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Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana. Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establishment persona, he widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock music. He was heralded as a spokesman of Generation X, and is widely recognized as one of the most influential musi…
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entertainment · American rock musician (1967–1994) · guitarist · singer · songwriter · visual artist · composer · rock singer · musician · also Kurt Cobain, Kurt Donald Cobain, Kurt D. Cobain, Cobain
Born 20 February 1967 · Died 5 April 1994 · Q8446
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2026· 11 entries
“from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach”
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“when I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana”
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“I used to take a nap in the van and listen to Queen. Over and over again and drain the battery on the van. We”
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Far Out Magazine: The rival singer Kurt Cobain crowned as “the greatest voice”
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Soap Central: Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's death sparks fresh controversy following newly discovered letter
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Yahoo: Courtney Love Wanted All Kurt Cobain Files, New Docs Reveal
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AOL: Kurt Cobain's Widow Courtney Love Demanded Police Hand Over Nirvana Singer's Entire Death File, Unearthed Letter Claims: 'The Matter Can Be Closed'
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The Guardian: ‘We were going off the cliff’: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil on inventing grunge – and losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain
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The Guardian: 90s rock icon Bob Mould: ‘When Cobain died, I pulled the plug – there was nothing worth saving’
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Snopes rated the claim “Nearly 32 years after the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, a forensic study concluded he died by homicide, not suicide.” True.
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2025· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “In 1993, grunge musician Kurt Cobain said, "In the end I believe my generation will surprise everyone. We already know that both political parties are playing both sides from the middle and we'll elect a true outsider when we fully mature. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not a business tycoon who…” Incorrect Attribution.
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “An authentic poster for a Disney-Pixar film “Cobain” shows the animated version of Kurt Cobain, the late singer for the band Nirvana.” Fake.
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2022· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “In “Journals,” a collection of his personal writings, Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain referred to pennyroyal tea as a “herbal abortive” that “doesn’t work, you hippie.”” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows musician Kurt Cobain with wrestler Andre the Giant.” False.
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2021· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “The late Kurt Cobain once argued that the nudity on the cover of the Nirvana album "Nevermind" could be covered with a sticker that read: "If you're offended by this you must be a closet pedophile."” True.
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2019· 2 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Quotes Kurt Cobain saying in 1993 that he wouldn’t be surprised if his generation eventually elected a “true outsider” a “business tycoon who can’t be bought” … “someone like Donald Trump”” Pants on Fire.
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On the 25th anniversary of Cobain's death, former Nirvana manager, Danny Goldberg, published Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain
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2018· 2 entries
FactCheck.org rated the claim “The late singer Kurt Cobain said in 1993 that "Donald Trump, as crazy as that sounds," might become president someday.” No Evidence.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Kurt Cobain did not predict Trump presidency” False.
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2017· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain all died with white Bic lighters in their pockets.” False.
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2016· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Kurt Cobain predicted or endorsed a Donald Trump presidency in 1993.” False.
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings”.
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2014· 1 entry
Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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2008· 1 entry
Cross published Cobain Unseen, a compilation of annotated photographs and creations and writings by Cobain throughout his life and career
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2006· 4 entries
Azerrad's taped conversations with Cobain were transformed into a documentary about Cobain, titled Kurt Cobain: About a Son
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The Jon Brewer directed documentary, All Apologies: Kurt Cobain 10 Years On, and the BBC documentary, The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain, were released
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Was placed at number twenty by Hit Parader on their list of the "100 Greatest Metal Singers of All Time"
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Love said she retained Cobain's ashes, kept in a bank vault in Los Angeles because "no cemetery in Seattle will take them"
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2005· 1 entry
A sign was put up in Aberdeen, Washington, that read "Welcome to Aberdeen—Come As You Are" as a tribute to Cobain
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2003· 2 entries
Included a handful of writings that were not offered in the initial release
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David Fricke of Rolling Stone ranked Cobain the 12th greatest guitarist of all time
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2002· 1 entry
A sampling of Cobain's writings was published as Journals
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1999· 1 entry
And was attended by Love and Tracy Marander
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1996· 1 entry
The Church of Kurt Cobain was established in Portland, Oregon, but it was later claimed by some media outlets to have been a media hoax
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1994· 40 entries
After Cobain had died, stated that Jørgen Larsen, the president of MCA Music Entertainment International was asked where he thought Cobain stood in terms of his contribution to contemporary music, and Larsen replied that
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Was found dead in the greenhouse of his Seattle home at the age of 27, with police concluding that he had died around three days earlier from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head
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Died 1994-04-05.
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Love phoned the Seattle police informing them that Cobain was suicidal and had locked himself in a room with a gun
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Cobain was diagnosed with bronchitis and severe laryngitis
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“I can’t comment on Soundgarden because I know them personally and I really like them a lot, but I have strong feelings towards Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains and bands like that. They’re obviously just corporate puppets that are just trying to jump on the alternative bandwagon - and we are being lumped into that category.”
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“Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.”
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“I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.”
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“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth. And it happens every few minutes.”
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“Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.”
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“I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.”
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“We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.”
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“If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.”
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“I just can’t believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can’t believe it.”
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Career landmark: suicide.
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“Chciałbym żyć z grania w zespole, ale jeśli nie, to po prostu przejdę na emeryturę w Meksyku albo Jugosławii mając kilkaset dolarów, będę uprawiał ziemniaki i poznawał historię rocka z archiwalnych wydań magazynu Creem.”
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“All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against [them].”
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“Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I’m homosexual, I’m a pagan, I’m a drug abuser and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs! (ang.)”
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“I wouldn’t wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.”
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“Często spałem pod mostem (…) Pamiętam lodowaty mróz. Całe dnie włóczyłem się bez celu i zawsze kończyłem w bibliotece, gdzie czytałem, czekając na koniec dnia. Byłem dumny, że potrafię przetrwać bez pracy.”
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“Yeah, I was run out of town. They chased me up to the castle of Aberdeen with torches. Just like the Frankenstein monster. And I got away in a hot air balloon. And I came here to Seattle.”
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“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”
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“Beans, beans, beans. Jessie ate some beans. He was happy, happy, happy, that he ate some beans. (ang.)”
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“Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I’m going to start playing basketball.”
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“If I went to jail, at least I wouldn’t have to sign autographs. (ang.)”
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“The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.”
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“I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.”
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“I can't play [guitar] like Pete Townshend. The flip side of that is that Pete Townshend could probably never have played like me.”
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“Fuck you all, this is the last song of the evening. (ang.)”
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“If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don’t value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.”
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“Jeśli naprawdę jesteś podłą osobą, po śmierci wrócisz jako mucha i będziesz jadł gówno.”
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“If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got. (ang.)”
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“I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had voted me Most Likely to Kill Everyone at a High School Dance.”
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“I’m worse at what I do best. (ang.)”
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“Come as you are, as I want you to be. (ang.)”
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“In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.”
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“Im so ugly, but thats okay, cause so are you. (ang.)”
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“I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.”
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“I love myself better than youI know it’s wrong, but what should I do? (ang.)”
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“It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.”
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1993· 9 entries
Cobain suffered another overdose
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Cobain overdosed at his home in Seattle and Love called the paramedics
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And the Meat Puppets appeared onstage during Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged appearance to perform three songs from their second album, Meat Puppets II
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"so for the most part [I listened to] the Beatles [as a child], and if I was lucky, I'd be able to buy a single
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“so for the most part [I listened to] the Beatles [as a child], and if I was lucky, I”
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Told Michael Azerrad that he had narcolepsy and manic depression
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Released ep “It's Closing Soon”.
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Said, "Every time I've had an endoscope, they find a red irritation in my stomach
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Cobain had predicted that the next Nirvana album would be "pretty ethereal, acoustic, like R
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1992· 4 entries
A few days after the conclusion of Nirvana's "Pacific Rim" tour, Cobain and Love were married on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii
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“convinced him to abandon his more Black Flag-influenced songwriting in favor of the Iggy Pop/Aerosmith-type songwriting that appeared on Nevermind. In a 1993 interview with Rolling Stone, he said that”
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Cobain contacted William S
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Cobain experienced his first near-death overdose after injecting heroin; Love resuscitated him
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1991· 1 entry
“If I could write just a couple of songs as good as what they”
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1990· 3 entries
And both bands did a two-week tour of Europe in the summer of 1991, as documented in the 1992 documentary, 1991: The Year Punk Broke
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Cobain and his girlfriend, Tobi Vail of the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill, collaborated on a musical project called Bathtub is Real in which they both sang and played guitar and drums
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That he had used heroin and he spoke to Grohl about it in January 1991
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1989· 2 entries
Members of Nirvana and fellow American alternative rock band Screaming Trees formed a side project known as the Jury
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At the start of which Cobain played an Epiphone ET270; however, he destroyed the guitar onstage during a show, a subsequent habit that forced label Sub Pop to have to call local pawn shops looking for replacement guitars
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1987· 1 entry
When a 14-year-old girl was kidnapped after attending a punk rock show, then raped and tortured with a blowtorch
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1986· 1 entry
Administered to him by a dealer in Tacoma, Washington, who had previously supplied him with oxycodone and aspirin
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1979· 1 entry
Cobain's mother granted full custody to his father
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1967· 2 entries
Born 1967-02-20.
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At Grays Harbor Hospital in Aberdeen, Washington, the son of waitress Wendy Elizabeth (née Fradenburg; 1947–2021) and car mechanic Donald Leland Cobain (born 1946)
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1875· 1 entry
From Carrickmore, a village near Omagh in County Tyrone, Ulster
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