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TV tonight: Norway’s favourite detective is back solving murders

William Wisting has a murder and a missing child on his hands. Plus: it’s been 30 years since Kurt Cobain died. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Courtney Love: “Taylor Swift is not important. She’s not interesting as an artist”

She’s never held back, and Courtney Love isn’t about to start now. With a new BBC radio series hitting the airwaves, the rock legend and honorary Londoner tells Dylan Jones that while she champions women in music, she’ll sure as hell never be a Swiftie

Evening Standard

"Her expression seems to say, if you even try to take this child from me, I will kill you": Family Values is a beautiful, tender and moving document of the love shared by Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and their most precious creation

Guzman, aka husband-and-wife photographers Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock, share intimate never-before-published portraits of Kurt, Courtney and baby Frances Bean

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OPINION - Amy Winehouse deserved better than this — stop selling her legacy

There is something arresting about seeing the musical icons of your own era memorialised. I was too young to have really understood what Kurt Cobain’s death meant when the news came on the radio, but I remember bursting into tears in my Hoxton flat when I heard about Amy Winehouse,…

Evening Standard

Frances Bean Cobain Posts Heartbreaking Tribute to Dad Kurt Cobain 30 Years After His Death

"I wish I could've known my dad."

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Seattle Remembers Kurt Cobain 30 Years After His Death

Seattle commemorates Kurt Cobain's 30th death anniversary, celebrating his music legacy and cultural influence.

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Frances Bean Cobain Pays Tribute To Father Kurt Cobain

Frances Bean Cobain's heartfelt tribute to her late father Kurt Cobain on the 30th anniversary of his passing, reflecting on love, loss, and the enduring l...

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Cobain's daughter writes loving tribute

"I wish I could've known my dad," writes Frances Bean Cobain in a lengthy post to Instagram

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"Out of all of the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favourite": The story of Kurt Cobain's Mustangs in Nirvana

From the record-breaking Competition Stripe to the In Utero Sky-Stangs and new Orang-Stang revelations

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"I actually became a Nirvana fan when I was no longer in the band": Drummer Chad Channing remembers Kurt Cobain and his 1990 Smart Studios sessions with the band that shaped Nevermind

Channing's drums appear on one song on the final Nevermind album – "It was the one song that I guess Kurt said, ‘No, I definitely do not want to redo this,"

MusicRadar

'As time has taught us, there was a lot more to Kurt Cobain’s guitar playing than the slacker attitude he’d like us to have believed': 5 Nirvana songs that celebrate Nirvana's legacy

'He was a phenomenal rhythm player, clearly had some lead playing ability, and also experimented sonically – with fascinating results'

MusicRadar

Nirvana’s 10 best songs ranked: from Smells Like Teen Spirit, to Lithium

As Kurt Cobain’s legacy is explored in a new documentary, 30 years on from his death, here’s a look back at Nirvana’s greatest musical moments

Evening Standard

"I was just shut down. I remember trying to make myself cry and I couldn’t": Dave Grohl on the final days of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

"A lot of s**t went down that nobody knows about..."

Metal Hammer

Kurt Cobain's Enduring Style Legacy Continues To Influence Fashion Trends

Explore Kurt Cobain's lasting impact on fashion and society through his rebellious and authentic style.

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The Wildest VMAs Moments of All Time

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"I had a real sense that he was lonely and alone. I felt the same way": On April 1, 1994 two world-famous rock stars were seated together on Delta Airlines flight 788 from Los Angeles to Seattle. It would be the last flight one of them would ever take

On Good Friday, 1994, two musicians caught a flight home to Seattle. One of them would be found dead at home one week later

The Guardian - UK

The angst, the sensitivity… and the songs: how gen Z got hooked on Nirvana

For a new generation of musicians, the grunge band and their frontman Kurt Cobain have provided a blueprint for a more inclusive style of stardom

Louder

"We made a living off being stupid. I don't know if there's a legacy to be taken from that": there will never, ever be another band like the Butthole Surfers. And maybe that's for the best

The myths, madness, magic and mayhem of Butthole Surfers, the world's most dangerous, lucky-to-be-alive art-rock weirdos

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The BBC is to broadcast "a visceral account of the days that surrounded that tragic moment in 1994 when Kurt Cobain took his own life" to mark the 30th anniversary of the Nirvana frontman's death

The British Broadcasting Corporation unveils plans to commemorate the life and legacy of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

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"I was crying, watching in total disbelief. Nirvana were my favourite thing in the world." Evanescence's Amy Lee reveals the moment she found out Kurt Cobain had died

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee was a Nirvana megafan and heartbroken by the news that Cobain had taken his own life

The Guardian - UK

‘We said no to Elvis Presley sweat and James Dean condoms’: the agent making a killing from dead celebrities

Mark Roesler is a publicist with a difference – most of the clients he represents are no longer alive. And thanks to AI, holograms and social media, being dead famous is more lucrative than ever

The Guardian - UK

Stage-diver at an early Nirvana gig – Charles Peterson’s best photograph

‘The energy at this show was chaotic. This guy scrambled to the top of the amplifier and leaped. I thought he was going to break his neck’

Louder

"The force that is in this music can never be extinguished": Read the letter U2's Bono wrote to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean hailing Smells Like Teen Spirit as a song that saved his life

"What a band. What a song. What a sound. What a voice."

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"I still have very vivid images of him laughing, smiling, and goofing around": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon remembers Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

Kim Gordon remembers her friend Kurt Cobain, as the 30th anniversary of his death nears

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Selena Gomez Reveals Kurt Cobain As Her Childhood Music Idol

Selena Gomez reveals her admiration for Kurt Cobain, prepares for Linda Ronstadt biopic, and releases new single 'Love On.'

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