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The music cable channel MTV began its Unplugged series in 1989, recording live performances of acts that generally played their normally electrified music on sparse acoustics.Ĭobain's haunting Unplugged performance with Nirvana - recorded less than six months before he killed himself at age 27 - is considered one of the most iconic shows of the series, and was released posthumously.Īlready deep into an emotional, drug-addled downward spiral, the depressive but singular talent with ocean-blue eyes reportedly lamented to Unplugged programmer Amy Finnerty after the set that the audience seemed not to like the show. "Kurt created the grunge look he didn't wear show clothes," Mr Julien said at a New York exhibition preview of the auction. "This cardigan, it's the holy grail of any article of clothing that he ever wore," said Darren Julien, CEO and president of the house.
Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467.Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the influential rock band Nirvana, committed. The thrifted cardigan is the toast of this fall's "Icons & Idols: Rock 'N' Roll" auction organised by the house, which also sold off the late Nirvana front man's left-handed teal Fender Mustang guitar played during the In Utero tour for $500,000. The Nirvana frontman's fuzzy olive-green cardigan could fetch up to 300,000 when it goes under the hammer this month. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona, Cobains compositions widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock. At a two-day music auction this weekend, the Nirvana singer’s cardigan, which he wore at. The tattered, drab-olive-green button-up sweater with dark stains and a burn hole sold for $US334,000 ($490,000) through Julien's Auctions, setting a new record for the most expensive jumper ever sold at auction. April 5, 1994) was an American musician who was the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. CNN Kurt Cobain’s vintage, olive-green cardigan is not only legendary, it’s now record-breaking.
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