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How Rob Bourdon made it to Linkin-park
Starting out around the age of nine, Bourdon joined his first band, a quartet called No Clue. They later changed their name to Physical Evidence. Rob took drum lessons for a year, but became tired of reading sheet music because he enjoyed playing the music of his favorite bands by ear instead. After joining his high school's jazz band, Rob was recruited by two members of a band called Karma after a concert to join their group. Thru the Karma bandmembers, he met Brad Delson and Mike Shinoda.

Eventually, Rob and Brad would form their own band called Relative Degree. Their dream was to perform at the Hollywood club The Roxy, a goal they never made, and broke up soon afterwards. After the band's break-up, Rob's life became a life of drug and alcohol. It was these hard times that took his focus away from drumming. Eventually, by the end of high school, Rob got his life back in order and began playing full-time again. Soon, he got a call from Mike Shinoda asking him to join his and Brad's band, Xero.

How Brad Delson made it to Linkin-park
Brad Delson are born in Agoura, California. He studied on Agoura High Scool together with his Childhood friend, Mike Shinoda. He played in alot of bands thru his high school career. The most known of them, Relative Degree, where he met and teamed up with the drummer Rob Bourdon. Relative Degree's goal was simply just to play a show and then disbanded.

At the end of the school, he teamed up with Mike Shinoda and of cause Rob Bourdon and together they made Xero, the start of Linkin park.

How Mike Shinoda made it to Linkin-park
Mike Shinoda was born in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura Hills.
He first wanted to play music during his middle and high school years. He started to play on different music instruments like piano and took lessons on them. After that, he began taking piano lessons, studying classical pianist techniques, and later moved on to jazz and hip hop. It was during this period that he learned to play guitar and, eventually, began to rap.

After his age as teen, he started to record music in his basement, together with his friend, Brad Delson. By the end of the school, the drummer Rob Bourdon, joined them and together, the trio made Xero, as the band was called at that time.

How Chester Bennington made it to Linkin-park
Before joining Linkin Park, Bennington was a singer in Grey Daze. He left Grey Daze in 1998, but still wanted to find another band. After nearly quitting his musical career, Jeff Blue, offered Bennington an audition with the members of Linkin Park. Bennington quit his day job, and took his family to California, where he had a successful audition with Linkin Park, who actually was called Xero at the time. Bennington and Mike Shinoda made a great work together, but failed to find a record deal. After alot of tries, Jeff Blue, gave them a chance at Warner Bros. Records.

-^- Rob Bourdon~ Phoenix~ Chester Bennington~ Mike Shinoda~ Joe Hahn~ Brad Delson -^-

Linkin-park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. So far, they have sold more than fifty-milions albums and won 2 Grammy awards.

The band started out as a highschool band and yeah, is now a world-known band.

Hybrid Theory
Linkin-park realesed Hybrid Theory on the October 24, 2000. The band sold more than 4.8 million records during the year and earned an award for best selling album of 2001. Some of the most well known linkin park song were in this album, such as Crawling and One Steb Closer.

Meteora
The band made such a great success of this album, as they made by Hybrid Theory. It came out in December 2002. The album sold more than 800.000 copies out just in the first week! The name of the Album, Meteora, is taken out from a rocky place in Greece. Linkin park got inspired of this place and named their new album after it.
The album including some of the best Linkin-park songs ever made, such as Breaking the Habit, Somewhere I Belong, Numb, In the End and Faint.

Minutes To Midnight
Linkin-parks comeback album! When you kind of thought they were gone, they came out with a new album! And what an album! On the 9 may 2007, Minutes To Midnight came out. In just USA, the album sold more than 625.000 copies in the first week, and sold around 3.3 milion copies, all around the world, in the first 4 weeks. This album too have got some great songs, such as the world known, What I've done, Bleed it out, Hands Held High and Given up.

-This was actually just a little about LP, more is on the way!