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James Douglas Morrison(December 8 1943-July
3rd 1971)
You could say it's an accident that I was ideally suited for the
work I am doing. It's the feeling of a bowstring being pulled back for
22 years and suddenly being let go. I am primarily an American, second,
a Californian, third, a Los Angeles resident. I've always been attracted
to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the
breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in
anything about revolt, disorder, chaos--especially activity that seems
to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom--external
revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom. Rather than starting inside,
I start outside--reach the mental through the physical. I am a Sagittarian--if
astrology has anything to do with it--the Centaur--the Archer--the Hunt--But
the main thing is that we are The Doors.
We are from the West. The whole thing is like an invitation to
the West.
The sunset - This is the end
The night - The sea
The world we suggest is of a new wild west. A sensuous evil world.
Strange and haunting, the path of the sun, you know? Toward the end. At
least for our first album. We're all centered around the end of the zodiac.
The Pacific - violence and peace - the way between young and the old.
FULL REAL NAME:
James Douglas Morrison
BIRTH DATE & PLACE:
December 8, 1943, Melbourne, Florida, USA
PERSONAL DATA (Height, weight, and coloring):
5'11", 145lbs., brown hair, blue-gray eyes
FAMILY INFO (Names of parents, brothers, and sisters):
Dead
HOME INFO (Where located and description):
Laurel Canyon, L.A. - nice at night
SCHOOLS ATTENDED:
St. Petersburg Junior College, Florida State Univ., UCLA
MARRIAGE INFO:
Single
INSTRUMENTS PLAYED/PART SUNG:
Lead voice
FAVORITE SINGING GROUPS:
Beach Boys, Kinks, Love
INDIVIDUAL SINGERS:
Sinatra, Presley
ACTOR/ACTRESS:
Jack Palance, Sarah Miles
TV SHOWS:
News
COLORS:
Turquoise
FOODS:
Meat
HOBBIES:
Horse races
SPORTS:
Swimming
WHAT LOOKED FOR IN A GIRL:
Hair, eyes, voice, walk
WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO ON A DATE?:
Talk
PLANS/AMBITIONS:
Make films
[Taken from the original Elektra Records biography, 1967]
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 21st 1967-April
8th 1994)
Kurt Donald Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Aberdeen,
which is located about 120 kilometres Southwest of Seattle in the state
Washington. He grew up in a mid class society and was hyperactive as young,
so his doctor gave him a drug called Ritalin, which is a morphine based
drug, to help him concentrate in school. The drug often kept him awake
until 4am in the morning so he was given sedatives to be able to get some
sleep.
Kurt had a happy childhood, until he was seven 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 boy’s were more into football and stuff like
that. Most of the girls liked Kurt and he spent much time with them. The
boy’s 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 has 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 Beatles and
The Monkees, but in -79 his father joined a record-club and he started
to listen to music like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath 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 Novaselic.
Kurt played the guitar and sang while Krist played bass-guitar. After a
few attempts with some different drummers they weren’t satisfied until
they where 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. Already the
next year they released their first album, Bleach. This album cost a total
of 600$ to record, which isn’t so much. They then started to tour in the
U.S. and later that same year they had their first European concert in
Newcastle, England.
The following year they released a new single without very much
success. By now Nirvana thought they had got an unfair welcome in the industry,
and they decided to change record company from Sub-Pop records to Geffen
records. In 1991 they signed a contract with Geffen records and started
to produce their next album which was to be named Nevermind.
September 24th the same year Nevermind was released and debuts
as number 144 on the hit lists, but after an interview on MTV’s Headbangers
Ball and an appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live the album climbs right
to the top spot whit their hit song "Smells like teen spirit".
Kurt had never expected to be so popular and did not even like
the idea of being a main stream rocker. He hated the commercial part of
Nirvana and had several times encouraged the audience to stop buying their
records and to stop coming to their concerts. Kurt thought most of the
fans were false fans and only liked their hit single "Smells like teen
spirit". In this period Nirvana mostly played arena rock shows and this
wasn’t the way they liked to play. They preferred to play in small clubs
where the energy gets more intense and intimate. But because of their bad
habit to crush guitars, amps and so, they had to do the arena rock shows
because of the money. Kurt also started to use heavy drugs more often in
this period, such as heroin and morphine. At this point Kurt described
himself as suicidal.
24th of January 1992, Kurt got married to the former stripper Courtney
Love in Wakiki, Hawaii. She is now known for her band Hole and is also
doing a god job in the film industry, The People vs Larry Flint, whatever.
Six months after they got married they had a child, Frances Bean. When
Courtney was pregnant there were big (?????)… in the press which claimed
she was using heroin while she was pregnant with Frances. Courtney, of
course, denied all of this, but she did not deny that she was using heroin.
She claims she stopped using heroin that instant she got to know she was
pregnant.
The other members of Nirvana hoped Kurt would calm down now that
he had a wife and kid This was also the fact, for a while. In this period
they recorded a new album, Incesticide. This album was supposed to "get
rid off" all the false fans which they got under the Nevermind success,
with the more peculiar sound which reminded some of the Bleach days and
some of the tracks were even supposed to be on Bleach. They succeeded in
this.
In the beginning of 1993 they recorded what was to be their last
studio recorded album, In Utero. This album was recorded in two weeks,
but wasn’t released for another six months, due the work-title "I Hate
Myself And I Want To Die. This title reflects the fact of Kurt being suicidal.
When Kurt was on a seminar in July 1993 he overdosed on heroin.
Courtney injected him with an illegal drug to save him. Later that same
day he went on stage and played a concert, no one noticed anything. From
now Kurt’s drug abuse was starting to get out of hand. Courtney threatened
several times to divorce him if he did not get treatment for his abuse.
He agreed to get treatment for his abuse, but didn’t last long at the rehab
centre. He later escaped from this centre although it was voluntary. He
said this was a place for retards or something. It wasn’t a proper place
for him to be.
In the beginning of 1994 Nirvana played an MTV unplugged concert,
and they played what was to be their final concert in Munich 29th Mars
1994. One week later Kurt was hospitalised in a coma. The next day he awoke
and asked for a milkshake. After a few days he left the hospital by his
own will. Kurt disappears after this and is reported missing by his wife.
She also hires a private investigator to trace him, she fears that he might
show up dead.
8th of April 1994 Kurt was found dead in his own house, of what
appeared to be a shotgun blast to his head three days earlier. Two days
after there were a memorial where Courtney read a part from his suicide
note. Kurt had said earlier that same year that he never expected to reach
the age of 30. Unfortunately he was right. He became a rock legend like
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. They all became 27.
Later that year their unplugged in NY was released, and this album
got great response although it was weird to hear Nirvana without their
distorted guitars.