Ann Wilson in the 1970s
Ann Wilson the lead singer of the classic rock band Heart has opened up about her relationship with the late Chris Cornell and her thoughts surrounding his death on 5/17/11. "I was not surprised when he died,"she said in a new interview with the radio station Sirus XM. No I was not surprised. I don't know why I say that--it's just something that I feel from Chris. He was so complicated. He always struggled with mundanity. He was really in another dimension, and for him to be normal was really hard."
Cornell died at age 52 by hanging himself in a Detroit hotel room on May 18 2017 following a sold out show with Soundgarden at the Fox Theatre. Wilson, despite being a generation older then Cornell, had become close friends with her fellow Seattle musician. She has repeatedly honored Cornell since his death doing a tribute for Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" with Alice In Chains guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell at the 2018 Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame, and more recently she has recorded her own version of Audioslave's "I Am the Highway"(a true Cornell ballad) on her latest album Immortal.
"Whenever I hear "I Am the Highway" I think about Chris a lot, because he was always at odds with his success," Wilson told Sirus. The expectations that were put on him being the voice of a generation and a superstar of the 90's and 2000s, and stuff was too much for him. It was really uncomfortable, and he wasn't just bragging about being uncomfortable, he was. It was too much! He basically was a really pure being-and complicated, but really pure, childlike. He had one foot in wanting to be famous, and one foot in just being so uncomfortable there, that he was caught somewhere in the middle. He was so beautiful and handsome, but tender. He was a really, really, good person. But this world was just too much for him... He went as far as he could go."
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