Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

by Danny Goldberg

Notwithstanding Kurt’s dark side, I keep returning to the last chorus of “All Apologies,” where Kurt sang, “In the sun I feel as one / All in all is all we are,” and to these lines from his journals: “No True Talent is fully organic, yet the obviously superior talented have, not only control of study, but that extra special little gift at birth, fueled by passion. A built in totally unexplainable, New Age, fucking cosmic energy bursting love.”