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Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Why he died before he got old The publication of Cobain's journals is considered, then, to be a major event and has been anticipated with a mixture of trepidation, curiosity and excitement. Nirvana, and their principal creative architect Kurt Cobain, are considered by many in the UK to be the most important band in the history of rock. When Cobain was in deep trouble with heroin addiction in 1993, I was visiting New York regularly in connection with my own child-abuse story, Tommy, which had hit Broadway. books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/artsandentertainment/0,6121,824650,00.html

Amazon.co.uk: Books: Kurt Cobain: The Journals Kurt Cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics, drawings, and writings about his plans for Nirvana and his thoughts about fame, the state of music, and the people who bought and sold him and his music. Kurt Cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics, drawings and writings about his plans for Nirvana and his thoughts about fame, the state of music and the people who bought and sold him and his music. If Cobain is up there somewhere he will point at this book and then point at the "Nevermind" album cover and shout "this is what I mean!". www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0670913707

Blogcritics.org: Pete Townshend reviews Kurt Cobain's journals Kurt Cobain's vocals are rough and at the same time melodic, but most important of all, it's sincere - something sorely missing from most of the lead singers of today's "hard rock" bands, who don't really sing, but scream and shout. The situation is that those who control Cobain's estate (Courtney) have decided it's in his (and her) best interest to publish them, so go ahead and read if you are interested. If Cobain weren't famous, they'd be discarded by some relation who'd receive them after his death. www.blogcritics.org /archives/2002/11/04/211614.php

Kurt Cobain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia One of Cobain's earliest and most important musical influences was none other than The Beatles; Cobain expressed a particular fondness for John Lennon, whom he called his "idol" in his journals, and even admitted that the song "About a Girl" was essentially his attempt at writing a Beatles song. Cobain's life was turned upside down at the age of eight when his parents divorced in 1975, an event which he later cited as having a profound impact on his life. Cobain's body was cremated, with one third of his ashes scattered in a Buddhist temple in Ithaca, New York, another third in the Wishkah River, and the rest left in Love's possession. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Cobain   (5060 words)

Amazon.com: Journals: Books: Kurt Cobain Cobain's journals remind fans of how unlikely was his rise to fame: here was a kid from Aberdeen, dreaming of being in the next Meat Puppets, not the next Doors, who signed on with an independent label named SupPop, and ended up changing the course of commercial radio. Cobain's early letters to fellow rockers in the grunge scene also remind readers of how small and close that community was, and of the fairly incendiary politics it had developed through the Reagan years. Kurt Cobain made a lot of wrong decisions, and they sholdn't be automatically respect as a knee-jerk reaction. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/157322359X?v=glance   (2182 words)

Kurt Cobain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia One of Cobain's earliest and most important musical influences was none other than The Beatles; Cobain expressed a particular fondness for John Lennon, whom he called his "idol" in his journals, and even admitted that the song "About a Girl" was essentially his attempt at writing a Beatles song. Cobain was cremated, with one third of his ashes scattered in a Buddhist temple in New York, another third in the Wishkah River, and the rest left in Love's possession. Cobain's life was turned upside down at the age of eight with the divorce of his parents, which he later cited as having a profound impact on his life. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Cobain   (2182 words)

Kurt Cobain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia One of Cobain's earliest and most important musical influences was none other than The Beatles; Cobain expressed a particular fondness for John Lennon, whom he called his "idol" in his journals, and even admitted that the song "About a Girl" was essentially his attempt at writing a Beatles song. Cobain's life was turned upside down at the age of eight when his parents divorced in 1975, an event which he later cited as having a profound impact on his life. Cobain's body was cremated, with one third of his ashes scattered in a Buddhist temple in Ithaca, New York, another third in the Wishkah River, and the rest left in Love's possession. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Cobain   (5007 words)

Amazon.com: Books: Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain After `JOURNALS', I was misled Cobain formed his ideas about women, government and punk music independently. Kurt Donald Cobain was born on the twentieth of February, 1967, in a hospital on a hill overlooking Aberdeen, Washington. Cobain was contradictory: a sweet, popular teen athlete and sinister berserker, a kid who rescued injured pigeons and laughingly killed a cat, a talented yet astoundingly morbid visual artist. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786865059?v=glance   (5007 words)

Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle From Kurt Cobain's Journals (page 187, transcribed by DN member BleachedBlack) (Frances Bean Cobain was named after Frances McKee of the Vaselines, not Frances Farmer.) This song is about actress and Seattle native Frances Farmer, perhaps best known for being declared insane and then lobotomized. www.livenirvana.com /digitalnirvana/songguide/body1abb.html?songid=35   (274 words)

Kurt Cobain's Last No.1 Hit (Seattle Weekly) In the weirdly utopian "indie fascist" Olympia music scene run by "that elitist little fuck Calvin Johnson" (as Cobain calls him in the journals), kids were forbidden to form traditional romantic unions. The journals are the observant notes he took on his bifurcated nature, and a first-draft attempt to capture and make a drifty art of contradictions from the images, puns, and fugitive thoughts that drift through his mind like the floating specks in his eyeballs—which he describes in minute detail. Here was the first scene, expressing Cobain's sense of himself as repository of Burroughs' artistic spirit: "William and I sitting across from one another at a table (black and white) lots of Blinding Sun from the windows behind us holding hands staring into each others eyes. www.seattleweekly.com /arts/0252/arts-appelo.html   (4281 words)

How To Read Kurt Cobain's Journals - A guide for the perplexed. By Tim Appelo Cobain's recently published journals are disorganized confusion: They are presented raw, with ridiculously skimpy explanatory material. In high school, Kurt Cobain wanted to start a band called Organized Confusion. Here's some advice to help you make sense of Cobain's scribbles, based on Charles Cross' definitive bio Heavier Than Heaven (which presents some of the same excerpts, but more intelligibly than the new book does) and my own conversations with Cobain and his family as Entertainment Weekly's grunge reporter: www.slate.com /id/2074093   (1044 words)

The Stranger - Books - Feature - Heavy Jesus Cross had the deepest access to Cobain's journals, family photos, medical records, and unreleased Nirvana music, and the book is an amplified litany of these minute details. 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. 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. www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=8572   (607 words)

For Cobain, the dying began early A Seattle-based music journalist, Cross offers up dozens of poignant images assembled from hundreds of interviews, plus exclusive access to Cobain's journals. By the time Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain took his life in 1994, at age 27, he was the image of a fallen rock star — addicted to heroin, beset by chronic stomach pain and utterly worn out from life on the road. Robert Sorbo, AP Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who killed himself in 1994, is the focus of Heavier Than Heaven. www.usatoday.com /life/books/2001-08-22-cobain.htm   (543 words)

Justice For Kurt Cobain - Newsletter - October 28th 2002 The Cobain Journals will be on sale next week on November 4th. The October 28th issue of Newsweek also ran a cover story about the journals. The new "Nirvana" CD will hit stores on the 29th of October. www.justiceforkurt.com /newsletter/10-28-02.shtml   (543 words)

CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Nirvana: Cobain 'Journals' have new material A new expanded paperback edition of Kurt Cobain's "Journals" has an added 14 pages of bonus material, including an extended narrative about a semi-fictional serial killer, Billboard reports. Despite the initial controversy that arose when plans were made to publish the journals of the late Nirvana frontman, the hardcover edition of the journal became an instant number one best-seller when it was released earlier this fall. Grau said the narrative contained characteristics and biographic facts that described a known serial killer, but it was hard to know what was real and what Cobain had invented. jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/N/Nirvana/2003/11/20/748235.html   (543 words)

Verse Chorus Verse In an early draft of "Verse Chorus Verse," found in Journals (page 143), Cobain's lyrics included the line "at the end of rainbows and of your rope," which is best known from Nevermind's liners. And with good reason; it is now believed (and accepted) that Kurt Cobain switched song titles in 1993 and the song found on the No Alternative compilation, which had previously been known as "Sappy," became known as "Verse Chorus Verse" in the media, despite the fact that Nirvana's song on the album was unlisted. Out of all of the Nirvana song titles, "Verse Chorus Verse" and "Sappy" are perhaps the most confusing to fans. www.livenirvana.com /digitalnirvana/songguide/bodydd7c.html?songid=140   (543 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. Cross draws on an inevitable truth about major-label music that Vicious could not fathom and that Cobain knew from the start—that no music can become popular without some degree of commercial compromise. 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)

TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Heavier Than Heaven -- Sep. 10, 2001 Extraordinary access to Cobain's unpublished journals helps the narrative move like the best Nirvana anthems: a slow build, some off-kilter rhythms, softly seductive passages followed by loud screams and a devastating finish. When Nirvana's Kurt Cobain died of a self-inflicted shotgun blast in 1994 at age 27, it marked the end of a short life plagued by family troubles, heroin addiction and struggles with fame. His story certainly wasn't heavenly, but it was heavy, and Cross--a grunge sponge who conducted 400 interviews for this serious, substantial biography--lays it all out vividly. www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,1000752,00.html   (145 words)

Books: Late Rocker's Journals Give Biography Depth BIOGRAPHY Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain. The 1994 shotgun suicide of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, prompted wails of pure anguish from a generation branded X. From every other generation, though, came a resounding chorus of "Kurt who?" "Heavier Than Heaven" may not unravel the eternal mysteries of fame --- why are so many disaffected youth so deeply affected by one particular songwriter? news.modernrock.com /684   (898 words)

Books & Culture Corner: Entertain Us - Books & Culture But both tribes persist among thirtysomethings as well as post-Columbine youth throughout the Western world, the grunge label is useful shorthand, and the conjunction of a Nirvana greatest-hits package with the new Pearl Jam recording, Riot Act—not to mention the publication of Kurt Cobain's journals—offers a fitting occasion to examine an enduring cultural legacy. Cobain opened Nivana's final album with the observation that "Teenage angst has paid off well / Now I'm old and bored," and sought the company of elder Beat statesmen like William S. Burroughs. The indifference associated with the grunge label is the last accusation one could now level at Pearl Jam, whose work includes an effort to overcome Ticketmaster's hegemonic hold over live performance and a longterm commitment to social action. www.christianitytoday.com /books/features/bccorner/021216.html   (898 words)

News (Godspeed) It was never intended that Godspeed be taken as the last word on Kurt Cobain or that it be taken literally as the gospel truth. The art for Godspeed (which included the pencilling, inking, colouring and lettering) took eight months solid, locked away in a room with no windows and just the music and videos of Nirvana, plus a copy of Kurt’s journals for company. Godspeed, is the brainchild of Chris Charlseworth (Omnibus Press) and Ed Chatelier. www.flameboycomics.com /News2.html   (898 words)

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Kurt Cobain - Wikiquote Someone who wouldn’t make me feel like a creep for spilling my guts and trying to explain all the insecurities that have plagued me for oh, about 25 years now.(journals) Here I am, inspired to write only because I'm pissed off. She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart ("Aneurysm") en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Kurt_Cobain   (1150 words)

Amazon.com: Books: Journals I'll start right out by telling you that although I am a fan of Nirvana, I never thought too much about Kurt Cobain. Eve Nevarre "Raven" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/157322359X?v=glance   (1963 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)

Kurt Cobain biography - Heavier than heaven - Charles Cross Cross’s new bio of Kurt Cobain, Heavier than Heaven, was written over the course ofB four years of research, drawing from more than four hundred interviews, as well as exclusive access to Cobain’s unpublished journals and letters. Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles Cross- Cobain himself was a troubled man of unreconciled contradictions. www.fazed.com /lifestyle/kurt_cobain.html   (483 words)

Featured Music Story Charles Cross analyzed, examined, interpreted and obsessed over no less than 3,000 sheets of Kurt Cobain& handwriting from several journals (most of which now belong to widow Courtney Love) in order to write his book. As I survey the rise and fall of grunge with video commentary from the bewildered record label execs, musicians and fans that watched their local heroes become national superstars in the blink of an eye, my mind gets a bit hazy. I skip up the hill to my friend’s place and inform her that I won’t be staying for all of Rufus Wainwright’s performance at the Opera House—I’ve got a date with a biographer. www.pulsetc.com /beforejune/V5I23/cmusic.html   (1367 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)

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