Published 20:36 IST, March 31st 2019
Don't think anything could have saved Kurt Cobain: Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg
Legendary rock band Nirvana's manager Danny Goldberg believes it would not have been possible to save frontman Kurt Cobain. The iconic singer committed suicide on April 5, 1994, at his home in Seattle, Washington.
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Legendary rock band Nirvana's manr Danny Goldberg believes it would t have been possible to save frontman Kurt Cobain. iconic singer committed suicide on April 5, 1994, at his home in Seattle, Washington.
Goldberg, who has penned a memoir titled, "Serving Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain", said, "re is a mystery to why some people do it (suicide) and some don't."
memoir spans three-and-a-half years Goldberg worked with Cobain.
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"I think a lot of people loved him. body will ever kw you can't go back and test out hundreds of hypoticals. I think anybody who kws somebody who killed mselves would give same answer. re is a mystery to why some people do it and some don't," he told Rolling Stone magazine.
Goldberg said it is hard to understand why people take ir own lives.
"I absolutely believe body kws why people kill mselves and re's glib, easy answer why he or anyone else does so. For all psychiatrists and priests and rabbis and yogis that exist in world, 50,000 Americans each year kill mselves."
In book, he recalls how he began managing band just before Nirvana me m superstars. Goldberg describes his relationship with Cobain in detail both professionally and personally and how he and his former wife, lawyer Rosemary Carroll, went to great lengths to protect Cobain and Courtney Love from media. He ded that he at times feels what he could have done to protect rock icon.
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"What if I h invited him to stay with us for a few days? Maybe that would have been a good idea. Maybe if I h ... spent X amount more hours trying to find or kinds of rapists that knew something about artists. Of course, if you're unfortunate eugh to have been close to someone who did this to mselves, you go over things in your mind. But I do feel that ultimately people who do this do it, it's t people around m who do it."
Recounting phone call that delivered news of Cobain's suicide, Goldberg said, "I will never completely get over sness and anguish I felt at that moment.
20:31 IST, March 31st 2019