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	Heavier Than Heaven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heavier Than Heaven is the name of a 2001 biography of musician Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the grunge rock band Nirvana.
		Cross took the name "Heavier than Heaven" from a tour Nirvana did with the band Tad in the UK.
		The lead singer, Tad Doyle, was very obese; the name which was thought up by the tour promoters, was meant in part to poke fun at the inaccurate fact that Tad alone weighed more than all of the members of Nirvana put together.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heavier_Than_Heaven (216 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Serving the Servants: A review of Charles R. Cross's _Heavier Than Heaven_
		Heavier than Heaven (Hyperion, 381 pp., $24.95), by former Seattle music journalist Charles Cross, details the short and tumultuous life of a man who had always dreamed of being a Rock Star, drawing on evidence from over four years of research, 400 interviews and love letters and entries from Cobain’s private journals.
		Heavier Than Heaven sets forth the chronology of a troubled man with escapist fantasies of fame.
		Heavier Than Heaven provides a fascinating, honest account of a man whose life has often been shrouded by awe and urban myth.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=120942 (1296 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For Immediate Release, August 2001 Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross "Written with a journalist's eye for riveting detail and a fan's heartfelt appreciation for Nirvana's music, Charles R. Cross' Heavier Than Heaven stage-dives headfirst into the heart, soul, and torment of one of rock's most galvanizing figures.
		Heavier Than Heaven ($24.95, hardcover) by veteran music journalist Charles R. Cross tells an extraordinary story of artistic brilliance and the pain that extinguished it.
		Based on more than 400 interviews, four years of research, and exclusive access to Cobain's unpublished diaries, Heavier Than Heaven traces Cobain's life from his early days in a double-wide trailer outside of Aberdeen, Washington, to his rise to fame, success, and the adulation of a generation.
	www.nirvanaclub.com /news/heaven_press.txt (306 words)

	Reviews \| Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross
		Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross
		More than a decade later however, and after reading Heavier Than Heaven, I found myself foraging the Internet for his lyrics, ransacking my younger brother's room for copies of Nirvana CDs and imitating his writing style.
		Heavier than Heaven doesn't waste the reader's time by glossing over harsh realities or softening the raw edges of a person deep in the throes of an addiction and celebrity status.
	www.januarymagazine.com /biography/cobainbio.html (916 words)

	Observer \| Nirvana and purgatory
		Heavier Than Heaven, the first authoritative account of the singer's life, makes a compelling point early on.
		Many teenagers have it worse than Cobain, and many will live out their childhoods and adulthoods with few emotional knots to boast of.
		When he was seven, Cobain was briefly diagnosed as hyperactive; the singer later claimed that the subsequent three-month Ritalin course prescribed by a local doctor inaugurated his later drug abuse.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4276608-102280,00.html (754 words)

	Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain
		Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain
		Two elements of Heavier than Heaven (named after Nirvana's first UK tour) mark it as special.
		Nevertheless, Heavier than Heaven is an important and well-narrated telling of Cobain's life, and the honesty and skill shown in letting Cobain's drug-addled behaviours and often-selfish attitudes speak for themselves is courageous and mostly-successful.
	home.iprimus.com.au /laurapalmer/heavier.htm (609 words)

	Press: For Boddah, with love and squalor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Charles R. Cross covers well-traveled ground in his Kurt Cobain biography "Heavier Than Heaven," beginning with Cobain’s 1967 birth and proceeding chronologically to a point shortly after the rocker’s death in 1994.
		Perhaps out of vengefulness rather than any youthful idealism, he tells a friend that he’s going to be a rock star like Jimi Hendrix, another son of the misty Northwest, and also die by his own hand.
		"Heavier Than Heaven" may leave you sensing that Cobain’s incongruities are a kind of performance art, for which readers and biographers alike should be appreciative.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/document0e5b.html (1067 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Heavier Than Heaven
		That phrase applies to all kinds of people, from JFK to Gary Glitter, and judging by Heavier than Heaven (Hyperion; $24.95), the amazingly detailed new biography about rock and roll's premier suicide of the '90s, it applies to no one more than Kurt Cobain.
		Heavier than Heaven also suffers the same fate as many biographies.
		In spite of the incredible detail, there is no real explanation either for Kurt Cobain's genius or for his deep unhappiness at the end of his life (although his miserable marriage, which may have accounted for a lot of it, is sugarcoated by Cross' unabashed kindness to his main source, the Mrs.).
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/10.18.01/books-cobain-0142.html (643 words)

	Mental Help Net
		It’s very tempting to speculate what it would have taken to prevent Cobain from killing himself, and Heavier Than Heaven gives the impression that his early death was all but inevitable given his family background.
		Heavier Than Heaven is a thorough and competent biography.
		Heavier Than Heaven shows how difficult Cobain made it for people to help him and how his ambitions contributed to his own death, making it clear how frustrating it could be to deal with him.
	mentalhelp.net /poc/view_doc.php?id=1436&type=book&cn=9 (1259 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Heavier than Heaven Charles Cross has cracked the code, and this definitive biography is an all-access pass to Cobain's heart and mind.
		Heavier than Heaven outshines the also indispensable Come As You Are.
		Based on more than 400 interviews; four years of research; exclusive access to Cobain’s unpublished diaries; and a wealth of documentation, HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN traces Cobain’s life from his early days in a trailer to his rise to fame and the adulation of a generation.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0340739371 (1276 words)

	Copyright
		Charles R. Cross, from a technical perspective, is a better journalist than Danny Sugerman or Jerry Hopkins, the authors of Morrison's biography.
		The Cobain of "Heavier Than Heaven" is more complicated and infuriating than other portrayals of the Nirvana star.
		"Heavier Than Heaven" tells us the same thing writers from Jacqueline Susann to Norman Mailer have told us repeatedly: Fame and money and drugs don't make the pain go away.
	www.marklindquist.net /heaven.html (698 words)

	Amazon.com: Kurt Cobain: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This account is so drastically different than every other biography of Kurt Cobain, and description his friends have given, and the impression anyone would get of him by listening to his music that it just really makes you wonder.
		The fact that the book is different than other biographies of Kurt doesn't make it bad, and in fact that would seem like a quality that would make for a very interesting and good addition in the pantheon of Cobain biographies.
		Heavier than Heaven seems to be the consensus choice for the best biography of Kurt, and in my opinion is an extremely well written biography that is both respectful of Cobain and of the truth.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786703946?v=glance (2045 words)

	Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain" is the "best, truest kind of biography -- an unsparing portrait laced with affection for the talent and the music," our critic writes.
		"Heavier" covers not only explicit details of his personal life but his drug abuse, and it could serve as a primer for record company executives who might someday deal with extraordinarily difficult rock stars.
		"Heavier" is the best, truest kind of biography -- an unsparing portrait laced with affection for the talent and the music.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1096866 (633 words)

	CNN.com - The 'painful' tale of Kurt Cobain - August 17, 2001
		Not only did the author of "Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain" (Hyperion) win access to the former Nirvana lead singer's journals from Cobain's widow, rock star/actress Courtney Love, but during his extensive research, Cross uncovered another precious item in the scattered remnants of Cobain's volcanic life.
		"Heavier Than Heaven" documents in unblinking detail Cobain's descent from an innocent, tow-headed boy living in an Aberdeen trailer park with Mom, Dad and Sister to a pot-smoking, acid- taking teenage product of a messy divorce who lived on the streets.
		And then there is the contradictory turn in Cobain's life: Once he achieved the highest success his art form could offer, and once he married Love and became a father, he fell into depression and heroin addiction, finally ending his life with a shotgun blast.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/16/kurt.cobain (1114 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R Cross
		RTE.ie Entertainment - Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R Cross
		Amidst the recollections and tributes, one sentence on the front cover stood out: "a bloody end to a troubled life".
		'Heavier Than Heaven' feels more a countdown to disaster than a celebration of a talent.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2001/1213/heavier.html (559 words)

	Justice For Kurt Cobain - Investigation - Heavier Than Heaven - Amazon Reviews
		It is obvious that Kurt was more excited about being a wealthy musician than he put on but suggesting that he created an alter ego, like Ziggy Stardust or Marilyn Monroe is preposterous.
		Richard Halsted from Valrico, FL "Heavier than Heaven" is a well written book of myths written in simple enough language to bring mass appeal to all stupid americans who enjoy a story better than truth.
		"Heavier Than Heaven" is hardly the definitive account of the life of Kurt Cobain.
	www.justiceforkurt.com /investigation/heavier_than_heaven_reviews.shtml (1958 words)

	The Stranger - Books - Feature - Heavy Jesus
		Hidden in the last few pages of Heavier Than Heaven, Charles R. Cross' biography of Kurt Cobain, is the opportunity to stumble onto the perfect typo.
		Heavier Than Heaven is the unveiling and sanctioning of the most intimate details of Cobain's experience, possibly those last few details never before blasted by the light of day.
		Cobain's shame, his ability to be an asshole, his pet turtles, his real relationship to and views of homosexuality, the prismatic nuances of his narcissism, are all great and surprisingly new stories.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=8572 (607 words)

	Rock Books Roundup
		The frank revelations in Heavier Than Heaven have the effect of reducing Azerrad to a publicist-apologist, while Love is said to be none too happy with Cross, despite the access that she granted him.
		Unwilling to let Cobain's hyperbole and myth-making lies stand unchallenged, the author portrays an artist who invented himself in the classic rock tradition, and who hungrily courted success at the same time that he was repelled by the nature of stardom.
		More significant and problematic than quibbles with his undue bias for noise-rock bands on SST Records (he ignores or disses the West Coast's "Paisley Underground" and the many jangly pop groups in the REM/Feelies/dB's/ Yo La Tengo mold) is a band-by-band structure that invites readers to simply skip over the artists they aren't interested in.
	www.jimdero.com /News2001/Sept16RockBooks.htm (1346 words)

	The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The book Heavier Than Heaven by Charles Cross is a biography of Kurt Cobain.
		Heavier than Heaven enhances listening to Cobain's songs tremendously.
		Heavier than Heaven is a great read for people of freshman reading level and above.
	nths.newtrier.k12.il.us /library/reviewslist/cross.htm (181 words)

	Metroactive Music \| All Shook Down
		That phrase applies to all kinds of people, from JFK to Gary Glitter, and judging by Heavier Than Heaven (Hyperion, 2001), the amazingly detailed new biography about rock and roll's premiere suicide of the '90s, it applies to no one more than Kurt Cobain.
		Author Charles Cross has done an almost mind-boggling amount of digging: His access is nothing short of all-encompassing, and includes excerpts from Kurt's own journals, as well as interviews with his elementary school teachers and other minor characters in his life.
		In spite of the incredible detail, there is no real explanation either for Kurt Cobain's genius or for his deep unhappiness at the end of his life (although his miserable marriage, which may have accounted for a lot of it, is sugarcoated by Cross's unabashed kindness to his main source, the Mrs.).
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.27.01/allshookdown-0139.html (994 words)

	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews Books: Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cross finely examines this in 'Heavier than Heaven.' Cobain's life is dark, but in a way, it's almost that you can see where he could have made it better.
		Composed of interviews from hundreds of friends, family, co-workers, and aquaintances, Heavier Than Heaven is a must read.
		Contributing to HTH's more resembling a novel is definitely Cross' exploitive writing, wherein he sensationalizes the most arduously trivial details of Cobain's life into the most ruthless of near-mythmaking, usually supplemented by disingenuously flowery, melodramatic atmosphere-setting.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0786884029/customer-reviews (2210 words)

	Heavier Than Heaven - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Heavier Than Heaven - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The lead singer, Tad Doyle, was very obese; the name which was thought up by the tour promoters, was meant in part to poke fun at the innacurate fact that Tad alone weighed more than all of the members of Nirvana put together.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Heavier Than Heaven contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Heavier_Than_Heaven (221 words)

	Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain id (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Heavier Than Heavenoutshines the also indispensableCome As You Are.
		In a means that is almost mesmerizing, Heavier Than Heaven allows the reader into the mind or Kurt Cobain with flowing text, and interesting stories and facts about his life.
		As intriguing as they are, these points are accompanied and strengthened with straight excerpts from his many countless journals written throughout his life.
	ourlyrics.net.ru /ID_0786865059,nirvana (1082 words)

	Eye - Go as you are - 10.04.01
		CHARLES R. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
		Following his parents' divorce at age nine, Cobain was shuffled from relative to relative, spent more time sleeping on sofas than loose change, kept his possessions in garbage bags and developed drug and alcohol problems at an age when most of his peers were worrying about acne.
		They recount an endless string of failed rehab stints, near-death overdoses and relapses that are so disheartening and unsettling that by the time Kurt pulls the trigger, the overwhelming feeling is not one of shock or devastation, but of calm and relief.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.04.01/arts/books.html (488 words)

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		Heavier Than Heaven will likely stand forever as the definitive Kurt Cobain biography.
		Cross with unusual integrity for the field, did not allow his the favor of his access to censor his reporting.
		No other Cobain book matches Heavier Than Heaven for research, accuracy, and insider scoops.
	www.charlesrcross.com /books_1r.html (585 words)

	Book Summary : Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain : Charles R. Cross
		Customer Book Summary: Charles R. Cross' Heavier Than Heaven is an in depth, intimate look at the life of the late Kurt Cobain.
		Cobain's slide down into heavy heroin abuse, his first unsuccessful suicide attempt and his final minutes alive are riveting, sad and haunting.
	www.any-book.com /summary11/0786865059.htm (210 words)

	NFC Board: Heavier then Heaven
		The author had access to his journals and things that other people do not have in their repetoire, I read a different Cobain biography and it was mush compared to Heavier Than Heaven.
		As much of a bitch Courtney Love may be, Heavier than Heaven is very legitamite, 4 years of research and over 400 hundred interviews has to bring some truth.
		Heavier Than Heaven is probably the best book i have read.
	www.nirvana2.com /system/display.php?thread=5127&forum=1&page=1 (2191 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain at Epinions.com
		Titled Heavier Than Heaven, after Nirvana's first tour, Cross has created a rock and roll masterpiece, helping to debunk some of the mythical status of the Cobain name while also helping to increase Cobain's mythical status in other ways.
		While there are many people who think that Nirvana was talentless, if you read this book, if you read Cross' brilliant descriptions of some of Kurt's songs, and his interpretations of them, you WILL realize how brilliant a songwriter Kurt could be when he wanted to be.
		Heavier Than Heaven is The Hammer of the Gods for the so-called "Grunge" generation.
	www.epinions.com /content_69974986372 (748 words)

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