Kurt Cobain – The Sun is Gone but I Have a Light
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Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967. The American singer, songwriter, and musician formed his band Nirvana in 1987, along with fellow bass player Krist Novoselic and drummer Aaron Burckhard who was later replaced with Dave Grohl. The band’s big breakthrough was with its second studio album, Nevermind . Cobain that had encounters with narcotics at an early stage of his life didn’t manage well with the success and turned back to drugs. The personal and professional pressures that surrounded his marriage to his musician wife, Courtney Love, did nothing to help him cope with life, and he was said to have struggled with severe health problems – including depression and heroin addiction the last few years before his death. On April 8, 1994, an electrician that came to install a security system in Kurt Cobain’s Seattle home found him dead with a shotgun lying next to his chin. The Seattle police ruled his death as a suicide. In 2014, Cobain was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , alongside his band members Novoselic and Dave Grohl.