Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon
by Ian Halperin
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When rock superstar Kurt Cobain was found with a bullet through his head at his Seattle home in April 1994, the news reverberated around the world. The police quickly labeled the death a suicide, triggering over sixty copycat suicides among mournful teenagers who were shocked by the death of their angst-ridden hero, who had been repeatedly labeled "the voice of his generation".Though the suicide verdict was quickly accepted as the official version and the world accepted Cobain's death as show more just another rock-and-roll tragedy, it soon became apparent that Cobain's purported suicide was not the open-and-shut case it appeared to be.In Who Killed Kurt Cobain? award-winning investigative journalists Ian Halperin and Max Wallace raise explosive questions. The answers point to the very real possibility that the rock superstar was murdered.As they unravel the mystery of Cobain's death the authors introduce a bizarre and fascinating cast of characters-- The respected Beverly hills private investigator who was hired by Courtney Love to find her husband after he was missing from a Los Angeles drug rehab center and who later declared the death a murder, not a suicide as the police claimed-- The father who accused his own daughter of murdering Cobain-- The Los Angeles musician who revealed he was offered $50,000 to kill Cobain and passed a lie detector test given by the world's top polygraph examiner. He was mysteriously found dead shortly after.Who Killed Kurt Cobain? asks troubling unanswered questions about the death-- Why were no legible fingerprints found on the shotgun Cobain supposedly used to shoot himself?-- Who used Cobain's credit card after his death?--Why were there two sets of handwriting on the so-called suicide note?These and many o show lessTags
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Really interesting book. I am disgusted the way Love is using her lawyers. She is the same as Lance Armstrong. disgusting.
I do believe something fishy is going on with the so called suicide of Kurt. This book was published in 1995. guess they did not re-open the investigation.
I know there is a second book out. want to read that. Interesting book. and I really liked Kurt's music. He and Love were about my age. (1967 and 1974?) Guess they bloomed late cause I was a punk rocker during the end of the seventies, beginning of 80s.
I do believe something fishy is going on with the so called suicide of Kurt. This book was published in 1995. guess they did not re-open the investigation.
I know there is a second book out. want to read that. Interesting book. and I really liked Kurt's music. He and Love were about my age. (1967 and 1974?) Guess they bloomed late cause I was a punk rocker during the end of the seventies, beginning of 80s.
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Ian Halperin is the author of ten books, including New York Times bestsellers Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson and Love Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain. Specializing in undercover investigations, he has appeared on the Today Show, Dateline, The Howard Stern Show, and CNN.
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- People/Characters
- Kurt Cobain
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- Washington, USA
- Original language
- English
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- Music, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 782.42166092 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal Music, Singing Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Traditions of secular songs {genres} Rock songs modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
- LCC
- ML420 .C59 .H35 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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