Charles R. Cross
Hardcover | Pages: 381 pages Rating: 4.12 | 23414 Users | 950 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain |
| ISBN: | 0786865059 (ISBN13: 9780786865055) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Nirvana, Courtney Love |
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The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as T.S. Eliot's. Now Charles Cross has cracked the code in the definitive biography Heavier Than Heaven, an all-access pass to Cobain's heart and mind. It reveals many secrets, thanks to 400-plus interviews, and even quotes Cobain's diaries and suicide notes and reveals an unreleased Nirvana masterpiece. At last we know how he created, how lies helped him die, how his family and love life entwined his art--plus, what the heck "Smells Like Teen Spirit" really means. (It was graffiti by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna after a double date with Dave Grohl, Cobain, and the "over-bored and self-assured" Tobi Vail, who wore Teen Spirit perfume; Hanna wrote it to taunt the emotionally clingy Cobain for wearing Vail's scent after sex--a violation of the no-strings-attached dating ethos of the Olympia, Washington, "outcast teen" underground. Cobain's stomach-churning passion for Vail erupted in six or so hit tunes like "Aneurysm" and "Drain You.")Cross uncovers plenty of news, mostly grim and gripping. As a teen, Cobain said he had "suicide genes," and his clan was peculiarly defiant: one of his suicidal relatives stabbed his own belly in front of his family, then ripped apart the wound in the hospital. Cobain was contradictory: a sweet, popular teen athlete and sinister berserker, a kid who rescued injured pigeons and laughingly killed a cat, a talented yet astoundingly morbid visual artist. He grew up to be a millionaire who slept in cars (and stole one), a fiercely loyal man who ruthlessly screwed his oldest, best friends. In fact, his essence was contradictions barely contained. Cross, the coauthor of Nevermind: Nirvana, the definitive book about the making of the classic album, puts numerous Cobain-generated myths to rest. (Cobain never lived under a bridge--that Aberdeen bridge immortalized in the 12th song on Nevermind was a tidal slough, so nobody could sleep under it.) He gives the fullest account yet of what it was like to be, or love, Kurt Cobain. Heavier Than Heaven outshines the also indispensable Come As You Are. It's the deepest book about pop's darkest falling star. --Tim Appelo
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| Title | : | Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain |
| Author | : | Charles R. Cross |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 381 pages |
| Published | : | 2001 by Hyperion |
| Categories | : | Music. Biography. Nonfiction |
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DISCLAIMER If anyone tries to bash Kurt, I'll knife you.Yes, he was addicted to heroin, he was troubled and he wasn't necessarily a great person all the time, but he gave so much and his work means a lot to a lot of people.Me included. END OF DISCLAIMER I think the hardest books to rate arer biographies, autobiographies and memoir, for the simple reason that it feels like you are giving a rating to someone's life. Like, yeah, Kurt Cobain, he was like a 3 stars, i didn't like some of the things4 Stars for Heavier than Heaven (audiobook) by Charles R. Cross read by Lloyd James. This was a sadly insightful story about the tragic life of Kurt Cobain. The author chose to not place any blame on the friends or family around Cobain. And really I dont know what anyone could have done to save him. Sadly the outcome seemed inevitable.
I published this on a music blog group called Future Rockstars of American (which is now dead I think): I finished reading the biography of Kurt Cobain, Heavier Than Heaven written by Charles Cross, just in time for what would have been his 41st birthday. My conclusion?Kurdt (thats how he liked to spell it) was a jerk!Cortney Love had the crowd call him worse things when she read his suicide note to them.I was not an active and avid fan of Nirvana when their singer Kurt Cobain killed glam rock
I never really knew much about Kurt or nirvana, though I know most of their music without ever really going through a nirvana phase. I was never sure of why people worshipped Kurt so I decided to read this biography. fuck... I relate to his pain so profoundly. I dont think he was anything special, personally, but I think his pain is almost universal. A sensitive, misunderstood, traumatized kid who needed love and found drugs and music instead. Im sure if I ever met him, we wouldnt have gotten
[please, ignore any spelling/grammar mistakes]If you ask me if it is possible to describe the same person as "insane" and as a "genius", I'd say yes without even blinking. And we are talking about Kurt Cobain, who, as the fans know, was a billion contradictions at once.If I already liked his band, Nirvana, after reading this biography I like their music even more.Family issues, drug addiction, depression and other factors surely played a part in Kurt's personality, there's no denying it. But
Hmmmm... well, I don't read a lot of biographies. I didn't know a lot about Kurt Cobain even though I am a Nirvana fan. The book was interesting and the author seemed to have interviewed and researched a lot of facts. Mostly what I took from this book is that Kurt was a complex person plagued with self doubt, physical pain, issues of abandonment and a family history of mental illness. Oh and he made a conscious decision to be a drug addict. And, wow, did he do a lot of drugs.The parts about the
Charles R. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven isn't just one of my favourite biographies; it's one of my favourite books. A few years ago, when I had my own music blog, I had the incredible opportunity to interview Cross. I thought I would include that piece here as a tribute to this wonderful book about one of music's most iconic and dearly missed figures.Seattle is a place I have been obsessed with from an early age. Cameron Crowes 1992 film Singles (and its incredible soundtrack) is partly to blame
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