The Complicated Life Of Kurt Cobain

A Friend Felt ‘Something Really Bad Had Happened’ When He Couldn’t Reach Cobain

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Singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan of the Screaming Trees knew Cobain really well, and the pair was close. In the week leading up to the singer’s death in 1994, Lanegan hadn’t spoken to Cobain, and it was worrying. Cobain isolated himself from those around him. Lanegan told Rolling Stone: “Kurt hadn’t called me. He hadn’t called some other people. He hadn’t called his family. He hadn’t called anybody.” Lanegan was unsettled by the lack of communication and explained he had been “looking for [Kurt] for about a week before he was found. . . . I had a feeling that something real bad had happened.”