![]() The hearing was held in their absence, with no witnesses called to give evidence in person. She said Flint’s family and band manager were aware of the hearing but did not wish to attend. The senior coroner for Essex, Caroline Beasley-Murray, recorded an open conclusion, adding: “We will never quite know what was going on in his mind on that date.” ![]() She said a postmortem examination recorded that the singer died by hanging, and the report also noted the presence of cocaine, alcohol and codeine. She survives him.The coroner’s officer, Linda Calder, told Wednesday’s brief inquest hearing in Chelmsford that Flint was found hanging at his home by a friend. It was in Felsted in 2006 that he married the Japanese DJ Mayumi Kai, though they subsequently separated. He took great pride in restoring the listed Tudor manor house with 10 acres of land that he had bought near Felsted, Essex, and even purchased the surface of a street in Bristol to obtain the right sort of cobbles for his driveway. ![]() He created Team Traction Control, his own motorcycle team, which raced in the British Supersport Championship and won two events in the 2015 Isle of Man TT races. In 2007 he rode 1,500 miles across Europe to attend the Spanish motorcycle grand prix in Jerez. ![]() He kept fit by boxing or practising jiu-jitsu and was an enthusiastic motorcyclist who often rode with Lee Thompson from Madness. Outside the band, Flint found time to indulge other enthusiasms. It was a time of ignorance, innocence and no concessions towards a perceived commercial success and the ugly side of what we do.” Their follow-up album was Music for the Jilted Generation (1994), which gave them their first trip to the top of the UK charts. In 2002, Flint commented: “I look back on our early days very fondly. Thanks to a relentless schedule of touring, where Flint’s manic performances were the visual focal point of the group’s live shows, the album soon clocked up 100,000 sales. As well as Charly, their first album, Experience (1992), contained the hits Everybody in the Place, Fire/Jericho, Out of Space and Wind It Up (Rewound). It caught the burgeoning tide of the UK rave scene and climbed to No 3 on the UK charts. Their next release, the single Charly, sampled extracts from the “Charley Says” animated information films produced by the government’s Central Office of Information in the 70s. The EP What Evil Lurks was released in 1991, but Sharky left the group shortly afterwards. They played their first gig at the Four Aces club, in Dalston, east London, and Howlett began hawking around a demo of 10 of his songs which secured the group a deal with XL Recordings. Keith Flint at T in the Park at Balado, Kinross, Scotland, in 2003. ![]() “But I’m up for anything … I wanna shake those bastards’ brains out and have ’em screaming and jumping around by the end.” “We never sat down and looked at the music scene and decided to go for a rock crowd,” said Flint. It was an almost impossible act to follow, but the Prodigy nonetheless kept scoring high international chart placings with Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004), Invaders Must Die (2009), The Day is My Enemy (2015) and their most recent release, No Tourists (2018). The album included three of the band’s biggest singles, Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe (another UK chart-topper) and Firestarter. It topped the charts in nine countries including the US on the way to selling 10m copies worldwide, and was the most potent specimen of the Prodigy’s knack for mixing elements of the UK’s house and electronica styles with beats crushing enough to pull in the rock crowd. The high point of the Prodigy’s heady streak of success was their third album, The Fat of the Land (1997), the second in their remarkable streak of six consecutive UK chart-topping studio albums (or seven, if the 2005 compilation Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005 is included). ![]()
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