Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Hoquiam, Settle. His mother was a cocktail waitress and father auto mechanic. Cobain’s parent’s divorced when he was seven; he sought refuge from his shattered family life by diving into music and visual arts. “Cobain was also growing enchanted with rock music as a forum, for the anger that was welling within him” (Student resources pg2). Kurt dropped out of high school to pursue music, a decision that resulted in being kicked out of his mother’s house, he then bounced from home to home, crashing on friends couches and even sleeping under bridges.

In the past he was a religious Sex Pistols listener and after their self-destruction he continued to listen to British bands like

“Cobain’s body was found when an electrician visiting the house to install a security system was walking around outside when no one answered the front door and peered through windows. He thought he saw a mannequin sprawled on the floor until he noticed a splotch of blood by Cobain’s ear. When police arrived on the scene they found Cobain with a shotgun still pointed at his chin and on a nearby counter a suicide note written in red ink addressed to Love.”(Heavier than Heaven pg 6) Cobain’s death wasn’t all that easy though, scandal of did he kill himself or was he killed, filled the press. Some say that there was three times the legal dose of heroin in his body and that there would be no way he could do it, but the cops ruled in favor of suicide and dropped the investigation. Leaving millions of fans wondering and waiting for answers, in the mean time his sells multiplied and records were going fast.

The enormity of Nevermind spawned the kind of Cultural Revolution unseen in the world of rock since the Beatles. They became the first band to capture the attention of those firmly outside the isolated, somewhat separatist world of rock-n-roll. Cobain was an outspoken advocate for the rights of women and homosexuals, that’s why it came as no surprise when people found that Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love had got married in 1992. Courtney was the outspoken leader of the feminist punk-rock band Hole, and was pregnant with Cobain’s baby. Frances Bean Cobain, born August 18, 1992 who was named after Carolyn Chute’s no

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