicidal story is very popular in the West,” he noted.
In 2003, the group's second album, Meteora, was released, which topped the Billboard 200 chart. Videos for the songs "Somewhere I Belong", "Breaking the Habit" and "Numb" were broadcast on MTV and took first place in the charts. The album received a number of awards: an MTV Award for best video(“Somewhere I Belong”) and Radio Music Awards for best song(“Numb”). The songs "Numb", "Faint", "Papercut", "Points of Authority", "In the End", "One Step Closer" (from the album Hybrid Theory) and "Lying from You" were remixed with rapper Jay -Z. After the release of this album, the group increased its popularity in the world to the top of the world charts. The single "Numb" became Linkin Park's most recognizable song. And at the end of 2003, the live album Live In Texas and the video The Making Of Meteora were released.
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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 his wife had returned with the Linkin Park lead singer, then perhaps she could have saved him from a fatal step... It’s a pity that she wasn’t around...
Actually, now comparing the facts, you can see that the artist has accumulated fatigue. The band's next album, 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 previous albums groups. 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, beyond 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, although he himself was usually the inspiration for the next album, this time he 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...