

The band wrote on Instagram, “57 years ago on July 20th, 1964 our co-founder and beloved brother was born. Not coincidentally, today would have been the 57 birthday of Bennington’s friend, Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, who died by suicide on May 18, 2017. Stone Temple Pilots, with whom Chester sang from 2013 to 2015, posted a photo of the singer grinning onstage and wrote, “ Love you and miss you.”įinneas tweeted, “4 years. I would give anything to have you back so they could see you.” “God must have seen what you wrote because they are truly everything you wished for them to be. When they were newborns, you wrote your hopes and dreams for them,” Talinda writes.

Tyler has your wit, intellect, looks, and the same obsession for trying to figure out space and time.” “ Lily is your mini-me, with her looks and beautiful voice. I see you in our babies every day,” she continues. You were the best person I have ever known. And when you put this lettuce cup on your head to make us laugh because our food was taking forever, you made everything better once again,” she wrote. “ You always had a way to make us all laugh. Talinda Bennington, Chester’s widow, posted a lengthy tribute to the singer, alongside a photo of him grinning with a lettuce leaf on his head. The Linkin Park and, briefly, Stone Temple Pilots frontman died by suicide in 2017. Tuesday, July 20 marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Chester Bennington.
