Chester Bennington, Linkin Park Singer, Is Dead at 41
That’s who I am, and I’m kind of lucky in a lot of ways ′cause I get to do something about it.”
On “Crawling” — one of the band’s defining singles from its debut album, “Hybrid Theory,” which went on to sell more than 11 million copies in the United States — Mr. Bennington sings: “There’s something inside me
that pulls beneath the surface / Consuming, confusing / This lack of self-control I fear is never ending.”
The song, he said later, was “about feeling like I had no control over myself in terms of drugs and alcohol.”
“That feeling,” he added, “being able to write about it, sing about it,
that song, those words sold millions of records, I won a Grammy, I made a lot of money.”
Still, as the group’s career progressed, Mr. Bennington was adamant that he would remain transparent in his music about his personal ups and downs.
By JOE COSCARELLIJULY 20, 2017
Chester Bennington, the ferocious lead singer for the platinum-selling hard rock
band Linkin Park, was found dead in his home near Los Angeles on Thursday.
The recording studio, he told Rock Sound, “is not a safe place for me to be unless I’m doing what I need to do
— taking care of myself, being real, being open, getting it out, taking all the steps to make myself whole.”
“If it wasn’t for music I’d be dead,” he added.