In the span of 20 years, Cross has distinguished himself as the premier journalist on the life, death, and legacy of Kurt Cobain, from his essential biography, 2002’s Heavier Than Heaven, to this year’s Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain. Cross had a front seat for the surreal aftermath of Kurt’s death and the emotion it left in its wake, perhaps best summed up with the Seattle memorial for Kurt that ended with Courtney reading his suicide note aloud to an audience of thousands, leading them in a chant of “Asshole!” Cross was in his office at the Seattle magazine The Rocket, “trying to figure out why Courtney Love kept putting off the interview she had promised us that week.” Later, he found out that Courtney was searching for Kurt, who had disappeared from rehab.Ī phone call from a local radio station was the tip-off that Kurt was dead, and Cross’ magazine had to stop the presses to pull Love off the cover, replacing her with Cobain. When Kurt Cobain killed himself on April 8, 1994, music journalist Charles R.
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