Kurt Cobain: Despite the meteoric rise in fame and fortune, The front man for the grunge band-turned-superstars Nirvana was never at peace. After signing with major label. The band found breakthrough success with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” from its second album Nevermind (1991). Following the success of Nevermind, Nirvana was labeled “the flagship band” of Generation X, and Cobain hailed as “the spokesman of a generation”. But after deep, devastating frustrations at being misinterpreted by the public, his inability to cope with sudden fame, coupled with a heroin addiction, illness and depression and a wife who battled the same demons, it proved to be too much. Cobain took his own life with a shotgun in April 1994.
