Heavier than heaven: the biography of Kurt Cobain. Charles Cobain. 2001.

Kurt Cobain’s life and death fast became rock’n’roll legend. The worldwide success of his band, Nirvana, defined the music scene in the early 1990s and their songs spoke to and for a generation. Music journalist Charles Cross, a veteran of the Seattle music scene, relates this extraordinary story of artistic brilliance and the pain that extinguished it.