2. HIS CHILDHOOD
Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20,
1967, at Grays Harbor Hospital in
Aberdeen , Washington . he lived the first
6 months in Hoquiam , until his family
returned Aberdeen . His father was
Donald Lenald Wendy Cobain and his
mother Elizabeth Fradenburg. It also had a
younger sister, Kimberly, born on April 24,
1970. Cobain became interested in music
at an early age and, according to
his aunt sang Beatles songs as
"Hey Jude."His parents, Cobain's
life changed dramatically after 9 years
because of their divorce. In a 1993
interview, Cobain said, "I remember
feeling sorry and sad for my parents. I
was ashamed to compare myself with my
friends from school, because I longed to
belong to such traditional family, a typical
family. Mother, father ... I wanted that
security. I hated my parents for years for
that reason. "After a year living with his
mother after the divorce Cobain moved to
Montesano to live with her father
3. MUSICAL
INFLUENCES
Cobain was a devoted follower of the
first alternative rock artists. Hereferred
to their favorite bands in interviews,
giving even greater importance to the
bands that influenced him than his
own music. In interviews Cobain talked
about relatively obscure performers for
the general public, like The Vaselines,
The Melvins, Daniel Johnston,
Meat Puppets, Young Marble Giants,
King Crimson, Wipers and The
Raincoats. Additionally, Cobain was able
to convince record companies to re-
launch records of The Raincoats (Geffen)
and TheVaselines (Sub Pop). Cobain also
talked about the influence of the
Pixies, and commented on the
similarities of the music of that band
and Smells Like Teen Spirit .His
favourite gropue was ¨The Beatles¨
4. HIS FAMILY
• Courtney Love Cobain was playing
for the first time in
1990.According to
journalist Everett True, the
couple was formally presented in
a concert
of L7 and Butthole Surfers in
Los Angeles in May
1991. (Several
biographies mention the date of
the meeting in 1989 in Portland
(Oregon), but True insists
that 1991 is a more
accurate date, and notes as
evidence an interview
with Cobain and Love in 1992
with Sassy magazine in which the
couple said they had met at a
concert of L7 and Butthole Surfer
s). In the following weeks, after
learning from Grohl's
hand she and
Cobain sharedmutual feelings,
Love began
to look frequently. After weeks of
meetings and talks in the fall of
1991, both were seen together
more often. Around the time of
submission of Nirvana on
Saturday Night Live (early
1992) Love discovered she was
pregnant. A few days after the
end of the Nirvana tour through
the Pacific on Monday, February
24, 1992, Cobain married Love
on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii. On
August 18 the first born and only
5. NIRVANA
Cobain received his first guitar at the age of 14. Her uncle got Rosevear at the Music Center in
Aberdeen, choosing the instrument rather than a bicycle. Since then Cobain tried to
form bands with friends, singing songs of AC / DC and Led Zeppelin. In high school,
however, Cobain had frequent problems finding someone to play with, because none of his
friends had any particular musical talent.Subsequently, Cobain met Krist Novoselic, a
faithful devotee ofpunk rock, who lived across the Young Street bridge. Novoselic's
mother owned a beauty salon (Maria's Hair Design), so they could practice on the second
floor of the building occasionally. A few years after Cobain tried to convince Novoselic to
form a band with him, and lent him a copy of
a home demo (entitled "Illiteracy WillPrevail") recorded by one of the first bands that
formed Cobain,Fecal Matter. After months of thinking, Novoselic agreed to joinCobain,
which laid the foundation of Nirvana.
In the early years as a
group, Novoselic and Cobain to rotatefrequently touched them drummers. Finally,
Chad Channing joined the band, which recorded Bleach, released on Sub Pop Records in
1989. Cobain, however, was dissatisfied with Channing's style, and the band replaced him
with Dave Grohl. Along with Grohl, the bandfound success with their debut album on
a major label, Nevermind(1991). Then in 1993, came the album In Utero.
Cobain had a lot of trouble adjusting to the massive success of Nirvana with his
strong roots underground
6. ADICTION WITH THE DRUGS
During his life, Kurt battled depression, chronic bronchitis and against intense physical
pain due to a chronic stomach condition was never diagnosed, which for years sought
the cause and affect him emotionally. None of the doctors he consulted were able to
find the specific cause, although he said he could be the result of a scoliosis that
Cobain suffered in his childhood, or was related to the stress of touring and events
that the band attended. Cobain self-medicated with heroin, although his medical
condition was not the main reason that caused the drug use.
Cobain had his first contact with drugs in late 1990, usually to fight his hyperactivity,
he was treated with strong sedative and as a child.For some months Cobain's drug use
casually, but it was not long before it became an addiction. In late 1991 its use began
affecting the band's tour in promotion of Nevermind, and saw Cobain passing out
during photo shoots. For example, the day of submission of the band on Saturday
Night Live, where Nirvana had a session with photographer Michael Levine, Cobain
(who had used heroin a few hours before) was staggered several times during the
session. On this, Cobain biographer Michael told him to Azerrad, "I say: What can
they do? They could not tell me to stop.So I do not care. Obviously they thought it
was something like practicing witchcraft. They knew well my problem, and even
thought at one time was going to die. "
Addiction to heroin Kurt increased over time. In early 1992, shortly after he and
Courtney discovered that they were going to be parents, decided to enter
rehab. After leaving, Nirvana embarked on a tour of Japan and Australia, where
Cobain was pale and suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Shortly after returning to
America, Kurt's addiction resurfaced.
Before a performance at the New Music Seminar in New York City in May 1993, Cobain
suffered a heroin overdose. Instead of calling an ambulance, Love injected with
naloxone-illegally-obtained out of the state of unconsciousness. A few hours later
Cobain Nirvana played with one of the most memorable concerts of the year. The
public did not notice that something strange had happened.
7. On February 23, 1994 Kurt Cobain made his last appearance
on television in a program of Italian
television, Tunnel, Serena Dandini.
On March 1, 1994, after a concert at Terminal Einz in
HIS LAST
Munich,Germany, Cobain was diagnosed
with severe bronchitis and laryngitis. The next day he went
to Rome for medical treatment. His wife would be there on
GOODBYE
March 3.A the next morning when he awoke,
Love found Cobain had overdosed on a combination of
champagne and flunitrazepam (Love got a prescription
for Rohypnol after arriving in Rome). Cobain was
taken immediately to hospital and spent the rest of the
day unconscious. After spending five days in treatment,
Cobain left the hospital and returned
to Seattle.Posteriormente, Lovepublicly insisted that the
incident was the first Cobain's suicide attempt. On March
30, Cobain arrived at the Exodus Recovery Center in
LosAngeles, California. On the afternoon of April
1 Frances Bean's nanny (Cobain's daughter) took the
place for a one hour visit with his father. That
night, Cobain left the building with a cigarette,
thenclimbed a fence 1.80m high and left the center. Then
he took a taxi to the airport and returned to Seattle. The
next morning he stopped at his house, where he spoke
with Michael Cali DeWitt, who lived nearby. During the
following days, Cobain was visiting Seattle, butseveral of
his relatives and friends were not aware of what he did.
On April 3, Love hired private investigator Tom Grant to
find Cobain(Tom Grant has subsequently diverged from the
official version of the death of Kurt Cobain) .7 The next
day, Love filled out a missing person report with the name
of the Cobain's mother without hispermission. He added
that it wanted to commit suicide and was inpossession of a
firearm
