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JAY-Z believes the heartbreaking loss of late Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington could serve a greater purpose by helping to spread awareness about mental health. Bennington — who famously collaborated with JAY-Z for the 2004 megahit "Numb/Encore" — took his own life in July. "Hopefully his death serves as a wake-up call," Jay-Z said during a recent interview with  BBC Radio 1 . "Mental health is a real thing. You never know what people are going through, and you think because they're performers and he sold 14 million records — that doesn't equate to happiness. Money or fame doesn't mean anything if you're not happy inside." JAY-Z performed his crossover hit with Linkin Park during his time at the BBC studios as a tribute to Bennington. He also played a new song, "Family Feud," during his appearance, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the British outlet's Live Lounge. The rapper recently performed

Chester Bennington Late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington was honored by his Dead By Sunrise bandmate Ryan Shuck at a recent tribute event. Shuck discussed his final conversations with Bennington, and reading the final texts with Chester’s widow Talinda. “A mentally and emotionally healthy Chester would have never meant to hurt any of us, I can promise you that. Never. He was not himself when this happened, and he was not in control. We often spoke at length about the power of our darkness, in an effort to repel it and understand it, not invite it in and let it have its way with us. There’s no easy way to say this, but this was not an act of selfishness, he didn’t mean to hurt us, it was an act of illness. Upon re-reading some of my last texts with Chester, Talinda and I sat there and read them all together. I realized that while he was lovingly encouraging me with my own battle with addiction, and the dark passenger as we called it, he was also clearly describing his o

According to  The Pulse Of Radio , the family of late  LINKIN PARK  frontman  Chester Bennington  is establishing an organization to help fans who are struggling to come to terms with the vocalist's suicide. Sources told TMZ that the organization will aim to raise awareness and provide resources to fans and young people contemplating suicide. The  Bennington  family is said to be worried that fans may want to "glorify or somehow honor" the deaths of  Bennington  and his friend,  SOUNDGARDEN  singer  Chris Cornell , by taking their own lives.  Cornell  hung himself on May 18, while  Bennington  ended his life the same way on July 20 — what would have been  Cornell 's 53rd birthday. There is currently no timeline for when the organization will be established. Following  Bennington 's death, his  LINKIN PARK  bandmates established a tribute site that also provides links to resources for anyone in need of support. Contact information for the  Suicide Preventi

Linkin Park and Soundgarden fans were disappointed with MTV for cutting to commercial break during the tribute for Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell at the Video Music Awards last night. Jared Leto gave a beautiful tribute that was acclaimed by fans, but viewers were not happy when MTV quickly cut to commercial just as they started playing a 2010 Linkin Park VMA’s performance. A fan wrote on Linkin Park’s Reddit, “Jared Leto was giving a tribute to both Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell during the 2017 VMAs and Jared along with Julia Michaels were the only ones that actually cared to do a tribute. Everybody else in the audience were so disrespectful and didn’t give a shit that Jared had to ask the audience twice for them to stand up and while Julia Michaels was supposed to do a tribute to Chester, MTV just cut to commercial break. How disrespectful! I usually don’t care about award shows anymore since they don’t care about music anymore, but this just really made me sick a

Chester Bennington of Linkin Park performs at The O2 Arena on July 3, 2017 in London, England.   Linkin Park  is getting ready to give fans the opportunity to salute its fallen vocalist.  On Tuesday (Aug. 22) the band shared its intention to memorialize Chester Bennington in its home city, presumably in the near future.   “The five of us are so grateful for all of your support as we heal and build the future of Linkin Park,” the social media note reads. “We are working on a special public event in Los Angeles to honor Chester’s memory and look forward to sharing details with you soon.” Linkin Park has not performed since Bennington committed suicide on July 20 and has kept a decidedly low profile, subtly paying its respects as necessary. The new message suggests the five remaining members may be planning some sort of live performance, or at least a public appearance in Bennington’s memory. Linkin Park had been scheduled for a summer co-headlining tour with Blink-182, tho

Late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington’s widow Talinda discussed what is giving her comfort in the painful days since her husband’s death in a new tweet. Talinda shared a beautiful tribute that LPAssociation posted. Talinda also tweeted Asa Soltan Rahmati that Chester ‘loved’ her.

Talinda Bennington, widow of Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, shared music from their son Jaime  on Twitter  on Wednesday. CHECK IT ON SOUND CLOUD :  https://soundcloud.com/jaime-bennington "I decided to sit down with my piano and have a conversation about what we wanted out of music," he continued. "I purposely forced myself to stray away from any of the hard-wired academic prejudices that I had the tendency to fall back on. These pieces took me far away from any notion of form, harmony, or time that I had so desperately wanted to control."Jaime's compositions, the latest installment of an ongoing series titled  Reveries , are solo piano pieces inspired by his "love for the incredible Dimitri Shostakovich." In a note on  his blog  from last month, the 21-year-old explained that he was inspired after a months-long listening session that involved "the systematic consumption of every [Shostakovich] symphony, brooding string qua

2001: Billboard Music Awards Linkin Park accept the award for Best Modern Rock Artist at the 2001 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.  2002: House of Blues Chester Bennington performs benefit concert at the House of Blues in West Hollywood that was organized by group of seventh grade students from Mirman Middle School.  2004: Projekt Revolution Tour Announcement Projekt Revolution Tour Announcement with Korn, Linkin Park, and Snoop Dogg.  2005: LIVE 8 Chester Bennington performs with with Jay-Z during LIVE 8 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.  2006: 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards Linkin Park and Jay-Z accept the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration award for "Numb/Encore" at the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles, California.  2007: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Linkin Park performs during the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Gibson Amphitheatre on December 8

Linkin Park guitarist Mike Shinoda has released a new Instagram story with himself playing music, seemingly with a drummer. He called it ‘music therapy.’ This is the first sign of a surviving Linkin Park member playing music since Chester Bennington’s death last month. YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAqs5GyA2w0 Linkin Park guitarist Mike Shinoda posted the following on Instagram last month: One week. Feels like forever. I’m here for a couple updates. I know these links aren’t clickable. Just type them out in your browser; they’re easy to remember. 1.) If you need a (local) place to celebrate Chester, look to tiny.cc/lpmemorial and all the amazing fan sites I’ve previously mentioned. 2.) If you’re having suicidal thoughts, go to chester.linkinpark.com 3.) If you’re going to buy merch in honor of Chester, consider who the purchase benefits. Don’t give money to scumbag bootleggers and opportunists. Linkin Park official merchandise is at store.l