Product Description

This unique telling of the story of Kurt Cobain’s years with Nirvana is made up of quotes and stories from the people who were there as the story was unfolding. Illustrated throughout with over 150 photographs, it’s as near as possible to a day-by-day log of every significant event from the band’s inception right through to Kurt Cobain’s tragic early death.

Spawned in the intensely fertile music scene that blossomed in and around Seattle in the late 1980s, Nirvana instantly distinguished itself by virtue of the singular passion that drove its leader, Kurt Cobain. The singer was imbued with incredible personal magnetism, as well as an uncommon gift for articulating the chaotic emotions of what has been called a lost generation, but his extreme distaste for the attention attracted by those talents proved overwhelming.

Nirvana’s influence is certain to be felt for many years to come, and this book looks for the reasons behind their seismic impact.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #487550 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

The Dallas Observer
...author Carrie Borzillo... manages a careful balance between the heartbreaking and the humorous.

About the Author
Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna started her career in journalism at Billboard magazine, where she penned a column on up-and-coming bands and the music business for four and a half years as Heatseekers Features Editor. She left to become Managing Editor at the pioneering music news website, allstarnews.com, for six years, which earned her recognition as one of the most influential Californians in the music biz in BAM magazine.

She has appeared on numerous TV shows on VH1, E! Entertainment Television, CNN, and others. Carrie is currently a music columnist at Alternative Press and the Senior Editor/sexpert at Gene Simmons Tongue magazine. Her work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, SPIN, Us Weekly, Rolling Stone and others. She lives in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

Great pictures, not much else
If you want Nivana In Pictures, this book fits the bill perfectly. This is also useful if you went to see Nirvana but just can't remember the date you went to see the greatest gig of your life.
Let's be fair, this account this very detailed, but repetitive captions like "Kurt Cobain: Spokesman for a dischanted generation" (fans, you know what I mean) grate on you after a while. A bit more opinion from Borzillo-Vrenna and few more better captions would give this book a 5.

informative diary of nirvana years.
this is a very informative book on kurt cobain and nirvana,its a day by day account of what went on and where,it has lots of great pictures of the band.it also tells the tragic ending when kurt decided it was better to burn out than fade away.a great book with great pictures,any nirvana fan should buy this.

a brilliant book to keep forever
this book was large and hardback and the hundreds of pages inside were beautiful- all glossy with with lovely pictures on each page. the words within the book were great aswell they totally told the life of kurt cobain very well in every detail from the moment he was born to the day of his funeral. it really is quite sad at the end where it shows pictures of kurt cobain under a white sheet in a stretcher after his suiside- the book even has his suiside note in it. written by the people who knew kurt and the people who were there, this is a must-buy book- espeacially nirvana and kurt cobain fans.