Chester Bennington, Linkin Park singer, died at 41.
Chester Bennington died of suicide by hanging and was found on the morning of July 20th in his Palos Verdes Estates home in Los Angeles County, a week before Linkin Park were to set out on a 29-date North American tour.
The band Linkin Park revealed themselves to public in 2000 with their first album “Hybrid Theory”, sold at more than 10 million copies. The song “Crawling” from “Hybrid Theory” received a Grammy Award.
The band has always been popular until their last album “One More Light”.
In total, five albums of Linkin park reached the top of the sales in the USA.
The most known song of Linkin Park is “In The end”, that was on the first album of the band.
Chester Bennington showed to people all of his different voices in this.
Its blend of rap, metal and electronic music raised them to the top. Sometimes they focused more on electronic musics and harder rock at others. They even teamed with Jay-Z.
Chester was born March 20th, 1976 in Phoenix, the son of a police officer. He had a rough childhood and was molested and beaten up by an older friend when we was seven.
When he was 11, his parents divorced and he was forced to live with his father. He discovered drugs, taking opium, amphetamines, marijuana, cocaine and alcohol.
Chester has 6 children : 4 boys and 2 twin girls.
The reasons of his suicide are still unknown. But we have good suppositions.
Chester was a very good friend of Chris Cornell, after Chris Cornell’s death, he said that he could not imagine a world without him.
Chester and Chris died almost in an identical way.
They both hanged themselves, both of them did not leave a suicide note in the room. And the most important thing was that Chester killed himself on Thursday, which would have been Chris Cornell's 53rd birthday.
But Chester showed himself happy as he was under depression. No one thought he could do that. We can see that in this video, just having fun with family.
And this is the last "real" video he made. And we can still see in this video how funny and happy he was as he was thinking of a suicide.
This Sunday, August 27 in Los Angeles at the Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards Pink delivered a poignant speech about an event newly happened with her daughter.
In this speech, she spoke about self-image and how to accept who you are and the differences with others.
She also spoke about some stars who were known for their differences (Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Annie Lennox, Prince, Janis Joplin, George Michael and Elton John). With this emotional speech she encouraged people to be proud of who they are and to be who they want to be.
“We don't change. We take the gravel and the shell and we make a pearl. And we help other people to change so they can see more kinds of beauty.”
With this sentence she tried to show to the world that we can't change people, every default is a quality.
With this speech Pink shows why she is an inspiration and a model for a whole generation of people.
The event is a charity show concept organized by a man named Bob Geldof. In November 1984, he saw, on the BBC, a television coverage which was speaking of the famine in Ethiopia. He was shocked by the insufficiency of help for the Ethiopians and decided to help them. He contacted Midge Ure, a singer of the boys-band Ultravox, and wrote a song named “Do They Know It's Christmas?”. After that, he was the guest at BBC Radio One studio, where he had to present his new album, but he preferred doing a charity act and presented his song for Ethiopian cause.
Midge Ure and Bob Geldof created Band Aid, a rock boys-band who gathered the most British and Irish famous rock stars, to interpret this song and that made a really good result.
Then, Bob Geldof decided to create Live Aid on the 13th of July, 1985 to help African families. He invited many famous people like Ultravox, Boy George, Sting, Queen, David Bowie, Elton John, Paul McCartney, the Pretenders, B.B. King, Bryan Adams, the Beach Boys, Santana, the Cars and Bob Dylan, who closed the show with a performance of "Blowin' in the Wind" featuring the Stones' Keith Richards and Ron Wood.
The concert last 16 hours and thanks to ABC and MTV it brought more than $200 millions (Ireland generated the most donations per capita). In 2004, the DVD of Live Aid was released.
Some people think that a concert, which aims at raising funds for Africa and its development, is bound to be respectable and fair. But is Live Aid really fair ? An article of the Mail, written by Ian Birrell, mentions the "corrosive legacy of Live Aid".
How can we explain these terms of "corrosive legacy" and how can it show through a concert supposed to be the greatest humanitarian concert ever seen ?
What is Live Aid ? Live Aid is a concert created in 1985 in order to raise funds for Africa and to fight the famine which was spreading. London (in England) and Philadelphia (in the USA) received this concert which assembled the most famous singers of 1985 : Queen, U2, Phil Collins, Elton John, Sting, Madonna, Bob Dylan etc... At the same time, the supergroup United Support of Artists (USA) for Africa recorded a well-known song in a charity single : We Are the World. That shows that 1985 knew coalitions between many artists for charities.
But in 2011, Ian Birrell, a foreign reporter, columnist, campaigner and co-founder of Africa Express (shows of African musics) wrote an article for the Mail and denounced the "corrosive legacy of Live Aid".
So what is this corrosive legacy of Live Aid ? The reporter develops a main idea along this article : Live Aid did not help Africa like it was supposed to do, quite the opposite, it considered Africa by a superior way and Live Aid was finally used for a political purpose.
But tragically for an event born out of heartfelt concern for people suffering in a foreign land, it has had a negative impact. The more time passes, the more clearly we see the corrosive legacy of Live Aid. - Ian Birrell
Summary of this interesting article which shows that the idea of progress which means well can lead to poor things.
Live Aid was supposed to be the greatest concert which combined the spectacular show with a collective act to help people. But it quickly had a negative impact, because of the politicians who used this opportunity to increase their approval rating. Everything seemed then to turn around money. David Cameron, Bill Clinton and George Bush... As many political people who claimed to be of “the Live Aid generation”. Moreover, the concert was based on a wrong idea : we can save the world and solve the hardest problems with music and the best intentions. In this way, it caused damages because mediocre Western artists were invited and no African artists : such an insult.
Ian Birrell declared in his article that there were signs of a "corrosive legacy" from the start. Artists who were invited were people well-known who sold many records. On the contrary, African unknown artists were not invited and that revealed the Western countries were not open-minded. This error was made with Live Aid, but with Live8 too and for Ian Birrell it's unforgivable. That's why some artists refused to play as the Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards who asked Geldof, the Live Aid organiser, to whom these concerts were rewarding. Futhermore, Baaba Maal, a Grammy-winning African engaged singer criticised Live 8 because of the lack of African artists. Live Aid had bad effects on Africa, because of a superior regard, because of the lack of African artists and because of the legacy which facilitate the civil war in Africa (the money to buy weapons, the food suffering of a bad distribution and the politicalisation of aid).
We know that the government now distributes statistics about the educations of children in Africa thanks to Live Aid and other charities, without asking if it helps or hinders development. And because of the growing charities and the politicians, more and more artists and celebrities join the action. The least developped countries of Africa are wasting time and money to obey to the demand of donors or to feed the corruption instead of using this money for their development. Giles Bolton, former head of Britain's aid programme in Rwanda, relates that he was hopeless because the aid was incapable of achieving its aims.
Finally, Ian Birrell says in his article that : "endless doom-laden images of famine, war, poverty and disease serve only to stereotype developing nations". He means that in order to obtain money by charities, the LDC must show a negative view of their countries. In that way, charities lie, for example, a former aid worker had been sent to investigate about a child exploitation while there was none. And her report was forgotten by the charities. Ian Birrell tells us that there would be more tourism and development if charities stop to show negative views to obtain useless and corrupt money. And these charities are results of Live Aid : that is the corrosive legacy of Live Aid.
The event is Live Aid, a historical double concert, the biggest all-stars charity show. The first double concert happened on 13 July 1985, and was an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof (an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor, and political activist. Returning to Ireland in 1975, he became the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, a rock group created with his friends), after he saw a BBC documentary about the famine in Ethiopia (which claimed more than 1 million victims in 1984-85 alone) and decided to write a song to help raise money for the starving citizens of the East African nation, and decided write a song with Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine.
A part of event was marketed, always for charitable purposes, in the form of box set in 2005, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary, It is on this occasion that the experience is renewed: it’s about Live 8, which took place on 2 July 2005. Live Aid, in 1985, regrouped more than 40 big stars of the British Isles of the time for a double concert, such as Queen, David Bowie, Elton John, Paul McCartney, the Pretenders, Adam Ant, INXS, Elvis Costello, B.B. King, Sade, Run-DMC, Judas Priest, Bryan Adams, the Beach Boys, Santana, Tom Petty, the Cars, Eric Clapton, Duran Duran (in their last performance with all the original members before reforming two years ago) and Bob Dylan, who closed the show with a performance of "Blowin' in the Wind," featuring the Stones' Keith Richards and Ron Wood. The concert was broadcast live by many televisions, in the world, and this time, in a more international dimension, concerts took place in the cities of Philadelphia, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Toronto and Tokyo.
That event still alive in people’s memory because is during 16 hours of music (televised by both ABC in an abbreviated version, and all day by MTV) and brought more than $200 million (Ireland generated the most donations per capita)
David Bowie, who died on January 10, 2016, a few days after his birthday and the release of his final album, envisioned key parts of our culture today.
As we can read in Time Magazine:
"From Major Tom’s lonely “Space Oddity” rocket ride in 1969 to the disquieting “Lazarus,” his last single and video, Bowie was always seeking his next great role. In illness and death—which came from liver cancer on Jan. 10, just two days after his 69th birthday and the release of Blackstar, his 26th studio album—he found inspiration for his final lines, which he read as passionately and cunningly as anything in his repertoire. “Look up here, I’m in heaven,” he sang. “I’ve got scars that can’t be seen.”
The American metal band Motionless in white was formed in 2005.
Their 3rd studio album " Reincarnate" was released by the label fearless records on September 15, 2014 in the UK and a day later worldwide.
The band will do another world tour of the album with the band Lacuna Coil.
The first single of the album is the song " reincarnate", it was released on July 8, 2014.
Like every year, Forbes (an American business magazine) publishes the top 10 highest-paid women in the music world. Do you want to know who the top-earning woman in the music business is? You're going to see that with a little grading.
The tenth position is assigned to Britney Spears with $20 million.
Lady Gaga is ninth with $33 million
Miley Cyrus and Celine Dion are equally ranked for the eighth position with $36 million
At the sixth position we have the "bomba Latina" Jennifer Lopez with $37 million
At the fifth position we meet Katy Perry with $40 million.
This year Rihanna is richer than her ex best friend, Katy Perry, placing herself at the fourth position with $48 million. She didn't do any album this year but she went on tour with a famous rapper, Eminem.
At the third position we have a surprise with the only rock category singer, in fact we can see Pink with $52 million.
Taylor Swift places herself at the second position, with $67 million. We discovered her last album which is a little more pop and less country that the predecessors. It's maybe why it was more successful. Nowadays she's one of the most famous country singer.
The winner is a business woman, she is married with a famous rapper and I think that she worked really hard. Everyone have heard at least once the smash hit "Drunk in love" featuring Jay-z (her husband) , " xo", or the new feminist song "Flawless", which was recently remixed with Nicki Minaj. The superstar singer enjoyed the biggest year of her career, earning $115 million. Do you want to know who it is? I think that you already know. It is Queen Bey a.k.a Beyoncé Knowles!
