GEN X CAN'T STOP KILLING THEMSELVES
Degenerate Race-Mixer Keith Flint dead: Prodigy legend dies in shock suicide aged 49
The singer, famous for hit song Firestarter and his wild haircut was found dead at his home this morning
The Prodigy's Keith Flint has been found dead at his Essex mansion after taking his own life aged 49.
Confirming his shock death in an emotional statement on the band's Instragram page, current members Liam Howlett and Leeroy Thornhill revealed it was suicide.
"The news is true, I can’t believe I’m saying this but our brother Keith took his own life over the weekend," they wrote.
"I’m shell shocked, f**kin angry, confused and heart broken ….. r.i.p brother Liam #theprodigy"
Keith's wife, DJ Mayumi Kai, is believed to have been in Japan at the time of his death.
Inside Keith Flint's battle with drugs and depression as Prodigy star dies aged 49
Police and the ambulance service were called to their home at 8.10am on Monday after an unnamed person raised the alarm.
However, the iconic star was pronounced dead at the scene.
"We were called to concerns for the welfare of a man at an address in Brook Hill, North End, just after 8.10am on Monday," a spokesperson for Essex Police said.
"We attended and, sadly, a 49-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin have been informed.
"The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner."
The Prodigy found huge fame after emerging from the underground rave scene in the early 1990s.
They went on to become one of the UK's biggest bands, but Keith once admitted he became suicidal when a decade of drink and drug abuse caused the band to collapse in the early noughties.
"I got bang into coke, weed, drinking a lot. This made me reclusive, boring and shallow," he told The Times.
"I'd line up rows of pills and just take them and take them and I'd lose track of how many until I passed out."
Admitting he thought about killing himself, he added, "But you need a lot of balls to kill yourself. I was a coward."
His demons sparked a huge fallout with bandmate Liam Howlett before the band's manager John Fairs helped him kick the drugs ahead of their 2009 comeback.
"I got heavily into booze and drugs and flooded myself with that, like a sponge. And then I reeled it in," he told WENN.
And he said performing had become his new narcotic.
"It's like my drug. You've got to go out there firing. There's nothing sadder than watching a heavyweight boxer and he's out of shape and getting bashed around."
Keith first joined the band as a singer and dancer after meeting Prodigy founder Liam Howlett at a rave he was DJ-ing.
They were joined by keyboardist Leeroy and MC Maxim, and released their debut single Charly in August 1991.
Their second single, Everybody in the Place, shot up the charts to number 2 in December 1991, beaten only by Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody after Freddie Mercury's death.
They got to the No1 spot in the UK singles chart with their famous song Firestarter and again with Breathe in 1996.
Prodigy also has six No1 albums.
Keith became an iconic figure in the British music scene thanks to his energetic live performances and his distinctive look of wild hair and lots of tattoos.
The singer was born in Redbridge, East London, before moving to Braintree, Essex as a child.
