CHRIS CORNELL's Daughter LILY CORNELL SILVER Launches "Mind Wide Open" Interview Series In Honour Of Her Dad's Birthday
July 22, 2020, 3 years ago
Earlier this week, in honour of her late father Chris Cornell's 56th birthday (July 20), Lily Cornell Silver, and Soundgarden’s former manager, Susan Silver, launched Lily's IGTV series “Mind Wide Open”, with a mission to help destigmatize the conversations around mental health.
For the premiere episode, Lily talks with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, a trauma expert/ author and founder and director of the Trauma Stewardship Institute.
“I am launching Mind Wide Open in honor of my late father on his birthday,” Lily tells Variety. “He was a gifted artist who taught me a lot about passion and drive. My mom, Susan Silver, instilled me with confidence and taught me to use whatever gifts and voice I have to help others. I hope that this series encourages people to both look inward and reach outward for resources; I believe that destigmatizing and equalizing mental health will help us to understand each other with more compassion.”
Read more at Variety, and find the premier episode of "Mind Wide Open" below:
Post Hill Press (distributed by Simon & Schuster) will release the new book by Corbin Reiff, Total F*cking Godhead - The Biography Of Chris Cornell, on July 28.
About the book:
The first comprehensive biography of iconic singer-songwriter Chris Cornell.
"Total F*cking Godhead brings Chris Cornell, the voice of a generation, alive on the page. Impressively researched and compulsively readable, Godhead pulls no punches in recounting Cornell’s remarkable life and prolific career. It’s an inspired chronicle of an impassioned soul. Read it!” - Greg Renoff, author of Van Halen Rising
With input from those who knew and worked with him - together with his own words - Total F*cking Godhead recounts the rise of Chris Cornell and his immortal band Soundgarden as they emerged from the 1980s post-punk underground to dominate popular culture in the ’90s alongside Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, and Nirvana.
“From his days as a struggling Seattle musician at the forefront of the grunge scene to becoming a global icon, Total F*cking Godhead thoroughly chronicles the life story and prolific output of one of the greatest and most influential singers of all time. You will discover the man and his music all over again.” - David de Sola, author of Alice in Chains: The Untold Story
Seattle resident and rock writer Corbin Reiff also examines Cornell’s dynamic solo career as well as his time in Audioslave. He delves into his hard-fought battle with addiction, and the supercharged reunion with the band that made him famous before everything came to a shocking end.
“For those of us still trying to sort out the tragedy of Chris Cornell's death comes this loving look back at the man's life and music. I wrote my own book about grunge, and I still learned a lot from this excellent biography." - Mark Yarm, author of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
Read an interview with Corbin Reiff at Variety.
