Rolling stone interview kurt cobain biography
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He Wrote the First Nirvana Bio. 30 Years Later, He Has a Few Changes
For a music journalist in the Nineties, there could have been no better phone call. Not long after Michael Azerrad hung out with Kurt Cobain for Nirvana’s first Rolling Stone cover story, Courtney Love reached out to ask him if he wanted to write a book about Nirvana. He agreed, and after nine months of breakneck work, he managed to get Come As You Are out in , just in time to coincide with Nirvana’s Nevermind follow-up, In Utero.
Thirty years later, Azerrad (also the author of the beloved indie/punk history Our Band Could Be Your Life) has a new utgåva of his Nirvana book out. The Amplified Come As You Are more than doubles the length of the original edition with new material from Azerrad&#;s interviews, fact-checking, and fresh revelations.
Azerrad looked back on the book, the making of In Utero (which is also out in a new 30th anniversary edition), and more in an interview t
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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 rik detail his close relationship to Cobain — b
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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 window screen.
He&#;s been suffering from a long-standing and painful stomach condition – perhaps probably an ulcer – aggravated