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Nirvana: Inside the Heart and Mind of Kurt Cobain
For now, Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain and his new wife, Courtney Love, live in an apartment in Los Angeles&#;s modest Fairfax district. The living room holds little besides a Fender Twin Reverb amplifier, a stringless guitar, a makeshift Buddhist shrine and, on the mantel, the couple&#;s collection of naked plastic dolls.
Scores of CDs and tapes are strewn around the stereo – obscurities such as Calamity Jane, Cosmic Psychos and Billy Childish, as well as Cheap Trick and the Beatles. &#;Norwegian Wood&#; drifts down the hall to the dimly lit bedroom, where Cobain lies flat on his back in striped pajamas, a red-painted big toenail peeking out the other end of the blanket and a couple of teddy bears lying beside him for company. The surprisingly fragrant Los Angeles night seeps through the öppning screen.
He&#;s been suffering from a long-standing and painful stomach condition – perhaps probably an ulcer – aggravated
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When Kurt started spiralling down, inom remembered a visit to his hotel room while he was on tour in New Orleans. We were lying on his bed, talking and watching a Pete Townshend concert on public television with the sound off, and Kurt marvelled at how Townshend was so passionate about making music—even after, in Kurt’s opinion, his music was no longer any good. I’d been a huge Who fan as a teen and noted his respect for his fellow gitarr smasher Townshend. Months later, inom was part of a grupp working with Townshend on a project about the history of the Who’s rock opera, “Tommy.” Townshend had helped his friend Eric Clapton recover from a heroin addiction years earlier and was all too familiar with substance abuse. I asked Townshend whether he might have a word with Kurt about beating heroin and dealing with the slings and arrows of fame. I gave him Kurt’s phone number, hoping that he would call and that Kurt would listen.
An appreciation of Nirvana’s “Nevermind.”
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Nirvana Manager Danny Goldberg on What Everyone Gets Wrong About Kurt Cobain
Next week marks the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain&#;s death, but Danny Goldberg says he&#;s only recently come to terms with the tragedy. &#;There was a long period of time where just thinking about it and getting into it this deeply would have been too painful for me,&#; the Nirvana co-manager tells Rolling Stone.
A couple years ago, during the holiday season, Goldberg decided he was ready to tell his story and put together a book proposal. &#;The circumstances inside my head and my availability to focus on it came together,&#; he says. &#;I like the distance.&#;
The result is Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain, a poignant memoir that spans the three-and-a-half years that Goldberg knew the late musician. In the book, he recalls when he began managing the band just before Nevermind made them international superstars. He describes in rich detail his close relationship to Cobain — b