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I ts no secret that a biography such as this demands the time and attention of many more people than the author, and in this instance I am most heavily indebted to my wife, Jo-Ann, who worked at least as hard as I did in gathering and collating information, and without whom, I would never have been able to piece together the chronology of Kurt Cobains last weeks on earth.

I would also like to thank Grant Alden, for graciously opening his own files to me; Jeff Ressner, John Aizle-wood and Joe Banks, each of whom opened doors I might otherwise have walked straight by; Chris Nickson, Wendy Weisberg and Jeff Tamarkin, for gathering up so much more research material; Charles Cross, Gillian Gaar, Robert Roth, and especially, Amy Mueller for being a great friend. Snarleyyow, K-Mart, Geoff Monmouth and Anchorite Man also proved irreplaceable pillars of support, particularly as the deadline loomed closer. And finally, a special thank you to Tony Secunda and Jim Fitzgerald, for ironing out all the kinks (and pretty things).

My primary sources for the information contained in this book were my own interviews with many of the principal characers who appear herein: including Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl and Chris Novoselic, of course, butalso Steve Albini, Buzz Osbourne, Dale Crover, and Gina Birch.

In addition to these, Grant Alden kindly supplied me with the transcripts of his own interviews with Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt, Ben Shepherd, Chris and Dave, and Buzz and Dale; while Jo-Ann Greene supplied her conversations with Chad Channing, Mark Arm, Steve Turner, Daniel House and Nils Bernstein. Grant and Jo-Ann also contributed greatly to my own stockpile of interviews with people who, for various reasons, declined to be identified in this book.

In addition to these sources, I also had access to several hundred articles and news clippings, drawn from several dozen different magazines. Of these, I would particularly like to acknowledge Alternative Press , the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer newspapers, The Rocket , Q , Select , Vox , Spin , Rolling Stone , Option , the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Weekly , Details , Sounds , Melody Maker and the New Musical Express . Of special value were: Cobain Found a Kindred Spirit in Frances Farmers Tragic Life by William Arnold [ Seattle Post-Intelligencer April 14, 1994]; Aberdeen Betrays the Origins of the Worlds Greatest Garage Band by Patrica MacDonald [ Seattle Times , March 8, 1992]; Nirvana: Inside the Heart and Mind of Kurt Cobain by Michael Azerrad [ Rolling Stone , April 16, 1992].

I would also like to acknowledge my debt to Michael Azerrads authorized biography of Nirvana, Come As You Are , in particular, the chapter on Kurt Cobains childhood and early teen years; in other respects, it served as the starting point for a great many of my own inquiries.

Finally, I should point out that I have occasionally taken the liberty of attempting to recreate passages of dialogue between certain characters in this book. This has been done only after thoroughly checking all the available facts, to ensure that the resultant account of events remains accurate.

A mazingly, no one seems to have heard, or at least noticed, the shot. Two days later, on Thursday, April 7th, the Seattle Police Department reportedly received another summons to the Cobain residence, when a phone call alleging a disturbance was apparently received. Five minutes later, a source insists, a second call retracted it, insisting that the report was merely a hoax.

The police would have responded either way, but the house was silent, empty, and the workmen who had been in the grounds throughout the week wouldnt have known anything about disturbances or hoax calls. So far as they were concerned, Mr. and Mrs. Cobain hadnt been near the house all week. The private detectives who were still engaged in searching for Kurt would have backed up their story, and so would the neighbors. Cobains body lay where he fell for three days.

Back in L.A., Courtney was at her wits end. A full week had now passed since she last spoke with her husband. She was, her lawyer, Barry Tarlow, later said, already disturbed, concerned, troubled; now she was allegedly having some kind of allergic reaction to the medication prescribed for her, to try and sooth her nerves. Hives and swellings were breaking out on her body. Desperately, she called 911.

Courtney was rushed to Century City hospital, not, however, as an allergy sufferer, but as a suspected drug overdose. Following treatment, she was booked on suspicion of narcotics possession; possession of drug paraphernalia (including a hypodermic needle); and possession of stolen propertya prescription book, Tarlow said, which her doctor had left behind in her room.

He also dismissed the possession charge. Tarlow said the fine powder, which the authorities found in a good-luck charm, was ashes.

Courtney was released on $10,000 bail three hours after she was charged. Arraignment was set for May 5. She resumed her vigil.

But her wait was almost over.

Gary Smith, a 50-year-old electrician employed by Veca Electrical Contractors in Bellevue, arrived at the Cobain house around 8:30 A.M. on Friday, April 9th, to begin installing a security system.

I walked around to the door on the back side of the garage [and] looked to see if I had a way to route the wire. Thats when he saw the body, through a glass opening in the door. Except at first, he didnt know it was a body. At first, he thought it was a dressmakers mannequin lying alongside an upturned flowerpot.

Then he saw the blood, congealed in the right ear. And then he saw the shotgun, pointing at the chin.

Smith bolted for his truck and put a call through to the dispatcher. Call 911 theres a body! He admitted that he didnt recognize it, that hed never seen Kurt Cobain. If he passed me on the street, I would not know who he was.

While Smith waited for the police to arrive, his boss was on the phone to local rock radio station KXRX-FM.

He had his details straight, says DJ Beau Roberts, who took the call. But when I asked him his name, he was very defensive and hung up. We thought it was just another hoax. It would not, after all, have been the firsttimerumor mills thrive on death and disaster, and it really doesnt need much to start the ball rolling.

It took a second, more detailed, call to convince KXRX to take their inquiries further; then, when the police department confirmed that a body had indeed been discovered, the station broadcast what information they had, breaking the news to a stunned Seattle.

It was precious little, but more than enough. Throughout the day, listeners remained glued to radio sets for updates, info, or even vague rumor. MTV went into day-long overdrive, prompting Time magazine to compare their coverage with that which followed the assassination of JFK, 31 years beforewith Kurt Loder in the role of Walter Cronkite.

Still, as late as its mid-afternoon edition, the local Seattle Times newspaper still couldnt provide anything more concrete than the fact that a body had indeed been discovered; and the police were keeping quiet as well. There was a suicide note, but police wouldnt say who signed [it], who it was addressed to, or its contents. They [also] declined to discuss the identity of the dead man.

For Cobains audience, however, even the rumor was enough. By 11:30 A.M., the first knot of fans were braving the drizzle and making their way to Madrona. By mid-afternoon, though there were still no more than half a dozen milling around, the most disinterested passerby would have noticed that something very tragic, very sad, had just shattered the peace of the leafy, well-heeled neighborhood.

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