Many probably heard the expression "Club of twenty seven." The meaning of this phrase on the one hand is very simple. After analyzing all the trends of musical culture, numerous critics created a list of names of musicians who, by international recognition, had the greatest influence on the modern formation of this art form. Why exactly twenty seven year olds? Here is a very sad addition. All musicians who fell into the so-called "Club" passed away at this age. It is difficult to say whether it is an honor to be in a given community, or is it a mockery of fate, but the existing list consists of only a few names. The last to join the Twenty-Seven Years Club is the English soul and jazz singer Amy Winehouse. She died as a result of alcoholic intoxication (according to the official version) seventeen years, three months and eighteen days after the death of the rock idol of millions of people on the planet Kurt Cobain.
Place and date of death
The death of the famous founder of the popular and still grunge group "Nirvana" is shrouded in hidden facts and little-known details. Although the suicide note by Kurt Cobain should not have raised doubts about the artist's suicide, there are still any.
Many fans of the singer still doubt that Kurt really voluntarily passed away. The first person to discover the body of the legendary musician was electrician Gary Smith. On April 8, 1994, he was to install a security system at the home of Kurt Cobain and his shocking wife, Courtney Love, in Seattle. However, no one opened the door to the electrician. Climbing up the side stairs, he saw the singer lying in the blood. Here the opinions of fans are shared. Some argue that next to the rock singer was a gun. Others adhere to the opposite version. They believe that firearms rested peacefully on the chest of the musician.
Where did you find the last letter of the singer?
Arriving at the scene, the police qualified the incident as suicide. Kurt Cobain’s death note provided all grounds for this. However, many believe that the legendary musician was killed. The first controversial fact is the place where they found the last letter of the rock idol. According to one version, Kurt Cobain’s death note was nailed to the desk with a red ballpoint pen, which was written. However, there is another opinion. Many believe that the musician’s farewell letter was found on a window-sill covered with soil, crushed by the weight of a flower pot turned upside down. It's hard to judge, especially after twenty years. However, the fact that Kurt Cobain’s last letter existed is a fact.
Instrument of death
The famous singer suffered from a panic persecution mania. This fear was the result of excessive use of heroin, tranquilizers and other drugs. Given his manic illness, the rock idol allocated a separate room in the house, fully equipping it with a variety of different weapons. Therefore, the presence of one of such specimens near the corpse did not raise any suspicions. And the last note by Kurt Cobain was for the authorities only an additional confirmation of suicide.
The cooled love of creativity
What prompted the singer to die in the prime of life and career? Why did the young legendary musician decide to leave his little daughter and beloved wife? What did not suit him? Perhaps the answers to some questions will give the text of a suicide note by Kurt Cobain. In this message, the rock idol of millions shares with his wife Courtney and fans reflections on life. The founder of the Nirvana group, in his last letter, expresses regret that for many years now he has not been able to receive from his music the pleasure and those emotions that brought him creativity at the very beginning. "At a time when the rock band is behind the scenes of the stage, and the roar of excited fans is clearly and clearly heard there, I no longer feel the joy and excitement as once before," that is how Kurt Cobain writes. A suicide note reveals the deepest feelings of a musician. He does not want to deceive anyone else: to feign the pleasure of speaking to an audience is vile. So says Kurt Cobain. He wants to have a special alarm clock that pushes him onto the stage with a blow. However, playing love for fans when the feeling is far opposite is the greatest crime that a musician does not want to commit.
Pity, love and disappointment
Kurt says that during the last three tours, he became more grateful to every fan of his work. However, along with a sense of appreciation, the singer was firmly rooted in disappointment, guilt and sympathy. The legendary rock idol considers himself a narcissist - people who are indifferent to the problems of others.
He wants to become dumb for a while, in order to regain the passion for music and creativity that has accompanied him since childhood.
In the last letter, Kurt mentions his goddess-wife, full of bright energy and soft sympathy. Cobain pays great attention to Francis - his little daughter. He calls her a joyful, loving creature who is next to her. It hurts Kurt that his little princess will grow up in the same miserable likeness of a real rock musician (according to the singer himself), who is her father.
"Better to burn out quickly than to fade away slowly."
Kurt Cobain’s death note, the translation of which is identical in almost every source, is full of metaphors. He also mentions his protracted illness - the excruciating pain of the stomach, which slowly killed him over the years. Heroin helped fight the terrible spasms that absorbed his personality. “It is better to burn out quickly than to slowly fade away” - this bright phrase is almost at the very end of a gloomy and painful letter. Kurt argues that perhaps for the love of life and sympathy for each other, he too pities people and hates them at the same time. The musician calls himself a gloomy child, angry with the whole world in childhood. It was then that his uncle died, who opened him the world of music.
Daughter. Wife. Last parting word
In the last year of his life, Kurt Cobain became practically disabled, taking tranquilizers along with heroin. He did not want to torture his loved ones. The last lines of his note were parting words to his beloved wife Courtney Love: in spite of everything, move forward and live, continue on his way for their beloved daughter Francis. “Your life will be better without me” - this line ends with Kurt Cobain’s death note. Some people claim that this proposal was completed after the death of the musician. It is believed that the death of a grunge idol is the work of Courtney Love. The death note of the singer does not reveal to us the reasons for the act, there is no secret in it. It only shows us the inner world of the legendary performer of a heavy grunge style. Kurt Cobain is not the founder of this musical direction. However, it was he who managed to hone the “dirty” “garage” sound to shine. The singer died on April 5, 1994. He was 27 years old.