Posted on 04/09/2009 12:33:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
The park bench facing Lake Washington is covered with flowers, poems, a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes and graffiti...
Fifteen years ago Wednesday, at a house adjacent to the park, Kurt Cobain's dead body was discovered by an electrician.
The Nirvana frontman, 27, had committed suicide, police later ruled, killing himself with a shotgun while high on heroin and pills...
Nirvana band mates Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl eventually formed other bands. Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, stayed in the limelight with an acting career and legal problems surrounding her own drug problems...
But Nirvana's music endured, and Cobain even found fans in his hometown of Aberdeen, which he had derided as a small-minded town.
"The old-timers who were there when Kurt was around really took offense to some of the things he said about the area, so they had no real reason to honor him," said Burlingame, who co-founded the Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee.
A famous son is a famous son, though. Now, visitors arriving in Aberdeen are greeted with a sign that reads "Come As You Are," after a famous Nirvana song.
Cobain Memorial Committee members, who include Cobain's paternal grandfather, hope to establish a community center in the late rocker's honor that would give area youth a place to play music and pursue artistic interests...
When Cobain died, he left behind a fortune that was estimated in the millions...
According to Holmes, Love recently discovered that "managers, assistants, CPAs, lawyers, people like that who were supposed to be entrusted with carrying for their well-being and finances basically looted the estate."
Forensic accountants are now trying to determine where tens of millions of dollars from Cobain's estate ended up and how it could be recovered, Holmes said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Who? Oh yeah...remembered...moving on.
/johnny
Never liked his stuff - too angry, harsh.
Have they looked up Courtney's nose?
His choice...
True, but his music was outstanding. If anything, we lost some more great music when he passed away.
Tiny Tim is still remembered nearly 13 years after HIS death...
Courtney cancelled Kurt’s credit card. Which was being used by someone after he was dead but before his body had been located.
Money has always walked off in that household.
Shooting star......
I was blown away the first time I heard “Smells Like Teen Spirit” but I thought their music got old very fast. All the songs sounded the same, I could only handle his singing in small doses. It’s a shame the guy killed himself, not least because it left his daughter in the care of that whacked-out skank wife of his, but I’ve never understood the Cobain-worship some people engage in.
}:-)4
Kurt who?
I'm with ya' on that one.
At least you didn’t glance at it and think it said something about Kurt Cobain remaining dead 15 years after his death. I had to reread the title more slowly.
I still remember exactly where I was when I heard.
(At the Toyota dealership getting my MR-2 serviced)
But we gained the Foo Fighters!
I see who they can get to fill in as the Joker in the next Batman remake.
She’d sent some kind of psycho audition tape to MTV long before she was a singer. She wanted to be famous.
Celebrity has killed the music industry. The artists are more known for what goes on behind the scenes or when they appear on talk shows/”Remember the 1980s” specials than for any song or album they’ve ever put out.
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