Nirvana: Inside the Heart and Mind of Kurt Cobain
Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992
FOR NOW, Kurt Cobain and his new wife Courtney Love, live in an apartment in Los Angeles's modest Fairfax district. The living room holds little besides a Fender Twin Reverb amplifier, a stringless guitar, a makeshift Buddhist shrine and, on the mantel, the couple's collection of naked plastic dolls.
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