Kurt Cobain
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“I said, ‘Listen, I don't think you should die!’” How Dave Grohl realised that the end was near for Kurt Cobain and Nirvana
By Paul Brannigan published
“Five minutes later the phone rings, and someone goes, ‘Dude, turn on CNN’”

The story behind Nirvana's first love song
By Paul Brannigan published
Nirvana's first love song offered the world the first real glimpse of Kurt Cobain's songwriting genius

Courtney Love gave this frontman a lock of Kurt Cobain's hair after puncturing a kidney at an awards ceremony
By Jack Rogers published
A present given to The Cribs' Ryan Jarmen at the height of his debauchery showed him what happens when you fly too close to the sun

Kurt Cobain's hair and GG Allin’s blood-signed used underwear is going up for auction
By Liz Scarlett published
The Punks, Monsters, Smut & Madmen: A Countercultural Cross-Section auction has listed a number of rare items, including strands of Kurt Cobain's hair, a signed CD by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey and GG Allin's blood-signed underwear

Joe Satriani says Kurt Cobain was an underrated guitar hero
By Classic Rock published
Joe Satriani knows a thing or two about great guitarists – and he says the Nirvana frontman was one of them

"What are you 'gonna do when you run out of all the lyrics Kurt left for you?": Watch Courtney Love take down a sexist Nirvana fan
By Liz Scarlett published
Hole frontwoman Courtney Love keeps her cool when a fiery Nirvana fan calls in to ask some rather inappropriate, misogynistic questions on the Howard Stern show

Courtney Love on pouring “25 years of repressed rage” into Hole
By Paul Brannigan published
Courtney Love looks back on Hole's early days, and how her life changed after she “hooked up” with her future-husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

Tributes paid to respected music writer Charles R. Cross, who passed away on August 9
By Paul Brannigan published
The death of US music writer Charles R. Cross was confirmed by his family on August 9

Courtney Love: "I always wanted to be known as a bitch. Kurt wanted to be liked but not me."
By Stef Lach published
Courtney Love on public perceptions and how Kurt Cobain's death took hatred towards her to a new level

"Her expression seems to say, if you even try to take this child from me, I will kill you": Family Values is a beautiful, tender and moving document of the love shared by Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and their most precious creation
By Paul Brannigan published
Guzman, aka husband-and-wife photographers Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock, share intimate never-before-published portraits of Kurt, Courtney and baby Frances Bean
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