Grunge icon Kurt Cobain remembered 25 years after Nirvana frontman’s death
- Fans trekked to Seattle’s Viretta Park to leave notes and flowers on benches to mark the anniversary
On the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, dozens of people left flowers, candles and handwritten messages at a Seattle park near the house where the Nirvana frontman killed himself.
Cobain, whose band rose to global fame in the city’s grunge rock music scene of the early 1990s, was 27 when he died on April 5, 1994 in his home in a wealthy neighbourhood near Lake Washington.
Fans trekked on Friday to nearby Viretta Park, leaving memorials on benches, where flowers mixed with handwritten phrases like “thank you for your art” and “find your place”.
In an essay on the Crosscut news website, Cobain biographer Charles R. Cross wrote that few Seattle musicians “have been as tied to Seattle in the mind of the popular zeitgeist as Kurt Cobain”.
Nirvana’s breakthrough album, Nevermind, was released in 1991. Featuring the hits Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are, the album went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts and has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.