Kurt Cobain Story Essay Research Paper Kurt

Kurt Cobain Story Essay, Research Paper

Kurt Donald Cobain was born in Aberdeen, Washington ( about 60 miles southwest of

Seattle). He grew up in a mid-class society and was hyperactive as child, so his doctor put

him on Ritalin ( a morphine based drug to help him concentrate in school). The drug often

kept him up until 4am. So he was given sedatives to get to sleep. Kurt had a happy

childhood, until his parents got divorced when he was seven. It was an ordinary divorce,

but Kurt got very upset about it. He said he never felt loved or secure again. He became

shy and very difficult to cope with. For years after the divorce he moved back and forth

with his parents. In the end his parents wanted nothing to do with him, so he moved in

with some relatives at this time. Kurt didn.t like school, he felt lost and lonely. He liked

to paint and sing, but the other boy.s were more into .football and stuff like that. he put

it. Most of the girls liked Kurt and he spent much of his time with them. The boys

wanted to hang out with him to get closer to the girls, but Kurt hated the guts of those

.macho boys.. Until Kurt was nine years-old he only listened to The Beatles and The

Monkees, but in -79 his father joined a record-club and started listening to band like Led

Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and KISS. He also stared listening to British alternative rock

like Sex Pistols and The Clash. On February 2, 1981 Kurt bought his first guitar on his

14th birthday. In the years to follow he tried to develop his own style of music, and

started to hang out in the Seattle underground, where he was a roadie for a band called the

Melvins. In school Kurt.s attitude didn.t win him many friends, he often got beatings from

.jocks., Kurt got even by spraypainting .QUEER. on their trucks. In May 1985 a few

weeks before graduation Kurt dropped out of high-school to work. He had a few jobs,

but never any success. He never held onto a job for that long. For Kurt Amberdeen was

dead and moved on to Olympia. He formed and reformed a series of bands before

Nirvana came to be in 1986 of Kurt Cobain and Krist Novaselic. Kurt played the guitar

and sang while Krist played the bass-guitar. They went through many drummers, two

while recording their first record Bleach. This album only cost $606.17, and has since

then gone platinum. They later started to tour the US and later the same year had their

first European concert in Newcastle, England. The following year they released a single

without much success. By now Nirvana thought that they had got an unfair advantage in

the industry, they decided to change record companies form Sub-Pop records to Geffen

records. It was at this time they finally had a drummer that would stay, Dave Grohl. On

September 24th the same year Nevermind was released and debuts as number 144 on the

Billboard lists, but after an interview on MTV.s Headbanger.s Ball and an appearance on

NBC.s Saturday Night Live the album went straight to the top spot with their hit song

.Smells like teen spirit.. Kurt had never expected the band to be so popular and didn.t

even like the idea of being a mainstream rocker. He had hated the commercial part of

Nirvana and had several times encouraged the audience to stop buying their records and

stop coming to their concerts. Kurt thought most fans were false fans and only liked their

hit single .Smells like teen spirit.. During this time Kurt stared using heroin, he said he

used it as a shield from the rigorous demands of touring and to stop the pain of stomach

ulcers. Cobain was distressed to find out that what he wrote and how it was being

interpreted could quite often be miles apart. He was appalled when he found out that

.Polly. , a heavily ironic anti-rape song, had been used as background music in a real

gang-rape. He later appealed to fans on the Incesticide liner notes .If any of you don.t

like gays or women or blacks, please leave us the f*** alone.. Kurt found that as an

overnight musician control was something he had very little of. He also worried that his

band had sold-out, that it was attracting the wrong type of fans (i.e. the type that used to

beat him up.) On January 24, 1992, Kurt got married to former stripper Courtney Love in

Wakiki, Hawaii. She is now known for her band Hole. Six months after their marriage

Courtney gave birth to their child, Frances Bean. In the press there were allegations that

while pregnant Courtney was using heroin, Courtney denied this. In the beginning of 1993

they record what was to be their last studio album, In Utero. This album was recorded in

two weeks, but wasn.t released for another six months, due to the work-title .I Hate

Myself And I Want To Die.. This title reflects the fact of Kurt being suicidal. When on a

seminar in July -93 he overdosed on heroin. Courtney injected him with an illegal drug to

save him. Later that day he went onstage and played a concert, no one noticed anything.

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