25 years on: Do you recall where you were when you heard the news of Kurt Cobain's death?

Kurt Cobain’s progressive politics were striking for the time but have been eclipsed by the tragedy of his suicide, writes Ed Power.

On April 8, 1994 the body of rock star Kurt Cobain was discovered in a room above the garage of his oceanside mansion in Seattle. He had shot himself with a 20-gauge shotgun, leaving behind a suicide note that, misquoting a Neil Young lyric, proclaimed it better to “burn out than fade away”. If you are old enough to remember the dim and distant spring of 25 years ago you will no doubt recall exactly where, and in whose company, you were when you heard the news.