New documentary shows Kurt Cobain the human, not angst-ridden rock star

A new documentary gets behind the public image of the Nirvana singer, writes Ed Power

KURT Cobain is rock ’n’ roll’s martyr-in-chief. He died young, left a beautiful corpse, and a body of work that speaks to the angsty adolescent within us all.

Even in life, he was mythologised as a tragic figure: the fiercely independent rocker who had stardom thrust upon him and who duly crumpled under the dead weight of public adoration.