The Independent revisits the life of a notable figure. This week: Kurt Cobain, musician, from Monday 11 April 1994
As befitted children of their mass-media era, it was not only an underground, snowballing word-of-mouth buzz but also the ceaseless support of the cable and satellite television channel MTV that led to Nirvana’s second album,It is ironic, considering his fondness for the kind of narcotics that regularly bring death to their users, that Cobain, fronting Nirvana, was able to kickstart the decomposing corpse of white rock music with a unifying energy that was edifying and elevating.
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