| KURT DONALD COBAIN WAS BORN IN ABERDEEN (NEAR SEATTLE) ON THE 23RD OF FEBRUARY 1967. HE GOT HIS FIRST GUITAR AT THE AGE OF 14 AND STARTED HIS FIRST BAND 'THE STIFF WOODIES'. AT FIRST HE PLAYED DRUMS BUT THEN MOVED TO LEAD AND NIRVANA WHERE BORN. THEY RECORDED 'BLEACH' THERE FIRST ALBUM IN 1988 ON THE SUB-POP RECORD LABEL. THEY THEN GOT DAVE GROHL ON DRUMS AND RECORDED 'NEVERMIND' IN 1991. THE ALBUM ALONG WITH THE FIRST SINGLE 'SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT' WHERE MASSIVE, WITH SALES OF NEVERMIND GOING TRIPLE PLATINUM. KURT BECAME THE VOICE FOR 'GENERATION-X' OVER-NIGHT. IN 1992 KURT MARRIED COURTNEY LOVE ON WAKIKI BEACH HAWAII, AND SOON AFTER THERE DAUGHTER, FRANCES BEAN COBAIN, WAS BORN. THAT CHRISTMAS WAS REPORTED TO BE THE HAPPIEST TIME OF HIS LIFE. IN 1993, NIRVANA RECORDED IN UTERO, THE FOLLOW-UP TO NEVERMIND. THE ALBUM SHOWED NO SIGNS OF WHAT WAS TO COME, WITH THE SONGS BEING ALMOST HAPPY AND 'ALL APOLOGIES' BEING DEDICATED TO HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER.THEY THEN WENT ON A SELLOUT TOUR OF AMERICA, STOPPING ALONG THE WAY TO DO A MTV UNPLUGGED CONCERT. THIS PROVED TO THE WORLD THAT KURT WAS NOT TALENTLESS. IN 1994 THEY THEN WENT ON TOUR IN EUROPE, BUT WAS STOPPED AFTER MUNICH BECAUSE KURT HAD BEEN ADMITTED TO A RETREAT IN ITALY TO TRY AND HELP HIS DRUG PROBLEM. HE LEFT WITHOUT WARNING AND MADE IS WAY BACK TO SEATTLE. HE ENDED HIS LIFE ON THE 5TH OF APRIL 1994 WITH A SINGLE SHOT-GUN BLAST.HIS BODY WAS FOUND ON THE 8TH OF APRIL BY WORKER. ON THE 13TH HUGE MEMORIAL WAS HELD, WHERE COURTNEY READ OUT EXCERPTS FROM HIS SUICIDE NOTE. THE GRUNGE MOVEMENT WHICH KURT STARTED, ENDED AS EXPLOSIVELY AND QUICKLY AS IT HAD BEGUN. |
