Kurt Cobain and Nirvana

Nirvana is seen as superstar of the most influential bands since the Beatles, and Kurt Cobain as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Kurt Donald Cobain was natural on the 20th February 1967. As a child he was hyperactive so he was appointed medicates to help him c erstntrate merely these drugs kept him awake until four am, so he was given sedatives to help him sleep. At the age of seven his parents divorced, this go forth Kurt shy and difficult to control. For this much of his young life he lived with various family members, once he even lived with his school headmaster for a fewer months. He was also positionless for some time. During this time he lived beneath a bridge. This period of his life is reflected in the song Sliver Mom and dad went to the show, they dropped me at Grandpa Joes, I kicked and screamed, said please and please, oh Grandma take me home.In 1979 when Kurts dad joined a record club, this exposed Kurt to legendary rock/metal bands such as light-em itting diode Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Kiss. He also took an interest in British punk, especially Sex Pistols and The Clash.On Kurts fourteenth birthday he bought his root guitar and spent a mass of time trying to develop his own unique musical style. He also spent much of his time going to concerts in Seattle and he was a roadie for a band called Melvins. Around this time Kurt went over to his plugger Robert Novoselics fellowship where he met Roberts brother Krist, the future bass guitar player for Nirvana.Krist Anthony Novoselic was born on May sixteenth 1965 in Compton California. His parents were Croatian immigrants (Novoselic means untested settler in Croation). When Krist was younger he and his younger brother Robert enjoyed vandalism, slashing tyres and throwing rocks at cars and houses.When he was fourteen his parents sent him to Croatia because they were worried about his depression, Krist enjoyed living in Croatia because there he started hearing different bands lik e Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Sex Pistols and The Ramones. Eventually he was called home where he began to drink and gauge pot heavily.It is non definitely k todayn when Kurt and Kris began making music, but they recorded the Faecal Matter Demo in 1982 at Kurts auntie Maris house. Kurt and Kris experimented with many different drummers during this time they settled on Chad Channing, he was their drummer on their first album Bleach and on their first single neck Buzz (which was originally released by 1960s Dutch group Shocking Blue). He go away the band soon after their first European tour.Then the pass on singer of Melvins introduced Kurt and Kris (by now calling themselves Nirvana) to a drummer called David Grohl. Kurt and Kris were kayoed at how good he was and immediately asked him to join them. He agreed. With Dave now behind the drums the true sound of Nirvana was released. They managed to combine loud twisted guitar riffs with smooth melodies while still producin g a sound that, while in all original, was also a pleasure to listen to.The band moved their demand to Geffen Records and near the end of 1991 released their album Nevermind. It went to one hundred and forty-four on the album chart, but after an appearance on the MTV show Headbangers Ball (MTV was the single music channel that had alternative music, and this show in particular was one of the most popular MTV programs ever) and a live performance on Saturday wickedness Live, the album went straight to number one despite competition from Michael Jackson.This revolutionary album was revolution in music, and did what many other bands could non. The music on the album did not follow any traditional structures and was extremely characteristic from any other bands of the time. Typically the album had slow verses and faster choruses. This is true of such songs as Smells Like Teen Spirit and In Bloom which were both released as singles. Smells like Teen Spirit reached the UK top ten (N irvana did appear live on Top of The Pops once, but that particular performance was extremely distorted and did not sound much like Smells Like Teen Spirit). This could be because Kurt did not like his new fame and wanted to rid himself of his new image as spokesman for a generation). At this time in his life Kurt began taking drugs more often, mostly heroine and morphine.On the January twenty-fourth 1992 Kurt married Courtney Love in Waikiki, Hawaii. sextuplet months later their daughter Frances-Bean was born. At the time there was an article in the magazine Vanity Fair saying that Courtney had used Heroin while pregnant. favorable services got involved and the Cobains were not allowed to be alone with their daughter for the first month of her life.Soon after, Nirvana began to record their album In Utero, the functional title was I Hate Myself and Want to Die. The aim of this album was to get all of the false fans that liked Nirvana only because of the popularity of Nevermind, and all of the pile who only liked Smells Like Teen Spirit. This album was a engender to the old days of Bleach (in fact many of the songs were supposed to be on Bleach). The album was a success, in that it did what the band wanted, it did not sell as quickly as Nevermind and many of their former followers stopped disposition the band.While on tour in Italy Kurt fell into a apathy after a mixture of champagne and a prescripted medicine. This was later revealed as an attempted suicide. When he woke up he asked for a milkshake and went back home. Courtney threatened to divorce him if he did not sort out his drug problems so he went to a voluntary rehabilitation centre. A few days later he escaped (jumping over a wall) and went to his house (he said the centre was A place for retards). When Courtney found out he had left she did not know where he had gone. She cancelled his credit eyeshade and expected him to phone her when he ran out of money. She also hired unavowed investiga tor Tom Grant to track Kurt down.About a workweek later Kurts body was discovered in the greenhouse above the garage. later a police investigation they concluded that he had taken a triple overdose of heroin and then put the barrel of a shotgun in his mouth, before pulling the trigger. In the suicide observation (addressed to his childhood imaginary friend Boddah) he spoke of how he did not really enjoy performing his music. He wanted to be uplift like Freddie Mercury had been before playing a concert, but he couldnt do it. He also did not want his daughter to second out how he did. In the end he says to remember Its get out to burn out than to fade away which is exactly what he did.