Synopsis
About Charles R. Cross
See more books from this AuthorMusic journalist Cross (Nevermind, not reviewed, etc.) treats the short, strange, unhappy life of musician Kurt Cobain with intelligence and an insider's perceptiveness.
| Read Full Review of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biogra..."And there had never quite been a rock star like Kurt Cobain," Cross eulogizes in this celebrity biography. Unfortunately, Cross, former editor of the Rocket
Jul 16 2001 | Read Full Review of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biogra...Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography Of Kurt Cobain Charles R Cross Hodder £17.99 When I went to work at the New Musical Express as a sweet young thing of 17, I was both amazed and appalled to discover that not everyone had - how shall we put it - seen as few summers as I.
Sep 22 2001 | Read Full Review of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biogra...Heavier than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain Charles R Cross The six albums recorded by Kurt Cobain with Nirvana mark the smallest yet most holy of musical legacies.
Oct 14 2001 | Read Full Review of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biogra...One of the most enduring myths of Kurt Cobain's life depicts the singer as a high-school dropout, kicked out of his home, sleeping under a bridge...
Apr 19 2002 | Read Full Review of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biogra...Blame Kurt Cobain for 'N Sync and Britney Spears.
Aug 17 2001 | Read Full Review of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biogra...Cross said Kurt learned early on that punk rock, which was billed as a liberating genre of music, came with its own social guidelines which were often more constricting than the ideals they were supposedly rebelling against.
Nov 28 2011 | Read Full Review of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biogra...While tearfully reading Kurt Cobain's suicide note on a tape played to mourning fans gathered at Seattle Center on April 10, 1994, Courtney Love exhorted the crowd to curse him as an "asshole" before saying they love him.
Oct 26 2001 | Read Full Review of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biogra...The writing is not exceptional (I found the back story of Nirvana and indie rock—a euphemism for amateur—ho hum), but the book’s accolades are well-deserved, because Cobain himself was enthralling.
Apr 23 2009 | Read Full Review of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biogra...An aggregated and normalized score based on 353 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes