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GONGFARMER
BY RANDY REGIER
Cobain book details drug abuse
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — "I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory."
With those words, spoken to a friend at age 14, Kurt Cobain mapped out his life plan.
The only thing missing was the long slide into drug addiction that saw him passed out in motels and overdosed in the back seat of his Plymouth Valiant at a time when his band, Nirvana, was among the world's biggest rock acts.
Cobain's battle with drugs, and the events leading to his suicide at age 27 in 1994, are chronicled in chilling detail in a new biography, Heavier than Heaven, by Charles R. Cross.
Cross, the 44-year-old former editor of The Rocket music magazine in Seattle, was a dedicated fan of the band that was perhaps most responsible for launching grunge rock.
But Cross' book is no love letter. It's a closely researched — involving more than 400 interviews clear-eyed look at the mystifying character that was Kurt Cobain.
"Nirvana fans on some of the fan Web sites complained that there wasn't enough stuff about Nirvana in the book. That's good, because my intent was not to tell the story of Nirvana, but to tell the story of a man's life." Cross said.
Cross got an unexpected window into Cobain's
private thoughts when the singer's widow, Courtney Love, offered to let him look at Cobain's diaries. Cross spent four days and nights frantically transcribing Cobain's writings from 28 spiral notebooks.
"It changed the book dramatically," Cross said. "It gave Kurt a voice in his story."
Cobain's voice is often pained, disaffected, still bitter over a difficult youth marked by his parents' divorce and moving among a string of relatives' and friends' homes around the coastal Washington town of Aberdeen.
Cross found an inventory of massive, nearly constant drug use in Cobain's journals.
Band members, friends, managers and Love — who had long struggled with drug addiction herself — staged interventions and persuaded Cobain to check into rehab several times. But he couldn't stay clean for long.
Cobain didn't have a truly stable living arrangement until the last years of his life. In fact, when he returned from recording Nirvana's multiplatinum 1991 release Nevermind in Wisconsin, he found he had been evicted from his apartment in Olympia. For weeks, he slept in the back seat of his Valiant.
Cross gave his first reading from Heavier than Heaven in Aberdeen, an experience he said was moving because many in the overflow crowd had known Cobain.
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1 Roomy boats
5 Gilbert or
Teasdale
9 Market visitor?
14 In a proper
manner
15 Supplicate
16 Harden
17 News piece
18 Overdue
19 Tapestry in
"Hamlet"
20 Those people
21 Nest-egg $
22 Stir up
23 Stuff of wills
26 Eurasian vipers
27 Ms. Midler
30 Sampled
32 Decorates
34 Greek crosses
35 Make lace
38 Indian fig trees
40 Completely
42 Porthos, to Athos
43 River duck
45 More unworldly
46 Raised
48 Irregularly
notched
49 Queen of scat
52 3-D miniature
scene
54 Production
figures
56 Nothing at all
57 Kiss and cuddle
61 Remove a broocet
62 Donation
63 Loyal
64 Representative
65 Do-others
separator
66 Bologna money
67 Cliff shelf
68 Disorderly state
69 Caterwaul
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1 Mine entrance
2 Judges follower
3 "Twittering
Machine" painter
4 Replication on
both sides of a
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6 Noah's peak
7 Drum beat
8 First mate's agreement
9 Fruit with a teardrop shape
10 Encroachment
11 Spiritual leaders
12 Get ahold on
13 Go-aheads
22 Shrewd
24 Upper house
24 Jacob's twin
27 Rum cake
28 Dutch cheese
28 Singer Tennille
31 High regard
31 J.C. and Sarnim)
35 Singing group
36 Pub pours
37 Phoenician seaport
39 Rani's cover
41 Off course
44 Like Simba
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46 Poll figure
47 Snow banks
49 Peer
50 Fencing move
51 Jogged
53 Choir section
55 Chip in to the pot
58 One of HOMES acronym
59 Weightlifting exercise
60 Bow-stern connection
62 Chewy treat
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