The Tragedy

The Tragedy

“Rock and roll stars loom large in the psyche of America's youth. In a world seemingly spinning out of control, the pied pipers of rock have acted as poets, pillows, and jesters for each successive generation. The Beatles, the Stones, the Doors, the Who, the Sex Pistols, the names roll off the tongue like a gallery of rock n' roll Hall of Famers, many of whom became millionaire heroes, rebelling against the establishment and mining the rich and seemingly inexhaustible vein of teenage angst and alienation.”
“In the 1990's, few rock stars rode this pinnacle higher than Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Paradoxically, like so many other rockers, Kurt Cobain became a success by the standards of the establishment he railed against. When he committed suicide on April 5, 1994 at the age of 27, he abandoned his 15 to 30 year old fans known as Generation X, who had come to rely on his furious lyrics, his primal scream singing, and his power chord slams to alert that establishment ab...