![]() ![]() KEXP, Seattle’s popular independent radio station, paid tribute to Cornell throughout Thursday morning. Elton John tweeted, “Shocked and saddened by the sudden death of A great singer, songwriter and the loveliest man.” The music industry mourned his sudden death online. All that came out of me trying to imagine why somebody would be, for example, a suicide bomber.” You’re either going in one direction or in another direction. There’s no just kind of flat lining coasting. If they don’t have enough money it’s not that they have no money, they actually have something and it’s called poverty. If a person doesn’t have enough food, they actually are hungry. If we are not leading a happy productive life, we are leading probably an unhappy non-productive life. “The ‘no such thing as nothing’ line comes from the concepts that humans don’t really have a flat line until we’re dead. “It was a pretty dark album lyrically and pretty depressing, and I was going through a really difficult time in my life - my band wasn’t together anymore, my marriage was falling apart and I was dealing with it by drinking way too much, and that has its own problems, particularly with depression,” he told Rolling Stone in 2015.Ĭornell referenced death - and suicide - in 2007 interview with the AP when discussing his single, “No Such Thing.” It appeared on his second solo album, “Carry On.” His first solo album, 1999’s “Euphoria Morning,” was a dark album that was initially supposed to be titled “Euphoria Mourning.” The band released three albums in six years and also performed at a concert billed as Cuba’s first outdoor rock concert by an American band, though some Cuban artists have disputed that claim. In 2001, Cornell joined Audioslave, a supergroup that included former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford. ![]() ![]() The group, formed with guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Hiro Yamamoto, broke up in 1997. The band, which had released hit songs and found success, marked a mainstream breakthrough with “Superunknown,” its 1994 album that won them two Grammys, sold more than five million units in the U.S., and launched five hits, including “Black Hole Sun,” one of the most popular alternative rock songs from the 1990s. There’s no reason that I would think I know how to define it, but it’s always been there.” “It was like a Detroit, only northwest kind of. I didn’t realize growing up as kid that Seattle had much more of a hard rock focus and a guitar rock focus than other cities did,” Cornell told the AP in 2011. “There’s something about Seattle, it’s always been a hard rock town, too. ![]()
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