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Police to re-examine the death of Kurt Cobain
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I've just heard that police are to re-examine the death of Kurt Cobain from the band Nirvana. Although at the moment it isn't a full investigation.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nirvana-star-kurt-cobains-death-3265619
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nirvana-star-kurt-cobains-death-3265619
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I might be mistaken here, but I thought the guy was a musician?
You are not mistaken.;-)
I remember reading that his death wasn't classed as suspicious until an author wrote a book (can't remember author's name, nor have I read the book) and he had put two and two together and made five.
Just found it
Who Killed Kurt Cobain?: The Mysterious Death of an Icon by Hans Holzer (1 Jan 1999)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Killed-Kurt-Cobain-Mysterious/dp/0806520744/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395399537&sr=1-2-spell&keywords=who+killled+kurt+cobain
But Jesus, let it lie, not again. He killed himself, there is nothing mysterious about it, anyone with a passing interest in Kurt Cobain knows that he was a tragedy waiting to happen.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/03/20/kurt-cobain-death-investigation-reopened-report-says/
Well, there is threads about other singers in here, the showbiz forum. Unless they just allow talk that's to do with singers' careers in the music forum. I'm assuming that's where this thread was.
They're not re-investigating.
Lol
Yes it was. You're probably right. It was a rare foray into the music forum and most of the threads seemed to be concerned with who's taken the crown off Beyonce, or some other pop star, as the next Queen of Pop, or who's going to be number one, or other obsessions about chart positions.:D
So maybe this is the correct forum to actually have a proper discussion.
It does feel a bit like a children's forum, so really I don't mind my thread getting moved over here so much, as I probably feel a bit more comfortable with the general way posters communicate on here.
Normally I wouldn't say that his music was overrated, generally speaking.
But if we were to compare the music of Nirvana and Pixies, I'd say that Nirvana were overrated and Pixies were underrated.
Same thing as re-examining.
Well the article says
I think that they want to examine some details, namely these Polaroid photographs, as they may reveal something important.
But I think 'Investigation' is used more as an official term where it is spread wider into a full investigation where all facets are looked at.
Again, there's not much of a difference
The re-examination will surely conclude that he died when a bullet blew his head off
A re-investigation would conclude that the bullet blew his head off when he put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger, after deciding to kill himself.
Not sure what other facets there are in this case, unless they want to delve into all that conspiratorial "he was murdered" bollocks.
Well they are different if an examination just entails of looking at these photographs.
An investigation is something official which is wider spanning.
The conclusion of an examination would be whether to decide to open a full investigation or not.
They're not doing either. The statement from the police which followed the mis-informed report (possibly based on the new photos released) says all they're doing is reviewing the information about the case to prepare themselves for any questions they may be asked around the anniversary of the death. The case remains closed, no re-examining or re-investigating.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/20/showbiz/kurt-cobain-death-probe/
I think over time that music that was game changing at least in your own life does lose impact a tad (especially if you played nearly to death at the time) but to say it was over-rated was wrong IMO. It's always makes you look cooler to say that something that's popular was over-rated but that doesn't necessarily make it so - I find Oasis much more over-rated but at the time and especially in retrospect .
I'm inclined to agree that although Courtney may not have helped matters that she didn't actually kill him and that he was probably not going to live to a ripe old age - a deeply troubled invididual with a lot of demons that he sadly couldn't overcome - it's just heartening to know that his daughter seems to be a well balanced invididual who isn't prey to the same demons as her parents.
Have a look at the squalor in which he lived.
It's a shame there isn't a high five smiley that I could put in that this point.