Kurt Cobain-Murder or Suicide?

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Kurt Cobain-Murder or Suicide?

        On the morning of April 8,1994 at 9:37am, the phone rang in the studio of Seattle’s KXRX radio. The DJ, Marty Reimer, picked up the phone and was greeted by the words, “You’re going to owe me some pretty good Pink Floyd tickets for this one.”

It was the dispatcher for a local security firm with the information that an employee, Gary Smith, had just had a glimpse of the body of Kurt Cobain sprawled out on the floor in a room at his Lake Washington estate.

The dispatcher phoned the radio station before notifying the police and within an hour the world heard the devastating news. The voice of a generation was dead.

For millions April 8,1994 became a day as important as November 22,1963, August 16,1977 and December 8,1980- the days that JFK, Elvis and John Lennon died.

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20,1967 to Donald Cobain and Wendy Fradenburg, in the dreary town of Hoquaim. His mother was a cocktail waitress and his father an auto mechanic. The family soon moved to the nearby depressed and dying logging town of Aberdeen. Kurt lived there with his parents and younger sister, Kim.

His aunt introduced him to music at a young age. At the age of seven Kurt’s life took a drastic turn. His parents divorced and he was forced to look at the world in a different light.

As the home situation got worse, Kurt was ferried between houses staying with different family and friends. He even spent a night sleeping under a bridge. Kurt had, by this time, become very alienated from other people and life; he was very detached and emotionally inward he had few friends at school as people thought he was either weird or gay.

Kurt knew that Punk rock was going to be his escape. A way out of the life he hated with despair. By the time Kurt was fifteen he had already learned to play the guitar so forming a band with the help of his close friend Krist Novoselic was a natural progression.

Nirvana was born.

Kurt’s band Nirvana began to reach a local audience and as it’s cult following grew across America and the world Kurt started to feel more and more isolated. He very rarely got to spend time with the people who had come to mean so much to him as he grew up through those troubled early years.

Kurt hated the fame. He was a humble person and felt that the lifestyle he was being forced to lead went against everything he believed in and stood for.

Kurt spent most of his life in depression, with the exception of a few years in the early 90’s. This was reflected in his music.

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Al the touring and pressure got to Kurt in the end and he became ill. His mother had suffered from stomach pains in her early twenties and Kurt began to suffer from the same illness. He was sick of feeling ill all the time and took the only thing that would stop the pain. Kurt fell victim to heroin.

Then Kurt met Courtney. Courtney Love became a huge part of Kurt’s life in a relatively short space of time. Kurt’s life took a sudden extreme change.

They got a place together, got married and had a child, Frances ...

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