Sunday, March 20: Rock Birthdays

Happy Birthday today (March 20) to Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington. He's 40. Also celebrating is drummer Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake and Palmer (66).

Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington was also frontman for Stone Temple Pilots from 2013-2015. The band formed out of Augora Hills, California and rose to fame in 2000 with the album Hybrid Theory through Warner Bros. Records. The album was a huge, commercial success selling over 10 million copies in the U.S. with singles like  “One Step Closer”, “Crawling”, and “In the End”. It’s one of the biggest selling albums of all time with worldwide sales of 27 million. The band followed that success up with the album Meteora which topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2003. Other albums include 2007’s Minute’s to Midnight, A Thousand Suns (2010), Living Things (2012), and The Hunting Party (2014). In 2014, UK rock magazine Kerrang declared Linkin Park, “The biggest band in the world right now.”

Linkin Park are currently in the studio working on a new album . For more on the band, check out their official website here.

Carl Palmer is in my opinion, one of the greatest drummers ever. Palmer is one of the most respected rock drummers to come out of the 60’s, and is most known for his work with Emerson, Lake & Palmer along with supergroup Asia. He ranks in the top 10 of Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time and he was one of the first drummers to be inducted into Modern Drummer magazine’s Hall of Fame.

Check out an incredible Carl Palmer drum solo below.