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Last Days review – Leith’s opera is bleak and beautiful

Oliver Leith’s new work, based on Gus Van Sant’s fictionalised account of the final days of Kurt Cobain, keeps its audience at arm’s length, allowing its dense score to articulate and drive the drama

The Guardian - UK

Last Days review: Extraordinary Kurt Cobain opera avoids all the clichés Nirvana fans might have predicted

Director Gus Van Sant gave permission for the script of his 2005 film ‘Last Days’ to be used as the inspiration for a new production about the Nirvana frontman. The result, staged at Linbury Theatre, is finely wrought and deserving of accolades

The Independent UK

‘Kurt Cobain was a walking paradox’: inside the opera about the star’s final days

It has little plot, the dialogue is mumbled, cereal bowls are a big theme, and a fast-talking cattle auctioneer plays his manager. We meet the team behind the Royal Opera House’s daring new show

The Guardian - UK

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Royal Opera House swaps glitz for grunge in Gus Van Sant adaptation

As the Royal Opera House readies itself for a grunge adaptation, Richard Godwin asks, why are we so attached to old misconceptions about snobbery in the oeuvre?

Evening Standard

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: ‘It’s even easier for weirdos to find each other now than in the 90s’

The guitarist recalls how Arab Strap gave Scottish musicians a sense of national pride, the excess of his band’s early years and why he’s still fighting for independence• Read an exclusive extract of Stuart Braithwaite’s autobiography: ‘We had Iggy Pop on our side’

The Guardian - UK

A lawsuit over Nirvana's 'Nevermind' naked baby album cover is dismissed (again)

Spencer Elden accuses the band of profiting from "the lascivious nature of his image" in the photo taken when he was a baby. Now 31, he is appealing the judge's dismissal.

WEKU

Nirvana win lawsuit over 1991 Nevermind album cover

Nirvana have won a lawsuit against a man pictured on the cover of album Nevermind as a naked baby.

Evening Standard

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Nirvana album cover baby child abuse imagery case thrown out by judge

Spencer Elden, now 31, was photographed for the rock band's famous cover at the age of four months but claimed the picture constitutes "child pornography"

Daily Mirror

Frances Bean Cobain admits she ‘wasn’t sure’ she’d live until age 30

‘Entering this new decade, I hope to stay soft no matter how hardening the world can feel at times,’ the artist wrote

The Independent UK

Cassie Workman: Aberdeen review – a voyage around Kurt Cobain

Exploring the late Nirvana star’s life and death, Workman delivers a darkly beautiful hour of spoken word

The Guardian - UK

Liam Gallagher unrecognisable as he shows off his platinum blond hair makeover

Liam Gallagher - best known for having been in Oasis - posted a selfie on social media earlier this morning in which he teased that he had gone blond, with fans saying they hardly recognised him

Daily Mirror

Mark Steel asked people on Twitter what they knew about Newport and the response is brilliant

People shared their stories with the handful of famous faces that have graced the city over the years including rock stars and time lords

Wales Online

Kurt Cobain’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ guitar sells for $4.5 million at auction

The guitar played by Kurt Cobain for Nirvana’s breakout 1991 single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video has sold for $4.5 million at auction, the sellers said Sunday.

Tribune News Service

Jim Irsay bought Kurt Cobain’s guitar for $4.5 million

Jim Irsay had the winning bid on Kurt Cobain's famous guitar.

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Evening Standard

Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit guitar auctioned off for £3.5m

The famous instrument was used in many Nirvana live performances

The Guardian - US

Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit electric guitar to be auctioned

The 1969 Fender Mustang, on display in Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, is expected to have a starting price of over $600,000

The Guardian - UK

My Chemical Romance: how the vilified band turned antipathy into triumph

MCR split but survived emo’s moral panic to leave a shining legacy for all outsiders – especially young people struggling emotionally or those who refuse gender binaries

Dublin Live

Kurt Cobain's guitar from Smells Like Teen Spirit video to go on display in Newbridge

The turquoise left-handed electric guitar was played by the late Nirvana frontman

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Irish Mirror

Kurt Cobain's guitar from Smells Like Teen Spirit video to go on display in Ireland

The turquoise left-handed electric guitar was played by the late Nirvana frontman in the music video Smells Like Teen Spirit

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #32: Readers pick the books they want to see on screen

In this week’s newsletter: We asked Guide readers and Guardian writers which books they want adapted for TV or film – here’s what you chose

The Guardian - UK

Let me educate you: an art tutor’s verdict on art by Robbie Williams and other stars

Robbie Williams’ paintings will be shown by Sotheby’s next month. We asked an A-level examiner to grade the work

Tribune News Service

Kurt Cobain’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ guitar up for auction, benefiting mental health

The guitar Kurt Cobain played in Nirvana’s iconic “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video over 30 years ago is headed to the auction block.

The Guardian - UK

Kurt Cobain’s final days to be dramatised by Royal Opera House

Last Days, adapted from acclaimed 2005 film, ‘plunges into the torment’ of Nirvana singer before death in 1994

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Commentary: Stigma failed Kurt Cobain nearly 30 years ago and continues to fail people in addiction now

On or around April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, with a lethal dose of heroin in his blood.

The Guardian - UK

Sub Pop’s Megan Jasper: ‘It felt like the ground beneath us could give at any moment’

In an extract from a new collection of essays on women’s experiences in music, the chief executive of the record label famous for launching Nirvana looks back

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