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...Where the Streets Have No Name, Stay (Faraway, So Close) and Walk On from All That You Can't Leave Behind achieve the impossible--becoming meaningful to millions of people--precisely because they are beautifully vague. "Bono did something recently that he probably shouldn't have done," says drummer Larry Mullen Jr. "He did a book as a favor for a friend of his in Ireland that 'explained' all the lyrics. I think that was a mistake because one of the most valuable things about his lyrics is that you can adapt them to any particular situation...
...generation-defining single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," with verses crossed out and circled. Cobain obsessively lists his 50 favorite CDs during various periods, often naming albums by fellow Seattle band the Melvins. There are also letters - to bandmates, to lovers, even a note firing the band?s first drummer. Publishing sources describe the diaries as an intimate look at an artist who cherished his privacy. Says one, "I got a sense of him as a businessman, as a writer. His personality came through powerfully." Several passages reflect Cobain?s well-documented heroin addiction and bouts of depression (he committed suicide...
...TRAUDL JUNGE, 81, Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942-45, who took his last will and testament in a Berlin bunker two days before he committed suicide; in Munich. Junge died hours after a documentary on her life had premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. DIED. MICK TUCKER, 54, drummer with leading 1970s British glam-rock band The Sweet, which had a string of hits with songs such as Fox on the Run and Blockbuster, of leukemia; in Welwyn Garden City, England. DIED. JACK HENRY ABBOTT, 58, philosophical U.S. criminal whose unsettling letters to Norman Mailer about prison life were...
...Cobain's generation-defining single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," with verses crossed out and circled. Cobain obsessively lists his 50 favorite CDs during various periods, often naming albums by fellow Seattleites the Melvins. There are also letters - to bandmates, to lovers, even a note firing the band's first drummer...
Scott Shriner, the stand-in bassist, did an excellent job performing with the three veterans. Though his lines blended perfectly into the songs, his tight shirt and muscles didn’t quite fit with the geek look of the band. Drummer Patrick Wilson started playing the wrong song once, but shrugged it off easily. Rhythm guitarist Brian Bell played a tremendous set, while Rivers Cuomo effortlessly sang his part. His brilliant lyrics touched the crowd by evoking the universal experience of being un-cool...