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Musicians have been leaving their tributes to Chester Bennington after the Linkin Park frontman died yesterday at the age 41.
In what has unfortunately become a far too common practice during the past couple of years in particular, Twitter has been the place for the music world to remember one of its departed. Bennington was found dead at his home in Palos Verdes, California, the news confirmed by his Mike Shinoda who tweeted: “Shocked and heartbroken, but it’s true. An official statement will come out as soon as we have one.”
There were countless more messages of shock left on Twitter, one of those being Stormzy who had just recently collaborated with Linkin Park. “I am heartbroken, you do not know what someone’s going through serious,” he wrote. “Prayers up for your family right now my brother.”
Linkin Park’s 2000 debut Hybrid Theory began a run of chart success which made them of the biggest US bands of the past twenty years. Its 2003 follow-up Meteora, 2007’s Minutes To Midnight and 2012’s Living Things were all trans-Atlantic number ones.