"Cobain's whole life" The life and death of Nirvana rock band leader Kurt Cobain (50 photos) Kurt Cobain's life and death

On the 20th of 2017, the 50th anniversary of the birth of Kurt Cobain - the leader of the Nirvana band and, in fact, the remaining great rock musician, a cult figure and legendary personality - will be celebrated. From a life of 27 rocks at the zenith of glory, there is no need to guess what kind of life he will be at once. Kurt Cobain is still either loved or hated fiercely. Love - for those who created and popularized a new style of guitar rock - grunge. Hate – for its own sake. I speculate on the topic of whether or not he is facing death by self-destruction.

NIRVANA GENE

If you were a normal person who used TV, radio or the Internet, you would definitely want one Nirvana song. In the original or in the sample – from dance to jazz. Perhaps any modern rock band carries in itself some of the “Nirvana gene” - emerging from the late 80s, becoming famous in 1991, this Seattle trio changed the rock music of today and mass culture in general.

Nirvana popularized the underground style of guitar rock - grunge, brooding-depressive, as it called itself. “It was fun - this skilful Cobain arrived and everything was zipped,” - even in one film the hero of Mickey Rourke, who was stuck in the 80s. And he adds: “The nineties were a new era.”

This then destroyed the mass media. A new era has arrived. Every other day, rumors discovered new idols for themselves - after the success of Nirvana, record companies began to buy up and promote some “alternative” groups, the foundation of which is a great show business that has not been marked for decades. Seattle was in the midst of the grunge boom: in the 1990s, this small town produced a number of adherents of the genre, such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains.

Following them, popular artists began to change their image and sound. Apparently, those who openly hated grunge and opposed the genre of the genre became his “backers” - for example, Damon Albarn and his group Blur, whose main hit Song 2 was intended as a parody of the Seattle sound. Zagalom head poda mascultu is at the turn of the century – it is a change to the rock mainstream. For the price you can give (or, navpaki, bark) to Kurt Cobain.

Today's Cobain's performance is almost on the records of the Cloud Nothings team, and its infusion can be felt on the scarves of the DIIV crowd, who want to play something completely different from grunge music. Well, of course, this homeless image of the anti-star, which is Kurt Cobain, is strongly rooted in the current indie rock - to transform into it, all you need is one look at the lover of all hipsters, Mac DeMarco.

"Here we are now..."

The year 1991, the turn of the last decade of the 20th century turned out to be nervous for the whole world. The Radiansky Union has fallen apart. There was a war at the Persian Territory - the first "media" war. The disintegration of Yugoslavia began. A culture that has suffered from tectonic disruptions has also undergone a revolution. In the late 1991, the author of these series was not long alive in the USA, in the state of New York, where he lost his school exchange. Of course, what was heard by our overseas peers, besides the well-known melodic “metalists” of Guns'N'Roses, Mötley Crüe or Bon Jovi, as well as the powerful Madonnas and Michael Jacksons of the 80s. At that time, the States were marinating everything with a new product - a bunch from Seattle with the simple name Nirvana and their album Nevermind, which was published on 24 June 1991. On MTV, they immediately played a video for their first single, Smells Like Teen Spirit, inspired by the style of a pseudo-amateur film: a group performs in a school gym, trained by schoolchildren, who are crazy, and by a non-resident sports team of “cheerleaders”. On the basis of Rabelaisian video clips from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Smells Like Teen Spirit looked simply amazing; Your budget becomes approximately $30-50 thousand. - a copy of the sum. Geffen Records, which released Nevermind, has shipped 46,521 copies of the album to stores. This title ship out, so that the first batch, the company promised to sell approximately 200 thousand. a copy of the album, which debuted at number 144 on the Billboard album chart. For an alternative rock band, this is simply a miraculous result. It’s safe to say that Nevermind has sold over 30 million copies to date; album of official recognition of "diamonds" in the USA.

You can’t name the members of Nirvana with their “whiskers”: Kurt Cobain, Kris Novoselic (bass guitar) and Dave Grohl (drums) reached their fame within five rocks. The first studio disc, Bleach, released in 1989 by the independent company SubPop, achieved great success among a niche audience - students, bohemians, lovers of all kinds of musical delicacies (before speaking, in our region Neither vinyl nor cassettes from Bleach were also heard in singing high-pitched colas ) . SubPop's products were popular with music connoisseurs, since the label's artists included the cult band of Sonic Youth.

Then Nirvana moved to the larger label Geffen Records, releasing in America records of pop stars and stadium rock bands: Aerosmith, Guns N "Roses and so on. For Geffen, Cobain's group and producer Butch Vig (later the leader and drummer of the band Garbage) recorded the album Nevermind. The musicians were given a modest budget for the recording - $65 thousand. Ale still had a small victory: to equalize, Cobain was given a total of $606 and 17 cents for the Bleach album.

In contrast to the current mainstream, the music of Nevermind is more viral, non-format. Crazy guitar noise with expressive original melodies, inappropriately sounding, ambivalent, almost unprofessional, the play of musicians. Incredible vocalist Cobain, who goes from whispers and subtones to fierce rehearsals. Thousands of singers around the world will then perform their vocals under Cobain. “It was hard to believe that this sound was created by a group of three people,” says Chris Cornell, leader of Soundagarden.

Portrait of the artist in his youth

The name is Kurt Cobain, without any doubt, looking more like a marginalized young man from a small American town. Its image - matted hair, a bob with lightened skeins, torn jeans, a cardigan flannel shirt and a knitted cardigan - began to be copied all over the world. This style, which is also called grunge, is still alive. The new ripped jeans that are sold in stores today are from this era.

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on the 20th of 1967 near Aberdeen, Washington. This is not a very large population center - approximately 16 thousand. especially for today. The motto of the place is Come as you are (“Be yourself” / “Come as you are”), the title row is from the number two hit of the Nirvana group. The traditional work of the city dwellers is fishing, tartak. In short, apparently, nothing glamorous.

Working family: mother Elizabeth is a waitress, father Donald Leland Cobain is a mechanic. The fathers of the typical white American Kurt Cobain are Dutch, Irish, German, French and Scots. Kurt was cheerful, hyperactive, fast-drinking, kind-hearted, loved music and slept all the time. When you were nine years old, your fathers were about to separate. This was a great blow for Kurt. He was unable to settle down neither in his new homeland, his father, nor with his mother or father. This family of friends, sectarian Christians (respecting themselves as Christians, rightly leading the church) lives at all times. Then - by friends, then - by girlfriends.

This is the period of life, which is called, known expressions in the song - Lithium (about living in a religious family), About a Girl (about one of the friends, how “it’s impossible to find a happy evening”), Something in the Way - no one is alive under the bridge That very hour, after leaving school, my mother asked him from home: “Go away!”

Novoselic, however, respects this automythologization, because in Aberdeen it is impossible to live under any bridge: the water near the Vishka River is very rough and often spills. Zrestoy, the main hit is Smells Like Teen Spirit: “Spirit of Youth” is the name of a teenage deodorant that one of my friends used again. Another interesting development - culture has begun: Scentless Apprentice ("Scentless Apprentice") - a tribute to Patrick Suskind's novel "Perfumer". Kurt Cobain wrote autobiographical and sweeping songs that acquired universal significance. To put it simply, their skin senses its own. And in this regard, Cobain is an unfailing successor of the glorious rock tradition, such as Lennon/McCartney, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Robert Plant and others.

In the middle age, Cobain left school and began to eke out casual income. Entering the “party” of local musicians, and in quiet places, near the state of Washington, a thriving underground scene was formed: punk, post-punk, indie rock... He often hung out at the rehearsal base of local stars - the group of The Mel vins. There he teamed up with Kris Novoselic, and there he was pleased to welcome his senior comrades to gather his group, as the songs were guessing. Further, so it seems, history. With drummer Chad Channing, the newly born Nirvana recorded the album Bleach, then the drummer replaced the well-known Dave Grohl (nine - leader of Foo Fighters), and a legend was born.

Cobain has a hard time enduring his fame. First of all, I had to practice in a serious way. When Nirvana collapsed before their European tour with Sonic Youth in 1991, Cobain came up with the idea of ​​quitting everything. And with the release of Nevermind, I realized even more bitterly that I had ceased to belong to myself. In other words, a person whose living ideal was calm and calm, undisturbed, constantly in contact with a large number of different people and began to earn great pennies without knowing sho robiti. Behind the legend, navіt na vesіlya vin ta yogo is named Courtney Love dressed up at a second-hand store. The car is new from the beginning. Budinok at Sietlya, the same one in whom they found him dead - as if he were a representative of the American middle class. Thirdly, children’s complexes and illnesses (Kurt suffered from chronic bronchitis and cholitis pain as a child). Ale smut - drugs.

SELF driving or driving?

On the eighth quarter of 1994, all TV channels and radio stations broadcast a sensational news: the corpse of Kurt Cobain, the frontman of the popular rock band Nirvana, had been discovered. This past year, Cobain left the rehabilitation center in Marina del Rey, California, where he underwent treatment for drug addiction. From that time on, no one knew Cobain was alive - no acknowledgments appeared. The musician spent the past week and lost the unknown.

His body was found in his house on the 8th quarter of the week. He was lying on the underside of the blood. The examination found that Cobain died a few days ago with his hands on himself. The death certificate has a date: 5th quarter. A high level of narcotic substances was found in the blood of the deceased, in the room there was a high level of drugs and substances for use, a 20-caliber Remington M-11 rifle, as well as a farewell note. Police officers wrote down the word “type of incident: suicide.” Other possible reasons were never officially considered. There were smells, however, unofficially: the death of any celebrity would give rise to conspiracy theories. Cobain's suicide was important to believe - he was punished with more than 27 deaths. Whose wine, unfortunately, also carries on the rock and roll tradition of the so-called “club 27” - musicians who died in his life. The last of them is Amy Winehouse.

According to the official version of the police, in his suicide note, Cobain explains to his friend and daughter Francis Bean why he put his hands on himself. In fact, the note doesn’t say anything about the intention of “beating yourself in.” The note is not at all addressed to the friend and daughter: Frank and Love can only be guessed in a few rows. Based on graphological examination, it is not possible to say exactly what lines were written by Cobain, and perhaps he added something else to them. Summary: the note is just a reminder of the activities in which the musician informs about those who are leaving show business. The list actually has a lot to say about concerts, performances and hearings, but nothing – about life and death. There is only one hint about death in the final phrase of the sheet, which has become a catchphrase: “Before you burn, you don’t go out” (This is a quote from Neil Young’s song “My My, Hey Hey”).

“I’m a very happy person, people don’t even think about me,” the musician said in one interview. The rest of his life Cobain was rich, famous, and married to his wife Courtney Love (leader of the band Hole), who gave birth to a daughter, Frances Bean, on September 18, 1992. 20 years later, Francis Bean Cobain became the producer of the film about his father, “Kurt Cobain: Montage of the Devil.” This, perhaps, is one of the few documentaries, de Cobain’s testimony not as a rock star, a drug addict or a suicide, but as an extraordinary person, a given person, like loving his dad.

The leaf that Kurt Cobain gave to his squad Courtney Love in 1991

Nirvana's legendary performance on MTV Unplugged was played on TV without fail after Cobain's death

Cobain's image - a gloomy, disappointed nihilist in poor health, overcome by heavy drug addiction - would seem to have felt such an end. The exact reason for the suicide of no one could be determined. Moreover, not long before his death, all of Nirvana was working hard in the studio on a new album; One of the songs, the miracle You Know You're Right, was included in the collection of the most important speeches in 2002.

At the beginning of the 2000s, the British music magazine Uncut published a previously unknown interview with Cobain to a French television station: “what I will be like in my old age” is fading, even if he wants to play in the band Hole. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine about “I Hate Myself and I Want to Die” (as the album In Utero would be called), Cobain said that “it’s just hot,” and I changed the name, being somewhat afraid that I would be taken literally.

In the video above, Kurt is trimming the screw, straightening the barrel at the top of his palate. In the opinion of people who knew him well, he would sense humor in between cynicism, being a difficult and depressive person, and not a suicidal type. I thought that Cobain’s death would be of great importance to fellow musicians and members of the record industry (fearing that Cobain would be “tied” to music, or rather a dead legend, a non-artist who had ceased performing) and to his friends Courtney Love. After all, it’s all conspiracy theory.

History of the creation of the group

A riot is brewing in the town of Aberdeen, and at the same time, an important fellow, Kurt Donald Cobain, is alive from his father, an aloof, frowning fellow, who is a fan of the Sex Pistols and has been promoting the idea of ​​​​creating a powerful punk band for 14 years.

Fecal Matter (Kurt Cobain's first band - Bambi Slaughter

Having spent a good hour with various groups, including the hardcore band Fecal Matter, he is likely to create power. With this idea, the boy turned to guitarist Krest Novoselic, who started out in the same school and often clashed at rehearsals with The Melvins. I let you listen to your recordings for a whole river, checking for some kind of sound. Nareshti Christ was ready to play music together with Kurt. It took another hour to find a promising drummer (Aaron Burkhard), and in the spring of 1987 the boys began rehearsing as a group of Fecal Matter.

At the very beginning of rock, they recorded their first demo album and sent it to all their respective record companies, but without stopping the positive impact. Confused by this situation, the musicians decided to rely on live performances. Until then, a new drummer appeared in the band: after Aaron left, the group played for an hour with Dale Crover, then with Dave Foster, until Chad Channing joined the band. After many years of success, the group acquired the residual name “Nirvana”.

Representatives of the little-known label Sub Pop began to cackle with their demo-line, as they promoted the new practice to the musicians. In early 1988, the team recorded a few songs at their studio, which became the basis of their debut album.

Basic stages of creativity

The album was well received by the public and critics and had a massive sales period. This recording cost the musicians less than six hundred and six dollars, according to the band's current member, guitarist Jason Everman. At the sign of the stink, they confirmed his name on the cover of the scarf, although they wanted to take the bag and without taking part in its recording.

With the success of the album and long-distance tours, the musicians began recording new material. Until that time, the mainline record companies were stuck with their creativity, and Nirvana merged with Sub Pop, which lost them to another provincial company.

In Bloom – first video from “Nirvani”, 1990

Great problems were also created by Chad Channing, whose musical ideas went against the main concept of the band. As a result, the team developed permanent conflicts, and as a result, the drummer of the riots was deprived of Nirvana. Having looked at a number of new contenders this year, Kurt and Krist decided on Dave Grohl, who became the new drummer of the group.

The only thing on their mind was saving the drum kit, which is why Cobain and Novoselic decided to play the instruments at the finale of the concert, fearing such an attitude and such an incensed audience. It’s true that at the first big concert, he got so excited that he broke the drum himself, and everyone immediately realized that the new member of the year had joined the team.

Debauchery at Nirvani concerts: get-together

With the arrival of Dave, the group found a new sound and began recording the song “Nevermind” (which can be translated as “disrespectful”, “fool”), which brought “Nirvana” worldwide fame. The album was created over two months at one of the largest studios in Los Angeles and was released in an initial circulation of 250 thousand copies. And his success has overturned all the most amazing sensations, in which the role played by the competent promotion of the DGC Records label and the broadcast on MTV of the video for the song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (“Smells like Teen Spirit”).

History, name songs, finish tsikava. The phrase “Kurt smells like teen spirit” was written on the wall of the booth by Kurt’s friend Ketlan Hana, a punk who encouraged him to look at life. Friends often talked about anarchism, feminism and the punk scene, and when Cobain used this phrase, he thought that it would be enhanced to one of their heights (they say that Kurt has the rebellious spirit of youth) and About this we can call the song a nasty song. Indeed, "Teen Spirit" is a brand of deodorant that entered the American market in 1991. When Caitlin wrote a note on the wall, she would say that Kurt smelled like deodorant. The musician himself probably didn’t know about the founding of this brand – his girlfriend Tobi Vale died from it.

Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit

Cobain could not tolerate the irony of the song that brought the band worldwide fame. Vіn didn’t notice that when she created it, she obviously created a riff from “More Than A Feeling” by Boston, and also drew similarities from the composition “Godzilla” by Blue Öyster Cult.

I really can’t remember the guitar part – I learn it again right before the concert. We have a lot of old songs, for example, “Drain You”

The first single from the third album was the track “Heart-Shape Box” - the biographies of the lead singer of “Nirvani” recognize that this is a musical gift from Kurt and Courtney Love’s squad. Although Cobain himself said that the text of the song appeared in his head while watching a program about children suffering from cancer. Courtney herself insisted that the song is dedicated to her vagina, which would explain the low level of wonderful metaphors in the lyricism. The clip that appeared on the song in the spring of 1993, becoming the last clip of “Nirvana” for Kurt’s life.

Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box

Death of Cobain

His friendship with Courtney Love, also a heroin addict, further strengthened the situation, and the constant scandals in the family brought Kurt to the point of extreme depression. Before that, Courtney was given help from the group, which ultimately supported other members of the team.

Rehabilitation in a specialized clinic did not produce results, and on April 8, 1994, Cobain’s body was found in the garage of his cabin in Seattle. Vin shot himself from a gunman, becoming the fourth suicide bomber in his homeland. Read more about Kurt's death at

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American herd Nirvana settled 1987 r. in Aberdeen, Washington. Guitarist and vocalist Curt Cobain and bass player Chris Novoselic in the mid-80s. went to the same school, didn’t change their minds for a long time, and didn’t start rehearsals for The Melvins all at once. Cobain asking Novoselic for a long time to pick up the group and the new one, handing him a demo recording of his old group Fecal Matter, having lost a lot of rocks over the past year. The first drummer was Bob McFadden, who had not stopped for long, and Aaron Burckhard came to replace him. The trio initially worked on the Fecal Matter material, but later the boys took up new songs. A new problem was managing the herd. Having gone through countless options, Cobain as a result, sulking at Nirvana- Behind these words, instead of standard evil names, I suddenly wanted something good. Then the drummers began to actively change - after Dale Crover from The Melvins lost his connection with Burkhard at the place of the unfortunate arrival of Dale Crover. A group of people are recording their first demos with him. Then Crower moved to San Francisco, and on his recommendation the group took Dave Foster to their lavs, who replaced Burkhardt, who took an unexpected turn. It got to the point where Cobain And Novoselic was reported to the newspaper, but he lost his position of respect. The problem arises from any old friend who has met friends with Chad Channing, who wants to try for a vacant seat. I want no Cobain, and Novoselic never officially said that they had accepted him, Channing at the Travna, born in 1988. taking the fate of the first concert Nirvana. Right now the group is in Seattle, Washington.

The group's first single " Love Buzz»Vyishov u lystopadі 1988 year, a month later the recording of the debut album Bleach began with producer Jack Endino. Rakhunok was paid for his services to the studio by Jason Everman, who became another guitarist. Without taking part in the recording, but in return for financial assistance, everything was written on the cover. Unfazed by the obvious presence of advertising on the side of the label Sub Pop, the album sold poorly, and a bunch of songs were invariably in rotation on university radio stations. The quartet crashed out of the tour, and Everman's dissatisfaction with the rivalry grew. The remaining concerts were cancelled, Nirvana I turned back home, and Everman was released. It was also sponsored by the Sub Pop label.

Born in 1989 the group records a maxi-single Blew Produced by Steve Fisk. At the same time, the music began to change - the songs became less aggressive, Cobain began to sing about conflicts and interactions between people. U kvitna 1990 r. Nirvana partnered with producer Butch Vig. Cobain And Novoselic began to become disillusioned with Channing, like a musician, and he, who had little to do with his work on songs. Nowadays, demo recordings made under the supervision of Viga began to attract interest from great labels - at which point Channing is the leading singer. The single "Sliver" was recorded with Mudhoney member Dan Peters. In the future, Sonic Youth Crover became Nirvana's drummer. In the spring of 1990 Buzz Osborne and The Melvins introduce Cobain and Novoselic to the formidable drummer of the Washington hardcore punk band Scream, Dave Grohl, who is unanimously accepted by Nirvana after the first audition.

U 1990 r. the group signs a contract with the label DGC Records and begins work on the album Nevermind. The label presented a number of candidates for the position of producer. Nirvana I decided to leave Vigo rather than move to another studio. The album was created over the course of 2 months, but the result, in the opinion of Viga and the group, turned out to be not so significant. The ending version was mixed by Andy Wallace, who worked with Slayer - Cobain, Grohl and Novoselic respected that through this the sound of the singers should be polished.

The album was a huge success, but the video clip “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was constantly rotating on MTV. For example, 1991 r. Nirvana was killing it on tour. At this point it became clear that the group had become a cult - all the tickets for the concerts were sold out within a few days, there were a lot of TV reporters on stage, and the song " smells like Teen Spirit It's very popular on TV and radio. Commercial success has overturned the development of the label, and in today's Nevermind having placed 1st on the Billboard hit parade, ousting the new album of Michael Jackson, Billboard said that Nirvana This is a rare group that contains everything at once. Zagalom sold 8.5 million discs in the US Nevermind.

Gurt plans to take a break and play some concerts in between. In Berezna, born in 1992. Cobain It is likely that the payment of royalties from the sale of the album will be reconsidered. Before that, all the money was divided equally between the members of the trio, prote Cobain said that the main part of the song was Nevermind writing to herself. Novoselic and Grol did not feel the same desire to redistribute everything that the group had already taken into their hands, and they did not complete it. Nirvana. As a result, the guitarist received 75% of all money, as well as a negative rating for other musicians. The same group makes its famous speech at the video city award ceremony MTV. Some time ago, rumors began to circulate among the shamans that Cobain was facing great health problems, and Nirvana be on the brink of disintegration.

Label DGC Records Having insisted that the group stopped preparing material for the new album until the end of 1992, when the work was completed, the collection Insecticide was released, which replaced rare recordings. Tim soon chose Stece Albini as the music producer. Cobain I'm looking for someone who can create for Nirvana the kind of sound they need - syrid, unflattering, yet lively. In fierce, born in 1993. release a split single from The Jesus Lizard. The work with Albina went smoothly - all studio sessions, including the final stage of mixing, were included in 2 periods. However, suddenly ZMI leaked information that the label DGC Records appreciates the new album Nirvana We are not good enough for the visitor. The musicians believed that the music industry simply did not understand the musicians. Ale gurt himself buv disappointment with the ending sounds. Producer R.E.M. Scott Litt mixed songs with which Cobain was particularly unhappy.

The album In Utero was the greatest in the spring of 1993 and, according to critics, was even stronger. These same critics declared that “ Nirvana didn’t jump into the mainstream, but now the mainstream has become like Nirvana.” Sales in the United States have surpassed the million-disc mark, and the band is currently embarking on its first American tour in two years, adding to the warehouse with Pat Smear of The Germs. Nirvana's leaf fall takes its toll on the acoustic program MTV Unplugged. A group of advancing rock has gone on tour in Europe. 4 Cobain's pregnancy was discovered by his friend, Courtney Love, at a hotel in an unknown state - the doctor stated that it was a reaction to the mixture of alcohol and alcohol. The tour was cut off, and Cobain They advised me to go to a rehabilitation clinic because of my addiction to heroin. Prote leader Nirvana without spending time at the clinic, it flowed back to Seattle. April 8, 1994 Kurt Cobain was found dead in his cabin. The official announcement was about self-destruction, about the remaining food supply, why he died, no one confirmed anything.

Let's reach out to the label after Cobain's death DGC planning to release a new live album and an acoustic album with programs MTV Prote Novoselic and Grol valued such things as unimportant, directly aimed at earning pennies. Three rocks after that Grol, Novoselic and Cobain's widow Courtney Love fell asleep Nirvana LLC independently handles all products associated with the group's names. After the spіvpratsya, a hit was revealed - the release of a 45-song magazine Nirvana bv deposits through those who have zhovtni 2001 r. Love filed a lawsuit against the partners and the company, firmly Nirvana– it’s Cobain, not Novoselic and Grol, and the great participants have no little right to creativity. Just beyond the river there was a peaceful path on the right.

The musicians decided not to end their musical career. Grol, already as a vocalist and guitarist, has formed a successful group Foo Fighters, as well as working with many other projects and groups such as Them Crooked Vultures, Queens of the Stone Age, Probot, etc. Novoselic played in the groups Sweet 75, Flipper and Eyes Adrift, and also had a political career. Courtney Love once played in the group Hole, pursued a solo career, acted in films and gained popularity mainly through scandalous events and the fight against alcoholism and drugs. What's the wait for releases? Nirvana, then after the breakup, mainly concert recordings, collections and re-releases were released.

Unrespectful on the apparently short creative path, Nirvana respects the most popular alternative band of the 90s.

Kurt Donald Cobain. Born on February 20, 1967, died on February 5, 1994. Author of songs, musician and artist, best known as a vocalist and guitarist of the American rock band “Nirvana”.

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on the 20th of 1967 at the Grays Harbor dispensary in Aberdeen, Washington, the birthplace of the housewife Wendy Elizabeth (children's nickname Fradenburg), the auto mechanic of Donald Leland Cobain. Cobain's family had Irish, English, Scottish and German roots. Cobain's Irish ancestors migrated in 1875 from the Irish county of Tyrone near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, and near Washington. Cobain has a young sister, Kimberly, who was born on April 24, 1970.

Kurt is in a musical family: his maternal uncle, Chuck Fradenburg, performed with a group called The Beachcombers, little Mary Earl played the guitar in various local ensembles, and his uncle Delbert played 'The tenor's story and appearing in the film' King of Jazz 1930 rock. Interest in music appeared too early: according to the words of his relatives, they already had two years of joy in listening to the songs of The Beatles. At the end of the day, I wrote my first song about a trip to the city park. At the age of seven rocks, Mary Erl received a drum kit as a gift. From everything to music, he showed himself to be a talented little artist. Whom my grandmother, a professional artist, wanted.

The boy has been living with his mother for many hours, but he has not settled down with her new friend, 22-year-old Mike Medak, and has moved to his father in Montesano. Donald suddenly became friends with Jenny Westby when they had two children, Mindy and James. In 1979, Jenny gave birth to another child, Chad, Kurt's half-brother. Ale Kurt also didn’t get along with Jenny, and he happened to visit his father - the boy lives either with Leland or Iris, Donald’s fathers, or with relatives on his mother’s side.

At 14 rocks, Kurt stopped playing the drums and started playing the guitar, having given him Uncle Chuck for National Day. Warren Mason, musician with The Beachcombers, became his first teacher. Around one hour, Kurt became a punk after reading an article about the Sex Pistols in Creem magazine. Prodbati їkhni plate in Aberdіni Bulo practically unclearly, to finish it unclearly learning the own, yak mayy, Taka Muzik (for Yogo Vlazemy Voznoschny-“Three Akordi I Bagato Crying”), Ale in the soul of Kurt, has already spinning the punk grip. We recently became acquainted with the members of the Aberdeen band Melvins, whose music combines elements of punk and hard rock (hence this style is called “grunge”). Chris Novoselic also came there, inheriting what the stinks were cooking.

In 1984, Wendy Cobain married Pet O'Connor, a docker who suffered from alcoholism and who once broke Wendy's hand. Kurt turned to his mother’s bed, but his relationship with his family was not going well. After finishing school, you decide not to enter art college; Mother gave him a choice - either go to work or go home. Yomu happened to flow in. Most of the time, Kurt stays with his friends, moving from house to house. Often he had the opportunity to sleep in the courtyards of Budynka friends, spending the next hour at the library, “watching the end of the day.” According to Kurt’s words, he has been alive for every hour under the bridge of the Uishka River, which inspired him to write the song Something in the Way. Later, he still had the chance to practice. On May 18, 1986, Kurt was arrested for illegally entering someone else’s territory, as well as drinking alcohol, and was imprisoned for 8 days.

In 1985, Kurt formed a group called Fecal Matter; consisted of bass player Dale Crover, drummer Greg Hokanson and Vlasne Cobain - vocalist and guitarist. Approximately across the river, Fecal Matter disintegrated without releasing the water disk; After this, Kurt began to dissect all the demos he knew from Fecal Matter - he wanted to create a new group. One of the tapes went to Krist Novoselic, the other to Kurt. For some time now, it seemed, he had forgotten about her, but for several months there was no agreement with Cobain Rozmov about those that he would organize a rock group (after listening to the recording, and receiving the material). The newly created team (which suddenly had a third member - drummer Chad Channing) changed its name: Skid Row, Ted Ed Fred, Bliss, Pen Cap Chew, but the result was Nirvana. “I’ll call it a joke, because I would have been at the reception,” Cobain explained. In 1988, the band had their first single - “Love Buzz / Big Cheese”, and just after that, Nirvana’s debut album - Bleach - went on sale.

In 1991, Nirvana released another album, Nevermind, which became an incredible breakthrough for the group in the mainstream. The single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was a huge hit, becoming a hit on MTV (although it was immediately followed by "Lithium"). Nirvana's massive success on the international scene brought public respect to the Seattle grunge scene and spawned a line of successors. ZMI called Nirvana “the flagship of generation X”, and Cobain himself – “the voice of the generation”. Cobain himself felt the discomfort of popularity uncontrollably: he himself considered himself to be a representative of the independent rock scene, and he was defended by those who became the idol of a wide audience. The group's upcoming album, In Utero, was deliberately made richly important and gloomy, in order to reach a wide audience and voice Nirvana's return to its “independent” roots (the album was produced by Steve Albini, leader of the noise rock group Big Black). Tim is no less, the album, although not becoming as successful as Nevermind, still gained popularity among listeners and reached high places on the charts.

Despite the fact that Nirvana was an “apolitical” group and did not attach great importance to social media, as many punk ensembles did, Cobain used his popularity to convey his ideas to the public. He was an active defender of the rights of women and sex men and supported the cause (despite the fact that he was especially passionate about motherhood and women-mothers), as a result of which he repeatedly rejected threats to his address in the form of military pro-lifers. Before the collection of Incesticide, the booklet included the words: “If any of you hate homosexuals, people of a different race and women, please kindly give us some kindness - get out of here and give us peace of mind! Don’t come to our concerts and don’t buy our albums.”

Family life:

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's squad met in 1990 at a concert in a Portland club, where they performed with their own crowds. Courtney, who, in her words, sang Nirvana at a concert in 1989 and also showed respect for Cobain, showed a new interest in him, prote Kurt behaved slyly. He later explained: “I want to remain unfriendly yet, but realize that it was really important to be crazy about Courtney, and to stay away from her for so many months.” In 1991, having learned from Dave Grohl that Cobain sensed a keen interest in her, Courtney began to “re-follow” him again. They began an affair. In 1992, Love discovered that Cobain was a child, and on the 24th of 1992, a ceremony for their friendship was held on the Hawaiian beach near Waikiki. Courtney was wearing a cloth that was lying on the actress Frances Farmer, who was spluttering at the insult of her names, and Kurt was getting cold in his pajamas - “because I had to wear a lazy suit.”

The daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Francis Bean Cobain, was born on September 18, 1992. She got her name from Frances McKee, the vocalist of Cobain's favorite Scottish pop group, The Vaselines. Not long before the girl’s birth, it became strange in Courtney’s interview with Lynn Hirshberg from Vanity Fair: she had a shower with Courtney, who said that the heroine had been living under the hour of pregnancy for many hours, not yet knowing that she was mothering a child. Hirshberg, however, presented everything this way: Nibi Love continued to take drugs even after she found out that she was pregnant and identified her “confusion.” Courtney said that the journalist twisted her words, but she insisted that she was recording. The Cobains did not immediately realize that this article would have a huge impact on their reputation. Nezabar, after the birth of Francis, they had a chance to get in trouble with law enforcement agencies - the Los Angeles Department of Childhood Rights violated the law against them about the abolition of Father’s rights, basing themselves on this publication. The court hearings lasted for several months, but as a result, the Cobains were still allowed to medicate their daughter on their own, and they were required to undergo regular drug tests. Kurt deeply expressed that he respectfully believed that there was a real war against his friends, and compared himself with Frances Farmer, who, having been a victim of the war (1942, was an actress a few years before who was betrayed by the SRSR and was suspected of communist sympathies, forcibly hospitalized for manic-depressive psychosis and subjected to lobotomies). On the album In Utero, which is the latest in production, there are a number of strong messages about the scandal of Hirshberg’s article and the “waterfall” that was inflamed against Courtney Love.

On the 8th quarter of 1994, an electrician on the estate of Gary Smith arrived at the Cobain building, located at 171 Lake Washington Blvd East in Seattle, on the 8th of 30 days to install a security system. Smith called the phone number several times without answering anyone through the door. Then he noticed that a Volvo car was parked near the garage, which was located next to the hut, and figured that the hut might be in the garage or greenhouse, which was directly above the garage. Smith checked the garage, then walked up the stairs to the greenhouse. Through the glass door of the greenhouse, Smith marked the body and let it go, wanting to sleep, but, surprised, he began to bleed on the left ear and the towel that lay across the body. This is how Kurt Cobain was revealed. On the 8th year of 45 years, Geri Smith telephoned the police and the local radio station. Kurt lost his suicide note, written with a red pen.

The protocol for the inspection of the place was laid out formally, without the need for analysis of details. According to one version of the investigation, Cobain took a dose of heroin, lost his life, and killed himself. Also, the criminal investigations came to the conclusion that Kurt died on the 5th quarter and his dead body lay in the hospital for three days. There is a rumor about the obvious killing of Kurt. Courtney Love was unofficially added to the list of suspects.

After cremation, part of Cobain's ashes was scattered over the Uishka River in his native Aberdeen, and part was taken from Courtney. An unofficial tribute to the memory of Spivak and a memorial lava near Viretta Park, built near Cobain's remaining cabin in Seattle. The greenhouse above the garage, where Kurt's body was found, was destroyed in 1997, and the booth itself was sold.

Kurt Cobain holds the record for the list of musicians who earned more after death than during their lifetime. In 2011, the legal authorities of their creativity earned over 800 million dollars.

On April 5, 2011, a monument to Kurt Cobain was unveiled in Aberdeen (Washington State). The monument is an oversized concrete copy of one of the musician’s guitars, above which there is a bronze line in rows with the song “On a Plain”. The first drummer of Nirvana, Aaron Burkhardt, and Kurt’s grandfather Leland Cobain, with whom Kurt has been a hundred thousand years old, were also present.

The Kurt Cobain Museum opened in Seattle, where his manuscripts, guitars, photographs, etc. were presented.

On June 27, 2011, in Aberdeen (Washington State), Miska wanted to name a place in honor of Cobain, but Vlad Aberdeen was encouraged by those who showed hostility to this place and his bastards.

In the spring of 2013, the rock of the building, which has Kurt Cobain, was put up for sale. The object was previously valued at $67,000, but the musician's mother, Wendy O'Connor, has now priced it at $500,000. The musician’s relatives say that they are ready to consider proposals about partnership in order to build a museum in the booth. Behind these words, on the walls of Kurt’s room there are still stenciled names of his beloved group. “We were planning to sell the booths in order to destroy Kurt,” the musician’s sister Kim Cobain told the agency. - Of course, we are confused because everyone loved this little house, there are a lot of miracles associated with it. Our family left Washington State a long time ago, and we feel that the time has come to be separated from our home.” Budynok was born in 1923. The Cobains bought a 1969 Yogo when Kurt was two years old. Vin lived with his father until his late childhood: until he was nine years old - with both his fathers, and after his separation - with his mother.