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Courtney Love

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Courtney Love: Bohemian Women's Political Alliance benefit, Club Largo, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 September 1992

Benefit a Reminder of Courtney Love's Potential ...

All You Need Is Love: Face to Face with Kurt and Courtney

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 19 December 1992

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love are the most controversial rock couple since Sid and Nancy. Critics of their relationship have cast Courtney as a scheming, ...

Kurt and Courtney: Love and hate and the whole damned thing

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 2 January 1993

In the concluding part of our exclusive interview, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love attempt to explain the truth behind their controversial relationship and how distorted ...

Courtney Love: Hole in One

Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 19 February 1994

Hole are, to all intents and purposes, Courtney Love. And Courtney Love is a one-woman spite factory, spewing out bile and savaging anyone who dares ...

Courtney Love: Love's Labor Lost

Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 3 April 1997

How Courtney blew her fight for an Oscar nomination as the junkie wife of a porn king in The People vs. Larry Flynt ...

Courtney Love: You Shall Go To The Ball

Comment by Caitlin Moran, Select, January 1998

After Larry Flynt, the new-look Courtney has gatecrashed Hollywood. She has a health guru, hangs out with Madonna and may call her new album 'Malibu'. ...

Access all areas: The Rock Muse

Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Harper's Bazaar, April 1998

Scratch an epic rock god and you'll usually find a cool, inspiring woman who supplied him with lyrics, contacts and style. Now that girl power ...

Kurt Cobain: Double Fantasy

Report by Dave Thompson, MOJO, May 1998

Kurt Cobain, the rock martyr; Courtney Love, the widow who wants it all. In the years since his death, the question "What really happened?" has ...

Kurt and Courtney: Love Will Tear It Apart

Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998

"I'M INTERESTED IN forbidden stories," says Nick Broomfield of his latest project, Kurt And Courtney, his drawling English vowels tanned with West Coast inflexions from ...

Kurt and Courtney; dir Nick Broomfield

Film/DVD/TV Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998

Starring Nick Broomfield, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love Directed by Nick Broomfield Opens July 3, Cert tbc, 99 mins ...

Hole: Kith and Skin

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 September 1998

She's still angry, still got the "fire in her belly", still craving world domination for HOLE. We load up the tequila and discover that a ...

Love and death and the Hole damn thing...

Interview by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 15 November 1998

It is four years since Kurt Cobain's suicide, but it is what people remember about Courtney Love. Yet she has her band, her Hollywood career ...

Anita Pallenberg (1998) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, Summer 1998

This is a transcription of a phone interview. Listen to the audio of this interview.   ...

The Lesson Of Love: Courtney's Got The Hole World In Her Hands

Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 14 May 1999

IT IS A STILL-SLEEPY Courtney Love whose familiar voice comes over the phone line early one morning from Cincinnati. It's the first day of her ...

Nirvana, Courtney Love: Live Through This: American Rock Music In The Nineties By Everett True

Book Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, October 2001

Marking the 10th anniversary of Nevermind, True relives a turbulent life in grunge and Gullick and Sweet share their photographs ...

Courtney Love: Love Will Tear Us Apart

Comment by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 14 February 2003

I WISH I'D saved the emails. There were eight, spanning December 1999 to April 2002, all written in unpunctuated lower-case. ...

Courtney Love: America’s Sweetheart

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004

Lady Cobain emerges from rehab to release her debut solo album. ...

It's True, I Did Kill Kurt Cobain

Memoir by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 5 April 2004

It is ten years since the rock icon shot himself. This critic recalls meeting with his wife, Courtney Love, shortly before his death ...

Courtney Love: Love, Actually

Profile and Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 9 November 2006

Courtney Love was rejected by her parents at 9, raised in institutions and grew into the wild woman of rock. Our correspondent spent the weekend ...

Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

Book Review by Ben Thompson, The Independent, 12 November 2006

Make tea, get nose fixed ASAP ...

Courtney Love: 'I've Lived A Really Weird Life'

Interview by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times, 15 December 2006

THERE ARE signs of clean living everywhere in Courtney Love's hotel suite. ...

Courtney Love: Damage Limitation

Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 1 April 2010

Courtney Love has declared her image ripe for rebranding, and with her drug addiction under control and her band reinvigorated, she is heading in the ...

Courtney Love: Danforth Music Hall, Toronto

Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 20 July 2013

REGARDLESS of what any of us think we know about the life and times of Courtney Love, it doesn't change the fact that on Saturday ...

Only Noise: In the Wake of Kurt's Suicide, Courtney Love Changed My Life

Memoir by Carla DeSantis Black, AudioFemme, 4 April 2019

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we're shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, legendary ROCKRGRL editor Carla ...

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