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MOSCOW: Visitors enjoy a wheat field with poppies installed during the Flower Jam Festival on the Revolution Square next to theState Historical Museum in downtown Moscow. — AFP Linkin Park’s Bennington, Chris Cornell: Friends united in tragedy

inkin Park frontman Chester Bennington killed himself on wrapped up into one," he said in the tribute posted by Cornell's Park in middle school to cope with bullying. "For a large faction the birthday of his late friend Chris Cornell of family on Facebook. of people in my generation, Linkin Park's music helped those LSoundgarden, highlighting the close friendship between "I suppose that's what we all are. You helped me understand who felt alienated find voice and strength," she wrote to the city the two troubled singers. The coroner's office confirmed Friday that," he said. Cornell's widow has cast doubt on whether the council on petition site Care2, quickly nearing her goal of 5,000 that Bennington died by hanging himself, with an employee of Soundgarden singer intentionally committed suicide, saying his signatures. She noted that plenty of other monuments already his Los Angeles residence finding his body on a belt attached to judgment may have been impaired by his anxiety medication. stood to the park's original namesake-Civil War president his bedroom door. Bennington did not leave a suicide note but Abraham Lincoln. a half-empty bottle of alcohol was in the room when the Move to name 'Linkin Park' employee arrived Thursday, the coroner's office said. Bennington died days before Linkin Park was set to tour, Ex-bandmates mourn After the initial shock, a number of fans pointed out on with the band set to join other bands of its era including Among tributes to Bennington, baseball fans at the Los social media that Thursday would have been the 53rd birth- Blink-182 next week at the Citi Field baseball stadium in New Angeles Dodgers stadium heard organist Dieter Ruehle play a day of Cornell, who similarly died from hanging in May and York. Promoter Live Nation said Friday that the tour was can- rendition of one of Linkin Park's most recognizable songs, like Bennington had spent his life combatting drug and alco- celed, with tickets to be refunded. Linkin Park was one of the "Numb." Bennington had also known another major grunge hol problems. Bennington had toured with Cornell and sang key bands in the movement of nu metal, blending singer, Scott Weiland, who died of an overdose in December Leonard Cohen's classic "Hallelujah" at his funeral. Linkin Bennington's angst-ridden, raw vocals with pop structure 2015. Before Weiland's death, Bennington had temporarily tak- Park guitarist and songwriter Mike Shinoda, in an interview and rapping by Shinoda. en over as frontman of his band Stone Temple Pilots. shortly after Cornell's death, said Bennington had been so The band won a runaway success with its debut "Hybrid While stunned members of Linkin Park were working on a affected that he could not keep his composure during a pre- Theory," which became the top-selling album in the United band statement on Bennington's death, Stone Temple Pilots concert sound-check. States in 2001. Band lore said that the rockers, after testing a saluted him as "an incredible human being." "A beacon of "Chester couldn't even make it through the song. He was series of monikers, named themselves after Lincoln Park in light and hope is what you will always be to us," Stone getting halfway through and getting choked up," Shinoda told Santa Monica, California, changing the spelling to stand out on Temple Pilots said in a statement. "We love you Chester. We Radio.com. After Cornell's death, Bennington said that the the internet. In the wake of Bennington's death, a fan petition will miss you. — AFP In this file photo, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park per- singer "inspired me in many ways you could never have asked the sun-kissed city on the Pacific Ocean to change the forms during the iHeartRadio Live Series in Burbank, known." "Your talent was pure and unrivaled. Your voice was joy spelling formally. California. and pain, anger and forgiveness, love and heartache all Petition leader Sarah Rose said she had listened to Linkin

A picture shows red roses and a picture of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington laid in front of the US embassy in Banners showing photographs of singer Chester Bennington, the frontman for the rock band Linkin Park, are displayed central Moscow in memory of Bennington. on the front of the Warner Bros. — AP/AFP photos