Kurt Cobain in New York, January 1992. A the time he was already thinking of breaking up Nirvana
It wasn’t easy to be Kurt Cobain. Following the release of Nirvana’s sea change of an album, “Nevermind,” he wasn’t just one of the most famous people on the planet – he was the voice of a generation. A year after the album’s release he was struggling with fame and an attempt to kick heroin, which wasn’t helped by the press constantly attacking his his wife, Courtney Love.
In 1992 a Vanity Fair article detailing Love’s ongoing use of heroin while she was pregnant. In response Cobain wrote a letter to DGC owner David Geffen threatening to break up the band is something wasn’t done about the remarks. He wrote in part:
This article has outright accused my wife of all kinds of hideously vile things to the point where Ive never seen such a crucifixion in a magazine. The woman’s entire objective was to harm Courtney and now after you read the article (I hope) something may be done about it… I am now in rehab going on 18 days and Im really looking forward to having a family at this point f*ck NIRVANA… We are capable of displaying a healthy attitude before our audience and the next record is easily as good as the last one, but Im so extremely pissed off about this piece of trash journalism that I’ll lay anything on the line for the love of my wife and daughter.
Geffen responded to say that articles like this come and go and that he should focus on his music and his family, not on the journalism surrounding his work.
