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If anyone were to look at the state of Lincoln Park around 2011, there would have been no reason to think that anything was wrong.

In the 10 years since the band was formed, they'd sold over 80 million albums.

They had millions of fans all over the world. They were in firm control of their career,

planning to release a new album every 18 months or so, a schedule that they, not their record label,

set out. Plus, they had time to indulge in all kinds of side projects, some musical, some not, like a remix

album, soundtracks, even movies. DJ Johan had started to direct films. It's really not a

bad position to be in for a bunch of guys still in their 30s, right? Well, that was the view from

the outside, and for the most part, that rosy view was correct. But if anyone had taken

the time to really get to know Chester Bennington, there might have been some early warning signs.

They would have been subtle, slow burning things, almost undetectable. But in hindsight,

something was going on inside, something that would end tragically about six years later.

This is the third and final part of our remembrance of Chester Bennington.

This is the ongoing history of new music, the podcast edition with Alan Cross.

Come on decay. Transmissions are going away. I'm right. Cross.

That's Cadillade, the first single from Lincoln Park's fourth studio album, A Thousand Sons,

which came out on September 10th, 2010.

Very successful record.

But by then, the definition of success had changed. The music business was a lot different than it was when Lincoln Park started out 10 years earlier.

Hybrid Theory, the first album, sold 30 million. It came out in 2000. The second, 2003's Meteora,

sold 27 million. After that, Minutes to Midnight was released in 2007 and sold 20 million.

And then we get to a thousand sons.

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