Kurt Cobain article

[deadlywhisper]

Hey! I got this article of a magazine and i thought that i might as well post it on here. Enjoy!!!

Just over a decade ago the youth of the world were rocked by the death of the musician Kurt Cobain,who was in the nineties their voice. Front man of the grunge rock band Nirvana, Cobain's lyrics reached out to misunderstood teenagers, who related to his torment and soul searching. Here was a man in pain who, wearing his heart on his sleeve, expressed his blackest desires openly, therefore touching the many lost and confused of that generation. He was viewed as a prophet who understood young peoples latent desires to end it all; he gave voice to the confusion and the disaffection that was felt as the world headed for a new millennium. Dying at the tender age of 27 ensured Cobain a place in the Hard Rock Legend's hall of fame, but he paid the ultimate price. Cobain's lifestyle and marriage to ultra punk rock chick,Courtney Love, may have seemed to his fans to be nihilistically wild ride; bordering on insanity like Iggy Pop, dabbling with death like other anti-rock hero's Morrison,Janis Joplin and Sid Vicious;but Cobain was a tortured individual, who was not playing games and, in the months before his death, had tried hard to lay to rest his demons. He did not succeed. Born in 1967 in Hoaquim, a small town South West of Seattle, Kurt Cobain was a weak and sickly child, who who by the age of 7 was already suffering the crippling depression that would haunt his whole life. His father,a mechanic, divorced his mother a thingytail waitress when he was 7 yrs old and Cobain said from that moment he never felt secure or loved again.

Well that was part 1.Not sure how many parts I'm going to split it in to but there are 3 pages in the magazine! Gemza

[Caty Cobain]

kewl gemma thanks for sharing

[deadlywhisper]

Cello!!! Heres part 2!

Finding himself shunted between various relatives he became increasingly withdrawn and difficult, and even found himself living under a bridge for a short period as a juvenile. But he was an energetic an creative child who liked to draw and sing Beatles songs. During the 70's he was diagnosed as hyperactive and prescribed the drug Ritalin, an amphetamine which acts as a tranquilliser on children. There have been suggestions over the years that children prescribed Ritalin get an early dependency and often go on to abuse drugs - whether this played a part in his later abuse of heroin is debatable. The Sex Pistols and other post punk nihilistic like Joy Division captivated Cobain and his friend Krist Noveselic. Being skinny and iconoclastic in attitude and antithesis of the 'jocks' in school earned him many beatings. He was also branded a 'f a g g o t' a title he eventually embraced and threw back at his tormentors just for the hell of it. He was even arrested in 1985, when he and Noveselic spray-painted 'HOMO SEX RULES on the side of a bank. By 1985, Aberdeen the small town he lived in was dead so Cobain moved to Olympia, where he formed and reformed a series of bands. Nirvana formed in 1988, was the culmination of all these attempts between Cobain and bassist Novoselic, Chad Channing and Jason Everman. They combined punk independence and energy with a melodic pop sense,and although more underground in their musical approach, spurning the empty pop generation soon had a huge following.

End of part 2!!!! Some of the same words are spelt differently- i dont know why i just copied it word for word from the magazine!!

[jason]

hey gemma! i luv the article.

[deadlywhisper]

Heres part 3!!!

The group signed to Geffen records in 1990, and the album 'Nevermind' was released the following year. The album went straight 2 No: 1 and the group found themselves major stars almost overnight. Cobain was hailed as an artist with the imagination and depth to become the voice of the nineties. This star status made the lead singer uneasy - mainstream success represented superficiality and compromise to him, and the pressures that were thrust upon him became overwhelming. He also felt he had become every thing he despised - 'I guess i must've quite the band at least 10 times this year,' he said at the time. He was also distressed to discover that what he wrote and how it was interpreted could quite often be poles apart. He was appalled when he found out that one of his songs, an anti-rape song, had been used as the back round music in a real gang rape. Already branded a rebel with a reputed hard drug habit, Cobain the met Courtney Love, lead singer with the punk band Hole. Love had a reputation as a wild woman, and had dated many other singer before Cobain. She to had a difficult upbringing - her father Hank Harrison, was the manager of the band The Grateful Dead. When Love was three yrs old her parents to live in New Zealand, leaving her behind. She had few friends and said later that 'the only people who liked her were men - male teachers,principals,therapists......kids hated me.' She went to Liverpool at the age of 16 and joined the entourage of the band, Teardrop Explodes. Julian Cope later wrote an article directed at Love in the magazine NME saying 'free us from Nancy Spungen-fixated heroin ass holes who cling to our greatest rock groups and suck out their brains.' (Nancy Spungen was the girl friend of Sid Vicious who had reputedly introduced him to heroin). Many said afterwards that she was desperate for fame,wealth and recognition and would do anything to achieve it.

End of part 3!!!

[Caty Cobain]

kewl