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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like most young Americans, Nirvana's leader, Kurt Cobain, sensed the attraction of living out the fantastic myths of his punk heroes. He decoded his simple mission in the booklet for the 1992 compilations album Incesticide. "To pay tribute like an Elvis or Jimi Hendrix impersonator in the tradition of a bar band." Yet, both Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix were rock gods who succumbed early to tragic drug overdoses. So wouldn't chance departure form this life be a pathetic cliche...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Verse Chorus Verse | 4/20/1994 | See Source »

Last year a journalist visited a home he and Love were renting before they moved into the house in which Cobain would end his life. He had decorated one of the walls with this graffito: NONE OF YOU WILL EVER KNOW MY INTENTIONS. It could serve as his credo as well as his epitaph. "Guess we won't be getting the deposit back on the house," he joked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Never Mind | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...youthful fury captured by the Sex Pistols, before they too self-destructed, and by the Who, before Pete Townshend survived to purvey nostalgia to Broadway theatergoers. Youthful nihilism may not be new, but no artist invents all his materials; it's what he does with them that counts, and Cobain wrote great rock songs as he explored a familiar theme with genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Never Mind | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Music: Grunge poet Kurt Cobain takes his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Contents Page April 18, 1994 Vol. 143 No. 16 | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Collins, who oversaw this week's story on Kurt Cobain's suicide, has been especially fascinated by mainstream media's warm embrace of alternative culture. "In some ways, the story of Kurt Cobain reflects the amazing workings of the music industry, in which the songs of a brilliant, provincial musician are suddenly made available to millions," he says. "Inevitably, though, that process changes the work an artist produces, and in Cobain's case, it contributed to his destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Apr. 18, 1994 | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

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