Where does the band name LINKIN PARK come from?

Before LINKIN PARK named themselves after Lincoln Park in Santa Monica, they were called Xero in 1996 and Hybrid Theory in 1998 – after Chester Bennington was recruited as the new singer. However, since there was already a group called HYBRID, a third renaming took place in 1999. The spelling has an unspectacular background, as Mike Shinoda recalled to the Huffington Post: “When we came up with the name LINKIN PARK, we were going to go with the presidential spelling, but we decided to go with L-i-n-k-i-n because we wanted to get the ‘.com’ domain. Google didn’t exist back then, so we had to be ahead of our time.”

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