2004-04-08

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Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Falling for the suicide blond

It was 10 years ago this week, as the Beatles almost said - 'it' being Kurt Cobain's suicide. But you'll already know that, because he and Nirvana have been all over MTV, Xfm and the NME in the last few days, the subjects of various genuflecting tributes. His iconisation has had dubious consequences, and I'm not just talking about T-shirt sales to 15-year-olds who know only that he's cool and dead. Glamourised in death beyond what he was in life, he's become almost an aspirational figure - anybody remember that ludicrous NME piece on The Vines which droolingly suggested that Craig Nicholls might go the same way as Cobain?