Grunge is Dead

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Aberdeen, which is located about 120 kilometers southwest of Seattle, Washington (Ronson 1). Cobain was for most of his childhood a sickly bronchitic child. He grew up in a middle class society and was hyperactive as a child. As a result he was prescribed a morphine-based drug to help him concentrate in school. The drug often kept him awake until 4 a.m. so he was given sedatives in order to get to sleep (Arcouft 1).

Kurt had a happy childhood until he was seven years old when his parents divorced. It was an ordinary divorce, but Kurt was very traumatized by it. He became shy and difficult. Following the years after the divorce, he moved back and forth between his parents. Before

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Six months after they were married they had a daughter, Frances Bean. Courtney threatened several times to divorce him is he did not get treatment. The note ended with the words “I love you, I love you. During his time he helped create a new sound and a new way of thinking. ” Kurt had earlier said that same year that he never expected to reach the age of 30.

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, off the Nevermind album, became Nirvana’s #1 hit. On several occasions Kurt was near death because of an overdose.

On April 8, 1994 Kurt was found dead in his own house, of what appeared to be a shotgun blast to his head three days earlier. The other members of the band hoped Kurt would calm down now that he had a wife and child. Love met Kurt while trying to find drugs, because Kurt was just being a long road of drug abuse. In this period they recorded a new album, Incesticide. ” This title reflects the fact that Kurt was suicidal.

Things were not going the way Kurt had intended.

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