Linkin Park and Friends: Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington was a tribute concert by American rock band Linkin Park. The concert was held to honor their frontman, Chester Bennington, who died by suicide on July 20, 2017. The concert took place on October 27, 2017, at the Hollywood Bowl. This was Linkin Park's first and only live performance following Bennington's death. It remains their last. The concert featured various artists, including Blink-182; members of System of a Down, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Sum 41, Bring Me the Horizon, Civil Twilight, A Day to Remember, Yellowcard; and Kiiara.
Background
Right after the first leg of Linkin Park's One More Light World Tour, promoting their seventh studio album, One More Light, vocalist Chester Bennington was found dead from suicide by hanging on July 20, 2017, resulting in the cancellation of the rest of the tour.
On August 22, Linkin Park announced plans to host a tribute concert in Los Angeles to honor Bennington. Later, the band confirmed that the concert would take place on October 27 at the Hollywood Bowl, and would feature a number of bands and musicians. On September 23, the band announced that the concert had officially sold out.
On October 20, it was announced Linkin Park would livestream the concert on their YouTube channel. As of October 2023, the concert has been viewed more than 24.4 million times.
Performers
Linkin Park
Mike Shinoda – lead and backing vocals, rapping, rhythm guitar, keyboards, piano, synthesizers, samplers, bass on "Shadow of the Day" and "With Or Without You", lead guitar on "Waiting for the End" Brad Delson – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead acoustic guitar on "Sharp Edges", keyboards on "Waiting for the End", synthesizer on "Burn It Down", not performed on "Castle of Glass" and "Rebellion" Rob Bourdon – drums, not performed on "Castle Of Glass", "Sharp Edges", "One More Light", "Crawling", "Rebellion", "What I've Done" and "A Light That Never Comes" Joe Hahn – turntables, samplers, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals, not performed on "Sharp Edges". Dave Farrell – bass, backing vocals, rhythm guitar on "Shadow of the Day", "With Or Without You" and "Leave Out All the Rest", rhythm acoustic guitar on "Sharp Edges", not performed on "Castle of Glass", "Rebellion" and "What I've Done"
Special guests
Jonathan Green – additional guitar on "Shadow of the Day", "Nobody Can Save Me", "Battle Symphony" and "Iridescent"; keyboards on "Iridescent / The Messenger", "Roads Untraveled", "Papercut" and "The Catalyst"; vocals on "Nobody Can Save Me", "Battle Symphony", "Iridescent", "Iridescent / The Messenger", "Roads Untraveled" and "Papercut" Blink-182 – on "What I've Done" and "I Miss You" (Mark Hoppus – bass and vocals, Travis Barker – drums, Matt Skiba – guitar and vocals) Jonathan Davis of Korn – vocals on "One Step Closer" M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold – vocals on "Burn It Down" and "Faint" Synyster Gates of Avenged Sevenfold – additional guitar on "Faint" Ryan Key of Yellowcard – vocals on "Shadow of the Day" and "With or Without You" Oliver Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon – vocals on "Crawling" Kiiara – vocals on "Heavy" Daron Malakian and Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down – on "Rebellion" (Daron Malakian – guitar and vocals, Shavo Odadjian – bass) Adrian Young, Tony Kanal and Tom Dumont of No Doubt – on "Castle of Glass" (Adrian Young – drums, Tony Kanal – bass, Tom Dumont – guitar) Zedd – drums on "Crawling" Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh of Dead by Sunrise – rhythm and lead guitars (both) on "One Step Closer" Julia Michaels – vocals on "Heavy" Machine Gun Kelly – rapping on "Papercut" Sydney Sierota of Echosmith – vocals on "Waiting for the End" Takahiro Moriuchi of One Ok Rock – vocals on "Somewhere I Belong" Gavin Rossdale of Bush – vocals on "Leave Out All the Rest" Alanis Morissette – vocals on "Castle of Glass" and "Rest" Michael Farrell – Keyboards on "Rest" Steve Aoki – samplers on "A Light That Never Comes" Bebe Rexha – vocals on "A Light That Never Comes" Jeremy McKinnon of A Day to Remember – vocals on "A Place For My Head" Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 – vocals on "The Catalyst" Frank Zummo of Sum 41 – drums on "Rebellion" and "A Light That Never Comes", percussion on "The Catalyst" Steven McKellar of Civil Twilight – vocals on "Nobody Can Save Me" and "Waiting for the End" Ilsey Juber – vocals on "Sharp Edges" and "Talking to Myself", rhythm guitar on "Talking to Myself"