April 5 marks the 25th anniversary of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's tragic suicide, so it is a somber time for Nirvana's onetime manager, music industry veteran Danny Goldberg, who was known as the “Kurt Whisperer” from 1990 to 1994. During that brief whirlwind period, Cobain became the world's biggest and most unlikely rock star as Nirvana made the leap from indie Sub Pop to major label Geffen, recorded and released Nevermind, followed up with the landmark album In Utero, and recorded their legendary MTV Unplugged session. During that time, Cobain's personal life went through just as much upheaval, as he married and had a baby with Hole's Courtney Love — and, along with Love. battled heroin addiction — before shooting himself at age 27.
Sitting with Yahoo Entertainment for a candid and lengthy chat about his time with Cobain, Goldberg — whose memoir, Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain, just came out — sadly recalls the last time he saw Cobain in person, at an intervention staged about a week before the singer's death.
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