![]() Chester Bennington made me want to pick up a mic and sing, pick up a pen and write, pick up a guitar and play. ![]() I am writing this not as a report on the death of another rockstar but as a story of a boy’s childhood hero. A man so broken by this world that the only way out was to take his own life. I can’t help but wonder if we saw this coming. Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed In that moment of shared silence I recalled the haunting lyrics of ‘Leave out all the Rest’, Minutes to Midnight (2007). It has been a while since last I listened to the band that opened the world of alternative music to me as a child. The frontman of Linkin Park, Dead by Sunrise and Stone Temple Pilots, was found dead in his home near Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() But in the middle of our second beer the news about Chester Bennington broke. Thursday night was going to be a night of celebration for myself and some friends we had just wrapped up a job and our spirits were high.
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