Chester Bennington, Linkin Park Singer, Is Dead at 41<br />That’s who I am, and I’m kind of lucky in a lot of ways ′cause I get to do something about it.”<br />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<br />that pulls beneath the surface / Consuming, confusing / This lack of self-control I fear is never ending.”<br />The song, he said later, was “about feeling like I had no control over myself in terms of drugs and alcohol.”<br />“That feeling,” he added, “being able to write about it, sing about it,<br />that song, those words sold millions of records, I won a Grammy, I made a lot of money.”<br />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.<br />By JOE COSCARELLIJULY 20, 2017<br />Chester Bennington, the ferocious lead singer for the platinum-selling hard rock<br />band Linkin Park, was found dead in his home near Los Angeles on Thursday.<br />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<br />— taking care of myself, being real, being open, getting it out, taking all the steps to make myself whole.”<br />“If it wasn’t for music I’d be dead,” he added.
