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"Out of all of the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favourite": The story of Kurt Cobain's Mustangs in Nirvana

From the record-breaking Competition Stripe to the In Utero Sky-Stangs and new Orang-Stang revelations

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"I actually became a Nirvana fan when I was no longer in the band": Drummer Chad Channing remembers Kurt Cobain and his 1990 Smart Studios sessions with the band that shaped Nevermind

Channing's drums appear on one song on the final Nevermind album – "It was the one song that I guess Kurt said, ‘No, I definitely do not want to redo this,"

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'As time has taught us, there was a lot more to Kurt Cobain’s guitar playing than the slacker attitude he’d like us to have believed': 5 Nirvana songs that celebrate Nirvana's legacy

'He was a phenomenal rhythm player, clearly had some lead playing ability, and also experimented sonically – with fascinating results'

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Nirvana’s 10 best songs ranked: from Smells Like Teen Spirit, to Lithium

As Kurt Cobain’s legacy is explored in a new documentary, 30 years on from his death, here’s a look back at Nirvana’s greatest musical moments

Evening Standard

"I was just shut down. I remember trying to make myself cry and I couldn’t": Dave Grohl on the final days of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

"A lot of s**t went down that nobody knows about..."

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Kurt Cobain's Enduring Style Legacy Continues To Influence Fashion Trends

Explore Kurt Cobain's lasting impact on fashion and society through his rebellious and authentic style.

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"I had a real sense that he was lonely and alone. I felt the same way": On April 1, 1994 two world-famous rock stars were seated together on Delta Airlines flight 788 from Los Angeles to Seattle. It would be the last flight one of them would ever take

On Good Friday, 1994, two musicians caught a flight home to Seattle. One of them would be found dead at home one week later

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The angst, the sensitivity… and the songs: how gen Z got hooked on Nirvana

For a new generation of musicians, the grunge band and their frontman Kurt Cobain have provided a blueprint for a more inclusive style of stardom

The Guardian - UK

"We made a living off being stupid. I don't know if there's a legacy to be taken from that": there will never, ever be another band like the Butthole Surfers. And maybe that's for the best

The myths, madness, magic and mayhem of Butthole Surfers, the world's most dangerous, lucky-to-be-alive art-rock weirdos

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The BBC is to broadcast "a visceral account of the days that surrounded that tragic moment in 1994 when Kurt Cobain took his own life" to mark the 30th anniversary of the Nirvana frontman's death

The British Broadcasting Corporation unveils plans to commemorate the life and legacy of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

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"I was crying, watching in total disbelief. Nirvana were my favourite thing in the world." Evanescence's Amy Lee reveals the moment she found out Kurt Cobain had died

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee was a Nirvana megafan and heartbroken by the news that Cobain had taken his own life

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‘We said no to Elvis Presley sweat and James Dean condoms’: the agent making a killing from dead celebrities

Mark Roesler is a publicist with a difference – most of the clients he represents are no longer alive. And thanks to AI, holograms and social media, being dead famous is more lucrative than ever

The Guardian - UK

Stage-diver at an early Nirvana gig – Charles Peterson’s best photograph

‘The energy at this show was chaotic. This guy scrambled to the top of the amplifier and leaped. I thought he was going to break his neck’

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"The force that is in this music can never be extinguished": Read the letter U2's Bono wrote to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean hailing Smells Like Teen Spirit as a song that saved his life

"What a band. What a song. What a sound. What a voice."

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"I still have very vivid images of him laughing, smiling, and goofing around": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon remembers Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

Kim Gordon remembers her friend Kurt Cobain, as the 30th anniversary of his death nears

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Selena Gomez Reveals Kurt Cobain As Her Childhood Music Idol

Selena Gomez reveals her admiration for Kurt Cobain, prepares for Linda Ronstadt biopic, and releases new single 'Love On.'

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10 musicians who destroyed their instruments: "For Hendrix, there was something ritualistic about burning a Fender Stratocaster"

Whether it's to make a statement, rile up an audience or add a rebellious edge to a music video, trashing our gear has become something of a tradition in the rock world

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Aaron Rash has taken his Nirvana gear journey to a whole new level: he's built the 'Frankenamp' Kurt Cobain used that's the final part in the In Utero tone puzzle

Nirvana's tech Earnie Bailey has helped the YouTuber reach the final destination of his quest

The Guardian - UK

My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld review – a transgressive tour de force

In this dazzling follow-up to the International Booker-winning The Discomfort of Evening, an abuser addresses his teenage victim

The Guardian - UK

Taylor Swift’s old apartment to Nirvana’s bathtub: the photo project following in musicians’ footsteps

For his project The Band Was Here, New Yorker Steve Birnbaum obsessively tracks down famous musical locations – but this pop cultural history is under threat

MusicRadar

Meet Aaron Rash: the YouTuber who's got so close to Kurt Cobain's Nirvana tones he's releasing a guitar and In Utero IR pack to share his discoveries

"I started going down the rabbit hole"

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"Sometimes when you're scared and your adrenaline's pumping, you just start beating the shit out of your instrument": revisiting Nirvana's electrifying 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live

Celebrating the equipment-smashing, French-kissing day Nirvana knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the charts

Metal Hammer

Addiction, Jurassic Park and a one-sided Nirvana feud: The story of Tool’s Sober

Tool’s cerebral single earned chart success and launched a career of prog metal trailblazing – despite its video being slammed by Kurt Cobain

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"As metal staggered to its feet and limped out of the 80s, it was on the cusp of becoming stronger than ever before": How heavy metal got its mojo back

Big hair and bad spandex almost killed any credibility metal had in the 1980s. But metal not only survived, it also came back bigger and stronger than ever

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