Cornell first earned aBillboardNo. 1 as part of Soundgarden, when the band’s fourth albumSuperunknowndebuted atop the Billboard 200 dated March 26, 1994. Shortly after, the band achieved its first No. 1 song, as “Black Hole Sun” topped Mainstream Rock Songs for seven weeks beginning Ju...
It says something about the scene they sprang from thatSoundgardenwere generally thought of as a relatively untortured stadium rock band. With frontman Chris Cornell now having died at age 52 from a possible suicide, it’s pretty staggering to look back at how their most-famous, best-selling ...
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If there’s one song that sums up the Seattle grunge scene, it’s “Hunger Strike” from theTemple of the Dogalbum for a few different reasons. Firstly, Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell started the Temple of the Dog project in honor of his friend and roommate, Andrew Wood. Wood was the voc...
If there’s one song that sums up the Seattle grunge scene, it’s “Hunger Strike” from theTemple of the Dogalbum for a few different reasons. Firstly, Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell started the Temple of the Dog project in honor of his friend and roommate, Andrew Wood. Wood was the voc...
Cornell got his start in the '80s fronting the Seattle-based heavy hitters Soundgarden. Their career really started to take off in the early '90s with the boom of grunge music, delivering Top 10 albums and a slew of radio hits ranging from "Outshine" to "Blow Up the Outside World." Th...
McBryde's epic "American Scandal," bluegrass great's honky-tonker, Band of Heathens' Stonesy rocker and more songs to hear now Music By Rolling Stone Hear Chris Cornell's Cover of Johnny Cash's 'You Never Knew My Mind' "Chris took the two pieces and put them together ... I ...
The article presents musician and singer-songwriter Chris Cornell's explanation of the inspirations for several songs from his rock band Soundgarden's 20th-anniversary reissue of the 1994 album "Superunknown" as of June 2014. Songs listed include "Spoonman," "Fell on Black Days," "Limo Wreck,...
“He was super into that… and we got into the studio and made a whole album,” Cornell told MTV’s Gil Kaufman prior to Scream’s release. “But then we went off in this direction of musically, sort of conceptually tying the whole thing together, [so that] it harkens back to albums...
Alice Cooper, a rock icon in his own right, was excited to work with Cornell on his 1994 album,The Last Temptation. "He wrote two songs for me and they just fit right on the album. I never do that, I actually never go outside of myself to write songs, but I really liked his ...