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Product Details:
Author:
Christopher Sandford
Paperback:
432 pages
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Publication Date:
March 09, 2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
0786713690
Package Length:
8.18 inches
Package Width:
5.48 inches
Package Height:
1.19 inches
Package Weight:
1.06 pounds
Average Customer Rating:
based on 65 reviews
Description:
Here is the first biography to explore, with shocking detail, the drama that formed this troubled, tragic rock star. Neither an apology nor a condemnation, Kurt Cobain presents a vivid insider's view of the life and death of a man who galvanized a generation and gave birth to the "grunge" revolution with his band Nirvana. Sandford portrays the provocative, small-town rebel with the talent of John Lennon, and then shows him at work on concert stages in Seattle, New York, and London. Readers follow the struggles of Cobain's emotional life-his tumultuous relationships with family and his fellow band members, his drug addiction and sexual appetite, his stormy marriage to Courtney Love, and the birth of his daughter, who, as Cobain wrote in his suicide note, "reminds me too much of who I used to be." During his research, Sandford has had access to Cobain's family, his colleagues, his former friends and lovers, and even author William S. Burroughs, whom Cobain considered to be his "greatest influence." The result is a graphic account of the life that led to the day in April 1994 when Cobain turned a shotgun on himself and became a martyr to disaffected youth around the world.
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Utter garbageOct 04, 2008 This book is the most vile, poorly written, shoddily researched piece of trash I've ever read in my life. I can only agree with Jack Endino that the author was too dimwitted to realise he was being taken for a ride by the majority of his (unnamed) sources; the fact that he chose to print their various outlandish and unproven claims as fact is quite pathetic. I would give a wide berth to any other fiction book written by this moron under the guise of biography, my grandmother knows more about Nirvana than he does. Anyone interested in Kurt Cobain should read the Azerrad and Cross bio's, then piece together the rest for themselves from interviews, videos etc.. but whatever you do avoid this drivel!!!! I hope there is a circle in hell reserved for tabloid journo's trying to make a name for themselves by peddling nonsense about people infinitely more talented than they are.. Christopher Sandford is a cockroach. No stars.
Stay Away!Nov 28, 2007 This book is a poorly-written piece of tabloid garbage, full of untrue and outrageous stories, and obviously written by a guy who has a vendetta against Cobain. I was so offended that I burned it in the fireplace. Stay away!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Why Diss A Legend?Dec 15, 2005 First off i liked this book in the beggining it caught my attention,even through the constant lies and errors.It contains alot of informative bits and pieces,many are untrue but it makes for a great fictional world.
Dissing is a large part of this book,Kurt gets ranked on even after he died.Thats really disrespectful, ecspecially toward the person who shaped modern rock.Some of the info that holds true for the most part is too generic.Rehashed info we knew for many years.Kurt is portrayed as moody beyond belief and a loser.
Hey there is pictures!Redeeming?No but something to tide over your bordem and to prepare you for more lies.They do cover a good amount of time in good detail though so the book isn't entirley bad.I think this is a bare minimum decent book,and thats all i can afford to give this book.
7 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Cobain was GOD, he replaced ClaptonNov 25, 2005 The Author, a Mr. Sandford (undoubtedly a pseudonym), has produced an incredibly mean spirited, abomination. The book is a pack of lies, each page stuffed with obnoxious fabrications from Sandford's pathetic longing for the glory that was Kurt Cobain. To publish a book filled with such nauseating filth, stories rolled out to only titillate, to spank your imagination into believing this is the real truth, shame on Sandford and shame on the publishers Carroll & Graf. Fabrications such as thsse should not be tolerated by an enlightened and sophisticated population. Cheap and Tawdry, avoid at all cost.
13 of 15 found the following review helpful:
This is a notorious book, don't buy itNov 20, 2005 But don't take my word for it, see what Jack Endino himself had to say: [begin quote] "... recently someone sent me a photocopy of just two (!) pages (106 and 107) from Chris Sandford's book on Nirvana, entitled "Kurt Cobain". In it he describes the sessions for Bleach from the point of view of "Endino's engineer" and even an unnamed "second source at Reciprocal"; he describes Kurt putting lit matches in his mouth, spraying antiperspirant down his throat, pouring beer on the mixing board, taking "fistfuls of pills", etc, etc. Let me f*****g set this straight: this is pure fiction. In all the times I worked with Kurt I never even saw him drink a beer in the studio. His pre-Nevermind times in the studio with me were utterly normal; the band was there to work ... either [Sandford] made all this up (can't really see why he would want to) or better yet, someone else decided to take the gullible journalist for a ride, figuratively speaking ... I haven't read the rest of the book yet 'cause I don't want to spend the cash, but I hope for Kurt's (and his daughter's) sake that the rest of it isn't like those two pages I got. (Later note: It is. I've since read it. The whole book is full of equally outlandish nonsense. Sigh. OK, now extrapolate from how 100% fictional the two pages I know about are...) Seeing this kind of fiction printed about Kurt really bums me out. Look, all you potential book-writers, Azzerrad's done it already; the rest of you can just go home." [end quote] See [...] for more.
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