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Title	:	Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
Author	:	Charles R. Cross
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 381 pages
Published	:	2001 by Hyperion
Categories	:	Music. Biography. Nonfiction

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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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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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DNF @ 27%First of all, ANA...I know Kurt is your spiritual animal homie and soul mate...so please don't slay me for abandoning and not loving this thing...But, quite frankly, this book is portraying Kurt as a bit of a whiny liar to me...and after my tragic experience with THIS Red Hot Chili Peppers book - and my subsequent inability to listen to anymore of their music after attempting to read it - I don't want to risk disliking Kurt and not being able to listen to my favorite Nirvana songs. I

Did you know it's ok to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings?Sorry, I had to. Kurt Cobain is my soulmate (it's not weird, I promise). I'm a big fan of the so called 'Seattle Sound.' Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Mother Love Bone and Mudhoney are all among my favorite bands of all time. Sad, depressing, angry songs. Ripped jeans. Fishnet tights. Flannel shirts. You can't get more 90's than that. No one has personified the grunge movement better than Kurt Cobain.It has been 26

This booked disturbed me a bit. I know everyone wants to rape the corpse of Cobain but not me and admitting this is embarrassing but hey, we're all friends here. Reading it I saw a lot of myself in Kurt Cobain and it worried me. Am I going to blow my brains out? I certainly hope not. Maybe I related to him in the way that a lot of people did. Maybe he's just a common guy who was thrown into something bigger than him. At any rate Charles Cross really did his research and created a book that I ate

Originally published in 2001 and with a well-written update added to bring it up to date, this is a well-researched book by an author who was around for many of the events at the time. Charles Cross spent 4 years researching, and interviewing 400 people for this book. So you can tell its pretty thorough. He tells us how Cobains time being famous, from his first album coming out to his death was less than 1000 days. Thats pretty heart-rending to think about. It does a good job of filling out the

Interesting fact No. 1: KC's first concert was not the Melvins or some such punk band, but Sammy Hagar, who has shown surprisingly restraint in not naming a brand of tequila after the now-Converse branded icon. That's just one reason why this book about The Voice of Your Generation is valuable: it's proof that no one is born punk or even cool, but that it's an attitude one accrues by hanging around the right crowd. That's why the real heroines here aren't named Courtney but first girlfriend

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

[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