Kurt Cobain
Posted: Wednesday, July 07, 2004
by Andrew Olson
The Fountainheads.com
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When one thinks back to the turbulent decade of the 1990s there is one name that always surfaces Kurt Cobain. The young man from Seattle Washington was the enigmatic frontman and lead guitarist of the celebrated band Nirvana .
Kurt burst onto the scene in 1991 with Nirvana's first album BLEACH . It was a mix of Hard Rock and Punk that formed from a struggling artist on the West Coast of the United States. Kurt's dream was to be bigger than the Beatles, and he may have achieved it had he not died so soon.
Around the time Nirvana' s first album was released Kurt has been reported to have became addicted to heroin. At first he used the drug to help with his intense stomach ailments. With his then girlfriend Courtney Love, they began to use the drug until Kurt's death in 1994. Kurt's story is much more than heroin though.
Last year was a big year for Nirvana and Kurt Cobain's legacy as the band released a new album of greatest hits and one lost track. To coincide with the release there were books released that told of the troubled singers life through diary excerpts. A few of his diary excerpts told of his plans originally to open a cleaning service with his good friend and bass player Kris Novoselik.
From there the diary discusses Kurt’s struggle with his own demons and dreams of achieving fame and fortune. As the diary goes through the years it tells of his feeling on becoming famous and achieving his weighted goals. The diary follows Kurt's battle with a serious heroin addiction and the birth of his only child.
When Kurt Cobain died it was sudden and there is a lot of speculation surrounding his it. One rumor is that the shotgun that Kurt used to commit suicide had no fingerprints on it. Another story has that his suicide note was written as a note to Courtney Love from weeks ago, and the last few lines were added later.
A Documentary on Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's relationships states that the ending of the letter was not even Kurt's handwriting. However he ended up coming to his passing the timing made it much too soon.
He preceded the death of several other Rock and Roll icons of the mid-nineties, but was the only one to join Rock's 27 Forever group of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison , and Janis Joplin. After Kurt Cobain died there were other popular artists who met similar fates due to heroin and drugs. Among the most notable were Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon, Brad Nowell of Sublime, and Layne Stanley of Alice in Chains.
It seems the revival of heroin in the mid-nineties was the end of Rock much like it was back in the early 1970s. Like many other famous deaths there will probably always be speculation, but Kurt's spirit lives on through his music.
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