Next week marks the five-year anniversary of the death of Nirvana's gifted, but deeply troubled Kurt Cobain.
Cobain, the reluctant star of Seattle's grunge scene, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 27. His body was discovered on April 8, 1994 in a small room located over the garage of his Seattle home. The somber occasion has lead many music lovers to ponder the legacy Cobain left behind. "I think he was a brilliant musician and was just really somebody who really revolutionized music in a big way," actor Giovanni Ribisi observed of what Cobain left behind. "I remember exactly where I was," the Chemical Brothers' Tom Rowlands recalled of learning about Cobain's passing. Social Distortion frontman turned solo artist Mike Ness summarized, "I think he brought a lot to the world and the music industry. He was for real." MTV News will look back on the life of Kurt Cobain this weekend on "MTV News 1515," which premiers Saturday at 10 a.m. MTV Online takes a poignant look back, in "Nirvana Revisited", at an October 1993 interview and performace just prior to the release of the band's final studio album, "In Utero."
