Kurt Cobain
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Kurt Donald Cobain was the lead singer/songwriter of the band Nirvana,
until April 5 1994 when he committed suicide. Troubled by depression, chronic
stomach problems, and an addiction to heroin, his ailments in his personal
life showed through in his music. His music evolved from the hard "punk" sound
of their first album, to the intelligent "tell all" tales of his fourth and
final album In Utero. Through his music he changed an era of "lost souls", to
a generation with a vision of who they were. The songs he wrote and played
captured the attention of the world, but also brought him the fame and fortune
that led to his downfall. The pain and the hate of his life filled the lines,
tough hidden under his sarcasm. He couldn't take the voices in his head that
had plagued him all his life, that compiled with his dislike of the fame caused
him to end his own life. The life that gave him no joy.
The first time I heard Nirvana they changed my life. I was sitting in
class and one of my friends tapped into the P.A. system. He hooked it up to his
Walkman and started playing Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana's first single. I
was sitting in class day dreaming and suddenly I was pulled out of it by this
amazing sound. A few seconds later the principal shut off the song, but by
that time I was hooked. Later that day I went to the record store and bought
their second first and second album. I took them him and threw them into the CD
player and fell in love. Finally I could identify with music, the words that
poured from the speakers spoke my life. Until that moment I had no direction
and felt alienated from the rest of the kids my age. But Cobain's music touched
on what I was not able realize at my age, that...
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