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Paul Brannigan

"She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak." The story behind Nirvana's darkest and most disturbing love song, Heart-Shaped Box

Kurt Cobain 1993.

In July 1993, following Nirvana's show at New York's Roseland Ballroom during the annual New Music Seminar, Kurt Cobain sat down with a handful of writers from select English music magazines to discuss his band's upcoming third album, In Utero.

Scheduled for release on September 21, 1993, the album - the follow-up to the Seattle trio's game-changing 1991 release Nevermind - was inarguably the most anticipated record of the year, with Cobain's lyrics destined to be pored over, dissected and analysed on a forensic level by fans and music journalists desperate to gain insights into Cobain's state of mind in the aftermath of his band's wholly unexpected success.

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