Kurt Cobain`s biography

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on the 20th February 1967 in Aberdeen, which is located about 120 kilometers southwest of Seattle in the state Washington. He grew up in a mid class society and was hyperactive as a child, as a result was prescibed a morphine based drug to help him concentrate in school. The drug often kept him awake until 4 am in the morning so he was given sedatives to be able to get some sleep. Kurt had a happy childhood, until he was 7 years old when his parents got divorced. It was an ordinary divorce, but Kurt got very upset about it. He became shy and difficult to cope with. The years after the divorce Kurt moved back and forth from his parents. In the end his parents did not want anything to do with him so he had to move in at some relatives. This period of his life is also reflected in his lyrics, e. g. in Sliver. Kurt did not like school, he felt lonely and lost. He liked to paint and sing, but the other boys were more into football and stuff like that. Most of the girls liked Kurt and he spent much time with them. The boys wanted to hang out with Kurt to come closer to the girls, but Kurt hated the guts of those macho boys. Kurt felt more like a girl rather than a boy and he later told: "I`m a heterosexual....big deal. But if I was a homosexual, it wouldn`t matter either."
Until Kurt was nine years old he only listened to The Beatless and The Monkees, but in 1979 his father joined a record-club and he started to listen to music like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabath and Kiss. He also started to listen to British alternative rock like Sex Pistols and The Clash.
2nd of February 1981, on Kurt`s 14th birthday, he bought his first guitar. And in the years to follow he tried to create his own music style and started to hang out in the Seattle underground, where he was roadie for a band called Melvins.
In May 1985 a few weeks before graduation Kurt dropped out of school and started to work. He had a few jobs but it was never a success, and he never held on to a job for that long.
Nirvana was started in 1986 of Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. Kurt played guitar and sang while Krist played bass-guitar. After a few attempts with some different drummers they weren`t satisfied until they were introduced to Dave Grohl by the vocalist of the Melvins, which became the new drummer of Nirvana. They made their first demo in 1988 and it didn`t take long until their first single was released.