I was 14 years old. I was not a "perfect" teenager. I walked with metalheads, experienced personal and family tragedies- big and small. Like all teenagers in adolescence, it seemed to me that I was doomedly alone. There were friends, there were first loves, there were joys, but there is such a state - you have enough reasons to be happy, but for some reason this is not enough...
But I wanted more: stars, sky and space...
I also had my first computer, headphones and Numb. And when another revolution occurred in the teenage psyche, I turned the volume up to full volume and shouted down Chester Bennington until I was hoarse. I’m no longer 14, but the habit of relaxing to the screaming Numb remains. This is all that could lift my spirits and “let me go.” Was. Until now...
It’s unlikely that I was interested in rock music at the time when Linkin Park began its existence. The history of the group began back in 1996. Interestingly, for a long time"Links" changed their name like gloves and were called SuperHero, Hero, Hybrid Theory, Lincoln Park. Each of them, for certain reasons, did not take root - did not find a response from fans, was suspected of plagiarism, or was taken by others. Ultimately, Lincoln Park was transformed into Linkin (the idea for the name belongs to Chester, it was through this park that he went to the studio).
The founders of the group are Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson.
With all due respect to the deceased Chester Bennington, I believe that much of the credit for the enormous success of the project belongs to Shinoda. And it is he who is obliged to pull out Linkin Park after the death of the vocalist.
Mike Shinoda
Born February 11, 1977 in California. In addition to music, he is engaged in drawing and producing. Writes songs. Known not only for Linkin Park, but also for his solo project Fort Minor. Married, has three children.
Linkin Park line-up:
Mark Wakefield is the first vocalist (if you do not count Shinoda) of the group, which at the time of his participation was still called Hero. He left the team for the reason “this group will have no future” (I wonder what he thought later). They looked for a replacement for him for quite a long time, until chance and mutual acquaintances brought Shinoda and Bennington together. This story is reminiscent of Cinderella (only the role of the tormented stepdaughter is played by a guy with a broken fate), but the stars aligned well - a simple Burger King employee, who recently did not even have money for a bicycle, suddenly received an offer that played a key role in his life . An offer that brought him fame, money and the love of millions of fans around the world.
Linkin Park discography
During their existence, Links released 7 records. The first album was truly triumphant for the band; it sold over 30 million copies all over the world - for a newly formed band this is a stunning success. The group was lucky to sign a contract with the influential Warner Bros. label. Records, and for the world to see and hear for the first time in strict rotation on key TV channels and radio stations a powerful hybrid mixture of rap metal.
Numb is considered the most recognizable Linkin Park song not only by me, but also by all other fans.
Why does the world love Linkin Park? They may not be the first to mix rap and rock, but they were the ones who brought the underground to the masses for the first time. At a time when this genre was popular among a narrow circle of listeners, Shinoda and company managed to break through to the top of all the charts and win the hearts of millions. Metal has ceased to be something underground and accessible, it has gained the right to an open life.
1. Hybrid Theory - 2000;
Reanimation - 2002 (remixes and interpretations of the first album);
2. Meteora - 2003;
3. Minutes to Midnight - 2007;
New Divide - 2009 (separate single for the film Transformers. Revenge of the Fallen;
4. A Thousand Suns - 2010;
5. Living Things - 2012;
Recharged - 2013 (remixes and interpretations of the fifth album);
6. The Hunting Party - 2014;
7. One More Light - 2017
Starting with the third album, Linkin Park began to move away from the hybrid nu-metal fans loved to classic rock, which brought with it the first discontent. Fans were waiting for new Numb, In the End, Crawling, Somewhere I Belong, but to their regret, with each subsequent album the group moved more and more towards pop-rock (and was even accused of the final “popsation”).
Linkin music Park often appeared in films as soundtracks. The creators of Transformers especially loved Links; almost every part contains their song. The rock band's tracks appeared in Twilight and Need for Speed, as well as in some computer games. The musicians toured often and probably traveled all over the world. Including, their concerts took place in Russia. Unfortunately, I have never been able to get to these events... and now I acutely feel that life is so short that it is no longer possible to put off your desires until tomorrow...
The Life of Chester Bennington
We can talk about the work of Linkin Park for hours, but, of course, now all attention is focused on only one character in the group - Chester Bennington. The Linkin singer has lived through quite a difficult and difficult life. IN early childhood he was abused by an older friend and, according to Chester, was forced to comply with his wishes due to beatings and humiliation. At certain periods, Benny became addicted to drugs, alcohol, and divorced his first wife (with her he had one child; he remained to live with his mother). But, it would seem, he came to his senses - he married Talinda Bentley, gave up his addictions (although he struggled with them long and hard). Chester made real friends, loyal fans and Friendly family- three of their own children and two adopted ones. Even in music, he has become calmer, admitting that he likes to sing “lighter” compositions, he has matured and feels absolutely cool.
Friends and relatives speak of Chester as a friendly person. Of course, we don’t know all the cockroaches in his head and the whole truth of his life, but the fact remains that on July 20, 2017, Chester Bennington hanged himself, shocking his colleagues, his family, and his fans.
We are unlikely to know what caused this. None suicide notes not abandoned (although the media are now actively discussing that, they say, there were omens - they talked about long-standing suicide attempts, and about a renewed passion for drugs, and about the severe loss of a friend who committed suicide a little earlier than Chester, and several videos , supposedly in which Chester non-verbally said goodbye to the fans).
The main versions of Benny's suicide are the loss of his friend Chris Cornell (Chester was found hanged in very similar circumstances to Cornell and on his birthday), problems with drugs and alcohol that began again (a half-empty bottle of alcohol was found in the house, but Chester did not use any drugs before his death ), creative crisis and psychological trauma. In my opinion, creative dissonance is the most likely of these reasons. In recent interviews, Bennington showed unusual aggression in response to the mentions of haters who were openly dissatisfied with the group’s work and called it a bunch of crap. It is unlikely that a person who is confident in his own success will react so emotionally to criticism from those who are dissatisfied...
Of course, I can’t justify suicide in any way, but in the wake of criticism against Chester, he allegedly didn’t think about his family and colleagues, and set a negative example for fans, including great amount teenagers, gave up, showed selfishness, I’ll say this:
A body dangling on a rope is not as scary as what was going on in that head a minute before death...
A terrible loss and a bitter loss. And no. Fans shed tears not because they personally knew this person or because they were completely out of their minds with their love for their idols. And not because they are hyped on someone else’s grief. And not to show your sentimentality. This will be difficult to understand for those who weren't fans of the band in their youth, but I'll try...
My memories went with Chester. My youth. My segment of life, where every fragment was accompanied by Linkin Park songs and his voice. These tracks made me stronger and gave me hope, they calmed me down. Of course, the songs remain, but since July 20 they no longer carry the same energy that they carried before. Now, including Numb or In the End, I don’t feel supported, tears come to my eyes, because everything that I have been building for so long these 13 years under the songs of Links will have to be left in the past. Chester Bennington has died. My youth also died. I don’t know if this sounds pretentious, but that’s how it is...
What will happen to Linkin Park after Chester Bennington's death?
I believe that the links will continue to exist, but only time will tell how long it will be... It is already known that the group is not going to cancel tour(but also does not yet know who will replace Chester), which starts in a week. On the eve of the death of vocalist Linkin Park, their new clip, which, unfortunately, for tragic reasons, was watched by millions of users. I think that attention will be focused on the group for some time, many fans still won’t want to let Linkin Park go and will try their best to maintain their popularity. At least for the sake of Chester's memory. As is usually the case, fans will be divided into two fronts: those who will be loyal to the group under any circumstances, and those who will not accept any, even more talented, replacement for Benny.
But it is unlikely that they will be able to repeat the same success that they had with the arrival of Bennington in the early 2000s... Or they will find completely different fans who will not associate Links with nu-metal, but will accept their modern work.
P.S. Literally an hour after publication, I read the official statement from the group: the tour will not take place. Tickets will be refunded....
I expressed the pain through my words. And I know the memory will last long....
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 him. close friend for the 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 their previous hybrid style and 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 remix called "Recharged", which will feature remixes and interpretations of songs from 5 studio album Living Things group. 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 format labels Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings.
Linkin Park latest news. Last news.
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 is no longer 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. We don’t yet know what will happen in the near future, but 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 long years fought against alcoholism and drug addiction, which was reflected in many Linkin Park songs. The musician has repeatedly stated that he wanted to commit suicide because he was sexually abused by a man in early childhood.
According to Zaldostanov, such famous people, having committed suicide, can file bad example its 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. 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 release debut single The premiere of a promotional song from A Thousand Suns - “Wretches and Kings” took place, and on the same day it was posted on the official Linkin Park channel on YouTube new episode LPTV entitled "Megaphone Brad", which features Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson working on the song "When They Come for Me", and several excerpts from the song can be heard.
“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 The 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 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. 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 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, 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...
Frontman of one of the world's most popular bands Linkin Park Chester Bennington is found dead in his Los Angeles home. 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, death vocalist Linkin Park fell on July 20th, the birthday of the frontman of Soundgarden and Audioslave, who committed suicide on May 18th of this year. Cornell and Bennington were friends.
Another grim statistic: this is the second Stone Temple Pilots vocalist to die in two years. 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 were one of the most commercially successful bands of the 2000s, an era when alternative music entered the 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 song Numb.
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 strange coincidences: The album was released the day after Chris Cornell died.
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 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.
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.
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