Linkin Park (Linkin Park) is a popular alternative () group from America. It was founded in 1996 and was called " Xero". In the period up to 2009, she had sold more than 70 million copies of albums, moreover, she was awarded the " Grammy».
She gained real success with the release of the album "Hybrid Theory" (2000). It has sold over 25 million copies. Later, in 2010, he was awarded the title of " multi diamond» Their next studio album « Meteora"Repeated the result of the previous one, but could not surpass it.
Group Founders are classmates Brad Delson and Mike Shinoda. The group itself formed in 1996. It is important to note that the founders of the group are still in its composition. It was originally called Super Xero , but later from the word Super refused, but their music was doomed to failure. The situation was able to change the arrival of a new member - Chester Bennington. With his appearance, the group changes its name again, this time to " hybrid theory". With the same name Linkin Park The guys started performing only in 2000.
The idea of mixing vocal styles gave a powerful impetus to writing material of a different nature.
The use of electronic elements created problems with the English band " Hybrid who accused them of plagiarism.
Chester Bennington came up with a new name for the band lincoln park”, but since the domain on the Internet was already taken, the guys changed the spelling to Linkin Park.
In 1999, the group signed a contract with Warner Brothers Records. A year later, LP released their new debut album "Hybrid Theory". It includes material that has been accumulated for more than one year.
For tracks I n the En d and Crawling, LP presented the award Gramia".
In 2000, he toured the United States, performing with many famous bands. The band also took part in the Rock Am Ring and Ozzfest festivals. According to statistics, LP played over 300 shows and released an official DVD.
In 2003, the second album was released with the title " Meteora", which tops the charts and breaks sales records Video clips shot for tracks from this album immediately enter the rotation MTV occupy leading positions in all charts. Later remixes are recorded with a rap artist Jay Z. The release of this album increases their popularity around the world, bringing the group to the top of sales and charts.
In 2007 LP move away from the old style and release the album " minutes to midnight". In their sound, they are approaching classic rock - the music becomes more melodic, the amount of recitative in the songs is significantly reduced.
Due to the sharp criticism of the majority of fans, Chester Bennington made an official statement, acknowledging the fact that the album " Meteora"was recorded under pressure from fans, and" MtM"- this is exactly the direction in which the group is moving on its own, without taking into account the criticism and opinion of others.
Linkin Park is an American alternative rock band. Founded in 1996 under the name Xero. Existing since 1999 under the name Linkin Park, the group won two Grammy awards. The group found success with their 2000 debut album, Hybrid Theory, which sold 24 million copies (it was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2010). The next studio album, Meteora, repeated, although did not surpass the success of the previous one, leading in 2003 on the Billboard 200 chart. In total, the group's albums sold about 60 million copies.
The group was founded in 1996 by two classmates Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson (who are still in the group today). It was originally called SuperXero. They later changed their name to Xero. It consisted of Mike, Brad, Joe, Dave, Rob and Mark. Despite limited resources, the guys started recording a few songs in Shinoda's bedroom, which became the band's first studio. After the refusal of many labels from the contract with the group, tension and discontent in it became more and more. Realizing that this group would not have a future, Mark left the band in search of other projects. Dave Farrell also had to leave them as his other project started touring. Xero spent a lot of time looking for a replacement for Mark's vocals until the guys found out about a vocalist who lives in Arizona - Chester Bennington. Through their friend Jeff Blue, vice president of Zomba Music, the musicians called Bennington and asked him to send them their vocals on a demo tape. Bennington, breaking away from his birthday celebration, recorded a demo tape and gave it to the guys to listen to on the phone. His unique voice made a huge impression on the group. The next day, Chester flew to Los Angeles. After Chester agreed to join the band, it became known as Hybrid Theory. The idea of mixing vocal styles gave impetus to writing new material, which helped revive the band. The times of change have come. The guys had a problem with a British electronic band called Hybrid and accused them of plagiarism, so Chester Bennington came up with a new name for the band - Lincoln Park, because he constantly went to the studio through this park in Santa Monica. But the lincolnpark.com domain was taken. In English, the surname Lincoln is pronounced as Linkin and the group called themselves Linkin Park, receiving the domain linkinpark.com.
In 1999, the group managed to sign a contract with Warner Bros. records. The following year, the band released their debut album, Hybrid Theory, containing material accumulated over many years, produced by Don Gilmour. The album was the group's triumph and sold over 24 million copies, and for the song "Crawling" the group received a Grammy in the nomination "Best Hard Rock Performance". Songs from the album - "Crawling", "One Step Closer" and "In the End" - were successful in the charts, and the video "In the End", broadcast on MTV, received an award for the best video clip of the year. In 2000, the band toured the United States, performing with big names such as the Deftones, as well as festivals such as Ozzfest and Rock am Ring. In total, the band played 320 shows that year and released the DVD Frat Party at the Pankake Festival. In 2002, Linkin Park recorded the Reanimation remix album.
In 2003, the group's second album, Meteora, was released and topped the Billboard 200. Video clips 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: the MTV Award for Best Video ("Somewhere I Belong") and the Radio Music Awards for Best Song ("Numb"). The songs "Numb", "Faint", "Papercut", "Points of Authority", "In the End", "One Step Closer" (from 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.
On May 15, 2007, the album Minutes to Midnight was released, with which the band moved away from the previous hybrid style and approached classic rock in sound. The number of recitative inserts has significantly decreased, the music has become more melodic. The group's fans received the album ambiguously, ratings ranged from enthusiastic to extremely negative. Chester Bennington himself said in an interview that on the Meteora album, the band was forced to follow the pressure of the fans, copying the style of the debut Hybrid Theory, but now, with the new sound, Linkin Park "feels comfortable". On September 7, 2008, the group won the MTV Video Music Awards in the Best Rock Clip category. On November 25, 2008, the DVD Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes was released, on which one of the concerts of the European tour was recorded. 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".
On May 18, 2009, Linkin Park released a new single called "New Divide". The track was specially recorded for the film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", which was released on June 24. The music video for Linkin Park's "New Divide" was released on June 13. On YouTube, this clip has received more than 156 million views.
"New Divide" quickly made a career on radio, becoming the third single to hit the top ten at the same time on the Billboard Hot 100 and Alternative Songs (up to this point, only two songs had managed to do this - Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" and another Linkin Park track "What I've Done"). In addition, "New Divide" was the band's career-highest debuting song on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the top debut single on the alternative charts in over a year. Linkin Park is one of only five bands to have three singles debut on the Top 10 alternative charts in their 20-year history. In addition to Linkin Park, U2, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers managed to do this.
The band's fourth studio album, which was released on September 14, 2010. The album was leaked to the network a week before the official release - September 7. The title of the album is associated with the atomic bomb and the end of the world. Like the previous album, the new tracks were met with mixed reception due to the change in the band's sound.
In the first week of sales, the album sold 523,000 copies and topped the Global Album Chart and Billboard Top 200, the album also topped the album charts in 15 countries in addition to the United States, and the album became the second in the UK. By the end of 2010, sales of A Thousand Suns in the world reached 1,700,000 copies, later the album was recognized as the best-selling rock album of the year in the United States and the most successful international album in Japan, in Germany the group received the Echo award in the Gruppe Rock/Alternative international nomination. The album also became gold based on the sales of licensed CDs in Russia in 2010, which means that the number of copies sold reached 5,000.
The first single "The Catalyst" was released on 2 August, an excerpt of the track was featured 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 26 August, the band premiered the music video for "The Catalyst" on mtv.com, also directed by Joe Hahn. The video was included in the top ten video clips according to MTV Best Of 2010 - Top 10 Most Watched Videos. A month after the release of the debut single, a promotional song from A Thousand Suns - "Wretches And Kings" premiered, and on the same day a new LPTV episode called "Megaphone Brad" was uploaded on the official Linkin Park YouTube channel, which shows, how Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson worked on the song "When They Come For Me", and you can hear several excerpts from this song in it.
On September 3, Warner Music Group DE posted a 28-second excerpt from Linkin Park's next single titled "Waiting for the End" on their official SoundCloud audio hosting profile. On September 7, the band presented the full version of this song on MySpace, 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 became one of the band's most played singles on radio. The music video was nominated for the MTV Video Music Awards in the Best Special Effects category.
On February 22, the video clip for the third single from the album "Burning in the Skies" premiered, the full single was released on March 21, 2011.
On May 27, 2011, the last single from A Thousand Suns - "Iridescent" was released, the track is the title soundtrack of the film "Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon", however, it differs somewhat from the album version.
Additional facts
On June 23, 2011, a flash mob took place at the Linkin Park concert, which took place in Moscow on Red Square. Then the French repeated the Moscow flash mob in their homeland on July 1.
Runner-up at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, the popular Turkish rapcore/alternative metal band MaNga is nicknamed "Turkish Linkin Park" in their home country.
Sometimes the group is accused of copying themselves, explaining this by the fact that the songs have the same structure.
On April 30, 2010, the iPhone game 8-Bit Rebellion! was released. As a reward for completing the game, the player is given the opportunity to listen to the exclusive track "Blackbirds". And on September 24, the Linkin Park Revenge game in the style of Guitar Hero was released on the iPhone.
During Linkin Park's performance at Rock im Park on June 3, 2012, before performing "Sabotage" (a Beastie Boys cover), the LPU member proposed to his girlfriend on stage. She said yes.
Jazz musician Eric Lewis. stated that thanks to the music of Linkin Park, he, at first disillusioned with the jazz world, began to create again. On the advice of friends, after listening to the song "Somewhere I Belong", he heard the voice of Chester Bennington, who reminded him of the sound of John Coltrane's saxophone, and the harmony - the music of Miles Davis, and inspired by this, Lewis began to work again, created the Rockjazz project.
Sometimes you can find the song "Vertical Limit". Actually, this is an early version of "Points of Authority" that could be downloaded from the band's website. Linkin Park thanked Korn in the booklets for Hybrid Theory, Reanimation and Meteora.
The video for the song "Somewhere I Belong" features robot figures from the anime Gundam.
Mike's favorite song on the Hybrid Theory album is "Papercut" and Rob's is "In the End". Chester claimed to like "Papercut" too, and when asked why, he replied, "It's just the easiest to play."
The video for "One Step Closer" was filmed in an underground mine. In addition, the money for the release of this single was collected by four thousand fans.
On January 19, 2010, Music for Relief, a charity created by Linkin Park, organized an event to raise funds to help those affected by the earthquakes in Haiti. Anyone can donate money, and to stir up interest in this, Linkin Park and several other famous artists released a small album for free distribution. Anyone can download it from the Music for Relief website and donate some money if they wish.
If you listen to the track "Announcement Service Public" backwards, you can hear Chester exhorting "You should brush your teeth, and you should wash your hands" ("You should brush your teeth and wash your hands").
In 2007, at a concert in Melbourne, Chester broke his arm while jumping on stage during the Papercut. Chester got up from the floor and continued speaking.
Composition of the group:
Chester Charles Bennington - vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion, songwriter
Michael Kenji Shinoda - vocals, MC, keyboards, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, songwriter, composer, bass guitar (since 2014).
Bradford Philip Delson - lead guitar, keyboards, percussion, acoustic guitar, backing vocals.
Robert Gregory Bourdon - drums
Joseph Hahn - DJ, backing vocals.
David Michael Farrell - bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals.
that our music is a mixture of many genres; a hybrid of what we grew up with,” guitarist Brad Delson describes.
The title of the debut album and the band's original name, "Hybrid Theory", describes the six-piece's artistic goals and their approach to making music. Linkin Park's sound is a mixture of heavy alternative music,
hip-hop, as well as electronic samples, are their performance features.
Origin
The group was founded in 1996 and was originally called "Xero". When a new frontman (“vocalist”) Chester Bennington came to the team, he suggested renaming the group from “Xero” to “Hybrid Theory”, but with this name they did not last long, it turned out that a group with this name already exists and moreover, is ready to sue the plagiarists, that is, even then "Xero".The guys faced a difficult choice of a new name, each member of the group wrote the desired name on a piece of paper and as a result a new star appeared - linkin park. Linkin Park- this is a distorted name, in fact, Chester wrote "Lincoln Park" - "Lincoln Park", when the guys asked Chester for more details about his option, Chester replied that one early morning, he drove past Lincoln Park and thought, why not name the group...
By the way, the Abraham Lincoln Park is in many US cities - for example, in Chicago, Michigan and
New Jersey. But the group was named after a park in Santa Monica. By the way, the musicians could not forget their second name "Hybrid Theory", and decided to use it for their debut album. On the cover of the "Hybrid Theory" disc, they depicted a soldier with wings. According to Chester, the warrior symbolizes the rigidity of the group, and the transparent wings, on the contrary, symbolize its softness. Apparently this contradictory combination brings them success!
About the sound...
The combination of frontman Chester Bennington's rich, gigantic vocal style with Mike Shinoda's rapid-fire rapping helps define the sound."I think the styles of Chester and Mike should be combined as much as possible!" - says bass player Phoenix. "While the styles we mix can be very different from each other, we want the combination to feel natural - it's a big part of our band's uniqueness."
"The intertwining influences are as varied as Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin, and The Roots all come together, wanting everything to come together without feeling forced," explains Mike Shinoda. “I record each member directly into a computer to best combine our digital and live elements. We spend countless hours mixing parts until we get the right combinations and composition."
The band immersed themselves in recording until the spring of 2000, when they signed with Warner Bros., the guys immediately entered the studio. To achieve the recording quality of their work, they hired producer Don Gilmour. The result is an album that is just as well crafted and melodic with a strong lyrical message.
“Chester and I write about the universal emotion of feeling insignificant, optimistic, or overwhelmed,” says Mike. "We write about routine because sometimes it's good to know that there are other people going through the same things as you." These lyrics, along with the varied instrumentation, make a powerful musical statement: the debut album is Hybrid Theory.
The rock band Linkin Park is known even to those who are far from their work. It was their compositions that sounded in the mp3 players of our childhood, their clips were transmitted to each other for hours via bluetooth. The last unsuccessful release in May 2017 does not cross out the history of the group, but only stirs up interest. It's time to figure out how several Californian guys came to world recognition and for more than twenty years they have been looking for new directions, annually delighting fans with compositions in different genres.
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The history of the group began in the distant nineties, with the acquaintance of Michael Shinoda and Brad Delson, classmates in the past and good friends now. The first studio was self-created in Mike's room, where friends wrote poetry and recorded songs together. Brad has been an inspiration to Mike for a long time.
In 1996, the first line-up of a five-member group gathered, called SuperXero (later simply Xero). Together, despite financial problems, they continued to record tracks in Shinoda's bedroom.
Time passed, but there were no singles, however, as well as labels with sponsors. Moreover, one of the members left the group - Mark Wakefield. But with the arrival Chester Bennington the team began its journey to fame. The demo, sent by Bennington, caused an indescribable delight of the record companies, and the very next day Chester was in Los Angeles, and the group changed its name to Hybrid Theory.
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They featured Chester's great vocals with a wide range, plus Depeche Mode and Stone Temple Pilots influences, paired well with Mike's The Roots rapping. The rest of the participants complemented this tandem with excellent arrangements, which in total gave a unique creative team.
First contract in 1999 with Warner Bros. Records, coupled with the debut album "Hybrid Theory", became a triumph for the group and its history. The long-awaited record combined the genres of nu-metal, alternative metal and rap metal. Today its circulation is more than thirty million copies, and for the song "Crawlling" the group received the first Grammy Award in its history in the nomination "Best Hard Rock Performance".
Subsequently, the songs "Crawling" and "One Step Closer" occupied leading positions in the charts, and the video for "In the End" was recognized as the best video of the year according to MTV. In addition, the single "In the End" is the most streamed single on Spotify (over 235 million plays).
By the way, the Grammy-winning single "Crawlling" is based on Bennington's struggle with drug and alcohol addiction. "It's a song about feeling like I wasn't in control of drugs and alcohol," he later said. The performance is so sincere that during these three and a half minutes one can easily share the feelings of the vocalist.
At the same time, the team is faced with the first difficulties. The British electronic group Hybrid accused the guys of plagiarism and threatened further litigation. Then Chester suggested naming the band Lincoln Park, after the park in Santa Monica. Everyone agreed, except for the worldwide web. The fact is that the lincolnpark.com domain was taken and the guys considered the name Linkin Park, which the group still bears. The composition has not changed since then.
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The band's second album, Meteora, was released in 2003 and was no less popular than their debut. Topping the Billboard 200 chart and literally taking over the MTV charts, the band's videos were broadcast day and night and received a number of awards. By the way, the video for the song "Numb" is a confident embodiment of the band's talent, which confirms the number of views on YouTube - 530 million today. Some tracks, in particular from the album "Hybrid Theory", were remixed with the participation of Jay-Z. Particularly successful was the same "Numb", thanks to which the group reached the world level of the charts. At the moment, the circulation of the album has more than 16 million copies worldwide.
The release of the third studio album "Minutes to Midnight" took place in 2007 and became a turning point in the history of the band. Here for the first time there was a feeling that these are no longer the guys who played in your headphones in the late nineties. The band moved away from their former hybrid style, returned to the alternative rock genre and adapted to the pressure and interest of their fans. The style of the record is similar to the first release and the guys were quite happy with it. This album also found its place in the world hit parades. Once again, the group became the winner of the MTV Video Music Awards, and the songs "What I've Done" and "Leave Out All The Rest" perfectly complemented the films "Transformers" and "Twilight".
The soundtrack for "Transformers" was met with such enthusiasm by the public that the director of the film, Michael Bay, called on the guys for further cooperation. In 2009, the single "New Divide" was released, the video for which has more than 290 million views on YouTube. It is important to note that this single was also recognized as the best song in the band's career and entered the top ten alternative charts, in which there are only four groups in addition to Linkin Park: U2, R.E.M. , Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Three years later, the group continued to change and presented the fourth - a conceptual, telling about human fears - album "Thousand Suns". Combining a number of genres: alternative rock, rap rock, electronic rock, industrial rock, the record climbed to the top of the charts in fifteen countries, was recognized as the best-selling in the history of rock music in the United States and received many awards. Despite the melancholy of the tracks, the songs Burning in the Skies, Waiting for the End, Blackout and, of course, the title soundtrack to the third Transformers - Iridescent are beautiful in their own way.
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A little later, in 2012, the guys presented a new album - Living Things. Thematically, it differed from its predecessor and spoke about personal problems and experiences. Trying to get rid of the nu-metal stigma, Linkin Park added new genres to the band, creating a slightly offbeat sound style. Elements of country and folk rock are especially strongly traced in the single "Castle of Glass". Notes of other genres added novelty, but the end result did not live up to expectations. This was very accurately noted in their NME (New Musical Express, English magazine about music - ed.) review: “... their foray into the specified genre here is limited to three minutes of “Castle Of Glass”. The rest... Well, to be honest, they were obviously listening to Skrillex, and thus the heavy guitar flurry of the past was replaced by a new, heavy electronic flurry, but that aside, this is pretty much the usual semi-jolly stilted theatrical game that we used to." Strict and unfair? It's hard to say, because critics rated the disc ambiguously. Among the positive ratings is the opinion of Sergio Pereira from the site MusicRewiew, who recognized the album as the best creation in the last years of the band's work. But there are those who called the group's rebirth attempt a failure.
Subsequently, the labels Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings presented an album of remixes from the previous singles. Influenced by the rising dubstep and drum and bass genres, ten tracks are turned into 8-bit remixes. Critics greeted the work cool, but Mike believes that Recharged, of course, turned out to be a worthwhile thing. Among fans of electronic music, the disc found its admirers.
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The sixth studio album - "The Hunting Party" - was produced by the band members themselves (Shinoda and Delson). One of the singles "Guilty All the Same" with the already familiar notes of nu-metal was recorded together with rapper Rakim. Recording rap on your own would be too predictable, Shinoda considered. Another characteristic feature of the album is a large number of guitar solos, which, again, can be heard in "Guilty All the Same". And the participants themselves note the similarity of the composition with the group's early works, the albums "Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora", which marked the return of the group to the long-awaited former style of performance. Video clips were shot for almost half of the singles from the album. Particularly interesting were "Wastlelands" and "Guilty All the Same". The first became a promo for Ultimate Fighting Championship, and the second was created in collaboration with Microsoft, which turned it into a kind of video game.
But, not having time to return to the previous manner of performance, the guys again ventured into the experiment. The worst release in the history of the group “One More Light” took place not so long ago, and if you suddenly didn’t have time to enjoy the return of your favorite team, then we advise you to think thrice. The seventh disc is fundamentally different from the previous ones in the manner and style of performance. The album featured hip-hop artists Kiiara, Pusha T and Stormzy, which, combined with Chester's vocals, certainly adds contrast to the tracks. And yet, in pursuit of new trends and the search for a new Linkin Park, they have gone far from their origins. The pop style is not combined with either the vocal and musical data of the group, or with the external charisma of the band. At the beginning of the year, Mike said that fans should expect something unexpected, but who could have known that we were talking about such experiments. Once again, one cannot but agree with NME: “It's hard to criticize a great band for trying to do something different. The problem isn't even that it's a pop album. Maybe the classic Linkin Park will come back for the eighth album. But will anyone listen to them? However, "One More Light" peaked at number five on the Top 20 Albums of May 2017.
The name of the band Linkin Park is familiar even to those who know nothing about American rock music. Their albums received gold and platinum statuses, and each disc was an experiment with new genres and styles. The death of the soloist did not cut off the work of Linkin Park, at least the remaining members claim that it is too early to put an end to the group.
History of creation and composition
It is customary to indicate the beginning of the creative path of the team in 1996, but it all started much earlier. The founders of the group, Brad Delson, studied in the same class as children (they are still close friends). The guys recorded songs together in Michael's room, shared song ideas and composed poetry.
They recruited the first "serious" line-up of the group just in 1996. They were joined by three more friends. The young team had no money, and the soloist's bedroom still served as their studio. The group took the name SuperXero, then they decided to remove part of Super.
The early work of the prototype Linkin Park is considered "not very successful", and frankly speaking, a failure. In three years, they received dozens of rejections from record labels. Albums, producers and sponsors never appeared on the horizon. The group began to disintegrate - vocalist Mike Wakefield announced his departure.
The white streak in the history of the team began only when he decided to join them. A simple guy who worked part-time at Burger King discovered his bright musical talent and organizing abilities. The luxurious vocals of the new member enriched the sound of the songs and encouraged others to work on new compositions and arrangements.
Recording companies reacted to the new demos with unexpected enthusiasm. Soon the group, which took a different name - Hybrid Theory, moved to Los Angeles. The "golden lineup" formed at that time remained unchanged until 2017: writers and vocalists Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda, drummer Rob Bourdon, DJ Joseph Hahn, guitarists Dave Farrell and Brad Delson.
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In 1999, Warner Bros. Records offered the band a contract. Then they created a debut album in the spirit of rap metal, the name of which coincided with the name of the band. The release of the first record turned out to be a triumph: copies continue to be sold to this day (the total circulation exceeded 30 million), and the song Crawlling brought the musicians their first Grammy Award.
According to the soloist, it reflected his struggle with drugs and alcohol - then Chester Bennington was desperately trying to overcome addictions and expressed it in the song so sincerely that the fans were touched.
"We try to write about universal emotions, like feeling insignificant, optimistic, or overwhelmed," said Shinoda.
After the release of the first album, the name had to be changed again, and urgently - at that time the Hybrid group already existed in Britain. His musicians accused "upstarts" with a similar name of plagiarism and threatened with litigation. Chester suggested the name "Lincoln Park" to his colleagues, but the group's plans were to create an Internet site, and the domain of the same name was already taken. I had to take a slightly modified version of Linkin Park.
Song "Numb" by Linkin ParkThe next album Meteora, released in 2003, was not inferior to the first one in terms of popularity. The top lines of the MTV and Billboard ratings, active rotation on radio and TV, the enthusiasm of the audience at concerts proved that the success of the debut disc was not accidental and the musicians are able to create truly original compositions.
Many creative people note that the release of the third work in a row often becomes a time of crisis: you can’t offer fans something fundamentally new, because they have already fallen in love with the old style, but continuing in the old spirit will cause accusations of repetitiveness and obsession. Linkin Park has not bypassed these problems either.
Song "In The End" by Linkin ParkTheir follow-up album, Minutes to Midnight, surprised fans by deviating unexpectedly from their signature hybrid style towards alternative rock. Most fans approved of the results of the experiment. This time, the group's compositions not only topped the charts, but also sounded as soundtracks in "Terminator", "Transformers", "", "Need for Speed".
In 2009, a single was released with the song New Divide, which was later called the best in the history of the band. The musicians continued to experiment on subsequent albums: Thousand Suns took on a melancholy electronic sound, Living Things switched to personal themes and incorporated elements of folk and country music, and The Hunting Party marked a return to the band's early style with its long guitar solos, notes of nu metal and rap elements.
Song "New Divide" by Linkin ParkDespite the bright stage image, in life the Linkin Park musicians behaved calmly and adequately - they did not demand alcohol to be served backstage, they did not arrange violent parties, and after each concert they paid attention to their fans by signing autographs. In 2002, the group held a separate concert for teenagers aged 11-15 only. They took only $ 8 for a ticket, and the proceeds were transferred to charity.
The emblem of the group is known all over the world. During its existence, it has changed 20 times, but the main idea remains the same: the first letters of the words from the name are arranged in the form of a triangle and circled. Russian fans have noticed that the Linkin Park logo is very similar to the emblem of the Kurgan Bus Plant, rotated clockwise. Of course, we are not talking about borrowing here, rather, this is a funny coincidence.
Separately, it is worth mentioning the clips of the group, which were no less brilliant than the songs. Their YouTube views numbered in the millions. 5 of them received MTV awards.
The last creative experiment of the team took place in 2017. Critics and fans almost unanimously decided that this time the craving for the new failed Linkin Park. The disc One More Light received the title of the worst in the band's discography for the pop style of music, strangely combined with the soloist's performance style and the overall image of the band.
Song "One More Light" by Linkin ParkOn July 20, 2017, Chester Bennington shocked members of the group and fans. Two months earlier, his friend from Soundgarden had hanged himself. Chester was very upset by what happened, but no one guessed that he, too, would soon voluntarily die in the same way. Bennington left no note. The musician was only 41 years old, he left behind a wife and six children.
The news shocked friends in the group no less than the fans. According to them, nothing foreshadowed trouble: that day they were going for a photo shoot, and a week later they planned to leave for another tour.
“Your absence leaves a void, nothing can fill it,” the musicians wrote in an appeal to the deceased Chester, published on the official website. “The demons that took you from us were always part of the deal… We know for a fact that you have made every one of our lives better. Thank you for this gift."
At the end of the summer of 2017, Linkin Park announced that they wanted to arrange a concert in honor of the deceased soloist. The band's hits were sung by Blink-182, Bring Me the Horizon, Kiiara and other popular performers on the American stage.
Following this, Linkin Park released an archived video and a live album of recordings dating back to when Bennington was still alive. The records were the last gift in the musician's biography that he left to the fans.
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