Linkin Park singer found dead
LINKIN Park singer Chester Bennington, who topped the charts with an angry but melodic brand of metal, was found dead yesterday in an apparent suicide. He was 41.
“Shocked and heartbroken, but it’s true,” Linkin Park’s cofounder Mike Shinoda wrote on Twitter.
The Los Angeles County coroner’s office said it received a call that Bennington had been found hanging at his home in the luxurious Palos Verdes Estate area. “It is being handled as a possible suicide,” said Brian Elias, chief of operations at the coroner’s office.
Bennington – who had six children from two marriages – had wrestled with alcohol and drugs since he was a pre-teenager. Bennington said that a family friend abused him starting at the age of seven.
He turned his rage into music, with a growling metal voice. Linkin Park’s debut, Hybrid Theory, became the topselling album in the US in 2001, producing hits such as In The End and Crawling.
Linkin Park went on to release six more studio albums, all of them entering the top three on the US charts. • If you are experiencing problems call Lifeline on 13 11 14.