Monday, 5. April 2004
Topic: MUSIK - on April 5, 2004 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
1991 interview offered look into mind of a rising rock star
Kurt Cobain was eating lunch at his mom's house in Aberdeen when I called to interview him for a story on a show coming up about week later — Halloween night — at the Paramount Theatre.
It was Oct. 23, 1991, shortly after "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was released as a single. "Nevermind," the album it came from, had been out for a month but had not yet charted. The single was mainly what I wanted to talk about, because it was the best rock song I'd heard in years. Neither one of us knew then, of course, that it was about to profoundly change his life, and the history of rock 'n' roll.
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