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Heavier Than Heaven (Paperback)

By: Charles R. Cross (Author)

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"Ultimately, HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN is as engrossing as a good novel, providing a glimpse into the rise and fall of this most unlikely generational spokesman."

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Published on the 10th anniversary of Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind, the first in-depth biography of the troubled genius, including new information from over 400 interviews and exclusive access to Cobain's unpublished diaries.
Although the tragic circumstances of Kurt Cobain's suicide are well known, the facts of his life -- and the influence of his artistry -- remain largely unexamined. Now veteran music journalist Charles R. Cross fuses his intimate knowledge of the Seattle music scene with his deep compassion for his subject in this extraordinary story of artistic brilliance and the pain that extinguished it.
Based on more than 400 interviews; four years of research; exclusive access to Cobain's unpublished diaries; and a wealth of documentation, Heavier Than Heaven traces Cobain's life from his early days in a double-wide trailer outside of Aberdeen, Washington, to his rise to fame, success, and the adulation of a generation. Cross reveals the familial turmoil that fueled Cobain's creativity, the generational history that forged his character, and the unusual love story that shaped his relationship with wife Courtney Love. Drawing from medical and police reports, and Cobain's own private writings, Cross also reveals the truth about Cobain's health struggles and his tragic final days.
More than the history of a rock and roll star, Heavier Than Heaven is a portrait of creative genius and the will to turn pain into art.

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One of the few personalities in modern rock music deserving of the appellation "iconic," Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in 1993, was an opaque mixture of sensitivity, creativity, ambition, and morbid gloom. With his band, Nirvana, he changed the face of 1990s rock music. But, as Charles R. Cross explains in HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN, his biography of the doomed singer, the seeds of Cobain's destruction may have lain in his genes: both his uncle and great-grandfather had also killed themselves, and in similarly unambiguous ways; the former shooting himself twice, while the latter unsuccessfully stabbed himself, later successfully repeating the exercise in hospital. Cobain's method was to overdose on heroin and shoot himself in the head. Cross covers all the major bases in the Cobain saga, also delving into some of the singer's darker corners, with friends' accounts of his increasingly fraught teen years contrasting with his relatives' stories of his essentially sunny early childhood. The book is remarkably instructive on the rise of Nirvana, as well as the singer's tumultuous relationship with the mercurial Courtney Love. Packed with authoritative detail, HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN is an indispensable tale of a complex figure's struggle with the ambiguities of fame.

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