1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart last week. 12 release of the Universal Music Group best-of, “Nirvana.” The set is highlighted by the previously unreleased track “You Know You’re Right,” which rocketed to No. He ends the letter by writing, “Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend,” in a nod to the Who’s “My Generation.” Cobain’s suicide note included the line “it’s better to burn out than to fade away,” from Neil Young’s “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black).”Īs previously reported, Cobain’s widow Courtney Love recently settled long-standing legal issues with surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, paving the way for the Nov. But I’m sorry friends Ill have to decline.” Its an entertaining thought to watch a rock figure whos public domain mentally self destruct. Within two years, the band became a fixture of the burgeoning Seattle grunge scene. Cobain formed Nirvana in 1987 with Krist Novoselic. “‘Don’t freak out, and get healthy.’ Gee I wish it was as easy as that but, honestly I didn’t want all this attention but Im not freaked out which is something a lot of people would like to see. Kurt Donald Cobain, was an American musician who served as lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Seattle-based rock band Nirvana. You write great songs, but hey man you should get your personal s*** together,'” he wrote. “I’m really bored with everyones concerned advice like: ‘man you have a really good thing going. The letter also reflects Cobain’s love/hate relationship with his celebrity status, which had reached its zenith by mid-1992.
It was a stupid thing to do and Ill never do it again and I feel real sorry for anyone who thinks they can use heroine as a medicine because um, duh, it don’t work.”Ĭobain was never able to permanently wean himself off heroin large doses of the drug were found in his system following his April 1994 suicide. “It served as a band-aid for a while but then the pain came back so I quit. “So after protein drinks, becoming a vegetarian, exercise, stopping smoking, and doctor after doctor I decided to relieve my pain with small doses of heroine for a walloping 3 whole weeks,” he wrote.
In the 1992 letter, written in the aftermath of a stint in drug rehab (and excerpted here with typographical errors intact), Cobain described the “uncomfortable stomach condition” that had been plaguing him for years and how doctors were unable to pinpoint its cause. 4 by Riverhead Books as “Journals.” Excerpts from the volume, which reproduces more than 270 pages from Cobain’s notebooks, appear in this week’s Newsweek. A letter Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain wrote to his fans about his addiction to heroin is among the never-before-seen diary entries to be published Nov.
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