Kurt Cobain

A guitar smashed on stage by Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain sold for nearly $600,000, several times its original estimate, an auction house said on May 20.

The busted black Fender Stratocaster has been put back together, but is no longer playable, Kody Frederick of Julien's Auctions told AFP earlier this month.

A guitar smashed on stage by Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain is going under the hammer later this month in the United States.

The guitar has been put back together, but is no longer playable, said Kody Frederick of Julien's Auctions, which expects the musical artifact to fetch $80,000.

A vintage Eric Clapton guitar sold for $625,000 in New York at a weekend auction of rock memorabilia that fetched nearly $5 million in total, Julien Auctions announced.

Eric Clapton's guitar, Kurt Cobain's handwritten setlists and Whitney Houston's multi-print Versace jacket are among the star-powered music memorabilia hitting the auction block this weekend.

Continuing its Gimme Shelter festival of films about musicians and the broader music industry, on Monday, November 20, Gagarin 205 will screen "American Artifact," a documentary by Merle Becker chronicling the rise of the music poster in the US from its birth in the 1960s. The screening starts at 7.30 p.m.and will be followed at 10 p.m. by "Kurt Cobain: About a Son," a 2006 documentary by A.J.

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Turkish pianist Ay?e Deniz Gökçin, who lives in London, has returned at the same time to both the classical and grunge scenes, following her Pink Floyd Classical Concept album that was sold thousands, with the "#NirvanaProject." The album is currently in the top 10 iTunes Classical Albums Charts, a first for Nirvana!

An album of unreleased music by grunge icon Kurt Cobain will come out in November to accompany a documentary on the late Nirvana frontman, the director has said.

In researching ?Montage of Heck,? filmmaker Brett Morgen discovered more than 100 early cassettes recorded by Cobain, who grew up in the lumber town of Aberdeen, Washington.

“Montage of Heck” is the first documentary on Curt Cobain’s life with his family’s approval.

Kurt Cobain is the focus of a new documentary that probes the life and untimely death of the Nirvana singer-guitarist.
     
It will be released in theaters next year and air exclusively on HBO, the network said Tuesday.