“He's larger than life and our culture is obsessed with dead musicians,” Frances Bean Cobain, who was just two when her father committed suicide, told Rolling Stone recently. “We love to put them on a pedestal.” “I'm as cynical as the rest of you
Kurt Cobain has been studied and dissected obsessively in the years since his death in April 1994. Could there be anything left to learn about one of the greatest musicians of our time? The answer is yes, and it's in the new
In those days Cobain described Nirvana this way: “We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.” Cobain married Hole singer Courtney Love in 1992. Their daughter Frances Bean is 22 and
“Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” has a treasure trove of never-before-seen materials that looks back on the childhood and private life of the legendary lead singer of Nirvana, who tragically took his own life in April of 1994 at
The myth surrounding Kurt Cobain casts him as a songwriting genius, rising to international fame while simultaneously—but also problematically—unwaveringly devoted to punk rock authenticity. He unwillingly and reluctantly became the voice of a