Kurt Cobain remembered on the anniversary of his death

Today, 20 years ago, Kurt Cobain committed suicide through a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head (or as conspiracy theorists think: he was murdered). No matter how Cobain died, there is no doubt that he was a very talented musician.

Cobain grew up in a small town in Washington: Aberdeen. There, he met Krist Novoselic, another Aberdeen native. Novoselic and Cobain soon formed a band, which would later become known as Nirvana.

Cobain and Novoselic worked well together, however they could not find the right drummer. After going through many drummers, the members of the band finally settled on a scrawny man from the Washington D.C. punk band, Scream. This drummer's name? Dave Grohl.

Cobain, Novoselic and Grohl formed a band that many people know to be the core of Nirvana. The band would simply not sound like Nirvana without any of the members.

After the very popular album, Nevermind came out, the band became a household name. At their live shows, the band started to see the types of people who beat them up in high school: the jocks. This was unusual for a grunge band. Usually the band would see people with Black Flag or Melvins t-shirts creating mosh pits at their shows, not jocks.

Soon, the fame became too much for Cobain to handle. By the time the band's third studio album, In Utero was released, Cobain did not enjoy being famous at all. A few months after the album was released, Cobain was found dead in his home.