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John Lennon’s glasses and Kurt Cobain guitar to headline blockbuster US auction

Over 1,500 instruments and artefacts owned and used by some of the world’s most famous artists will go under the hammer during the sale next week.

The Independent UK

‘Kurt was not in a good way’: backstage on Nirvana’s first – and only - Australian tour

Promoter Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic spent weeks on tour with bands like Nirvana and Hole in the 1990s. ‘I hoarded everything,’ he says – and a new exhibition reveals all

The Guardian - AU

Why Gen X grew up to skew Republican

Turns out that in the fantasy world of Gen X films, it was a mistake to believe more of us related to the slackers

Salon

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The Week on Stage: From Good to Peaky Blinders – The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

Last Days at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio review: this opera based on Gus van Sant’s film is exemplary

A meditation on a lost soul that could stand for all those who are driven to despair

Evening Standard

Last Days review – Leith’s opera is bleak and beautiful

Oliver Leith’s new work, based on Gus Van Sant’s fictionalised account of the final days of Kurt Cobain, keeps its audience at arm’s length, allowing its dense score to articulate and drive the drama

The Guardian - UK

Last Days review: Extraordinary Kurt Cobain opera avoids all the clichés Nirvana fans might have predicted

Director Gus Van Sant gave permission for the script of his 2005 film ‘Last Days’ to be used as the inspiration for a new production about the Nirvana frontman. The result, staged at Linbury Theatre, is finely wrought and deserving of accolades

The Independent UK

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‘Kurt Cobain was a walking paradox’: inside the opera about the star’s final days

It has little plot, the dialogue is mumbled, cereal bowls are a big theme, and a fast-talking cattle auctioneer plays his manager. We meet the team behind the Royal Opera House’s daring new show

The Guardian - UK

Royal Opera House swaps glitz for grunge in Gus Van Sant adaptation

As the Royal Opera House readies itself for a grunge adaptation, Richard Godwin asks, why are we so attached to old misconceptions about snobbery in the oeuvre?

Evening Standard

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: ‘It’s even easier for weirdos to find each other now than in the 90s’

The guitarist recalls how Arab Strap gave Scottish musicians a sense of national pride, the excess of his band’s early years and why he’s still fighting for independence• Read an exclusive extract of Stuart Braithwaite’s autobiography: ‘We had Iggy Pop on our side’

The Guardian - UK

A lawsuit over Nirvana's 'Nevermind' naked baby album cover is dismissed (again)

Spencer Elden accuses the band of profiting from "the lascivious nature of his image" in the photo taken when he was a baby. Now 31, he is appealing the judge's dismissal.

WEKU

Nirvana win lawsuit over 1991 Nevermind album cover

Nirvana have won a lawsuit against a man pictured on the cover of album Nevermind as a naked baby.

Evening Standard

Nirvana album cover baby child abuse imagery case thrown out by judge

Spencer Elden, now 31, was photographed for the rock band's famous cover at the age of four months but claimed the picture constitutes "child pornography"

Daily Mirror

Frances Bean Cobain admits she ‘wasn’t sure’ she’d live until age 30

‘Entering this new decade, I hope to stay soft no matter how hardening the world can feel at times,’ the artist wrote

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The Guardian - UK

Cassie Workman: Aberdeen review – a voyage around Kurt Cobain

Exploring the late Nirvana star’s life and death, Workman delivers a darkly beautiful hour of spoken word

Daily Mirror

Liam Gallagher unrecognisable as he shows off his platinum blond hair makeover

Liam Gallagher - best known for having been in Oasis - posted a selfie on social media earlier this morning in which he teased that he had gone blond, with fans saying they hardly recognised him

Wales Online

Mark Steel asked people on Twitter what they knew about Newport and the response is brilliant

People shared their stories with the handful of famous faces that have graced the city over the years including rock stars and time lords

Tribune News Service

Kurt Cobain’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ guitar sells for $4.5 million at auction

The guitar played by Kurt Cobain for Nirvana’s breakout 1991 single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video has sold for $4.5 million at auction, the sellers said Sunday.

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Jim Irsay bought Kurt Cobain’s guitar for $4.5 million

Jim Irsay had the winning bid on Kurt Cobain's famous guitar.

Evening Standard

Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit guitar auctioned off for £3.5m

The famous instrument was used in many Nirvana live performances

The Guardian - US

Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit electric guitar to be auctioned

The 1969 Fender Mustang, on display in Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, is expected to have a starting price of over $600,000

The Guardian - UK

My Chemical Romance: how the vilified band turned antipathy into triumph

MCR split but survived emo’s moral panic to leave a shining legacy for all outsiders – especially young people struggling emotionally or those who refuse gender binaries

Dublin Live

Kurt Cobain's guitar from Smells Like Teen Spirit video to go on display in Newbridge

The turquoise left-handed electric guitar was played by the late Nirvana frontman

Irish Mirror

Kurt Cobain's guitar from Smells Like Teen Spirit video to go on display in Ireland

The turquoise left-handed electric guitar was played by the late Nirvana frontman in the music video Smells Like Teen Spirit

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #32: Readers pick the books they want to see on screen

In this week’s newsletter: We asked Guide readers and Guardian writers which books they want adapted for TV or film – here’s what you chose

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