A father is remembering his late son’s adolescent years. One chapter in a skinny teenage boy’s life would probably sound very familiar to millions of parents: that time when their kid spent weeks, months, even years, chasing the rock star dream with friends; the hope of a recording contract – just one – and a global hopscotch in support of their multi-platinum selling album. “Some chance,” says the typical dad. “Do your homework.” Except, Lee Bennington wasn’t ‘most dads’. His son wasn’t ‘most kids’, either. Instead, Chester Bennington was on the road to realising his ambition of becoming one of the most iconic singers of a generation. According to Lee, a former police detective, his son didn’t just possess a talent for singing as he grew up in Phoenix, the state capital of Arizo...
