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"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

"It was like I had just fallen in love - and he was dead." Evanescene star Amy Lee reveals how the death of one legendary rock star broke her heart
By Merlin Alderslade published
Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee opens up on the tragic death that shocked her as a young music fan in the 90s

"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

"Sometimes when you're scared and your adrenaline's pumping, you just start beating the shit out of your instrument": revisiting Nirvana's electrifying 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live
By Fraser Lewry published
Celebrating the equipment-smashing, French-kissing day Nirvana knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the charts

"Every viewing of child pornography is a repetition of the victim’s abuse": US court reinstates right of 'Nevermind baby' Spencer Elden to sue Nirvana over iconic album sleeve
By Paul Brannigan published
The man who tried to sue Nirvana over the iconic image on the cover of Nevermind wins the right to continue his lawsuit

Watch ten rock stars from the 90s in their earlier bands
By Niall Doherty published
Warning: contains Tom Morello playing with a Michael Bolton lookalike

"I finally understood that I was in the middle of a Nirvana reunion": revisiting the night that 'Sirvana' - Sir Paul McCartney and the surviving members of Nirvana - rocked Madison Square Garden for charity
By Paul Brannigan published
On this day in 2012, a Nirvana reunion of sorts took place in New York City. Courtney Love was not amused

"Circus magazine said, 'If Lee's voice was any higher and raspier, his audience would consist exclusively of dogs and extraterrestrials": Watch Geddy Lee read from his memoir My Effin' Life onstage in Seattle with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic
By Paul Brannigan published
Geddy Lee has a suggestion for you if you don't like his singing voice, and it's a pleasingly unfiltered suggestion
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