Kurt Cobain’s ‘MTV Unplugged’ guitar sells for record-breaking £4.85million

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Dave Grohl first stepped into Shoreline’s Robert Lang Studios in October 1994, still reeling from the death of his Nirvana band mate Kurt Cobain some six months earlier, he surely couldn’t of even dreamt of what the future had in store for his music career.Even now on the 25th anniversary of the release of Foo Fighters‘ self-titled debut album, he’s probably still trying to figure it all out.

Dave Grohl is opening up about how he was affected by the death of Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain.

Dave Grohl has reflected on how writing some of Foo Fighters‘ earliest songs proved to be an “exorcism” of the grief he experienced after the death of Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain.Speaking to Apple Music‘s Matt Wilkinson to mark Foo Fighters’ 25th anniversary, Grohl said that writing ‘This Is A Call’ – the band’s first major single – allowed him to go through an “awakening” after Cobain took his life in April 1994.“Most of the songs on that first record had been around for a while.

Linda Laban A few months after Kurt Cobain’s death in April 1994, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl called his longtime friend, musician and producer Barrett Jones: Grohl wanted studio time. What transpired was a five-day session manned by Grohl and Jones at Seattle’s Robert Lang Studios which yielded, note for note — with only final mixes finished later — Foo Fighters’ self-titled, punk- and grunge-fueled, keenly melodic debut album.

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The guitar Kurt Cobain played during his famous performance on "MTV Unplugged" in 1993 sold for a shocking $6 million at an auction over the weekend. The frontman for the legendary grunge band Nirvana, played a rare acoustic set and cut a subsequent live album mere months before his death.

Kurt Cobain, the Nirvana frontman who tragically shot and killed himself on the 5th of April, 1994, amid the height of the band’s fame, has become a legend in the rock scene ever since he died. For that reason, much of the memorabilia surrounding him has gone on to become extremely valuable.

Grunge became gold Saturday as the guitar Kurt Cobain played on Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged performance sold for an eye-popping $6 million at auction. The 1959 Martin D-18E that Cobain played in the band's rare acoustic performance and subsequent live album was sold to Australian Peter Freedman, owner of Røde Microphones, at the Music Icons event run by Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California.

Kurt Cobain’s MTV Unplugged guitar has shattered records at auction.

Grunge became gold Saturday as the guitar Kurt Cobain played on Nirvana’s 1993 “MTV Unplugged” performance months before his death sold for an eye-popping $6 million at auction.

Kurt Cobain‘s iconic guitar sold for a lot of money at auction!

The guitar used by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain during the band’s famous MTV Unplugged in New York concert sold for a staggering $6m (€5.5m) at auction.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorCome as you are — leave with a multimillion-dollar ax. A guitar that Kurt Cobain played during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged concert sold for a cool $6.01 million at auction Saturday.