2. He grew up in a mid-class society.

3. As a child, he was very hyperactive, and was prescribed to a morphine based drug to help him concentrate in school. These drugs affected him later in life.

4. The drug often kept him awake at night, so he was then prescribed on a sedative.

5. Kurt's childhood was very good until his parents got divorced when he was seven years old. He often referred to it as an 'emotional holocaust'.

6. Don Cobain (Kurt's father) changed his job to work in the timber industry, and this is when the problems started.

7. Kurt's parents' divorce was tough for Kurt and made him very shy.

8. Kurt moved back and forth between his parents.

9. His parents' divorce was the single most important event in his life that shaped his personality.

10. Both of his parents remarried. His mothers' new husband, Frank Franich, was hated very much by Kurt. His fathers' new wife, Jenny Westby, was liked by Kurt at first, but then his jealously took over and made him start to dislike her.

11. Kurt loved art, even as a child. He was constantly drawing. His grandmother,

25. After Peter's leaves, Dave Grohl, former drummer of Scream, a Washington D.C. band, joins Nirvana.

30. Nirvana released 'Incesticide' in December of 1992. The C.D. was just a collection of B-sides and rarities.

12. Kurt purchased his first guitar on his fourteenth birthday.

40. 7 days after checking out of the rehab center, Kurt Cobain's body was found in the greenhouse above his garage in his Lake Washington home, with a single gun shot wound to his head. He was discovered by the technician who had come over to install a security system in the home.

16. Kurt made Krist in 1985. They formed several others bands before forming Nirvana.

17. During the first few months of 1986, Kurt, Krist, and a neighborhood drummer named Aaron Burckhard, practiced almost every night.

34. All through his teenage years, Kurt used drugs. He was always enjoyed getting high. He used to smoke marijuana and take acid very often.

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