The man who wrote of being “stupid and contagious” in 1991 was as famous then as Drake or Rihanna are a quarter of a century later. He gave the world so much in twenty-seven years. Kurt told a journalist a few weeks after Nevermind was released, “People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact. As far as I’m concerned, it’s just a pit-stop for an afterlife. It’s just a little test to see how you can handle reality.”
