Come As You Are : The Story of Nirvana

Michael Azerrad
Crown/Archetype
9780385471992
0-385-47199-8

Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album "Nevermind," whose thunderous sound and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion, frustration, and passion.

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of the emerging Generation X. "Come As You Are" is the close-up, intimate story of Nirvana -- the "only" book with exclusive in-depth interviews with bandmembers Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic, and Dave Grohl, as well as friends, relatives, former bandmembers, and associates -- now updated to include a new final chapter detailing the last year of Kurt Cobain's life, before his tragic suicide in April 1994. "Amazingly raw and candid... "Come As You Are" is as good as rock bios get" -- "Billboard."