Intresting And Less Known Facts About Linkin Park

1. Road to Revolution : Live at Milton Keynes featured Mike Shinoda rapping the first verse of "Hands Held High" in acapella. This wasn't part of the show, but Mike spotted a fan with a sign reading "Hands Held High", and decided to  perform a verse. This inspired him to perform either of the 2 verses as an intro to "Crawling" in later shows.

2. Chester Bennington's relationship with alt-grunge band Stone Temple Pilots starts from 1992. He used to be a big fan of their music, and while touring with Linkin Park  on the Family Values Tour in 2001, he joined them onstage for a rendition of their signature track "Wonderful". Later on in 2013, as you probably know, he became their vocalist. This however, failed to land him in Scott Weiland's bad books






3. Chester Bennington has also been featured in various covers alongside artists like Disturbed (covering "Walk" by Pantera) and Motley Crue (in a duet for the re-release of their hit ballad "Home Sweet Home")

4. Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn recently  toured Germany and were allowed to paint sections of the broken Berlin Wall using spray paint and brushes.

5. Linkin Park have been praised by members of the UNO and have received multiple accolades for their active involvement in Climate Change and initiating a "Power the World" campaign to help young children in poor countries to gain access to electricity.

6. Joe Hahn being a big fan of the Transformers franchise is the reason why the first 3 movies featured Linkin Park in the  soundtrack.

7. Mike Shinoda is featured in the documentary "The Distortion of Sound" alongside Steve Aoki, A.R Rahman, Slash, Hans Zimmer and Snoop Dogg, among others.

8. Tensions between the band and Warner Brothers (their record label) reached a massive peak between 2004 and 2006 when the band refused to obey make a third album along the lines of Meteora and Hybrid Theory. Initiating "Music for Relief" and "Machine Shop Records" during this period helped them remain with Warner Brothers and produce their subsequent albums.


Some More Facts And History About  LP

Linkin Park were formed in 1996 in Los Angeles, California in the United States.

The current members of Linkin Park are Chester Bennington, Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, Dave Farrell, Joe Hahn and Mike Shinoda.

The only former member of Linkin Park is Mark Wakefield (who was a vocalist in the band from 1996 to 1998).

Linkin Park has sold over 50 million albums worldwide. Their debut album Hybrid Theory has sold more than 24 million copies worldwide.

Over the years Linkin Park have won 2 Grammy Awards and 21 MTV Awards in total.

The band got their name from California’s Lincoln Park named after president Lincoln. They changed the spelling of their band (‘Lincoln’ to ‘Linkin’) so they could purchase the domain name without it costing them a great amount of money.

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