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When the world found out about the shocking suicide death of Kurt Cobain, it sent ripples through the music industry. In an instant, his wife Courtney Love became a widow and left the couple's nearly two-year-old daughter fatherless.
Kurt found success with Nirvana, which compromised of drummer Dave Ghrol (founder of The Foo Fighters.) and Krist Novoselic in the late 1980s. Thanks to the birth of music channel MTV, the bands music videos helped popularize the channel due to heavy air rotation and brought the band major success. Cobain's death not only halted his star rising, but brought an end to Nirvana. This year, Nirvana will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The way I see it, he struggled to come to grips with this sudden interest in his life. His heroin addiction also aggravated the situation, and his love life was thrown into the mix when he married Courtney Love.
Rolling Stone magazine contacted a couple of musicians in Cobain's memory. His widow, Courtney, former bandmates Novoselic and Ghrol, Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, rock 'n' roll legend Iggy Pop and Weezers' frontman Rivers Cuomo and various others gave an account on how Cobain impacted their personal lives, careers and music as a whole. One thing is undeniable though that Nirvana changed the social scene and out the grunge scene on the map. Head here to read about those heart-warming comments, head here.
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