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Shuck and Dowdell downplay speculation that Cornell's death inspired Bennington's. While there are similarities – both artists hanged themselves, and Bennington did so on what would have been Cornell's 53rd birthday – they believe it was mostly a coincidence. "It could be a part of it, but it's a small part of it," Shuck says. "I think that it's just another horrible event that gets put in your subconscious. It's kindling, but the fire was already burning." 外界猜測Chester是因為Chris Cornell的過世才自殺的(因為兩者的自殺方法非常接近，而且Chester自殺當天是Chris的生日)，Ryan和Sean都不這麼認為，他們兩人都覺得這只是巧合，他們說或許Chris是一部分的原因，但佔了很小的比例，而這只是另一項恐怖經歷在他潛意識裡面埋入了火種，但事實上其他的火苗早已在燃燒了。 Bennington's troubles go back to a nightmarish childhood. He was born on March 20th, 1976, in Phoenix, the youngest of four children. His mother, Susan, was a nurse; his father, Lee, was a police detective who investigated child-sex crimes. They divorced when Chester was 11, and, feeling abandoned by his mother, he lived with his dad, whom he later said was not "emotionally stable" at the time. Chester的問題來源可以遠追朔到他噩夢般的童年，於1976年3/20出生在鳳凰城，是老么，媽媽是護士，爸爸是警察，專門辦兒童性侵案件，他們在 Chester十一歲時離婚，當時Chester跟爸爸同住覺得被媽媽拋棄了，他後來回憶說到那時他的情緒很不穩定。 From the time Chester was seven or eight until he was 13, he was sexually abused by an older male friend. "I was getting beaten up and being forced to do things I didn't want to do," he once said. "It destroyed my self-confidence." 而在他7、8歲到13歲時他被比他年長的朋友性虐待，他曾說到他會被毒打強迫他去做他不願意做的事情，而這完全摧毀了他的自信心 The experience led Bennington to explore drugs and alcohol. By his teens, he had used opium, amphetamines, marijuana and cocaine. "I'd drink so much that I'd shit my pants," he once said. Bennington claimed to have kicked substance abuse the first time in 1992, when a local gang burst into a place where he was getting high with his friends and beat and robbed them. 這樣的經歷導致他去嗑藥和喝酒，他的青少年生活嘗試了鴉片，可卡因等各種毒品，他說，我喝酒都會喝到尿褲子了，他曾說在1992當地黑幫在他和朋友吸毒時痛打他和搶劫他們之後，他就戒除藥癮了。 Bennington poured his experiences into Linkin Park's songs, which mixed his soul-baring screams with Mike Shinoda's rapping and the band's lumbering riffs for a sound that dominated the pop charts for much of the 2000s. "He had a distinct voice, at once delicate and ferocious," says actor and 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto, who met Bennington on the festival circuit in the 2000s (30 Seconds to Mars also toured with Linkin Park in 2014). "It's the angel and the demon, sitting on both shoulders. You could feel the tension between the two when he sang, and I think the reason so many people connected to his music was because of that balance he achieved between the two." 他將經歷放入了聯合公園的歌中，他們的歌曲混合了他來自靈魂的嘶喊和 Mike Shinoda的饒舌，在過去十多年稱霸排行榜，三十秒到火星的主唱 Jared Leto說Chester擁有獨特的歌聲，繼兇猛又同時很脆弱，就像是肩膀兩邊同時站著天使與魔鬼，當他歌唱時你可以感到兩種力量之間的張力，而我想這就是為什麼這麼多人能夠和他的音樂產生共鳴，因為他的音樂中能夠將這兩個力量平衡。 Bennington's songs, many co-written with Shinoda, became anthems for young people struggling with some of the same emotional issues. " 'Crawling,' for example, is probably the most literal song lyrically I'd ever written for Linkin Park," Bennington said of the single, off the band's megaselling 2000 debut, Hybrid Theory. "That's about feeling like I had no control over myself in terms of drugs and alcohol." 他和Mike所寫的歌曲，成為了有類似同樣問題年輕人的國歌，舉例來說像是 Crawling，Chester曾說這首歌大概是他在聯合公園裡寫過最真實的歌詞了，這首歌是描述他對於毒品和酒精完全失去掌控的感覺。 Those who knew him say Bennington didn't let his struggles define his personality. He could be funny in a juvenile way one minute (he was a fan of scatological humor) and deeply sensitive the next: Shuck recalls Bennington kicking himself endlessly after making a joke about lung cancer onstage. 認識Chester的人說，他並沒有讓他的掙扎與對抗定義他這個人，他可以前一刻像一個青少年般風趣，後一刻又非常敏感，Ryan回想到有次Chester再開舞台上開了肺癌的笑話，事後很長時間都無比後悔自責。 Bennington would sometimes tell bands that opened for Linkin Park, "Next time we might be opening for you guys." Sorum remembers how he'd asked the Kings of Chaos band members to do a gig shortly before Christmas. Bennington and DeLeo were laid over for 12 hours in Chicago, and the drummer felt horrible for keeping them from home during the holiday season. "I e-mailed those guys and said, 'I apologize. I'm so sorry. Thank you so much for going the distance,' " Sorum says. "And typical Chester style, he e-mailed back: 'Anytime, bro.' There was no drama. Nothing." Chester有時會告訴那些幫聯合公園開場的樂團說，下次就輪我們幫你們開場啦，槍與玫瑰的前鼓手Matt回憶，有次找了Kings of Chaos的團員們在聖誕節前夕來演出，而Chester和STP的DeLeo在芝加哥被卡了12個小時，這讓 Matt對於讓他們在聖誕節不能回家感到很抱歉，Matt說我寫email給他們道歉說對不起，謝謝你們願意大老遠跑來參加演出，而就像典型Chester的回答，他回信給我說，兄弟啊！隨時為你效勞，一點也不會有什麼戲劇性的抱怨。 At home, Bennington found solace in his six kids. He'd become a father for the first time at age 20, and first got married in 1996. That relationship ended in a tumultuous divorce, marked by a relapse where "I drank myself to the point where I couldn't leave the house and I couldn't function," he recalled. "I wanted to kill myself." He married Talinda in 2005, and the couple had a son and twin daughters. Leto remembers going to Bennington's house for dinner one night. "I walk in and it's just jam-packed with the biggest family you've ever seen," he says. "I just couldn't believe that he had such a beautiful and thriving family life, especially for someone so young. I hadn't seen so much of that [in him], spending time on the road." 在家裡Chester藉由他六個孩子找到了慰藉，他第一次成為父親是在20歲，第一次結婚在1996年，但在之後離婚了，而這讓Chester的癮頭故態復萌，他說他會一直喝到無法出家門，無法正常運轉為止，他很想自殺，他在2005年底娶了Talinda，他們有一個兒子和雙胞胎女兒，Jared Leto回憶有一次去 Chester他家吃晚餐，他說：我走進去，而裡面是你從沒見過的大家庭，我無法想信他這麼年輕就有這麼美好令人驚嘆的家庭生活，在跟他一起巡迴演唱時，可從來沒看出來。 "He always had enjoyable tales of his six kids, which he always referred to with a beaming smile, no matter what kind of parental woe might have had him do a double take," says ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, who toured with Bennington in Kings of Chaos within the past year. "His tattoo-parlor business was another highlight; he had me designing silver jewelry for the Las Vegas shop where we whiled away the hours talking shop. He was really an engaging soul." 去年曾在Kings of Chaos和Chester一起演出，ZZ Tops的團員Billy說，他每次都會很開心地講他六個孩子的故事，不論當個父母有多難，他臉上講到孩子時總是有閃耀的笑容。而他刺青店的合夥人說，Chester叫我為賭城的店設計銀飾，我們會在店裡聊好幾小時消磨時間，他有動人的靈魂。 In late July, Shuck paid tribute to Bennington at a private service in Los Angeles, where he read a eulogy alongside Linkin Park's Joe Hahn and Shinoda. (The members of Linkin Park, as well as Talinda Bennington, declined to be interviewed for this story.) 七月底Ryan和聯合公園的團員Joe、Mike在葬禮上致悼念詞(聯合公園的團員和Chester的妻子拒絕受訪) Bennington's death is still resonating among his fans, who experienced a shock wave when the news reached the public. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline says it received a 14 percent spike in calls on the day after the news broke. Chester的過世仍舊影響著他的歌迷，而為他死訊震驚的餘波傳遞到大眾，國家自殺防治中心表示，當那天新聞傳出時，打進來的電話通數上升了14個百分點。 Ten days after Bennington's death, the singer's home was encircled with a temporary six-foot fence. A police cruiser sat outside as fans left flowers, drawings, signs, guitar picks and crosses on its perimeter. "When I found out, I was at a museum, and I just bawled my eyes out," said 19-year-old Briana Yah-Diaz. "It was like a piece of my childhood went away. The little-girl part of me needs to come up and pay my respects. . . . I could always count on them." 在他去世後十天，他家周圍被警方暫時用圍籬圍住，周遭放滿了花、圖畫、符號和吉他彈片。一個十九歲的女孩說，我聽到新聞時在博物館，我馬上大哭了出來，就好像我童年的一部份離開了，我需要來獻上我對他的敬意，我總能依靠他們的音樂。 Outside his home, one note read, "Fly free now! With love all the way from Texas." Another said, "Dear Chester Bennington, It hurts all of us to know that you saved so many lives, yet we couldn't save you. . . ." 在他的家外，有紙條寫著自由的飛翔吧，從德州來所有的愛！還有另一張寫著親愛的Chester我們很難過你拯救了這麼多人的生命，我們卻無法拯救你的 ! -- In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. In a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. ~~~~By Michael Jackson -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 111.254.129.17 ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/LinkinPark/M.1501938953.A.146.html