![]() On the plane back to Seattle, he met Guns N 'Roses bassist, Duff McKagan, in the seat next to him. ![]() Days after he voluntarily entered at the Exodus Recovery Center in Los Angeles where he would escape on April 1. But in Rome, he had to be taken to the hospital after overdosing on champagne and Rohypnol. They finished that concert with Heart Shaped Box, which ended up being the last song Nirvana ever played live.Īt that moment, exhausted because of the European Tour, Kurt was suffering from bronchitis and Nirvana canceled the rest of their European dates and Cobain flew to Rome to recuperate. Only 3 years after touching the sky, on March 1st, 1994 Nirvana played their last ever gig at Terminal 1 in Munich (Germany). The song that captured the disappointment and existential frustrations of a large part of a generation of lost teenagers and would end up becoming an absolute reference of the Grunge phenomenon in the 90s. Perhaps that is where all the anger with which Kurt sang Smells Like Teen Spirit came from. ![]() Addicted to heroin, depressive and with severe chronic stomach pains, there were many times when Kurt tried to take his own life before finally getting it in 1994. Used to consume Methylphenidate from an early age (same classification as substances such as cocaine, morphine and amphetamine) to mitigate a diagnosed hyperactivity and attention deficit, Kurt was a fragile and hypochondriac person who grew up with constant fear of rejection and being humiliated. at least until he found out that Teen Spirit was a trademark. One day, Kathleen Hanna (singer of Bikini Kill and girlfriend of Dave Grohl) Vail's friend painted with spray on a wall: "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit" trying to remind her that she smelled like a woman. The irony of Smells Like Teen Spirit is that in the 90s Teen Spirit was the name of a female deodorant that Kurt often borrowed from his then girlfriend Tobi Vail (drummer from the punk band Bikini Kill). Humble and always attentive with his fans, he never forgot his humble origins and he barely showed up in Hollywood-style parties. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was released as the first single from the album Nevermind on September 10th, 1991, catapulting Nirvana to the most absolute global stardom and submerging Kurt Cobain in a spiral of pain and self-destruction.Ĭobain could not stand fame and having become a mass idol.
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