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Yep sure do. For those of you who do not know, Linkin Park has a myspace. And on that myspace they do have the video (For those who have yet to see it) For What I've Done. www.myspace.com/linkinpark Hope it's helpful ^^;;

I got this from Walmart.com actually while researching Minutes to Midnight.


Career Overview
Californian sextet Linkin Park simultaneously took inspiration from and expanded upon the hybrid of heavy rock, hip-hop, and electronics that made such bands as Korn and Limp Bizkit so successful at the tail end of the 1990s. The band's 2000 debut HYBRID THEORY racked up both album sales and Grammy nominations, and won a widespread audience for Linkin Park's combination of hard rock guitar, turntablism, and rap, while neatly avoiding disparaging comparisons to the aforementioned rap-rock outfits.
Biography

This Los Angeles, California, USA-based outfit earned the rather dubious distinction of becoming nu metal's first pin-ups. Originally known as Xero, the band was formed in 1996 by Mike Shinoda (b. 11 February 1977, USA; MC/vocals), Brad Delson (b. 1 December 1977; guitar), Rob Bourdon (b. 20 January 1979, USA; drums), Phoenix (bass) and DJ Joseph Hahn (b. 15 March 1977, USA). Minus the departing Phoenix, the band was joined by lead singer Chester Bennington (b. 20 March 1976, Phoenix, Arizona, USA) and changed their name to Hybrid Theory, but for legal reasons swiftly adopted the Linkin Park moniker. Their new title arose from a deliberate spelling variation of the Santa Monica landmark, Lincoln Park. The band immediately created an impact on the Los Angeles club scene, and was swiftly offered a recording contract with Warner Brothers Records. They subsequently entered the studio with producer Don Gilmore to work on their debut album. [Hybrid Theory] introduces a highly eclectic fusion of metal, hip-hop, industrial and pop styles which is striking even by the standards of pioneers such as Korn and Limp Bizkit. Aided by the heavy radio rotation of "One Step Closer" the album debuted in the US Top 20 in November 2000. By this time, founding member Phoenix had returned to the line-up. The band's popularity grew steadily over the next two years, with Hybrid Theory reaching the US Top 5 and the track "In The End" climbing to number 2 on the singles chart. Although not as strong as the debut, Meteora made an impressive start with sales of over 1 million units upon release in the USA.

Thought you guys might like that. It is fact and for those of you who don't know a lot this might be helpful to critque any questions you may have. Welp enjoy^^

-Linkin Park was originally called Xero. It was Mike, Joe, Rob, Brad, Dave (Phoenix), and Mark Wakefield. Chester was with Grey Daze. When they were brought together, the formed Hybrid Theory. From there they changed thier name to Linkin Park.

-They were at no point known Lincoln Park, due to the expense of the domains.

-Hybrid Theory went Diamond (10,000,000+ albums)

Linkin Park started off as a band called "Zero" then they became "Hybrid Theory".Eventually they got ride of there singer because things were starting to get bad for them.Thats about the time were they tracked down chester bennington to join the group.Later on they were forced to change there name because somebody else had the same band name or similar.They did a brain storm of ideas for the new name of there band.There new name became "Linkin Park".Chester got the idea of that name from a park he use to go to in his childhood.

[*]When my time comes, Forget the wrong that I've done...[*]

ok the original name was someting wit "Xero" in it idiot, and the name "linkin park" was inspired by Lincoln Park u idiot..not by some random girl

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