Linkin Park guitarist and songwriter Mike Shinoda, in an interview shortly after Cornell's death, said Bennington had been so affected that he could not keep his composure during a pre-concert sound-check. In the wake of Bennington's death, a fan petition asked the sun-kissed city on the Pacific Ocean to change the spelling formally. Petition leader Sarah Rose said she had listened to Linkin Park in middle school to cope with bullying. While stunned members of Linkin Park were working on a band statement on Bennington's death, Stone Temple Pilots saluted him as "an incredible human being." "A beacon of light and hope is what you will always be to us," Stone Temple Pilots said in a statement.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 22, 2017 00:33 UTC