Kurt Cobain Research Paper

Burn Out, Fade Away “It’s better to burn out than to fade away,” wrote Kurt Cobain in a letter before he committed suicide, leaving behind a short life and a possibility of many more years than may have come. One may know him as a typical drugged up rock star of the 90s, but it's more than that. To me, it’s an adventure of understanding a person who I’ve adored for a long time. I’ve discovered that even with a rough childhood, struggles with himself, and success, Kurt Cobain left a long lasting impact on music, the industry, pop culture, and a whole generation with the music he created. To begin with, Kurt Cobain's early life was filled with many joys but also riddled with struggle and misfortune. Kurt Donald Cobain was born on the twentieth of February, 1967 (Cross 5). Like most first births, his was a celebrated arrival (Cross 6). For Kurt, there was much joy in his childhood (Cross 13). By his second Christmas, he was already showing an interest in music. At age 4, after coming back from a trip, he sat at a piano and wrote a “crude” song about the adventure (Cross 9). “ I had a really good childhood, up until I was 9,” Said Kurt (Cross 15). Even though struggling financially, Kurt's parents, Don and Wendy, tried their bests to give him what he wanted. Don had a salary

Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana attest to the significance of his contributions to the popular music and his status in the American and European pop culture in general.(“Grunge”) To various degrees, and various ends, Cobain's legacy has been compared and even fused at times with those of Sid Vicious, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and John Lennon, and the musician would indeed, in death, be anointed “ the voice of his generation.”(“‘A Pool Of Rrazor Bblades And Sperm'”) Ultimately, grunge ended with the suicide of Kurt Cobain. Nevertheless, it had already forced an essential change in the recording industry