The death of Kurt Cobain (4/5/94)–and the end of grunge–profiled the summer after in Spin (via Longform):
Seattle bid goodbye to Kurt Cobain on April 10 in true grunge-rock style, bursting the ranks of a quickly organized public vigil and leaping into the nearby international fountain, a giant, water-spouting structure some 50 yards wide and ten feet deep that flanks the Flag Pavilion. As the hastily erected loudspeaker system played the song “Serve the Servants,” an estimated 5,000 kids poured over the statue, plugging up the spigots, lifting their middle fingers to the skies, and howling with gleeful rage.
A Cobain doc is coming this year:
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