Kurt Cobain
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Exterminator!...recorded a spoken word adaptation of "Wind Die. You Die. We Die", while Burroughs and Kurt Cobain recorded a musical version of one of the stories as The "Priest" They Called Him. Some of the stories were initially published elsewhere,... In this article: William S. Burroughs, Exterminator!, Evergreen Review, Village Voice, Esquire Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, Ali's Smile/Naked Scientology, Naked Lunch, and Kurt Cobain |
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VH1 News | April 08, 2009
Nirvana's Kurt Cobain: Still Missed, By Kurt Loder
...he wasn't an alt-rock snob. He loved everyone from David Bowie to Leadbelly. He said he'd come across Leadbelly's name in reading an interview with William Burroughs. (Burroughs, the Beat author and heroin laureate, was one of Kurt's idols,...
In this article: Nirvana, MTV, Shonen Knife, Leadbelly, Jelly bean, Ice cream, In the Pines, and Heroin
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Kurt Cobain
...Amps and Smashed Guitars, re-released in 2001. Cobain also contributed backing guitar for a spoken word recording of beat poet William S. Burroughs' entitled "the "Priest" they called him". Cobain regarded Burroughs as a hero, and among his...
In this article: Kurt Donald Cobain, Nirvana, Courtney Love, Heroin, Aberdeen, Nick Broomfield, Krist Novoselic, Tobi Vail, New Wave, and Suicide
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The Priest They Called Him
...William S. Burroughs and Kurt Cobain (Nirvana ). Cobain provides dissonant guitar backing based on "Silent Night " and "To Anacreon in Heaven" to Burroughs' deadpan short story reading. The track was originally released as a 10-inch EP on...
In this article: William S. Burroughs, Christmas Eve, Silent Night, Krist Novoselic, The "priest" They Called Him, and The Junky's Christmas
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Drug injection
...injecting, which can very well produce a transient psycho-somatic rush. Kurt Cobain, James Fogle, and William S. Burroughs amongst others have commented on this issue. The two most common implements used for injection are the eye or...
In this article: Opioid, Morphine, Heroin, Cocaine, Transmission, Codeine, Atropine, Amphetamine, Pentazocine, and Narcotic
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Found art
...ups", which was the random assembling of cut-up pre-existing text. This has also been employed by David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Ted Milton and Thom Yorke for lyric writing. Poets, too, create art out of non-literary writing, such as vocabulary...
In this article: Marcel Duchamp, Young British Artists, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Joseph Stella, Sarah Lucas, Jeff Koons, Christopher Hobbs, Man Ray, and Tate Gallery
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Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American musician who served as lead singer, guitarist, songwriter and frontman for the grunge band Nirvana.
With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nirvana's second album Nevermind (1991), Cobain with Nirvana entered into the mainstream, bringing along with them a subgenre of alternative rock called grunge. Other Seattle grunge bands such as Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden also gained popularity, and, as a result, alternative rock became a dominant genre on radio and music television in the United States during the early-to-middle 1990s. As Nirvana's frontman, Cobain found himself referred to in the media as the "spokesman of a generation", with Nirvana the "flagship band" of "Generation X". Cobain was uncomfortable with the attention and placed his focus on the band's music, believing the band's message and artistic vision to have been misinterpreted by the public, challenging the band's audience with its third studio album In Utero (1993).
During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with drug addiction and the media pressures surrounding him and his wife Courtney Love. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, the victim of what is officially ruled a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. In ensuing years, the circumstances of his death became a topic of fascination and debate.
- Name At Birth:
- Kurt Donald Cobain
- Also Known As:
- Kurdt Kobain
- Birth Date:
- February 20, 1967
- Birthplace:
- Aberdeen, Washington
- Place of Death:
- Seattle, Washington
- Occupation:
- Musician, Songwriter
- Instrument Played:
- Fender Mustang
- Fender Jagstang
- Vocals
- Guitar
- Fender Jaguar
- Record Label:
- Years Active:
- 1985–1994
- Associated With:
- Fecal Matter
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