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unusual facts about Kurt Cobain



Hi, How Are You

Kurt Cobain was frequently photographed wearing a t-shirt featuring the album's cover image which music journalist Everett True gave him.

Jeff Burlingame

Jeff Burlingame (born June 14, 1971, in Aberdeen, Washington) is an NAACP Image Award winning American author of several books, including biographies of musicians John Lennon and Kurt Cobain, and critical looks at the historic and tragic plights of the Lost Boys of Sudan and the crew and passengers of the Titanic.

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

To these ends, Klosterman engages on an "epic" road trip, visiting the death sites of rock stars such as Duane Allman and Kurt Cobain.

Kim Gyeong-uk

The novel Morrison Hotel takes its title from the 1970s album of the rock group The Doors, and the short story collections Who Killed Kurt Cobain? and Leslie Chung is Dead? take their titles from the band leader Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, who largely symbolized the 1990s, and the Hong Kong-based movie star Leslie Cheung.

Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain

Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain, published by Simon & Schuster, is a collaborative investigative journalism book written by Ian Halperin and Max Wallace purporting to show that rock star Kurt Cobain, believed to have committed suicide, was in fact murdered, possibly at the behest of his wife Courtney Love.

Lucía Etxebarría

Her first book was Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s biography: La historia de Kurt y Courtney: aguanta esto (1996).

Monk Magazine

In their travels the Monks interviewed numerous off-beat and counterculture figures such as Annie Sprinkle, Quentin Crisp, Kurt Cobain, Dan Savage and Gus Van Sant and offered tips on what unusual sights one should see when traveling.

Polaroids from the Dead

Topics of the stories include a Grateful Dead concert (source of "The Dead" in title), a post-mortem letter to Kurt Cobain, Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge, and an homage to James Rosenquist's painting F-111.

Solfège

Kurt Cobain, singer for the band Nirvana wrote a song called "Do Re Mi" which was never finished but was released on the album With the Lights Out in 2004.

Something in the Way

It was thought that "Something in the Way" was written during a time in which its author, singer Kurt Cobain, was homeless and slept underneath a bridge in his native town, Aberdeen, (Washington).

The City of the Saved

Historical characters whose afterlives have been explored include the Pharaoh Akhenaten, Socrates, the Emperor Claudius, Jesus of Nazareth, Vlad the Impaler, Richard III, William Shakespeare, Adolf Hitler, Philip K Dick and Kurt Cobain.

Tim/Kerr

The label also released a collaboration between Kurt Cobain and author William S. Burroughs titled The "Priest" they called him, and a collaboration between Burroughs and Gus Van Sant titled The Elvis of Letters (catalog number T/K 9112001).

Wishkah River

The song "Something in the Way" on Nirvana's album Nevermind refers to the experiences of its lead singer Kurt Cobain living under a bridge on the river, during a period of homelessness after dropping out of high school and being kicked out of his mother's home.


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Antonio Alonso Martinez

In January 2011 one of his work - Portrait of Kurt Cobain - reached the second higher value in the sale of Contemporary Art at the Austrian auction house Dorotheum.

Incesticide

It was widely reported in the music press that the band wanted to offer fans a higher-quality alternative, but in the book Cobain Unseen, Charles R. Cross writes that Kurt Cobain agreed to the release of this compilation because he was allowed complete control over the album's artwork.

Nirvana – A Classic Album Under Review – In Utero

Those interviewed include Nirvana's original drummer Chad Channing, Kurt Cobain's biographer Charles R. Cross, and music producer Jack Endino.