Kurt Cobain met rocker Courtney Love in 1990 but the pair first began to get close the following year. After just four months of dating, they took their relationship to the next level, tying the knot in Honolulu, Hawaii. Their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born in the summer of 1992, around the time grunge scene leaders Nirvana approached the height of their success.
Helping to define a sub-genre of music, releasing two number 1 albums with Nirvana, Cobain cemented his place in rock’s history books, but his turbulent personal life saw him battling addition and mental health issues.
The singer and guitarist died by suicide in April 1994 at the age of 27.
Months later, Hole star Love spoke out about losing him in her first interview since his death.
In a heart-wrenching revelation, the rockstar told Rolling Stone: “I used to be able to talk to Kurt more, wherever he is. But now he’s really gone.”
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“I used to feel like mourning him was really selfish because it would make him feel guilty,” she continued. “And the best thing to do was to pray for him and show him joy, so he could feel the vibration of the joy.
“But now I know he’s dissipated, and he’s gone. There’s not anything left. Not even to talk to.”
Love, who had returned to touring, also shared how the loss of Cobain haunted her while she was onstage.
“When the lights are blue and there are two of them in front of me, often they will symbolise Kurt’s eyes to me. That happens a lot,” she told the publication.
“And it’s also concentrated on the cause and effect he’s had on the world.”
Cobain’s final album, Nirvana’s In Utero, was released just eight months before his death and received widespread critical acclaim.
It has been certified 5x platinum and has been ranked among the greatest albums of all times by a number of publications.
Just two months after her famous husband’s suicide, Love’s Hole bandmate, bass player Kristen Pfaff, died of a drug overdose.
Last year, she hinted at the possibility of reuniting the band during an interview with The Guardian.
Looking back on the release of their second album, Live Through This, which fell days after Cobain’s death and weeks before Pfaff’s passing, Love told the publication: “When it came out, there was so much horrible other stuff happening in my life that I didn’t even think about it.”
On the subject of processing the tragedy which surrounded her that year through music, the singer added: “We were from the kick, punch, scream, yell until they leave us alone and/or combo of that stuff with a guitar kind of generation.
“We didn’t have a language for that kind of stuff.”