Kurt Cobain

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Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and GG Allin
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

Music Industry
Joe Satriani holding a guitar and Kurt Cobain playing guitar onstage
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

Interviews
Courtney Love
"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

Bands & Artists
Kurt and Courtney, 1992
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

Bands & Artists
Charles R. Cross
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

Biographies
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana with wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain
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

Bands & Artists
Family Values book
"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

Interviews
Delta airlines planes at LAX
"I had a real sense that he was lonely and alone. I felt the same way": On April 1, 1994 two world-famous rock stars were seated together on Delta Airlines flight 788 from Los Angeles to Seattle. It would be the last flight one of them would ever take

By Paul Brannigan Published

On Good Friday, 1994, two musicians caught a flight home to Seattle. One of them would be found dead at home one week later

Interviews
Kurt Cobain
The BBC is to broadcast "a visceral account of the days that surrounded that tragic moment in 1994 when Kurt Cobain took his own life" to mark the 30th anniversary of the Nirvana frontman's death

By Paul Brannigan Published

The British Broadcasting Corporation unveils plans to commemorate the life and legacy of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

Documentary
Bono and Kurt Cobain
"The force that is in this music can never be extinguished": Read the letter U2's Bono wrote to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean hailing Smells Like Teen Spirit as a song that saved his life

By Paul Brannigan Published

"What a band. What a song. What a sound. What a voice."

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