Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain Trivia
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In May 2008, Kurt's ashes were stolen from Courtney Love's home.
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Kurt often said that Drain You was his favourite song to play live.
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Kurt had a long running feud with Guns N Roses lead singer Axl Rose.
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Ewan McGregor has been asked to play Kurt Cobain in a movie about his life, by Kurt's widow, Courtney Love. Courtney acquired the rights to Heavier Than Heaven - a biography about Kurt that was written by Charles Cross and has decided to make it into a movie.
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Cobain is a big fan of White Zombie's early works.
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The Kurt Cobain case was once featured on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
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Kurt never would have thought Smells Like Teen Spirit would instantly became the most recognizable song and most demanded.
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Cobain formed and reformed a series of bands before Nirvana came to be in 1986.
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Cobain got beat up by jocks for spray painting QUEER on their pick-up trucks.
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Cobain's passionate and intense vocals especially on "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" silenced many of their who had labeled Cobain talentless.
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August, 1992. Cobain had hospital treatment for heroin abuse.
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In 2005. As a tribute, the Aberdeen,WA sign now reads "Welcome to Aberdeen, Come as you are." An effort to memorialize Kurt in his hometown.
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Kurt had a fascination with the human anatomy and fetuses.
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Cobain took interest in sports and most academics as a kid.
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The British magazine Uncut ran a unpublished interview with Kurt, who said that he had considered quitting Nirvana and joining Courtney Love's band, Hole . He stated that he had a stronger musical affinity.
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Kurt has a half-brother named Chad Cobain.
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His suicide note addressed to his wife and child, ended with the words I love you, I love you.
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Cobain had a love for guns. He always had several of them in his possession or in various forms of confiscation.
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Courtney Love and Kurt welcomed their child, Frances Bean Cobain, in early 1993.
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Kurt married his pregnant girlfriend, Courtney Love, on Hawaii in 1992.
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Kurt fell into heroin in the early 90's.
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Cobain was the guitarist/vocalists/song writer of Nirvana.
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He's got a half-sister named Brianne O'Conner.
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R.E.M.'s 1994 song "Let Me In" is about him.
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He had a daughter to Courtney Love named Francis Bean Cobain. Bean was his and Courtney Love's nickname for the baby on the Ultra-sound.
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Wrote more then 100 songs for his group, Nirvana, that are still unrealeased to the public.
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He had disbanded Nirvana and was in the process of divorcing Courtney Love at the time of his death.
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His favorite movie was Over the Edge.
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Kurt usually wrote left-handed (for he was a lefty), but in time he learned how to write right-handed as well.
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Kurt was of Irish, English, German, and French ancestry.
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Kurt always wore black converse.
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Two days after Kurt's body was discovered people gathered in Seattle, people began setting fires, chanting profanities, and fighting with police officers
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His height is 5'7.
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Kurt Cobain's Suicide was voted #1 on NME.com's Top 100 Rock Moments of All Time.
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Kurt was voted the 13th greatest pop culture icon of all time in a UK poll.
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
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I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
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Kurt: We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
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Kurt: I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
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Kurt: I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
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Kurt: (After his daughter was born.) I can't believe how much happier I am. At times I even forget that I'm in a band, I'm so blinded by love. I know that sounds embarrassing, but it's true. I could give up the band right now. It doesn't matter, but I'm under contract.
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Kurt: (Told a friend in school this at one time.) I'm going to be a super star musician, kill myself and go out in a flame of glory.
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Kurt: I remember feeling ashamed all the time. I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family.
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Kurt: (From his suicide note) Since the age of seven, I've become hateful towards all humans in general.
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(Kurt speaks about Axl Rose) Kurt: His role has been played for years. Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me. Why it's such a fresh and new thing in his eyes is obviously because it's happening to him personally and he's such an egotistical person that he thinks that the whole world owes him something.
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Kurt Cobain: I'm not a death rocker, and I don't wear black.
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Kurt Cobain: If any of you don't like gays or women or blacks, please leave us alone.
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Kurt Cobain: (To "Weird Al" Yankovic, when asked for permission to do a parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit") It isn't going to be about food, is it?
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Kurt Cobain: (On his encounter with Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder.) I stared into his eyes and told him that I thought he was a respectable human. I did tell him straight out that I think his band still sucks.
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Kurt Cobain: I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
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Kurt Cobain: Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
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