
It could have come out in the 1970s or 1980s.

Pepper with symphony orchestras, it was just a rock’n’roll record.

‘There’s a lot of power in the record, but it wasn’t a Sgt. ‘It’s hard to believe it’s such a revolutionary record – for people in the band, around the band, in the world’, Krist Novoselic told David Fricke. Kurt tried hard to escape from the impact of Nevermind, tried hard to play it down, to deny its greatness and even to disparage it, but it remains the centrepiece of his career. Only now, with the desire for information having been sated, are thoughts turning back to his musical legacy, and what it will mean over the next 10 years. We know far more about the last years of his life than we do about almost every other star or know pretty much all we’re ever going to know about his death. More has been written about Kurt Cobain’s suicide than about his greatest record. I think the songs he wrote were so full of emotion and risk, that they will mean something to future generations.’ Cross, Kurt Cobain’s biographer and the former editor of Seattle music paper The Rocket, concurs: ‘I feel Kurt’s songs will be remembered long past the celebrity of his fame and his brief place on the pop charts. And all it does is make me feel old, like Neil Young or something.’Ĭharles R. When the Foo Fighters play shows, kids will walk up – kids from new bands who are huge, who are 22, the same age I was when we did Nevermind – and they tell me that I was a great influence on them.

‘I’m proud that I was a part of that band. ‘That would be far too egotistical,’ Grohl said. In 2002, not long after the 10th anniversary of the release of Nevermind, Dave Grohl was asked whether he felt that Nevermind had had an impact on the music he was hearing in his contemporary life.
