Kurt changes direction, pretends to be out of control and stops the pushchair just short of the sofa. “Where are my babies?” she demands, her arms outstretched. Courtney Love-Cobain is lounging barefoot on a sofa. Frances Bean is gurgling uncontrollably, a big grin on her angelic face. Daddy Cobain is careering from one end of the room to another, steering his 11-month-old daughter around in her pushchair, dressed in a suit that suggests he could be auditioning for the role of Tigger in Winnie The Pooh. It’s late afternoon in a photo studio in downtown Manhattan. The Cobain family are having a nice day out. She is now a freelance writer for The Guardian, The Observer and The Times, and is an author. She also worked at the NME, Esquire and Elle. He clearly thought it would be easier not to be alive, despite adoring Frances Bean and Courtney.”Īmy Raphael was Features Editor of The Face from 1991 – 93. He was a dad and a husband, and a really sweet guy, but at one point he said he believed that if you die you’re completely happy. But he was one of those people you just knew was clearly not going to make it. Because of the piece I’d done with Courtney I knew that he trusted me and that I could ask those difficult questions. I know that sounds deeply inappropriate today in the post-Weinstein world, but he was so unthreatening and non-alpha, and so clearly besotted with Courtney, that there was something that felt just so safe and even vulnerable about him. In the end, when it happened I was so jetlagged out of my head that I was probably on a similar level to him – whatever he was taking at the time – and he said he’d just come over to my hotel room. I’d spoken to Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, but still no Kurt. But even so, it still took a really long time to get access to interview him. But I remember when I very first met him with everyone else in the lobby of his hotel in New York, he plucked this lily out of a vase and said to me: ‘Why are you so sad? You saved my wife’s life.’ Because I’d written that cover story for The Face. Kurt famously didn’t like doing interviews anyway, and it was a really weird atmosphere because there had been an unofficial Nirvana biography by Victoria Clarke and Britt Collins, and an unflattering piece about Courtney by Lynn Hirschberg in Vanity Fair. And who wouldn’t want to interview Courtney Love back then? So I did a Courtney Love cover story, where I’d basically said the Courtney you’ve read about isn’t the person that I found. But in order to get to Nirvana, I had to do Hole first. “I’d seen Nirvana early on and I really, really wanted to interview them.
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