Cobain's journals:
The Observer is doing a three week piece on Kurt Cobain’s diary of sorts. The article features numerous hand-written journal entries covering everything from his first drum set, to rants about MTV and the music industry.
Growing up, I never knew who Nirvana were until quite some time after Kurt’s death. It wasn’t until a day in May 1995, when I had some spare cash, and wanted a new tape for my walkman, that I picked up MTV Unplugged in New York. At first it was tracks and renditions like ‘Come as you are’, ‘Oh me’, ‘Plateau’, and ‘Lake of fire’, that astonished me… Later, I enjoyed songs like ‘Lithium’, ‘Something in the way’, ‘About a girl’, ‘All apologies’, and ‘Smells like teen spirit’ too… how had I missed out on all this?
