Today – February 20 – would have been Kurt Cobain’s 53rd birthday. To celebrate the Nirvana man’s tragically short yet incredible life, we’ve scoured the archives to bring you this round-up of some of his greatest moments. That Time He Worked As A Janitor For a brief period, Cobain went to Aberdeen High School, just a stone’s throw from the muddy banks of the Wishkah River. He later worked there as a janitor, where he earned enough to rent a flat at 404 N. Michigan Street. “Here was a man who would never clean his kitchen or take out the garbage, or do those kind of chores, but Kurt Cobain was not a lazy person,” remembers Krist Novoselic. “Basically he cleaned toilets – that’s how he paid for [our] demo.” The dancing janitor in the Smells Like Teen Spirit video is a nod to his ...
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