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Heavier Than Heaven

Charles R. Cross
Heavier Than Heaven Book PDF

Author : Charles R. Cross
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781401304515

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The New York Times bestseller and the definitive portrait of Kurt Cobain--as relevant as ever, as we remember the impact of Cobain on our culture twenty-five years after his death--now with a new preface and an additional final chapter from acclaimed author Charles R. Cross. It has been twenty-five years since Kurt Cobain died by his own hand in April 1994; it was an act of will that typified his short, angry, inspired life. Veteran music journalist Charles R. Cross fuses his intimate knowledge of the Seattle music scene with his deep compassion for his subject in this extraordinary story of artistic brilliance and the pain that extinguished it. Based on more than four hundred interviews; four years of research; exclusive access to Cobain's unpublished diaries, lyrics, and family photos; and a wealth of documentation, Heavier Than Heaven traces Cobain's life from his early days in a double-wide trailer outside of Aberdeen, Washington, to his rise to fame, success, and the adulation of a generation. Charles Cross has written a new preface for this edition, giving readers context for the time in which the book was written, six years after Kurt's death, and reminding everyone how fresh that cultural experience was when the interviews for the book were done. The new final chapter will update the story since, regarding investigations into Cobain's death, Nirvana's induction into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, and how their place in rock history has only risen over the decades.

Cobain Unseen

Charles R. Cross,Cross R,Charles
Cobain Unseen Book PDF

Author : Charles R. Cross,Cross R,Charles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 0340977264

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Cobain Unseen by Charles R. Cross,Cross R,Charles Pdf

The first authorised, illustrated biography of Kurt Cobain is a treasure trove packed with rare material, inserts, and keepsakes.

Room Full of Mirrors

Charles R. Cross
Room Full of Mirrors Book PDF

Author : Charles R. Cross
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781401382810

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Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R. Cross Pdf

Now in paperback, the national bestselling biography of American musical icon Jimi Hendrix It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from his difficult childhood and adolescence in Seattle through his incredible rise to celebrity in London's swinging sixties. It is the story of an outrageous life--with legendary tales of sex, drugs, and excess--while it also reveals a man who struggled to accept his role as idol and who privately craved the kind of normal family life he never had. Using never-before-seen documents and private letters, and based on hundreds of interviews with those who knew Hendrix--many of whom had never before agreed to be interviewed--Room Full of Mirrors unlocks the vast mystery of one of music's most enduring legends.

Serving the Servant

Danny Goldberg
Serving the Servant Book PDF

Author : Danny Goldberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062861672

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band’s leader, Kurt Cobain, would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy arguably at the level of that of John Lennon, Michael Jackson, or Elvis Presley. Danny worked with Kurt from 1990 to 1994, the most impactful period of Kurt’s life. This key time saw the stratospheric success of Nevermind, which turned Nirvana into the most successful rock band in the world and made punk and grunge household terms; Kurt’s meeting and marriage to the brilliant but mercurial Courtney Love and their relationship that became a lightning rod for critics; the birth of their daughter, Frances Bean; and, finally, Kurt’s public struggles with addiction, which ended in a devastating suicide that would alter the course of rock history. Throughout, Danny stood by Kurt’s side as manager, and close friend. Drawing on Goldberg’s own memories of Kurt, files that previously have not been made public, and interviews with, among others, Kurt’s close family, friends, and former bandmates, Serving the Servants sheds an entirely new light on these critical years. Casting aside the common obsession with the angst and depression that seemingly drove Kurt, Serving the Servants is an exploration of his brilliance in every aspect of rock and roll, his compassion, his ambition, and the legacy he wrought—one that has lasted decades longer than his career did. Danny Goldberg explores what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a generation who wasn’t alive until after Kurt’s death. In the process, he provides a portrait of an icon unlike any that has come before.

Kurt Cobain

Brett Morgen,Richard Bienstock
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Author : Brett Morgen,Richard Bienstock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608879878

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Kurt Cobain by Brett Morgen,Richard Bienstock Pdf

The companion book to the HBO film about the Nirvana singer and songwriter, “the most intimate rock doc ever” (Rolling Stone). Kurt Cobain, legendary lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Nirvana, “the flagship band of Generation X,” remains an object of reverence and fascination for music fans. For the first time, his story was told in the fully authorized feature documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, in 2015. Brett Morgen—the Oscar®-nominated filmmaker behind such acclaimed documentaries as the HBO presentation Crossfire Hurricane, which celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Rolling Stones, and The Kid Stays in the Picture—was writer, director, and producer of film. Visual artist Frances Bean Cobain, Cobain’s daughter, was executive producer. This riveting book accompanied Morgen’s documentary and delved further into the material created for the film, presenting an illuminating and honest portrait of the Nirvana frontman that captured the contradictions that made up his character. The book is composed of the extended versions of the exclusive interviews featured in the film. It also showcases the film’s incredible visuals with a mixture of animation stills, rare photography, and other treasures from Kurt Cobain’s personal archive. Director Brett Morgen offers his personal thoughts on the creation of the film and the need to shatter the mythos that surrounds Cobain. Taking fans into and beyond Morgen’s movie with unparalleled insight into the world of the late musician, this book is the perfect complement to a milestone documentary that forever changed the way fans view Kurt Cobain. “The film offers the bells and whistles but the book provides the real guts of the tale.” —Examiner

LIFE Remembering Kurt Cobain

The Editors of Life
LIFE Remembering Kurt Cobain Book PDF

Author : The Editors of Life
Publisher : Time Inc. Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781683300335

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LIFE Remembering Kurt Cobain by The Editors of Life Pdf

LIFE Magazine remembers Nirvana's Kurt Cobain.

Courtney Love

Poppy Z. Brite
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Author : Poppy Z. Brite
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-18
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 9780684848006

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Courtney Love by Poppy Z. Brite Pdf

The incredible story of one of rock's most controversial stars, featuring excerpts from her letters and journals, interviews with friends speaking openly for the first time, and dozens of revealing, candid photos.

Nirvana

Everett True
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Author : Everett True
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786733903

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As the assistant editor of Melody Maker, Everett True was the first journalist to cover the Seattle music scene in early 1989 and interview Nirvana. He is responsible for bringing Hole, Pavement, Soundgarden, and a host of other bands to international attention. He introduced Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love, performed on stage with Nirvana on numerous occasions, and famously pushed Kurt onto the stage of the Reading Festival in 1992 in a wheelchair. Nirvana: The Biography is an honest, moving, incisive, and heartfelt re-evaluation of a band that has been misrepresented time and time again since its tragic demise in April 1994 following Kurt Cobain's suicide. True captures what the band was really like. He also discusses the music scene of the time -- the fellow bands, the scenes, the seminars, the countless live dates, the friends and allies and drug dealers. Drawn from hundreds of original interviews, Nirvana: The Biography is the final word on Nirvana, Cobain, and Seattle grunge.

Cobain on Cobain

Nick Soulsby
Cobain on Cobain Book PDF

Author : Nick Soulsby
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781613730973

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Cobain on Cobain by Nick Soulsby Pdf

The most extensive and complete portrait of Kurt Cobain's life as it unfolded Cobain on Cobain places the reader at the key moments of Kurt Cobain's rollercoaster life, telling the tale of Nirvana entirely through his words and those of his bandmates as they unleashed the whirlwind that would consume them for the last half of their five-year career. This is the most comprehensive compendium of interviews with the band ever released and each interview is another knot in a thread running from just after the recording of their first album Bleach to the band's collapse in 1994 followed shortly by Cobain's suicide. Interviews have been selected to provide definitive coverage of the events of those five years from as close to the key moments as possible, so that the reader can experience Cobain reacting to the circumstances of each tour, each new release, each public incident, all the way to the end. Including a huge number of interviews that have never before seen print, Cobain on Cobain will long remain the definitive source for anyone searching for Kurt Cobain's version of his own story.

Come As You Are

Michael Azerrad
Come As You Are Book PDF

Author : Michael Azerrad
Publisher : Crown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307833730

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The definitive biography of the revolutionary band Nirvana and its star-crossed frontman Kurt Cobain, hailed by Rolling Stone as “the first [book] to comprehensively tell the band’s tale from Aberdeen, Wash., to world domination” “Amazingly raw and candid . . . an unsparing and extremely honest depiction of the group’s highly tumultuous history . . . Come As You Are is as good as rock bios get.”—Billboard “Just tell the truth. That’ll be better than anything else that’s been written about me.”—Kurt Cobain Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Nevermind, whose thunderous sound and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion, frustration, and passion of the emerging Generation X. Come As You Are is the close-up, intimate story of Nirvana—the only book with exclusive in-depth interviews with bandmembers Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic, and Dave Grohl, as well as friends, relatives, former bandmembers, and associates—now updated to include a final chapter detailing the last year of Kurt Cobain's life, before his tragic suicide in April 1994. Vivid, evocative, and thought-provoking, Come As You Are is an essential document not just for Nirvana fans but for anyone interested in the cultural legacy of the 1990s.

Love & Death

Ian Halperin,Max Wallace
Love Death Book PDF

Author : Ian Halperin,Max Wallace
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780749016104

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Love & Death by Ian Halperin,Max Wallace Pdf

On Friday, April 8th, 1994 the body of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was discovered in a room above his garage in Seattle. The police declared it an open-and-shut case of suicide, but this book, drawing on forensic evidence and police reports, explodes the myth that Cobain took his own life and reveals the official scenario was scientifically impossible. Love & Death paints a critical portrait of Courtney Love - suspected of knowing the whereabouts of Cobain in the days prior to his death, and that he was planning to divorce her - and it reveals the case tapes made by Love's own PI, Tom Grant; a man on a mission to find the truth about Kurt Cobain's demise after becoming suspicious of Courtney's actions and the rushed police investigation. In addition, Cobain's grandfather goes public, charging that his grandson was murdered.

I Found My Friends

Nick Soulsby
I Found My Friends Book PDF

Author : Nick Soulsby
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466867215

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I Found My Friends by Nick Soulsby Pdf

I Found My Friends recreates the short and tempestuous times of Nirvana through the musicians and producers who played and interacted with the band. The guides for this trip didn't just watch the life of this legendary band—they lived it. Soulsby interviewed over 150 musicians from bands that played and toured with Nirvana, including well-known alternative and grunge bands like Dinosaur Jr., The Dead Kennedys, and Butthole Surfers, as well as scores of smaller, but no less fascinating bands. In this groundbreaking look at a legendary band, readers will see a more personal history of Nirvana than ever before, including Nirvana's consideration of nearly a dozen previously unmentioned candidates for drummer before settling on David Grohl, a recounting of Nirvana's famously disastrous South American shows from never-before-heard sources on Brazilian and Argentine sides, and the man who hosted the first ever Nirvana gig's recollections of jamming with the band at that inaugural event. I Found My Friends relives Nirvana's meteoric rise from the days before the legend to through their increasingly damaged superstardom. More than twenty years after Kurt Cobain's tragic death, Nick Soulsby removes the posthumous halo from the brow of Kurt Cobain and travels back through time to observe one of rock and roll‘s most critical bands as no one has ever seen them before.

Who Killed Kurt Cobain?

Ian Halperin,Max Wallace
Who Killed Kurt Cobain Book PDF

Author : Ian Halperin,Max Wallace
Publisher : Gardners Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1857825101

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Who Killed Kurt Cobain? by Ian Halperin,Max Wallace Pdf

When the body of rock icon Kurt Cobain was found in his Seattle home with aullet through his head, the reverberations were felt across the world. Hisntimely death in 1994 was instantly labelled a suicide, and his millions ofans resigned themselves to the loss of their angst-ridden hero. But was iteally the obvious suicide his fans accepted. Ian Halperin and Max Wallaceeveal an alarming array of inconsistencies. They offer compelling reasonsor reopening this suicide case, so that fans will know how their hero died.

Of Grunge and Government

Krist Novoselic
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Author : Krist Novoselic
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781617752230

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Of Grunge and Government by Krist Novoselic Pdf

The Nirvana bassist “offers specific platforms for electoral reform . . . as well as charming anecdotes about rock ‘n’ roll as a pursuit of happiness” (Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review). A memoir of both music and politics, Of Grunge and Government tells Krist Novoselic’s story of how during his years with Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, the band made a point of playing benefits—the Rock for Choice show, a concert for gay rights, a fundraising gig for the Balkan Women’s Aid Fund—and how in the ensuing years he has dedicated himself to being a good citizen and participating in American democracy. In this book he shares stories about making music and making a statement—as well as inspiring ideas for anyone who wants to advance progressive causes, to become a more active part of the community, and to make sure our votes count and our voices are heard.

Kurt Cobain

Christopher Sandford
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Author : Christopher Sandford
Publisher : Victor Gollancz
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0575059516

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Kurt Cobain by Christopher Sandford Pdf

Here is the first biography to explore, with shocking detail, the drama that formed this troubled, tragic rock star. Neither an apology nor a condemnation, Kurt Cobain presents a vivid insider's view of the life and death of a man who galvanized a generation and gave birth to the "grunge" revolution with his band Nirvana. Sandford portrays the provocative, small-town rebel with the talent of John Lennon, and then shows him at work on concert stages in Seattle, New York, and London. Readers follow the struggles of Cobain's emotional life-his tumultuous relationships with family and his fellow band members, his drug addiction and sexual appetite, his stormy marriage to Courtney Love, and the birth of his daughter, who, as Cobain wrote in his suicide note, "reminds me too much of who I used to be." During his research, Sandford has had access to Cobain's family, his colleagues, his former friends and lovers, and even author William S. Burroughs, whom Cobain considered to be his "greatest influence." The result is a graphic account of the life that led to the day in April 1994 when Cobain turned a shotgun on himself and became a martyr to disaffected youth around the world.