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| Kurt Cobain's life | |||||||||||||||||
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Kurt was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Hoquaim,a small town 140 kilometres south-west of Seattle.His mother was a cocktail waitress and his father was an auto mechanic.Kurt soon moved to nearby Aberdeen,a depressed and dying logging town.Kurt was for most his childhood a sickley bronchitic child.Matters were made worse when Kurt's parent's divorced when he was seven and by his own account Kurt said he never felt loved or secure again.He became increasingly difficult, anti-social and whitdrawn after his parent's divorce.Kurt also said that his parent's traumatic split fueled alot of the anguish in Nirvana's music.After his parent's divorce Kurt found himself shuttled back and forth between various relative and at one stage homeeless livig under a bridge.When Kurt was eleven he heard and was captivated by the Britain's Sex Pistols and after their self-destruction Kurt and friend Kris Novoselic continued to listen to the wave of British bands inclutding Joy Division the nihilistic post-punk band that some say Nirana are directly descended from in form of mood,melody and lyrical quality.Kurt,s artistry and iconoclastic attitude didn't win many friends in high school and sometimes earned him beating from "jocks" Kurt got even by spray painting "QUEER" on their pick-up trucks.By 1985 Aberdeen was dead and Kurt's next stop was Olympia. Kurt formed and reformed a serie of bands before Nirvana came to be in 1986.Nirvana was an uneasy alliance between Kurt,bassist Kris Novoselic and eventually drummer and multi-instrumentalist Dave Grohl. By 1988 Nirvana were doing shows and had demo tapes going around. In 1989 Nirvana recorded their rough-edged first album Bleach for local Seatlle independent label Sub-Pop. In Britian Nirvana received a lot of recognition and in 1991 their contract was bought out by Geffen,they signed to the mega-label,the first non-mainstream band to do so.Two and a half years after Nirvana's first C.D.Bleach was released they released Nevermind,a serie of different,crunching,screaming songs that along whit it's first single Smells Like Teen Spirit would propel Nirvana to mainstream stardom.Smells Like Teen Spirit became Nirvana's most highly acclaimed and instantly recognizable song. | ||||||||||||||||
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| All Nirvana's cds | |||||||||||||||||
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