Kurt Cobain

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: Courtney Love, Guitar Hero 5, Live Through This, Death of Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean Cobain, Doll Parts, Last Days, Journals, Kurt & Courtney, Beautiful Son, Malibu, Fecal Matter, Heavier Than Heaven, Fender Jag-Stang, Kurt Cobain: About a Son, The "Priest" They Called Him, Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain, Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars. Excerpt: Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison, July 9, 1964) is an American vocalist, lyricist, musician and actress, perhaps best known as frontwoman and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole. She also received massive media attention over her marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, before and after his suicide in 1994. After an unstable childhood and adolescence, Love sought to form a rock band from an early age, and founded Hole in 1989 at the age of 25. The band released several albums in the 1990s, debuting with Pretty on the Inside (1991), an underground hit, especially in the United Kingdom. The band followed with two highly acclaimed albums, Live Through This (1994) and Celebrity Skin (1998). Love also starred in several films throughout the '90s, most notably The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996), for which she won a Golden Globe nomination. Hole officially disbanded in 2002, and Love became a media spectacle in the latter part of the decade due to a series of legal troubles and battles with drug addiction, largely amidst the release of her first solo album. In 2007, Love announced her sobriety after a lengthy court-ordered rehab, and began working on a fifth album. In 2009, Love reformed Hole with new members, and released the group's fourth album, Nobody's Daughter (2010). Love has also attracted significant media attention over the years for her wild stage performances and subversive feminism. According to the British newspaper, The Guardian, Rolling Stone once called Love "the most controversial woman in rock history." Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Linda Carroll, a therapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher. According to Love, her mother named her after the alcoholic, fledgling debutante protagonist of a 1956 "dime-store novel" called Chocolates for Breakfast by Pamela Moore. Love would discover, in later years, that her biological grandmother was novelist Paula Fox and her great-grand