Badass Birthday
On this date in 1967, in Washington state was born Kurt Cobain.
Oh man...this fella was born just a couple months before me, and damn if he wasn't the "Voice Of My Generation"... for me anyway. First heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in the Fall of 1991, and my life was changed, music wise. Not only Nirvana, but all the bands that they allowed to come into the mainstream: Grunge.
Anyway, he was the lead singer and songwriter for that revolutionary band Nivana. Sadly, Kurt had issues with his fame, and life in general I think, and in 1994, a victim of the 27 year curse (see Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Amy Winehouse), he killed himself with a shotgun.
One of the hardest famous deaths to ever hit me...surpassed only perhaps by David Bowie in 2016.
POLT
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