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Kurt alert: Courtney signalled 'end of era' for Nirvana
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Nirvana’s former manager has pinpointed Courtney Love’s arrival in Kurt Cobain’s life as the moment the band changed forever.
In new book Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business Danny Goldberg says that “Courtney's very presence was a metaphor for the end of one era in the band's life and the beginning of another,” going on to describe her as Cobain’s “mouthpiece”.
After initially being “charmed by Courtney's self-effacing affect” he talks about how she had “numerous personae she could call up at will, and this would be the last time I would ever see Courtney as an underdog.
“The weekend in January 1992 that Nirvana did 'Saturday Night Live' for the first time was a turning point that put into focus the heroin problem that was to haunt Kurt for the rest of his life.
“Courtney called me at home the morning the show aired,” Goldberg continues in the excerpt, reproduced at Spinner.com, “and asked me to get Kurt $5,000 in cash so they could do some ‘shopping’.
“I felt pretty uncomfortable as I delivered the package of $100 bills to her at the hotel. Abruptly, the dark cloud of drug excess had entered the band's life. I was confronted by the baroque facade of lies and the awful glassy-eyed deadness that regular heroin use provides.”
Cobain and Love went on to marry in Wakiki the next month, the former dying just over two years later.
Goldberg, pictured above in place of the usual 'look at Courtney with her minge out' photograph, will release his book later this month.
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the release of Nevermind anyone?
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Is that Courtney showing her anger at this artice in the Fosters ad?
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Courtney Love
she's evil i tells ya, evil
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wow
another "sex drugs and rock'n'roll" book
like we needed to know where those $5000 went
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gosh, poor guy
I can't believe they made feel him so pretty uncomfortable as, with full and knowing consent, he gave them money to buy drugs.
Monsters.
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indeed ^
:D
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Is that just Freddie Ljungberg wearing Henrik Larsson's hair in that photo?
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lol
:D
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i thought the photo was
a photoshop of what the author thought Kurt would look like now if still alive.
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i mean come on
who the hell is left to tell this sodding story AGAIN. WE'VE HEARD IT! and what's more is we've already heard it in detail from the only people who matter in the story;kurt, courtney, dave grohl and krist. who's next??! the bloke who used to drive the van?
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Does anyone actually give a toss?
Nirvana were a very popular band. They achieved cult status because he killed himself.
The end.
Its not as if they were some sort of world-changing force, and their break-up saw the end of a period of brilliance and universal joy... like, say, The Beatles, perhaps.
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^ so did I
thats amusing.
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they were always gonan be remembered
whether he's killed himself or not
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they were great, man, come on
but i agree with the beatles comment.
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I KILLED KURT COBAIN!
I PLIED HIM WITH DRUGS AND SHOT HIM!!!!
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well duh, how insightful of Mr. Goldberg
She is femme fatale a walking disaster area.
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what could this mean.
"i thought the photo was
a photoshop of what the author thought Kurt would look like now if still alive."
You may have been joking. I actually did think this.
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