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Kurt Cobain's Death: Looking Back at the Rock Icon's Final Days and Legacy, 30 Years Later

Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain died by suicide on April 5, 1994. Here's a look back at his final days and the musical legacy he left behind.

“Kurt had ... inhuman levels of professional pressure, chronic and severe physical pain and a heroin addiction that he just couldn’t seem to shake (or didn’t want to),” Nirvana biographer and Cobain pal Michael Azerrad wrote in an article for The New Yorker in 2021. The singer checked into Exodus Recovery Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., on March 28 but left after 36 hours and supposedly retreated to a country house he and Love owned about 40 miles east of Seattle. In 2014, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2019, NME reported that the trio's single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” had become the second '90s music video to hit one billion views on YouTube behind Guns ‘N Roses’ “November Rain."

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