Charles R. Cross, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6505-5
"And there had never quite been a rock star like Kurt Cobain," Cross eulogizes in this celebrity biography. Unfortunately, Cross, former editor of the Rocket, a Northwestern music and entertainment weekly, never proves his claim. Instead,...
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Charles R. Cross, Author . Hyperion $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0028-9
Cross (Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
) turns his thoughtful eye toward another Seattle music icon, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970). With a storyteller's eye, he captures Hendrix's difficult, poverty-stricken childhood with...
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Charles R. Cross, Author . Little, Brown $35 (159p) ISBN 978-0-316-03372-5
More haunting death album than biography, this book presents the life of the troubled Nirvana front man through a series of never-before-seen candid snapshots, scribbled lyrics and photographs of treasured mementos. Beginning with Cobain's...
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Charles R. Cross . It Books, $22.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-230821-4
As editor of Seattle's alternative newspaper, The Rocket, Cross had a front-row seat as Nirvana and other artists lumped under the category of "grunge" burst onto the music scene. This unique perspective, which informed Heavier Than Heaven, his...
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