nirvana kurt cobain Kurt Cobain Heavier Than Heaven Charles R. Cross Kurt Cobain: The Biography
For four years, the journalist Charles Cross conducted over 400 interviews and had access to the diary and the many letters that Kurt Cobain used to write but never sent. Far from sociological analysis and the rapture with the figure of the rock star, Heavier Than Heaven, the just published biography, meticulously reconstructs the life of the last star that gave rock: his childhood between guns and thugs, his adolescence in street while selling weapons to buy amplifiers, his chronic stomach pain and his addiction to heroin for relief, the origin of his muses, and the certainty that I had from fourteen years to reach the top of the rock and die the gloria.La story is that of a slow death. It is also an American tragedy, but not a big epic tragedy of infinite spaces and routes, but of a small and biased, the domestic tragedy of suburban teenager trapped by mediocrity. Heavier Than Heaven may be the definitive biography of Kurt Cobain and many books while others stop at Cobain as a symbol and an artist, journalist Charles Cross chose to ignore the hours of recordings, sales figures and critical gaze to penetrate rock Kurt Cobain in man. Heavier Than Heaven is distressing: a litany of drugs, suicide attempts and suffering of a man who transformed his pain into songs. Cross, who was editor of The Rocket, Seattle magazine that gave him his first cap Nirvana investigated for four years, made 400 interviews and had access to the diary and the numerous letters that Kurt Cobain used to write but never sent. "There were moments of great happiness," he writes in the introduction, "as when I heard an unreleased track called 'You Know You're Right', which I think is the best composition of Kurt. But for every great discovery there were moments of excruciating pain, like when I had the suicide note of Kurt in my hands: Courtney saves it in a heart-shaped box, with a lock of his hair. "
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