Who Killed Kurt Cobain?
This book was one that I was very interested in reading and it kept my interest throughout the entire thing. I was mostly interested because I am a fan of Kurt Cobain's music and I didn't know the story of his life and his death. I, like most people was under the assumption that Kurt Cobain's death was an open and shut case of suicide as it was reported. But this book explores different options and tells the story from some different people's views. I found these views to be very eye opening. Not only was it interesting but it is also a highly controversial book. Many people did not want this book to be published because it reveals things about people that are less than glamorous. The book starts out by sharing the background of Kurt Cobain and his future wife Courtney Love. Kurt did not have a happy childhood. He didn't have a steady family life as he bounced around between different relatives and friends, and even slept under a local bridge some nights. "Cobain was for most his childhood a sickly bronchitic child. Matters were made worse when Cobain's parent's divorced when he was seven and by his own account Cobain said he never fe
"Nirvana made a large impact on the concept popular music, wiping out the teen bop sound of the 1980s and bringing underground music to the mainstream. The sound of Nirvana was fresh and original and it came along right when the times were in need of change. "...Remember, it's better to burn out than fade away," Kurt stated in his suicide letter, but it seems unlikely that he or his music will do either anytime soon" (178). Because of the drugs and many other factors Kurt became very depressed. There is even a report of an attempted suicide by Kurt in Rome. That is why when he did die, so many people were willing to believe it was suicide. He was found dead in a greenhouse above his garage with three times the lethal dose of heroin in his blood and he had been shot in the head with a shotgun that was lying beside him. With him was also a note, it was believed to be his suicide not, while others think that he was just trying to retire from the music industry. This next quote from the book describes some of the events surrounding his death. Despite the drug use Kurt continued to become one of the biggest Rock stars in the world. He made millions of dollars. But Kurt wasn't exactly happy with his newfound fame. He didn't want he loyal fans to feel like he sold out. This shows just how much Kurt's music meant to some people. The believers in the murder theory of Kurt think that they owe it to the families of the kids who died following him, to find the real killers. One of the believers in the murder theory is Tom Grant, a private investigator hired by Courtney to find Kurt a few days before his body was found. He thinks that Courtney only hired him as a cover up, to make people believe she really didn't know where he was. This is the reasoning behind his beliefs. The authors go on to explain their theory of a possible murder by examining the fact that Kurt had three times the fatal amount of heroin in his blood.
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Approximate Word count = 1424
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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