Kurt Cobain is “The Voice of the Whole Generation X”

1. Kurt Cobain is “The Voice of the Whole Generation X”

2. Prehistory

Generation X is a generation that born
in the early 60’s to the early 80’s
Significantly increased the divorce processes.
Increased the percent of working women. So called “
Two-Income Household Generation”
This generation is also called “Latchkey Generation”
(поколение ключей).

3. Kurt Cobain, born on the 20th of February 1967, became the very boy who suffered the hardships of capitalistic changes in the

Kurt was born in Aberdeen,
Washington.
He was happy, cheerful and
smiling boy, but he was
highly sensitive and
vulnerable

4. The first disappointment

When Kurt was 9 years old, his parents divorced. After that case the
personality of the boy radically changed. The boy became withdrawn
and tried to appear at home less, hanging around the streets of boring
Aberdeen like all representatives of Generation X.
To this complicated teenage period Kurt devoted his song
“Something in the Way”

5. Poverty, Drugs, Aids and Crime

In 1980’s in States were decided to
cancel the youth assistance
program and to redirect the
assistance to old aged people.
In result every fifth person
from the Generation X spend
youth in poverty. During that
time drug epidemic broke out
and AIDS(СПИД) spread

6. NIRVANA

Nirvana is an outstanding
American rock band,
formed in 1987 by vocalist
and guitarist Kurt Cobain,
the leader of the group
and the author of all lyrics
, Christ Novoselic(
basguitar) and Dave
Grohl (drummer).
In 1989 Nirvana released
its first album entitled
“BLEACH”

7. The Greatest Album “NeverMind”

8. An Interesting Fact

9.

Though you can
differently refer to
Nirvana’s music , but
nevertheless no one can
deny its cultural
contribution.

10. Another Interesting Fact

In 2012 “The Rolling
Stones” magazine
put the album
“NeverMind” on the
17th place amongst
the greatest albums
of music history: “No
album over the years
has had such an
overwhelming
impact on an entire
generation, and such
a disastrous effect
on the main its
Creator”.

11. Disappointment

The world of corporations, profit and hypocrisy
disappointed him. Later Kurt was disappointed in his
marriage with sassy, unbalanced, rocker woman
Courtney Love, that led to tragedy and finally Kurt
mired in heroin addiction( героиновая
зависимость), that destroyed him.
Nevertheless Kurt proceeded to write lyrics. And in 1993
the last album was released. At first it had an alarming
title: “I hate myself and I want to die. Later it was
named “In Utero”(в утробе)

12.

On the 8th of April 1994
an electric came to the
Cobain’s house in
Seattle to install a
home security system.
It was him who found
Kurt Cobain lying dead
with a bullet in his
head after three days of
his death. Kurt
Cobain died on the
5th of April 1994. The
Police named the
cause of the death as
suicide. But when
the news spread in
the society a theory
appeared that
Cobain was
murdered.
DEATH

13.

14. Who Knows?

Nobody knows if Courtney Love ordered the killing of
Kurt or not, but we may dare to suppose that she
assisted to this tragedy to happen.

15.

On the 5th of April 1994, drugged, disappointed first in his parents,
then in the world of music and in the end disappointed in his
beloved woman, Kurt didn’t see any sense to live.