Kurt Cobain

This volume gathers the private notebooks of Kurt Cobain, the Nirvana frontman, and runs to dozens of books filled with lyrics, sketches and prose. Across the pages he sets out his hopes for the band and records his views on celebrity, the direction of popular music and the people who profited from him and his work.

The entries show a musician who cared deeply about songwriting and had a working knowledge of rock's past. He wrote with clear ambition, aiming to secure a lasting place for himself within that tradition, and the notebooks trace how he thought about his own art.

The journals were published after his death and suit readers interested in the Seattle grunge scene, the making of Nirvana, or the private working life of a major rock songwriter.