Kurt Cobain
After his death in 1994, Nirvana single Kurt Cobain quickly became a legend...but did he really kill himself or was it murder? Cobain was born on 20 February 1967. He had a happy childhood but his life changed in 1975 when his parents divorced. His teenage years were miserable and he was often depressed. He got his first guitar when he was fourteen and played with different teenage bands. Then he formed Nirvana with Krist Novoselic, and they quickly very successful with songs like Smells like Teen Spirit in 1991, But Cobain didn’t enjoy fame-he once said, ‘famous is the last thing I wanted to be’. He married singer Courtney Love in 1992 and they had a daughter. But his depression got worse. He had serious drug problems and he shot himself at the age of just 27.