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Curmudgeon (song)
"Lithium" is a song by the American rock music, rock band Nirvana (band), Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. It appears as the fifth track on the band's second album, ''Nevermind'', released by DGC Records in September 1991. In a 1992 interview with California fanzine ''Flipside (fanzine), Flipside'', Cobain explained that the song was a fictionalized account of a man who "turned to religion as a last resort to keep himself alive" after the death of his girlfriend, "to keep him from suicide." Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad described its lyrics as "an update on Karl Marx, Marx's description of religion as the 'opiate of the masses.'" "Lithium" was released as the third single from ''Nevermind'' in July 1992, peaking at number 64 on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 11 on the UK Singles Chart. It also reached number one in The Official Finnish Charts, Finland and the top five in Irish Singles Chart, Ireland and Associação Fonog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Bean Cobain
Frances Bean Cobain (born August 18, 1992) is an American visual artist and model. She is the only child of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love. She controls the publicity rights to her father's name and image. Early life Frances Bean Cobain was born on August 18, 1992, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. She was named after Frances McKee, the guitarist for the Scottish indie pop duo The Vaselines, not actress Frances Farmer, as has been commonly assumed. Former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe and actress Drew Barrymore are her godparents. Cobain's sonogram photo – the origin of her middle name, as her father thought she looked like a kidney bean – was featured on the sleeve of Nirvana's 1992 single "Lithium". Before Cobain's birth, rumors suggested that her mother used heroin during the pregnancy. This scandal intensified when '' Vanity Fair'' published Lynn Hirschberg's article "Strange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
