Kurt Cobain and Nirvana

Nirvana is seen as one of the most influential messs since the Beatles, and Kurt Cobain as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Kurt Donald Cobain was innate(p) on the 20th February 1967. As a pip-squeak he was hyperactive so he was prescribed drugs to help him concentrate but these drugs kept him energise until four am, so he was given sedatives to help him sleep. At the age of seven his parents disjoind, this odd Kurt diffident and difficult to control. For this much of his young life he lived with various family members, once he even lived with his school victor for a few months. He was in any case homeless for some time. During this time he lived beneath a b freege. This period of his life is reflected in the song Sliver Mom and dad went to the commemorate, they dropped me at Grandpa Joes, I kicked and screamed, say please and please, oh Grandma take me home.In 1979 when Kurts dad joined a record club, this undetermined Kurt to legendary rock/metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Kiss. He also took an elicit in British punk, especially Sex Pistols and The Clash.On Kurts fourteenth birthday he bought his first guitar and spend a lot of time trying to develop his own unique musical style. He also spent much of his time going to concerts in Seattle and he was a roadie for a band called Melvins. rough this time Kurt went over to his friend Robert Novoselics house where he met Roberts brother crimpt, the future bass guitar player for Nirvana. flexuret Anthony Novoselic was born on May sixteenth 1965 in Compton California. His parents were Croatian immigrants (Novoselic means new settler in Croation). When Krist was younger he and his younger brother Robert enjoyed vandalism, slashing tyres and throwing rocks at cars and houses.When he was fourteen his parents sent him to Croatia because they were worried about his depression, Krist enjoyed dungeon in Croatia because there he started hearing different bands alike Black Sabbat h, Led Zeppelin, The Sex Pistols and The Ramones. in conclusion he was called home where he began to drink and smoke pot heavily.It is non definitely k straight offn when Kurt and Kris began making music, but they recorded the Faecal Matter Demo in 1982 at Kurts aunt Maris house. Kurt and Kris experimented with many another(prenominal) different drummers during this time they settled on Chad Channing, he was their drummer on their first phonograph album Bleach and on their first single Love Buzz (which was originally released by 1960s Dutch group Shocking Blue). He left the band soon after their first European pass.Then the lead singer of Melvins introduced Kurt and Kris (by now calling themselves Nirvana) to a drummer called David Grohl. Kurt and Kris were astounded at how good he was and immediately asked him to join them. He agreed. With Dave now behind the drums the true intelligent of Nirvana was released. They managed to combine loud distorted guitar riffs with smooth me lodies enchantment still producing a sound that, charm totally original, was also a pleasure to listen to.The band moved their contract to Geffen Records and near the end of 1991 released their album Nevermind. It went to one hundred and forty-four on the album chart, but after an bulgeance on the MTV show Headbangers Ball (MTV was the entirely music channel that had alternative music, and this show in particular was one of the most popular MTV programs ever) and a live performance on Saturday wickedness Live, the album went straight to number one despite competition from Michael Jackson.This new album was revolution in music, and did what many other bands could not. The music on the album did not follow any traditional structures and was extremely distinctive from any other bands of the time. Typically the album had slow verses and faster choruses. This is true of such songs as Smells Like Teen Spirit and In Bloom which were both released as singles. Smells like Teen Spirit re ached the UK top ten (Nirvana did appear live on Top of The Pops once, but that particular performance was extremely distorted and did not sound much like Smells Like Teen Spirit). This could be because Kurt did not like his new fame and wanted to rid himself of his new image as roundsman for a generation). At this time in his life Kurt began taking drugs more(prenominal) often, mostly heroine and morphine.On the January twenty-fourth 1992 Kurt married Courtney Love in Waikiki, Hawaii. Six months posterior their daughter Frances-Bean was born. At the time there was an article in the magazine Vanity Fair saying that Courtney had used Heroin while pregnant. Social services got involved and the Cobains were not allowed to be alone with their daughter for the first month of her life. curtly after, Nirvana began to record their album In Utero, the working title was I Hate Myself and Want to Die. The capture of this album was to lose all of the false fans that liked Nirvana only becau se of the popularity of Nevermind, and all of the people who only liked Smells Like Teen Spirit. This album was a return to the old days of Bleach (in fact many of the songs were supposed to be on Bleach). The album was a success, in that it did what the band wanted, it did not sell as quickly as Nevermind and many of their former followers stopped liking the band.While on tour in Italy Kurt fell into a coma after a mixture of champagne and a prescripted medicine. This was later revealed as an attempted suicide. When he woke up he asked for a milkshake and went back home. Courtney threatened to divorce him if he did not sort out his drug problems so he went to a voluntary replenishment centre. A few days later he escaped (jumping over a wall) and went to his house (he express the centre was A place for retards). When Courtney found out he had left she did not know where he had gone. She cancelled his credit card and expected him to phone her when he ran out of money. She also hire d snobbish investigator Tom Grant to track Kurt down.About a week later Kurts body was discovered in the greenhouse above the garage. After a police investigation they concluded that he had interpreted a triple overdose of heroin and then put the barrel of a shotgun in his mouth, before pulling the trigger. In the suicide note (addressed to his childhood imaginary friend Boddah) he spoke of how he did not really enjoy performing his music. He wanted to be exhilarated like Freddie Mercury had been before playing a concert, but he couldnt do it. He also did not want his daughter to turn out how he did. In the end he says to remember Its let out to burn out than to fade away which is exactly what he did.