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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...
...Cobain almost did join rock's long list of dreadful mistakes in early March when he unwittingly mixed prescription tranquilizers with some celebratory champagne. After Cobain awoke form his coma, his doctor confirmed that the musician "came close to death." Yet, what would his death have meant as a drug-induced fatality? A suicide? An accident? More likely, with Cobain's ambiguous lyrics, a mystery...
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...
Music: Grunge poet Kurt Cobain takes his life...
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...