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Charles R. Cross, Music Journalist Who Wrote Heralded Kurt Cobain Biography and Edited Seattle’s Alt-Weekly the Rocket, Dies at 67
Charles R. Cross, who wrote biographies of Kurt Cobain, edited Seattle's the Rocket and founded the Springsteen fanzine Backstreets, has died at 67.
Charles R. Cross, a Seattle-based music journalist who edited the city’s preeminent alt-weekly., the Rocket, and penned bestselling biographies of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and other major rock figures, died Friday at age 67. Cross first caught the attention of national readers when he started up Backstreets in 1980, printing 10,000 copies of a four-page tabloid devoted to Springsteen, which he passed it, gratis, at a Seattle Coliseum show. In his most recent pieces for the city’s daily, he had profiled fellow authors, including Anupreeta Das, about her Bill Gates biography, and Ann Powers, about her new book about Joni Mitchell’s career.
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