Kurt Cobain
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"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

"Kurt was jealous of Dave": Nirvana's official biographer explains why Kurt Cobain was "condescending" towards Dave Grohl
By Paul Brannigan published
Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl's friendship was complicated by jealousy, says Nirvana biographer

“Of any song that I've ever written, it's most blatantly about my time in Nirvana”: the story behind the Foo Fighters song Dave Grohl wrote about his Nirvana bandmates while crashing on Kurt Cobain's couch
By Paul Brannigan published
"He plays an old guitar, with a coin found by the phone": the story behind Dave Grohl's tender tribute to Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain

"It gets in the way of originality": Why Kurt Cobain thought it was a bad idea to get good at guitar
By Niall Doherty published
In this rare interview from 1993, Kurt Cobain explains to a reporter why he was never interested in honing his craft when it came to the guitar

Courtney Love says Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was as ambitious and hungry for success as Madonna
By Paul Brannigan published
Courtney Love says that the idea that her late husband Kurt Cobain didn't want to be a rock star is bulls**t
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