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Kurt Cobain: the journals

Early 1991: 'I cried to "Seasons of the Sun"'Nirvana, hitherto a cult 'alternative' band, sign with Gefen Records, securing a handsome advance;the recording sessions or the album Nevermind are under wa and within months, !ost"'#mells$ii%e &een #!irit', Cobain will become the biggest roc% star in the world (e !ens a brieautobiogra!h in his noteboo%

Next page: Bingeing on fame, autumn 1991 to spring 199

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utumn 1991 to spring 199: 'I got a little ha#it((('$oser no more (uge ame hits, as onl overnight roc% ame can: the massivel successul album)Nevermind ousts *ichael +ac%son's angerous as -illboard's number one.; the high"!ro/le girlriend)he marries Courtne $ove on 0ebruar 12 3441. and a develo!ing drug habit with what he li%es tocall 'heroine' (e's also ta%en a disli%e to the -ritish !ress

Next page: 'Smells li)e thirtysomething(((', spring 199



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Spring 199: 'Smells li)e thirtysomething((('5ne avourite Cobain strateg or dealing with ame is to ado!t !un% roc% attitudes, !la the rebel (ewrites to Rolling #tone e6!laining wh he won't do an interview, an unmailed letter )(e agrees to do theinterview a ew months later.

Next page: *atherhood and sur&i&al, summer 199



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Summer 199: '+e ill sur&i&e((('0rances -ean Cobain is born on 7ugust 38 -ut while $ove gives birth, Cobain is in the chemicalde!endenc wing o the same hos!ital, Cedars"#inai in $os 7ngeles 9anit 0air !ublishes an article b$nn (irschberg alleging that $ove had a habit during !regnanc; a stor !ic%ed u! b *&9 Cobain blastshis media tormentors )Kurt $oder is also a journalist.

Next page: !urdt's many moods, late 199



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-ate 199: '.ay#e I could s/uee0e my friends in'Cobain ta%es to calling himsel or, more s!eci/call his roc% !ersona, 'Kurdt' " with an added 'd' &he*an *oods galler he creates rom medical te6tboo%s o deormed bodies

Next page: isappointing my father, spring 1992



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Spring 1992: '3e's gonna #e a foot#all player((('5r not 7ter the birth o 0rances, Cobain starts to reect on his relationshi! with his ather on, romwhom he is estranged n the s!ring o 4


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Spring 1992: 'I parade you around proundly((('n 0ebruar, Cobain and $ove celebrate their /rst anniversar; a tem!estuous relationshi! which Cobaintries to ma%e sense o in his s%etch o a letter

Next page: 3o drugs consume you, spring 1994



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Spring 1994: 'It can gradually consume you((('Nirvana are a ew das into their /nal =uro!ean tour, when Cobain sits down in his *adrid hotel room toofer his most detailed account o the wor%ings o his drug habit

Spring 1994: 'I choose death'#oon aterwards, Cobain was rushed to hos!ital in Rome with a distraught Courtne $ove, having ta%enan a overdose o Roh!nol, leaving behind a suicide note '$i%e (amlet, have to choose between lie and

death choose death' (e is in a coma or 1> hours but he survives ?ee%s later, he tries again at homein #eattle (is dead bod is ound on 8 7!ril

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