Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory” album is one of the most successful debut records of all time and firmly established the band as a modern rock/nu metal juggernaut. Four singles, “One Step Closer,” “Crawling,” “Papercut” and “In The End,” propelled the album to sales of more than 32 million copies worldwide.
Surprisingly, if late frontman Chester Bennington had his way, the latter of those singles and arguably the band’s biggest song might not have seen the light of day. Band co-founder Mike Shinoda told Loudersound.com that Bennington worried that “In The End” was too much of a departure from the band’s heavier material.
“He was such an entertainer, in an interview he might say something that he felt would get a good reaction out of you,” Shinoda said. “You’ll hear him say everything from, ‘I like the song but I never wanted it to be a single’, to ‘I hated the song’. He’s on record with all those different things. Everyone liked the song but he had reservations about it being a single because it was softer.”
Bennington himself eventually came around to the song as he revealed to VMusic back in 2013. “I don’t really participate in picking singles. I learnt that after making Hybrid Theory. I was never a fan of In The End, and I didn’t even want it to be on the record, honestly. How wrong could I have possibly been?”
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