Random People Responded To Kurt Cobain's Death (13 items)

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  (#7) Mark Lanegan

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  Mark Lanegan, the lead singer from the alternative rock band Screaming Trees, never realized Cobain was depressed, stating, "I never knew [Cobain] to be suicidal. I just knew he was going through a tough time."
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  (#4) His Mother, Wendy O’Connor, Was Completely Devastated

  Wendy O’Connor was Cobain's mother, and only spoke to the media a few times. Through tears, she told journalists, "I'll never hold him again. I don't know what to do. I don't know where to go."
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  (#13) Leonard Cohen

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  Leonard Cohen was something of a hero of Cobain's. Cohen later expressed regret for not reaching out to him:

  I'm sorry I couldn't have spoken to the young man. I see a lot of people at the Zen Centre, who have gone through drugs and found a way out that is not just Sunday school. There are always alternatives, and I might have been able to lay something on him.
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  (#9) Eddie Vedder

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  Eddie Vedder was a member of the band Pearl Jam, and had spoken to Cobain over the years as they toured. Speaking a few years after the loss, he said:

  It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense...

  One time, he told me flat-out, just delivered me a whole paragraph on the respect he had for what I did, and he realized it was pure. This was at the MTV Awards. "Tears in Heaven" was playing in the background, we were slow dancing. I remember going out surfing the next morning and remembering how good that moment felt and thinking, "F*ck, man, if only we hadn't been so afraid of each other..." Because we were going though so much of the same sh*t. If only we'd talked, maybe we could have helped each other.
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  (#5) Michael Stipe

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  Michael Stipe of R.E.M. was a friend and contemporary of Cobain. He had also worked with him on a music project that never came to fruition. Stipe said:

  In the last few weeks I was talking to Kurt a lot. We had a musical project in the works, but nothing was recorded. He loved Courtney and Frances Bean, and he loved Krist and Dave and Nirvana. He really loved those guys. His death was a profound loss, and I just don't think I can say anything else right now.
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  (#1) Courtney Love Said She Wished She'd Been There

  Cobain's wife, Courtney Love, was incredibly emotional at a memorial service held for the singer. She read out his note and said:

  I'm laying in our bed, and I'm really sorry. And I feel the same way you do. I'm really sorry you guys. I don't know what I could have done. I wish I'd been here. I wish I hadn't listened to other people, but I did... Just tell him he's a f*cker, OK? Just say 'f*cker." "You're a f*cker." And that you love him.

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