A Complete Timeline Of Courtney Love And Kurt Cobain's Relationship

Through word of mouth and heavy MTV rotation, Nirvana was fast becoming one of the biggest rock bands in the country in 1991. All the while, Courtney Love was besotted with Kurt Cobain, and in awe of his electrifying stage presence. In Interview magazine, she recounted a sweet memory from the winter of 1991, in which she watched Cobain perform on stage at Whiskey a Go Go. "My future husband Kurt [Cobain] came in. He was wearing this beautiful cowboy leather coat, and he just parted the crowd like Moses," she reflected.

That same season, Nirvana made an appearance on British late night music show The Word. Their performance would entail one of the first public statements from Cobain that he was, indeed, in a relationship with Love. Infamously, he branded his lover "the best f*** in the world." On Instagram (via Louder Sound), Love reflected on the moment in which she received the, er, esteemed honor. "I heard about it in Germany, right as I was about to go onstage," she wrote. "Despite it seeming possibly vulgar to some, it isn't, it was really sweet, and made me chuckle."

And thus began a whirlwind romance, one that was under frequent scrutiny by the tabloids. This devastated Cobain's then-girlfriend, Mary Lou Lord, who watched her lover make the bold declaration on television. Lord told CBS that she had seen Cobain the very night before the performance and she "didn't know who Courtney Love was."

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