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Christopher Sandford: Kurt Cobain Christopher Sandford: Kurt Cobain Christopher Sandford: Kurt Cobain

Here ​is the first biography to explore, with shocking detail, the drama that formed this troubled, tragic rock star. Neither an apology nor a condemnation, Kurt Cobain presents a vivid insider's view of the life and death of a man who galvanized a generation and gave birth to the „grunge” revolution with his band Nirvana. Sandford portrays the provocative, small-town rebel with the talent of John Lennon, and then shows him at work on concert stages in Seattle, New York, and London. Readers follow the struggles of Cobain's emotional life—his tumultuous relationships with family and his fellow band members, his drug addiction and sexual appetite, his stormy marriage to Courtney Love, and the birth of his daughter, who, as Cobain wrote in his suicide note, „reminds me too much of who I used to be.” During his research, Sandford has had access to Cobain's family, his colleagues, his former friends and lovers, and even author William S. Burroughs, whom Cobain considered to be his… (tovább)

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Da Capo, Boston, 2004
432 oldal · ISBN: 0786713690

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There is a Kurt Cobain today on every street corner in Seattle: a morose pale-skinned man dressed in a winter coat whatever the weather, hunched, mumbling, and raging against something. Cobain succeeded because, unlike theirs, his voice tapped the eternal themes of frustration, bewilderment and anger.

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He was fortunate to have been born at a time things were loosening up, and to have parents who allowed and even enjoyed rock music. Not that he would have ever admitted it. Being lucky was the last thing Kurt ever thought he was.

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…there was 'a kind of menace about him. When he gave you that blinkered look it was straight out of The Exorcist or one of those Satanic-worship films.' […] His narrow white face gave him the look of being angry, even when he wasn't; his eyes, according to his cousin, were 'cold and pale' and gave those on whom Cobain turned the uncomfortable feeling of being x-rayed.

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