Linkin Park lead vocalist Chester Bennington has died aged 41

The band's latest album One More Light was released in May.
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Chester Bennington, the lead vocalist of rock group Linkin Park has died aged 41.

The Los Angeles County coroner has confirmed the sad news (via TMZ), stating that Bennington had committed suicide by hanging. He is survived by his wife, and six children from two marriages.

Chester's trademark vocals were featured on famous Linkin Park tracks such as Numb and In The End. The group have scored five Top 10 hits here in the UK, including What I've Done, their highest charting Number 6 song from 2007.

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Linkin Park's albums Meteora, Minutes To Midnight and Living Things all reached Number 1 in the UK, while their latest album One More Light peaked at Number 4 in May of this year.

The band had only just released their latest music video today, for Talking To Myself.

Chester's bandmate Mike Shinoda took to Twitter to share his grief:

Stormzy, who collaborated on the track Good Goodbye from their latest album, said that he was "heartbroken":

Pusha T, who also featured on Good Goodbye, has also paid his respects.

Hip hop artist Watsky posted a photograph of himself recording with Linkin Park in the studio on July 14. He simply tweeted:

Image: Rex/Shutterstock - James Coldrey

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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I was in so much shock when I read about this on Facebook, I feel I may never come out of it now. To pay respects to the legendary rock performer, I think we should get the song 'One More Light' from its respective album up in the charts. I chose this because it is about the death of one of his friends, and the lyrics truly reflect himself after this has happened. RIP

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LesPatriotsfan

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"One more light" is about the attempted suicide of one of his friends. He said that friend survived but his friend Chris Cornell (lead singer of Soundgarden) did commit suicide and that hit Chester hard as well. I would love if One more light ended up on the charts but I doubt it has a chance. I bought every album LP have released. I loved and still love that band so much, I just feel horrible. I cannot imagine the heartbreak and confusion his family and friends are feeling.

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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I read somewhere that the song One More Light itself was about Chris...?

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LesPatriotsfan

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How could it have been about Chris when Chris passed away after the album was written? Chris died on May 18 and One More Light was released May 19 but it's been 3 months since you posted this so perhaps you know all of this by now.

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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Oh yeah, didn't know that