Primary SourcesThe story Success Doesn't Suck: Rolling Stone's 1994 Kurt Cobain Cover Story is a very important document for a few reasons. One is that it goes inside Kurt Cobain's head on so many things. There are very few interviews (or at least very few published) that you can see the real Cobain. Another reason is that it goes into depth about how he feels about his music. That's something you really don't see from many artists. You can hear from a hundred magazines and people how they feel about an artists music; but you hardly ever get to see how the artist feels about their music and their success. This article was published in the Rolling Stones magazine in the January 27th, 1994 issue; and was written by David Fricke. I think David was trying to have everyone reading that article get a sense of the real Kurt Cobain, the one that wasn't who everyone knew. He wanted people to get to find out who Cobain was behind stage, and behind his lyrics.
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