Musician Chris Cornell dies at 52 - AP

REUTERS

 

Musician Chris Cornell poses at Elton John's 70th Birthday and 50-Year Songwriting Partnership with Bernie Taupin benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the UCLA Hammer Museum at RED Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 25, 2017. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/Files

 

REUTERS - U.S. musician Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of Soundgarden and later Audioslave, died on Wednesday in Detroit, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. He was 52.

 

Cornell's family would be working closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause, the AP reported, citing a statement from representative Brian Bumbery. 

 

Seattle-born Cornell won two Grammy awards in 1994 with rock bandSoundgarden.

 

(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-05-18

Damn... another great... and way too young... RIP

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soundgarden's Chris Cornell's death ruled suicide by hanging

By Jill Serjeant

REUTERS

 

Musician Chris Cornell poses at Elton John's 70th Birthday and 50-Year Songwriting Partnership with Bernie Taupin benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the UCLA Hammer Museum at RED Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 25, 2017. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/Files

 

(Reuters) - Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell died of hanging by suicide, the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said on Thursday.

 

Cornell, 52, was found dead in his Detroit hotel bathroom on Wednesday night after playing a concert in the city with the grunge band.

 

"The cause of death has been determined as hanging by suicide. A full autopsy report has not yet been completed," the Medical Examiner's Office said in a statement after conducting an initial autopsy.

 

Cornell's publicist Brian Bumbery said earlier that the singer's death was "sudden and unexpected."

 

Detroit police spokesman Dan Donakowski said that officers were called to Cornell's hotel around midnight by a friend of the musician and found Cornell "laying in his bathroom, unresponsive and he had passed away."

 

Cornell, the lead singer of Soundgarden and later Audioslave, had tweeted earlier on Wednesday: "#Detroit finally back to Rock City !!!! @soundgarden."

 

“What I look forward to the most -- because I tour so much, especially the last couple of years, by myself -- is the camaraderie. It’s what we missed when we weren’t a band,” Cornell had posted on Facebook on Tuesday. The band had been in the middle of a U.S. tour.

 

Soundgarden was one of the leading bands in the grunge music movement in the 1980s and '90s, releasing albums such as "Badmotorfinger" and the Grammy-winning "Superunknown," which brought the band mainstream music scene success.

 

Cornell had spoken openly in interviews of his struggles with drugs as a teenager, and later with alcohol. But he said in 2007 that he had been sober since checking himself into rehab in 2002. He also spoke of periods of depression and agoraphobia.

 

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page led tributes on Thursday to Cornell, calling him on Twitter "Incredibly Talented, Incredibly Young, Incredibly Missed."

 

Kiss singer Paul Stanley tweeted he was "Stunned to hear the death of Chris Cornell," while Aerosmith's Joe Perry called his passing "a sad loss of a great talent to the world."

 

Soundgarden broke up in 1997 and Cornell in 2001 joined members of Rage Against The Machine to form Audioslave, which earned acclaim with its self-titled album.

 

Soundgarden reunited in 2010 and embarked on the current U.S. tour in April.

 

Cornell also had an extensive solo career as a singer, guitarist, composer and lyricist and worked with various other musicians over three decades in the music business.

 

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant in New York and Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; editing by Jeremy Gaunt and Dan Grebler)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-05-19

Liked Soundgarden. Guy had a great voice.

What a singer/songwriter. RIP.

RIP to a great soul

 

 

Never know what is going on in one's personal life and mind. More sad dead celeb news and surely more to come.

RIP Chris
Loved his vocals with Audioslave , he had a real talent as singer and songwriter.
Great shame.