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YOU WONT BELIEVE: 17 | Mind Blowing Facts

Paul McCartney: “Somebody whispered to me ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it”

Bassist Krist Novoselic revisits the time the ex-Beatle fronted a Nirvana reunion gig

Guitar World

When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Nirvana's Kurt Cobain kick heroin, Cobain's response was savage: "This guy didn't have to die," Tyler later maintained

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler knows only too well the appeal, and consequences, of taking heroin, which is why he offered to help Kurt Cobain kick his habit

Metal Hammer

Queen's Brian May reveals his favourite guitarists of all time

Brian May names his favourite guitar players, and shares love for Nirvana's Kurt Cobain for "some of the greatest guitar music of all time"

Louder

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Courtney Love urged to 'find Kurt Cobain's killers' as author believes he was murdered

An award-winning author and filmmaker has claimed Kurt Cobain was murdered and has offered his widow Courtney Love a lie detector test to 'clear her name'

Daily Mirror

Torture. Incest. Voyeurism. Why Pixies' Surfer Rosa is the weirdest and most influential alt. rock album of the '80s

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band of the past 35 years has 'borrowed' from Pixies 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa

Louder

10 times rock and metal bands totally ruined mainstream awards shows

From Nirvana trashing MTV's stage to Bring Me The Horizon ruining Coldplay's day, here are 10 times rock and metal bands caused mayhem at major awards ceremonies

Metal Hammer

Great Chicago music moments in photos, from Led Zeppelin to Liz Phair to Nirvana

Photographer Marty Perez’s new book documents decades of rock and blues on Chicago stages.

Chicago Sun-Times

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It wasn’t fate – it was Glee: Why do we look for curses and conspiracies in celebrity deaths?

As a new documentary series attempts to unravel whether the cast of ‘Glee’ was cursed (spoiler: of course they weren’t), Marie-Claire Chappet asks why we seek mystical answers when a big name dies, from Princess Diana to the 27 Club

The Independent UK

Courtney Love slams Brad Pitt and says he 'pushed me a bridge too far' in movie feud

Courtney Love has doubled down on her claim against Brad Pitt that he allegedly had her fired from Fight Club.

Daily Mirror

Brad Pitt got Courtney Love 'fired from Fight Club' after she rejected his idea

Courtney Love has claimed that Brad Pitt interfered with her career after she was fired from her alleged role in Fight Club. She has said that Helena Bonham Carter was given the role once she had been given the boot

Daily Mirror

Courtney Love says she’s only ever known two ‘true musical geniuses’

‘Lana and Kurt are the only two true musical geniuses I’ve ever known,’ singer said

The Independent UK

Carrickmore and Nirvana: Kurt Cobain’s Co Tyrone roots explained

The village of Carrickmore recently held an event to mark the link between Cobain and his Co Tyrone ancestry

Belfast Live

Remembering Nirvana’s intimate Glasgow gig that happened 31 years ago

It was the only time Nirvana ever graced Glasgow in the early 1990s, and while there is little photo or video evidence of the gig, it’s well remembered by many.

Glasgow Live

Chapter and verse: Author Andy Bollen on intersection of music, comedy and football

Andy Bollen is talking with boyish enthusiasm about his favourite subjects: music, comedy and football.

The National (Scotland)

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The Guardian - UK

Mimi Parker obituary

Mesmerising voice of Low, one of America’s most influential bands

Wales Online

John Lennon's signature round glasses set to be sold at auction

Also on sale will be a guitar played and smashed by Kurt Cobain and an Amy Winehouse hair topper

The Independent UK

John Lennon’s glasses and Kurt Cobain guitar to headline blockbuster US auction

Over 1,500 instruments and artefacts owned and used by some of the world’s most famous artists will go under the hammer during the sale next week.

The Guardian - AU

‘Kurt was not in a good way’: backstage on Nirvana’s first – and only - Australian tour

Promoter Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic spent weeks on tour with bands like Nirvana and Hole in the 1990s. ‘I hoarded everything,’ he says – and a new exhibition reveals all

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Salon

Why Gen X grew up to skew Republican

Turns out that in the fantasy world of Gen X films, it was a mistake to believe more of us related to the slackers

The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: From Good to Peaky Blinders – The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

A guide to the week’s theatre

Evening Standard

Last Days at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio review: this opera based on Gus van Sant’s film is exemplary

A meditation on a lost soul that could stand for all those who are driven to despair

The Guardian - UK

Last Days review – Leith’s opera is bleak and beautiful

Oliver Leith’s new work, based on Gus Van Sant’s fictionalised account of the final days of Kurt Cobain, keeps its audience at arm’s length, allowing its dense score to articulate and drive the drama

The Independent UK

Last Days review: Extraordinary Kurt Cobain opera avoids all the clichés Nirvana fans might have predicted

Director Gus Van Sant gave permission for the script of his 2005 film ‘Last Days’ to be used as the inspiration for a new production about the Nirvana frontman. The result, staged at Linbury Theatre, is finely wrought and deserving of accolades

The Guardian - UK

‘Kurt Cobain was a walking paradox’: inside the opera about the star’s final days

It has little plot, the dialogue is mumbled, cereal bowls are a big theme, and a fast-talking cattle auctioneer plays his manager. We meet the team behind the Royal Opera House’s daring new show

Evening Standard

Royal Opera House swaps glitz for grunge in Gus Van Sant adaptation

As the Royal Opera House readies itself for a grunge adaptation, Richard Godwin asks, why are we so attached to old misconceptions about snobbery in the oeuvre?

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