New photos from Kurt Cobain's suicide scene posted 19 years later
It was 19 years ago today that Kurt Cobain killed himself.
New photos from Kurt Cobain's suicide scene posted 19 years later
It was 19 years ago today that Kurt Cobain killed himself (though many people insist that he was murdered). The body of the Nirvana frontman was discovered three days later, on April 8, 1994, by an electrician. Today, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has posted previously unpublished photographs from the scene of Cobain's suicide.
A few of their frames were published after Cobain's death in 1994. But most of them have sat in the same negative sleeves they were placed in the day they were taken.
The negatives now reside at the Museum of History and Industry, which has preserved millions of P-I negatives after three donations: One in 1976, another in 1986 and a third in 2000. With the help of photo curator Howard Giske, we scanned the images that Urban, Webber and other unidentified P-I photographers took at Cobain's home in 1994 and at the memorial on April 10 of that year at Seattle Center. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
Rolling Stone also tweeted a link to its last interview with Cobain, published on January 27, 1994. But, if you're interested into delving into some serious Cobain material, you should read Chuck Klosterman's essay "Oh, the Guilt," which examines Cobain, Nirvana, and the band's album, In Utero, while analyzing their similarities to David Koresh, the Branch Dividians, and the Waco massacre. Originally published in the 2009 book, Eating the Dinosaur, the essay is $0.99 as a Google eBook.
Also, I'll be listening to Nirvana the rest of the day. In case anyone else is interested...
This poor guy was murdered. I agree with "CiceroSpuriousDeodatusTheSecond". Nirvana was a good band, but VERY over rated. Dave Grohl's "Foo Fighters" are a much, much better band.
— twobostoo- The Tonner wouldn't go out of his way to listen to any Nirvana tunes. In the Tonner's opinion, none of the music from 90's has much staying power.— hunglikeaton
- Layne Staley too.— Santa Satan
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I hope that if he had lived maybe he would have taken a shower, wash his head and changed his drawers at some point. Guess we'll never know?— MS. LOU..jpg)
Many ex-grunge generation people in here get highly insulted whenever you say anything bad about their idols of yesteryear. They are the people who come in the salon at 35 still wearing nasty dreadlocks and nose rings. A lot of them have these tattoos of barbed wire and tribal stuff that no one gets anymore. Probably heavy pot smokers. Those older people treasure their artists from like 25 years ago. I wouldn't dare dis Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots or Pearl Jam. That's before my time but their old fans go berserk over that stuff. It's so strange. Like the way some people cry over Michael Jackson.- either you understand the evolution of pop music and its innovative artists or you do not. not really that strange. and Alice and Chains and Stone Temple Pilots could carry Nirvana's (or Pearl Jam's, for that matter) water.
- I saw Nirvana in concert. Alice IN Chains. happy? bunch of junkies with one maybe two passable songs.
- Maybe not ... now that I see you don't know who Alice In Chains is because you didn't spell the group's name correctly. You must be someone who rides a skateboard and thinks they know about this stuff their dad liked. It's all good though.
