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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.

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

The famous instrument was used in many Nirvana live performances

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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 - US

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Dublin Live

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

Let me educate you: an art tutor’s verdict on art by Robbie Williams and other stars

Robbie Williams’ paintings will be shown by Sotheby’s next month. We asked an A-level examiner to grade the work

The Guardian - UK

Kurt Cobain’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ guitar up for auction, benefiting mental health

The guitar Kurt Cobain played in Nirvana’s iconic “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video over 30 years ago is headed to the auction block.

Tribune News Service

Kurt Cobain’s final days to be dramatised by Royal Opera House

Last Days, adapted from acclaimed 2005 film, ‘plunges into the torment’ of Nirvana singer before death in 1994

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: Stigma failed Kurt Cobain nearly 30 years ago and continues to fail people in addiction now

On or around April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, with a lethal dose of heroin in his blood.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Sub Pop’s Megan Jasper: ‘It felt like the ground beneath us could give at any moment’

In an extract from a new collection of essays on women’s experiences in music, the chief executive of the record label famous for launching Nirvana looks back

The Guardian - UK

Tributes pour in for popular musician Mark Lanegan after death at 57 in Kerry

Screaming Trees rocker Lanegan was a member of bands Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins - and collaborated with artists such as Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

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Kurt Cobain's daughter dating Tony Hawk's son as they become latest celebrity kid couple

Frances Bean Cobain - daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love - has confirmed she's in a relationship with professional skateboarder Tony Hawk's son Riley

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Kurt Cobain And Tony Hawk’s Kids Are Dating Which Is Music To Our ’90s Loving Ears

The pair appeared to be quietly dating before they went Insta official.

The Independent UK

Kurt Cobain’s daughter is dating Tony Hawk’s son and it’s the most nineties thing ever

‘Daughter of the most 90’s dude ever is dating the son of the second most 90’s dude ever’

The Independent UK

The Batman: Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne inspired by Kurt Cobain, says director

Filmmaker Matt Reeves says his version of Batman is ‘kind of a drug addict – his drug is his addiction to this drive for revenge’

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Nirvana Fans Are Royally Pissed At A Company Selling NFTs Of The Band On Kurt Cobain’s Bday

Smells like NFTeen spirit.

Evening Standard

The Great Rejects: what Jason Everman did next (after being kicked out of Nirvana and then Soundgarden)

Jamie Collinson on how the former guitarist “sloughed off these shackles of cool” for a fulfilling career in the military

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