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Post Chris Cornell, Dead of Suicide, Was Guiding Force in Grunge Music

Chris Cornell, the Seattle-born rock guitarist who killed himself after a Wednesday concert in Detroit, was a central figure in the 1990s grunge movement and had been one of its most enduring stars.

His death at 52 was ruled a suicide by hanging, the Wayne County, Michigan medical examiner said Thursday.

For fans, the tragedy marked a sort of a bookend to the 1994 suicide of Kurt Cobain, grunge's king.

Cornell was the frontman for Soundgarden, which formed in 1984 and was the first of the Northwest grunge bands to break into the mainstream in the early 1990s.

Its 1991 release "Badmotorfinger" introduced the mainstream public to grunge's punk-meets-metal formula: angst-ridden vocals, heavy guitars, long hair, flannel. Cornell started out as a drummer and played some guitar, but his soaring four-octave voice was Soundgarden's key ingredient.

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Cornell was a magnetic force in the early 1990s Seattle rock scene, organizing a tribute for his close friend, a local singer named Andrew Wood who had died of a heroin overdose. The project, Temple of the Dog, brought together members of Wood's band and a newcomer to Seattle, Eddie Vedder, who soon after joined Pearl Jam. Cornell sang lead vocals on Temple of the Dog's hit "Hunger Strike."

Because Soundgarden was at the forefront of the genre ─ the Sub Pop label was formed partially to produce the band's earliest music ─ Cornell was seen as one of the scene's symbols and architects, said Mark Yarm, author of "Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge."

"Even back then, from what I gather, he was kind of larger than life," Yarm said. "He tended to perform shirtless. He was sexy and brooding and mysterious. He was probably the guy all the women wanted and the guy all the guys wanted to be."

In those early days, Soundgarden and members of like-minded bands lived and rehearsed in close proximity, competing and supporting one another.

''We had bands that were influenced by each other,'' Cornell told The New York Times last year. "And there was kind of a rivalry between us as songwriters, but literally like five feet apart ─ through the doors to the bedrooms we could hear each other.''

While Cobain's Nirvana blazed its own trail, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam came to define grunge and helped remake rock. Cornell had a cameo in the film "Singles," Hollywood's take on grunge. Soundgarden, which channeled the dark slow-grind of Black Sabbath, went on to win 1995 Grammy awards for the song "Black Hole Sun" and album Superunknown. The band broke up in 1997 but reunited more than a decade later.

Cornell, a married father of three, died in the middle of a Soundgarden tour. He was found unconscious in his room at the MGM Grand Casino by a family friend and was declared dead shortly afterward, Detroit police said.

Cornell had spoken in the past of suffering from depression and substance abuse, including a drinki

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Old May 18th, 2017 #2
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I'll be the tin foil hatter here and suggest we don't know if it was suicide or not.
Kinda odd to kill oneself in the middle of a tour, but it could happen.

We don't know much about the scene, except that he was found in his hotel room with 'a band around his neck'. What sort of 'band'--suspended from ceiling, door, etc.? Not much info.

I definitely think Michael Hutchence (INXS) was murdered--one need not beat himself up-in the face especially-to then kill themselves.

Not sure on Cornell.

http://6abc.com/entertainment/autops...nging/2007033/
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