Today marks the anniversary of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's tragic death in 1994.
The 27-year-old singer died on April 5, 1994, in Seattle, Washington, but his body was not discovered until three days later by an electrician who came to his house to do some work.
Later, Seattle police determined that the grunge artist had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head - with the chief medical examiner revealing that Cobain had only left a rehabilitation facility mere days prior, per the Mirror.
Sadly, the father-of-one - who shared daughter Frances Bean Cobain with Hole singer Courtney Love - had struggled with heroin addiction during the last few years of his life, and felt consumed by the pressure of the fame surrounding himself and Love.
Charles Cross wrote a biography on Cobain, titled Heavier Than Heaven, which focused on the singer's legacy. In it, he wrote: "Those songs have such meaning to so many people. And when we talk about Kurt and why he mattered, that is by far and away the reason he mattered - is that that body of songs that he created and wrote still speak to listeners today, both listeners that heard it in the '90s and people that are just discovering it now. It's the reason that we still talk about him."
"When we talk about his legacy, it's also to some degree our legacy, our youth. It was the one time where it suddenly felt to everybody here that the world could go on its end," he added.
Nirvana's first album Nevermind was released in 1991, with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' topping charts across the globe and subsequently skyrocketing the band to stardom. As such, Cobain has been the subject of numerous documentaries - especially given his strong aversion to fame.
"The [band's] lives were maniacal, and Kurt's face was everywhere," Kevin Kerslake, who directed four of Nirvana's music videos, told The New York Post. "So when we talked about doing the video for 'Come as You Are,' almost the only thing that he told me was that he didn't want to be in it. To me, that screamed 'Get me out of here.'"
While Nirvana has been credited with bringing alternative rock to the forefront of mainstream music, Cobain consistently rejected the idea that he was the "voice of Generation X" - and it has been widely discussed whether his hate for fame is what drove him to end his life.
Though, Cross writes in Cobain's biography: "One of things that often gets played up in depictions of him is Kurt as the victim. He was not a victim. The choices he made were his own - both in his drug abuse and suicide. Nobody forced him to do anything."
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