Nirvana

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Kurt Cobain of Nirvana with wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain
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

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Family Values book
"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

Interviews
Delta airlines planes at LAX
"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

Interviews
Kurt Cobain
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

Documentary
A photograph of Amy Lee leaning towards the camera
"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

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Bono and 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."

Tracks & Singles
Kim Gordon and Kurt Cobain
"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

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Kurt Cobain on Saturday Night Live
"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

Interviews
Nevermind
"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

Albums
90s stars in a former guise
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

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