Kurt Cobain
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Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love spent New Year's Eve 1992 trying to save the life of an unconscious rock star who was turning blue on their hotel room floor
By Paul Brannigan published
Heroin claimed the lives of more than one Seattle musician: Mudhoney's Mark Arm was fortunate not to be among that number

New book reveals Mark Lanegan co-wrote Nirvana's Something In The Way
By Stef Lach published
Late Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan co-wrote Nirvana's Something In The Way with Kurt Cobain, according to former Queens of the Stone Age man Nick Oliveri

Tony Hawk unearths Kurt Cobain's skateboard with hand-painted Iron Maiden art
By Stef Lach published
Skate icon Tony Hawk is planning something special after finding a skateboard featuring Iron Maiden Killers art hand-painted by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain

“Oh God, it’s hard to listen to”: The story behind Nirvana’s final song, You Know You’re Right
By Paul Brannigan published
On January 30, 1994, Nirvana entered the studio for the last time. The sole song the trio taped that day would become the most controversial recording of their career

Kurt and Courtney's daughter Francis Bean Cobain posts emotional message on her 30th birthday: "I'm happy to be here"
By Paul Brannigan published
Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, celebrates her 30th birthday by kissing trauma, insecurity and self-loathing goodbye

Watch a four-piece Nirvana kickstart the grunge revolution in a tiny US record shop
By Paul Brannigan last updated
If you'd popped into Rhino Records in Westwood, Los Angeles on June 23, 1989 you'd have seen a young Nirvana at their heaviest, for free

The guitar Kurt Cobain used in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video can be yours
By Liz Scarlett published
If you have north of half a million dollars to spare, you can place a bid on the guitar Kurt Cobain played on the Smells Like Teen Spirit video shoot

Kurt Cobain’s final days to be played out in an opera
By Liz Scarlett published
The production, called Last Days, is based upon Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name and loosely based on the Nirvana frontman's last days before his death

Dave Grohl was “scared” to write about Kurt Cobain’s death in The Storyteller
By Louder published
Dave Grohl says writing about Kurt Cobain’s death was the most challenging part of penning his memoir The Storyteller

'Kurt’s dealer looked like the angel of death': horror of Cobain’s near-fatal 1993 heroin overdose revealed in Dave Grohl book
By Classic Rock published
‘Kurt’s dealer might as well have had a fucking black robe on and a big scythe…’ recalls former Nirvana PR in new edition of Dave Grohl biography This Is A Call
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