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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

"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

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

"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."

"I still have very vivid images of him laughing, smiling, and goofing around": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon remembers Nirvana's Kurt Cobain
By Paul Brannigan published
Kim Gordon remembers her friend Kurt Cobain, as the 30th anniversary of his death nears

The guitar Kurt Cobain played at Nirvana's last show is up for auction, with an estimated price-tag of two million dollars
By Paul Brannigan published
If the thought of owning Kurt Cobain's Fender Mustang guitar, aka 'Sky-Stang I', appeals, you might want to set two million dollars aside this weekend

"John Lennon was definitely my favourite Beatle... Paul McCartney embarrasses me:" Why The Beatles meant so much to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, and changed his life forever
By Paul Brannigan published
Dave Grohl might be good friends with Paul McCartney, but for Kurt Cobain, John Lennon was the Beatle who truly mattered, or so he claimed
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