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Courtney Michelle
Love (born July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician
and actress, best-known as lead singer for the
now-defunct alternative rock band Hole, and as the widow
of Kurt Cobain (1967–1994), lead singer of the band
Nirvana. Rolling Stone has called her "the most
controversial woman in the history of rock." Love
has one daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
Early life: Courtney Love was actually born Courtney
Michelle Harrison, the daughter of Hank Harrison and
therapist Linda Carroll (née Risi). Love's mother was
born to writer Paula Fox but was given up for adoption
to an Italian-American couple who raised their
Jewish-born daughter Catholic. S
he recently wrote an autobiography, "Her Mother's
Daughter", about her dysfunctional relationship
with both biological mother and elder daughter. Love
spent her childhood with her mother as she wandered
through four husbands and as many hippie communes in
Oregon and at boarding school in Nelson, New Zealand.
During a child-custody case following her parents'
divorce, both Courtney's mother Linda and one of her
girlfriends presented letters to the court implying her
father had given a 4-year-old Courtney LSD. He denies
this allegation and has passed polygraph tests; however,
these allegations led to full custody being awarded to
Linda Carroll.
A troubled, angry child, Love was a veteran of reform
schools and juvenile halls by the time she was a
teenager. She broke away from her family, emancipated at
16 and traveled around the US, United Kingdom and
Ireland, living on a trust fund established for her by
her mother's adoptive parents. Her first rock musician
boyfriend was Rozz Rezabek (who jokingly gave her the
stage name of "Courtney Love"), after a fling
in Liverpool with Julian Cope, the founder of The
Teardrop Explodes.
In her late teens she worked in Japan, Taiwan, Guam and
Alaska as a stripper, a job that she would return to at
several points in her life before attaining fame. At age
22 she found herself back in Portland, Oregon, then
moved to Los Angeles, California in 1987 along with the
band Babes in Toyland.
After being fired from the band by founding member Kat
Bjelland, she took up in Los Angeles with Leaving
Trains, band which she briefly married the lead singer,
Falling James Moreland. Viewed by some as a social
climber, she bedded and/or befriended many musicians who
would later become alternative rock icons, among them
Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Billy Corgan of The Smashing
Pumpkins.
The last connection has a complicated history. Corgan
was the last relationship prior to her marriage to Kurt
Cobain. Love relates that her time with Corgan was
purely sexual and that she was enticed by his love
letters rather than his actual presence in the
relationship.
Corgan was distant and maintained relations with others,
though Love remained supportive of him and his band even
after the relationship ended. This was a source of
contention for Cobain, as, throughout the marriage, he
felt jealous and suspicious of Love's continued
friendship of Corgan. Both bands were early rivals in
1990s Alternative era, and were polarized in their
musical philosophy, which was another reason for
antagonism.
Corgan and Love still maintain a platonic friendship,
and, after the death of Cobain, Corgan came to console
her. These days Love says Corgan lives in a wing of her
Hollywood Mansion, bought with money from selling a
quarter of the Nirvana catalogue. Corgan is producing
her album in works as well as the new album for his
band.
Musical career and marriage: Love began her professional
music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of
Faith No More in the early 1980s. She was kicked out of
the band for being overly controlling shortly after.
About this time she also played in an all-female
pop-rock band called Sugar Baby Doll with Kat Bjelland
and Jennifer Finch.
None of their Bangles-influenced material has ever been
released. Love had more early success as an actress,
appearing as the best friend of Nancy Spungen in Alex
Cox's Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy in 1986, and in
Cox's Straight to Hell in 1987, as well as some small
roles on television episodes.
Returning to music in her adopted hometown of
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Love claims she co-founded Babes
in Toyland with Kat Bjelland, but this is denied by
others; either way, acrimony between Love and Bjelland
led to Love's quick exit from the band.
The band's biographer claims she stole house receipts to
attend a Butthole Surfers concert.Returning to music in
her adopted hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Love
claims she co-founded Babes in Toyland with Kat
Bjelland, but this is denied by others; either way,
acrimony between Love and Bjelland led to Love's quick
exit from the band. The band's biographer claims she
stole house receipts to attend a Butthole Surfers
concert.
In 1989 Love formed her own band, Hole. Hole released
several singles on the Long Beach, California
independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry. The
band's abrasive debut Pretty on the Inside was released
in early 1991 on Caroline Records and was produced by
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon. It sold well for an
independent release and received ecstatic reviews in the
influential British alternative music press.
Love met her future husband Kurt Cobain at a concert in
1989; they began dating around 1991 and, a few days
after the conclusion of Nirvana's Australian tour, on
February 24, 1992, Love and Cobain were married on
Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. On August 18 of that year, the
couple's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born.
Unpopular with some Nirvana fans (comparisons to Yoko
Ono were made early on and persist to this day), Love's
image was further tarnished by a 1992 article in Vanity
Fair entitled "Strange Love", in which it was
alleged that she had continued using heroin in the early
stages of pregnancy.
As a result, Child Welfare Services briefly investigated
the Cobains' fitness as parents, removing Frances Bean
from their custody for a short period. Love claims to
this day that she was misquoted, saying she had told
author Lynn Hirschberg that she had stopped using it
once she learned she was pregnant.
Similarly to Axl Rose, she was often ridiculed in the
press for her abrasive behaviour, such as cursing at
paparazzi and publicly harassing Cobain's former
girlfriend, folksinger Mary Lou Lord.
Four days before the release of Hole's breakthrough
album Live Through This on April 12, 1994, Kurt Cobain
was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted shotgun
wound to the head at their home in Washington (though
the manner of his death has been disputed by some and
conspiracies theories abound.) Love read his suicide
note (via a tape-recorded message) to assembled,
mourning fans at a memorial service in Seattle a few
days later.
Clearly crying, she interrupted the note frequently to
express her anger and sorrow ("Kurt, the worst
crime I can think of is for you to just continue being a
rock star when you fucking hate it, just fucking
stop"), even inciting the crowd to call him an
"asshole" for leaving everyone behind. On the
audio recording that day you can hear the crowd obey.
Finally, Love implored Nirvana fans not to listen to
Cobain's infamous final words, "It's better to burn
out than fade away" (which he cited from Neil
Young's 'Hey Hey, My My').
On June 16th, just two months after Cobain's death, Hole
bassist Kristen Pfaff was found dead of an apparent drug
overdose. The band's vacant bass spot was filled by
21-year-old Canadian bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur later
that year.
Life after Cobain: Love received considerable acclaim
for her role as Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš
Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite
Woody Harrelson as Flynt, and received a Golden Globe
nomination for Best Actress.
She was also praised for her supporting role in the 1998
Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon, which starred Jim
Carrey as Kaufman. Other notable film credits include
Basquiat, 200 Cigarettes, and Feeling Minnesota.
In 1998, four years after their second album, Hole
released Celebrity Skin. Rolling Stone gave the album
four stars, saying "the album teems with sonic
knockouts that make you see all sorts of stars. It's
accessible, fiery and intimate – often at the same
time.
Here is a basic guitar record that's anything but
basic." Celebrity Skin went on to go multiplatinum,
and topped Best Of Year lists at Spin magazine, the
Village Voice, and other periodicals.
Erlandson was still the lead guitarist, and now there
were Melissa Auf Der Maur's backup vocals, but drummer
Patty Schemel was replaced by a session drummer during
the recording. There have been conflicting reports from
the band members over whether this was due to drug
problems or enmity between Schemel and the album's
producer, Michael Beinhorn.
With Hole having fallen into disarray, Love attempted to
begin a "punk rock femme supergroup" called
Bastard during summer/autumn of 2001, though this
project never reached fruition. Hole broke up that year
amid continuing litigation. In October 2001, Love
performed in some solo shows as an opening act, but just
almost three years later she released her first album,
America's Sweetheart, which became a big flop on charts
although well liked by critics.
She is set to release her sophomore solo album, How
Dirty Girls Get Clean, and the memoir book Dirty Blonde
in late 2006.
Controversy: Since Cobain's death, conspiracy theories
have circulated, alleging that he was in fact murdered
at Love's instigation. This theory gained the most media
attention with the release of Nick Broomfield's
documentary Kurt & Courtney in 1998, which featured
interviews with, among others, Love's father (who
accused her of being a psychopath) and private
investigator Tom Grant, who said they believed Love
ordered her husband murdered, and punk singer El Duce,
who claimed that Love offered him $50,000 to kill
Cobain. Most of the various conspiracy theories are
cogently appraised in the book "Love & Death:
The Murder of Kurt Cobain" which is written by Max
Wallace and Ian Halperin.
Love has been a strong critic of the music industry,
especially the RIAA. In 2000, she publicly announced her
admiration for Napster which, at the time, was being
accused of fostering illegal file-sharing. She became
known for her criticism of unfair record contracts and
mistreatment of artists.
Conflicting news stories began to appear in August of
2003 regarding Love's family tree, some of them
remarking that Love's mother, Linda Carroll, had taken
DNA tests revealing her father to be Marlon Brando, and
that these facts would appear in Carroll's
then-forthcoming memoir. Later that month, however, a
spokeswoman for Carroll's publisher, Doubleday, told the
New York Daily News, "There was nothing in Linda
Carroll's book proposal about Marlon Brando, nor will
there be anything in the book about him.
I've spoken to her and she has told me that there is no
truth to the suggestion that she is related to Marlon
Brando." The story bears a significant possibility
of truth: Carroll's mother Paula Fox did, by most
accounts, have an affair with Brando, but since that
time the truth has yet to be confirmed by law or any of
the parties involved.
In 2003, Love pleaded not guilty to felony drug charges
related to possession of painkillers. In February of
2004, an arrest warrant was issued for Love after she
failed to appear at a preliminary hearing; the warrant
was subsequently rescinded when she appeared in court on
February 18. She released her first solo album,
America's Sweetheart, just eight days earlier, on
February 10.
Early on the morning of March 19, 2004 Love was arrested
in New York City for allegedly throwing a microphone
stand and hitting a man on the head. Earlier in the
night, she appeared on The Late Show with David
Letterman, stepped up on the talk show host's desk
saying "oh, Drew Barrymore, you've had it,"
and flashed her breasts at Letterman.
On her fortieth birthday, July 9, 2004, she missed a
scheduled court appearance relating to an attempted
break-in at a boyfriend's house and was found in
contempt of court. Her attorney later said she missed
the appearance due to medical problems; later in the
month she appeared in court and was sentenced to an
18-month probation and drug rehabilitation program.
In January of 2005, Love regained the custody of her
daughter that she'd lost in October of 2003, after
completing a state-enforced rehabilitation program and
enduring a probational period. Child welfare authorities
alluded to drug addiction when responding to the press
on the matter, though they didn't comment directly.
On August 19, 2005, Love admitted using drugs in
violation of her probation terms. She was ordered into a
28-day drug treatment program by a judge who initially
said "my belief was that you need to go to the
county jail." This program was also violated, and
on September 21 she was sentenced to 6 months in lock
down rehab.
In August 2005, tabloid papers such as News of the World
began reporting that Love became pregnant during an
affair with British actor and comedian Steve Coogan.
Coogan's spokeswoman, alongside Love's publicists, have
discredited the story as "nonsense."
Life After Rehab: After her release from house arrest,
Love issued this statement: "I would just like to
thank the court for allowing me these ninety days . . .
[It] helped me deal with a very gnarly drug problem,
which is behind me . . . I've just been playing guitar
and taking care of my daughter. I want to [take this
opportunity] to let the community know I'm doing
great...I've been really inspired and have remained
inspired."
Love is currently recording her second solo LP,
tentatively titled How Dirty Girls Get Clean. She began
writing the new material during her stay in rehab;
"make no mistake, I've written these songs by
myself. It's great to have good musicians, but this is
me and a guitar." Song titles include 'How Dirty
Girls Get Clean', 'Sunset Marquis', and the anti-cocaine
rant 'Loser Dust', among others. Those who have heard
the songs say that they sound "gritty--very Janis
Joplin. They are amazing".
Linda Perry has expressed interest in producing the
record, and has told the media that her dedication is to
"bring back the queen of rock and roll, and that's
Courtney Love". Perry said of Love's post rehab
progress: "[she] looks great, sounds great, [has]
really great ideas [and] great songs that she's written.
My job now is to make that [Courtney Love] rock and roll
record that everybody's gonna love." Billy Corgan
helped Love on songwriting during the messy time right
after America's Sweetheart release, and some of the
songs written on that period may be used on the record.
He is also on charge of producing the project.
On May 1st, Love officially returned to stage, playing
at the Gay and Lesbian Community Centre benefit at the
Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. With the support of
Corgan and Perry, she performed two of the new songs
acoustically: 'Sunset Marquis' and 'Pacific Coast
Highway'.
Courtney told NME that Moby would have a hand in
producing the album while Linda Perry is busy with Joss
Stone. She described the four-day recording session she
had planned with him as: "In Utero style - lo-fi,
no pro-tools, all old gear". This has brought
relief to many fans who considered her previous effort
America's Sweetheart over-produced. After showing NME
some of the demos (some on CD, some in an intimate
acoustic performance), they showed great enthusiasm for
the new material, stating that it was "all
brilliant".
Moby later claimed that he isn't working on the record,
just talked with Courtney about the project and
declined. The main producing is still being done by
Love, Perry and Billy Corgan. The Smashing Pumpkins'
leader is even living on a wing of the singer's new
Hollywood Hills mansion since February, for a bigger
help on the recording sessions. Rick Rubin is also said
to be attached to the project.
Love is about to sign Linda Perry's label, Custard
Music, for the release, and Universal Music -- company
which Hole has been on a legal battle a few years ago
for getting out of contract -- may be the worldwide
distributor of the album. Love declared "not
holding any grudges about it". Some of the new
lyrics, like the title-track and 'Sunset Marquis', plus
excerpts from 'Sad But True' and 'Stand Up
Motherfucker', recently leaked in Internet, but there's
no evidence of audio archives available for listening or
download.
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