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Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl says that despite his problems with drugs and depression, Kurt Cobain was one of the funniest people he has ever met.

Grohl was speaking about the recording of Nirvana’s legendary MTV Unplugged session, available on DVD on Monday, and said that Cobain was continuously cracking jokes off camera.

The former Nirvana drummer said: “I remember it seemed like he was having a good time because a lot of talk between songs was hilariously funny

“I don’t know how many people realise it but Kurt was one of the funniest people I have ever met.”

Bassist Krist Novoselic said of the magical night in November 1993: “The show has an aura of its own. Kurt’s death was a huge media event and that unplugged performance turned into this…

1. Heart-Shaped Box

Artist: Nirvana

Director: Anton Corbijn

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Once upon a time, when Foo Fighters were just a twinkle in Dave Grohl's eye, there lived a certain band called Nirvana. At the time they emerged, they changed the face of popular music with frontman Kurt Cobain becoming a hero for a generation and poster boy for the grunge movement.

Read on for an exclusive video performance...

At their height in 1993 they decided to unplug their fuzz pedals and put on their best cardigans for a seminal unplugged performance for MTV and we have an exclusive song from the soon to be released DVD of the performance.

The DVD, 'Unplugged In New York', is out on November 19 with previously unseen songs, but if you can't wait until then, we have an exclusive full length performance of Nirvana's 'About A Girl'.

Watch Nirvana 'About A Girl' for MTV Unplugged here!

Rocker Dave Grohl was left heartbroken recently, when he stumbled across home movies of late Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain online.

Grohl, who now fronts Foo Fighters, knew immediately when the footage was taken, and realised it was at a point in Cobain's life when the singer/songwriter was extremely unhappy.

"I watched this thing on (video-sharing website) YouTube of Kurt's home movies," said Grohl.

"He's hanging around with his family in a park, sitting by this stream as these little girls run around.

"And it broke my heart, because I knew when that was, and I knew that he wasn't necessarily happy at the time...

"He couldn't fully experience the joy of life."

Cobain killed himself in 1994, aged 27.

Forthcoming film will be the first to feature band's songs

The forthcoming Kurt Cobain biopic from Universal Pictures is set to be the first Nirvana film to feature the band's music, NME.COM can reveal.

It had been reported that Universal had recently bought the rights to Charles R Cross' Cobain biography, 'Heavier Than Heaven'.

Cross has since told NME.COM that the package Universal have bought would be a combination of both the book rights and the rights to Nirvana's music, as put together by Courtney Love, who owns the rights to Nirvana's music.

"Courtney Love has packaged my book rights with Nirvana's music," he explained, in reference to the package Universal now have rights to. "It's…

 

 

 

Rocker DAVE GROHL regularly dreams about his late NIRVANA bandmate KURT COBAIN. Grohl, who drummed in Nirvana but now fronts Foo Fighters, has regular nighttime visions of Cobain hiding from him. He says, "I still dream about Kurt. Every time I see…

    BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- A biopic of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is being planned by Hollywood studio Universal, with Courtney Love, Cobain's widow serving as the executive producer, it was reported Sunday.

    Variety magazine reported that the studio has acquired the rights to a biography of Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 27 near the height of his grunge-rock band's success.

    Many of the details of the project are still in the early stages. But it is reported that "Troy" screenwriter David Benioff has signed on to write the screenplay, which will be based on the Charles Cross book, "Heavier than Heaven," which detailed the rise and fall of the late rocker.

    Nirvana helped popularize grunge rock in the early 1990s, and the song "Smells Like…

by Paul Cashmere

Nirvana

 

'Nirvana Live at Reading' is being prepared for a November DVD release.

The band played a 90 minute set at the well-known music English music festival on August 30,1992, not long after breaking worldwide with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'.

Nirvana headlined the festival that year on a bill with Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Public Enemy, Teenage Fanclub and The Wonderstuff.

Lead singer Kurt Cobain came on stage in a wheelchair for that event. Already, the stories of his abuse were weekly news.

Their performance was described as "good but not exciting". The obligatory smashing of the instruments was described as "carefully orchestrated".

Regardless, the performance was historic and is coming soon to a lounge-room near you.

The setlist featured Breed / Drain You / Aneurysm / School / Sliver / In Bloom / Come As You Are / Lithium…

By Ted Fry

Kurt Cobain crowd-surfs in a scene from the new documentary "Kurt Cobain About a Son."

 

Mythic Northwest luminary Kurt Cobain gets his latest due in the surrealistic docudrama "Kurt Cobain About a Son," opening today at the Varsity Theatre. The enigmatic rocker has been on screen before, and no doubt will be again (in documentary or dramatic form). For completists, what follows is a rundown of some of the available films Cobain has graced, in body, voice or spirit:

"Nirvana Live! Tonight!

Sold Out!" (1994)

As concert films go, there have been many better in the technical details. But in capturing the base, primitive punk ethos that was at the core of the Nirvana phenomenon, there are few equals. The extensive DVD compilation was cut together using a number of live performances from the "Nevermind" era, with as much improvement in sound and…