Veterans of America’s alternative rock scene paid their respects at Chester Bennington’s memorial show this weekend (Report)

17,500 fans bid farewell to Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, who tragically committed suicide back in July, as his former band members held his memorial show at the Hollywood Bowl.

A huge number of notable musicians turned out to pay their respects at the three-hour show. Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes (whose first ever concert as a punter was a Linkin Park show in London) performed ‘Crawling’, Deryck Whibley from Sum 41 leant vocals to ‘The Catalyst’ and Alanis Morissette sang ‘Castle of Glass’ with band members from No Doubt. Blink-182, System of a Down and Jonathan David from Korn also took to the stage to honour Bennington’s memory.

It was, as expected, an intensely emotional evening, with Linkin Park vocalist and instrumentalist Mike Shinoda explaining that, when he’d met fans outside the venue before the show, they gave him “hugs and… reassurance that everything was gonna be OK.” He also explained the audience were the band’s favourite of the many guests that night. The compliment was proved deserved when the audience took over vocal duties of many of the band’s best-known songs, including an overwhelming rendition of ‘Numb’, which the band played with a spotlight shone on a vacant mic stand in a moving gesture to the late singer.

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The career-spanning set was heavy with more recent material, too, and indeed Shinoda opened the show with ‘The Messenger’, taken from the 2010 album ‘A Thousand Suns’ (the track was performed in a medley with ‘Robot…