Nirvana: Flower Sniffin', Kitty Pettin', Baby Kissin' Corporate Rock Whores

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Nirvana: Flower Sniffin', Kitty Pettin', Baby Kissin' Corporate Rock Whores
AuthorVictoria Clarke and Britt Collins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHyperion
Publication date
July 1, 1993[1] (cancelled)
Media typepaperback[1]
Pages208[2]
ISBN978-1562828615

Nirvana: Flower Sniffin', Kitty Pettin', Baby Kissin' Corporate Rock Whores was a book written by Victoria Clarke and Britt Collins in 1992-93 about American rock band Nirvana and in particular the band leader Kurt Cobain and his wife Courtney Love. Cobain and Love opposed the publication of the book and Nirvana's management company filed a lawsuit that prevented it from being published.

Premise[]

The book was written by UK writers Victoria Clarke and Britt Collins. Clarke had been given a backstage pass for Nirvana's European tour in June 1992 and went on tour with the band, while Collins traveled to the United States to research the grunge scene in Seattle.[3] Cobain and Love subsequently left many threatening phone messages for the authors to try and deter them from publishing the book.[4] The reason Cobain and Love were against the book being published was because one of the sources the authors had used was Lynn Hirschberg who had written a damning article about Love in Vanity Fair. Cobain and Love subsequently left 5,000 words and 31 minutes of angry and obscene messages for the authors.[5] According to WBEZ, a reading of the advance manuscript of the book revealed that the authors did not find any embarrassing or controversial information on Cobain and Love and that they relied extensively on previously published sources.[6] Entertainment Weekly reported in December, 1992 that the book was still going to be published by Hyperion in the summer of 1993.[5] However, Nirvana's management company, Gold Mountain Entertainment, filed a lawsuit against the authors to not publish the book,[7] and the book was never published.[2]

The title of the book came from a motto on one of Nirvana's t-shirts.[5]

An interview with Clarke was included in the 1998 documentary film, Kurt & Courtney.[8][9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Nirvana: Flower Sniffin', Kitty Pettin', Baby Kissin' Corporate Rock Whores". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Nirvana: Flower Sniffin', Kitty Pettin', Baby Kissin' Corporate Rock Whores". livenirvana.com. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  3. ^ White, Jim (October 22, 2011). When the King and Queen of Grunge Took Against Two Would-be Biographers. Things Turned Very Nasty... The Independent. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  4. ^ Appelo, Tim (September 23, 2011). "Memories of Nirvana, Grunge Scene: A reporter's First Hand Account". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c Appelo, Tim (December 4, 1992). "Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love unauthorized". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  6. ^ DeRogatis, Jim (February 21, 2012). "Kurt Cobain at 45". WBEZ. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  7. ^ True, Everett (2009). Nirvana: The True Stroy. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857120137. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  8. ^ "Kurt and Courtney". livenirvana.com. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
  9. ^ "Kurt & Courtney". volta.ie. Retrieved June 12, 2021.

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