Come As You Are
The Story of Nirvana
The definitive biography of the revolutionary band Nirvana and its star-crossed frontman Kurt Cobain, hailed by Rolling Stone as “the first [book] to comprehensively tell the band’s tale from Aberdeen, Wash., to world domination”
“Amazingly raw and candid . . . an unsparing and extremely honest depiction of the group’s highly tumultuous history . . . Come As You Are is as good as rock bios get.”—Billboard
“Just tell the truth. That’ll be better than anything else that’s been written about me.”—Kurt Cobain
Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Nevermind, whose thunderous sound and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion, frustration, and passion of the emerging Generation X.
Come As You Are is the close-up,…
Michael Azerrad is the author of Come As You Are and Our Band Could Be Your Life. His work has been published in Rolling Stone, Spin, Musician, and Details.