Former Manager Says NIRVANA Was Changed By Arrival Of COURTNEY LOVE

September 9, 2008

The Pulse of Radio reports: NIRVANA's former manager says in his upcoming memoir that the arrival of Courtney Love in late frontman Kurt Cobain's life changed the band forever, according to an excerpt posted at Spinner.com. In his book, "Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business", former record label exec and artist manager Danny Goldberg writes, "Courtney's very presence was a metaphor for the end of one era in the band's life and the beginning of another," adding that Love became Cobain's "mouthpiece" shortly after the two became a couple.

Goldberg says he was initially "charmed" by Love, but soon became aware that she had "numerous personae she could call up at will, and this would be the last time I would ever see Courtney as an underdog."

The manager recounts one incident in January of 1992 when Love called him up and asked for $5,000 in cash, so that the couple could go "shopping." He writes, "I felt pretty uncomfortable as I delivered the package of $100 bills to her at the hotel. Abruptly, the dark cloud of drug excess had entered the band's life. I was confronted by the baroque facade of lies and the awful glassy-eyed deadness that regular heroin use provides."

Cobain and Love got married in early 1992 and had one daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. The singer and guitarist shot himself to death in April 1994.

Their relationship has been the subject of speculation for years, with one documentary, "Kurt and Courtney", even investigating the rumors that Love had Cobain killed.

"Bumping Into Geniuses" will be published on September 18.

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