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...