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Serving the Servant

Remembering Kurt Cobain

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Serving the Servant

By: Danny Goldberg
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 In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band's leader, Kurt Cobain, would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy arguably at the level of John Lennon, Michael Jackson, or Elvis Presley. Danny worked with Kurt from 1990 to 1994, the most impactful period of Kurt's life. This key time saw the stratospheric success of Nevermind turn Nirvana into the most successful rock band in the world and make punk and grunge household names; Kurt met and married the brilliant but mercurial Courtney Love and their relationship became a lightning rod for critics; their daughter Frances Bean was born; and, finally, Kurt's public struggles with addiction ended in a devastating suicide that would alter the course of rock history. Throughout, Danny stood by Kurt's side as manager, and close friend.

Drawing on Danny's own memories of Kurt, files which previously have not been made public, and interviews with, among others, Kurt's close family, friends and former bandmates, Serving the Servant sheds an entirely new light on these critical years. Casting aside the common obsession with the angst and depression that seemingly drove Kurt, Serving the Servant is an exploration of his brilliance in every aspect of rock and roll, his compassion, his ambition, and the legacy he wrought - one that has lasted decades longer than his career did. Danny Goldberg explores what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a generation who wasn't alive until after Kurt's death. In the process, he provides a portrait of an icon unlike any that have come before.©2018 Danny Goldberg (P)2018 Random House Audiobooks Entertainment & Celebrities Celebrity
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I enjoyed a different perspective adopted by this book- that of those who knew Kurt in a professional way (mostly). Obviously the lines between personal and professional blur in a field such as creativity. I was left feeling a warmth for Kurt that I hadn’t felt from other books or docos on his life. I got a sense of his humour, of his feminism, of his advocacy for GLBT rights (that was the acronym in the early 90s), and for his shameless promotion of bands his friends were in. It was nice to read something that went somewhat beyond the tragedy of Kurt. We all know that story and it is accessible in the most macabre of ways. But apart from being depressed, I believe the stories of him also being a loyal and supportive friend that these people tell. There is an authenticity that is justified by the relation to Kurt the consultants had. Thanks Danny for sharing insights that the media at the time weren’t necessarily interested in portraying; preferring the drama and shock of Kurt’s death. Thanks for focussing on his life.

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