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Kurt Cobain

Born in the rural logging town of Aberdeen, Washington, Kurt Cobain started playing the piano as a child and took a natural liking to his parents' Beatles records, but after they divorced when he was eight, Cobain struggled to fit in with his father's second wife and spent his teenage years living with several different family members. A shy, artistic child, Cobain found his identity when he was gifted his first guitar for his 14th birthday and began discovering punk rock through friend Kurt Novoselic and mentor Buzz Osbourne from The Melvins. Cobain and Novoselic went on to...