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Kurt Cobain, Keith Moon
Pete Townshend believes that Who drummer Keith Moon once bought dinner for a nine-year-old Kurt Cobain

By Paul Brannigan Published

Amazing if true, but...

Bands & Artists
Nirvana... and their final song
The bitter legal battle which overshadowed the release of 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 song the trio taped that day would become the subject of a bitter legal battle

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Nirvana, The Smiths
Steve Coogan on the game-changing impact of Nirvana and The Smiths

By Paul Brannigan Published

"When Nirvana released Nevermind, that just redefined everything"

Bands & Artists
Kurt Cobain and Steven Tyler
When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Kurt Cobain kick heroin, the response from Nirvana's frontman was savage

By Paul Brannigan Published

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Kurt Cobain kick his habit, got verbally slapped down

Interviews
A montage of Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica
The seven weeks in 1991 that rocked the world

By Rich Hobson Published

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

Music Industry
Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Corgan recalls the first time he heard Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

By Paul Brannigan Published

The night that Butch Vig played Billy Corgan an unreleased cassette of Nirvana's Nevermind album

Bands & Artists
Surfer Rosa
How the band David Bowie called “a psychotic Beatles” made the '80s most influential alternative rock album

By David McLaughlin Published

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band has 'borrowed' from Pixies' 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa

Albums
Nirvana, photographed in London on August 20, 1991
Dave Grohl's tender tribute to Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain

By Paul Brannigan Published

Dave Grohl's tender tribute to Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain

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Tracks & Singles
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
The night that Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love saved save the life of a 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, but some had 'lucky' escapes

Bands & Artists
Nirvana backstage in Vooruit, Gent, Belgium, 23/11/1991
Nirvana finished making Nevermind 35 years ago. Here's what Dave Grohl remembers from the 16-day session that changed rock forever

By Simon Young Published

Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl completed recording their iconic album Nevermind on May 28, 1991

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