Kurt Cobain destroyed a cheap Japanese copy of a Fender Stratocaster on stage at one of Nirvana's first shows.

On Jan. 18, 1991, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana took a hammer to a cheap Japanese-made guitar at the end of a concert at Evergreen ...

UPDATE: A guitar destroyed by a then-relatively unknown Kurt Cobain during a 1991 concert ... Teen Spirit,” “Nevermind” went on to knock Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” from the top ...

Formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by college dropouts Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe ... Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The book particularly highlights Stipe’s close ...

A guitar played and smashed by Kurt Cobain is up for ... seminal album Nevermind dethroned Michael Jackson from the top of the charts. Jarosz added that Cobain debuted the Nevermind song ...

It was Kurt Cobain himself, one of the few artists who had managed to surpass Michael Jackson in terms of popularity. This ...

“I didn’t know then that Kurt had taken an overdose," explains Frohman ... he “had something special”; but it wouldn’t be until the following year, when Cobain took his own life on April 5, 1994, that ...

Unfortunate members include Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Janis Joplin, who all died at the same young age. Some say these people may have had difficult childhoods, grew up as ...