Thurston Moore shares emotional memory of the day of Kurt Cobain’s death
nme.comSonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore has shared his memories of the days that followed Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain taking his own life.In an extract published in The Guardian from his autobiography Sonic Life, which is released this week (October 24), Moore recalls receiving a phone call from Sonic Youth’s booking agent Bob Lawton that confirmed the news on the morning of April 8, 1994.“It hadn’t been looking good in the preceding months: the overdose in Rome, reports of Kurt missing in action around Seattle, the intervention by his friends and family,” Moore wrote. “Reportedly Kurt had taken his life three days ago, before being discovered by a worker installing security lighting at his Lake Washington house.”“Kim [Gordon, Moore’s then-wife and Sonic Youth bandmate] was at a photoshoot for the X-girl clothing line that she had co-founded with her friend Daisy von Furth at Daisy’s apartment farther downtown,” he continued. “She was nearly seven months pregnant and happy.
It pained me to do so, but I called Daisy’s apartment and broke the news to her – then she went silent.”“She couldn’t speak.
In the silence, I could sense her weeping. Like every one of us, she had loved the boy.”In a more positive recollection, Moore also shared a memory of hanging out backstage with Cobain and Courtney Love in Miami’s Bayfront Park Amphitheater in November 1993.“Frances Bean Cobain was just over a year old at the time,” Moore wrote. “She hung with her nannies backstage, running around, grabbing whatever she could off deli trays, beautiful and full of light, both Courtney’s and Kurt’s features visible in her expressive face.
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