Kurt Donald Cobain

Tuesday 13 December 2011

''The worst crime is faking it.''
Kurt Cobain

''A friend is nothing but a known enemy.''
Kurt Cobain

For the people who don't know Kurt Cobain...

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 - April 5, 1994) was an american singer, songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana. Cobain formed Nirvana with Krist Novoselic (bass) and Dave Grohl (drum) in Aberdeen, Washington in 1985 and established it as a part of the Seattle music scene. The band found breakthrough sucess with ''Smells Like Teens Spirit'' from its second album ''Nevermind''.

Death

Cobain was spotted in the Seattle area with a shotgun. Days later on the 5th of April he killed himself into the grammy flat behind his mansion, put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Cobain's body was found when an electrician visiting the house to install a security system. He asked, but no one answered, so he checked the window. He thought he saw a mannequin sprawled on the floor until he noticed a splotch of blood by Cobain's ear. When police broke down the door they found Cobain dead on the floor, a shotgun still pointed at his chin and on a nearby counter a suicide note written in red ink addressed to Courtney Love, him wife and the couples then 19 months old daughter Frances Bean Cobain.

The suicide note ended with the words ''I love you, I love you''. Two days after Kurt Cobain's body was found about 5.000 people gathered in Seattle for a candlelight vigil. The distraught crowd filled the air with profane chants, burnt their flannel shirts and fought with police. They also listened to a tape made by Cobain's wife in which she read from his suicide note. Several distressed teenagers in the U.S. and Australia killed themselves.

                                                         

      We'll Always Remember...

Diogo Falcão