Kurt Cobain now the world's highest-selling dead musician

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He's just overtaken Elvis:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=nirvana-kurt-earns-more-than-presley-&method=full&objectid=17985800&siteid=94762-name_page.html

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

Note how Lennon's the only one not to get a "BILLY CONNOLLY, COMEDIAN" job description in that article (cf. "Beatles guitarist George Harrison").

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, I accidentally saw Tony Parsons' face on that page and now I'm going to be filled with barely-suppressed rage all morning.

― You've Had Your Chances (noodle vague), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

He should definitely consider wearing a veil!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it would be the drummer from Lush

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

or that guy from feeder.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

You mean it isn't Les Harvey from Stone The Crows?

― Dadaismus (Gives You The Big Reassure) (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

Or even his poor old brother Alex... :-(

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

i dream of wires

― steve 'scratch' perry (listerine), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

what is Einstein getting paid for?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Landscape royalties.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

what is Einstein getting paid for?

I think that's what they were saying down at the Patent Office in 1903

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Royalty cheques from Yahoo Serious.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, it's weird how much I don't care about Kurt's music! And I was so darn proud of him when I was 17.

― Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

what is he your godson?

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Jim Morrison would be in the list. Have always had the impression that The Doors' back catalogue has always been a solid seller.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Not as solid as Snoopy t-shirts.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Also the Doors' royalties were split equally four ways, and three of them are still alive.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yahoo Serious, better musician than Kurt Cobain?

I'm gonna say yes.

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yes Kurt made sure he didn't bother with any of that band democracy nonsense (xp)

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yahoo Serious, better musician than Chuck Berry.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

thanks to Yahoo S., i grew up thinking that Einstein and Marie Curie banged each other

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

but i digress

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

YAHOO SERIOUS
Actor

really a better musician than

CHUCK BERRY
Musician

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Now the world's highest-selling dead musician?" I took the article to mean "was," as in, he was the highest-selling dead musician *last year*, and that was mostly due to the sudden influx of cash from C. Love's sale of part of his estate. What was Cobain the year before? Was he even in the top 10? Top 20?

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

The late Nirvana front-man raked in £26.3million over the past year despite killing himself in 1994.

Now *that's* dedication.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

"You Know You're Rich"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

what is he your godson?

gay

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

"I love my dead gay godson!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I SAY, ~~EVERYONE~~ MY GODSON IS GAY

― latebloomer: Veteran of the Mai Tai Massacre (latebloomer), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

what is Einstein getting paid for?
Baby Einstein:
...groundbreaking physicist Albert Einstein at $US20 million ($26.47 million), whose estate profited from such licensing deals as the popular Baby Einstein educational videos.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

"I love my dead gay godson!"

bwahahah!!!
ned, any Heathers reference is a good reference in my book.

― edde (edde), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Too bad Kurt didn't use Ich Luge bullets.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.fanboy.com/2008/04/new_york_comic_con_2008_neca.html

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 19 April 2008 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

no missile launcher included:-/

― latebloomer, Saturday, 19 April 2008 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

<a href=http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=BBP01019AA#top>;Biggie Smalls and Tupac 'action figures'</a>

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 19 April 2008 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Biggie Smalls and Tupac 'action figures'

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 19 April 2008 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=BBP01019AA

#$@%^!@#$!

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 19 April 2008 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

YAWN! (more like gag! actually)

― mehlt, Saturday, 19 April 2008 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Kurt Cobain wanted to be an action figure. He said so in Journals.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 19 April 2008 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Like Elvis and the Beatles I approve

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 19 April 2008 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc107/kornamanson/fred.jpg

― latebloomer, Sunday, 20 April 2008 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzDsLZIwcYY&feature=related

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 20 April 2008 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

i just made the smokin' kurt lunchbox my new desktop background.

― get bent, Sunday, 20 April 2008 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Is he still?

(15 years ago today, btw)

― StanM, Sunday, 5 April 2009 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

15 years, okay now I *know* time is passing.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 April 2009 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

jesus.

― s1ocki, Monday, 6 April 2009 00:30 (seventeen years ago)

crazy that he would be 65 now if he hadn't killed himself.

― s1ocki, Monday, 6 April 2009 00:31 (seventeen years ago)

Uhhhhh . . . Cobain was born a year and a day before me. He'd be 42 today.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 6 April 2009 00:48 (seventeen years ago)

If he was alive today we would all be making fun of his new album produced by the Neptunes.

― The Reverend, Monday, 6 April 2009 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

More like freak folk duets with Devendra Banhart.

― leavethecapital, Monday, 6 April 2009 01:01 (seventeen years ago)

Or Cobain/Los del Río -- Macarena 09.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 6 April 2009 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

Had he lived, I suspect a career arc roughly congruent to Frank Black. Not a lot of growth, but a lot of good work, overshadowed by solid, rather resented reunions.

― bendy, Monday, 6 April 2009 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/24/nirvana-gigs-kurt-cobain-dead-london-brixton-academy

― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Friday, 24 January 2014 20:04 (twelve years ago)

I had a ticket to one of those nights.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 24 January 2014 20:13 (twelve years ago)

Kept it, no fucking clue where it is now.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 24 January 2014 20:14 (twelve years ago)

1994 was 20 fucking years ago!?

― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Friday, 24 January 2014 20:51 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

Cobain would have turned 47 today. Seemed weird when I heard that this morning--if asked, I probably wouldn't have guessed he was so close to my own age (52). (Which doesn't make sense itself--I was 30 when Nevermind came out, and I knew then he wasn't 18 or anything like that.)

The story was primarily about this:

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Aberdeen-warms-up-to-its-most-famous-son-with-5249772.php

"Twin Peaks without the excitement"--funny.

― clemenza, Thursday, 20 February 2014 12:51 (twelve years ago)

I also turned 47 yesterday. It was on the day he died that I discovered I shared my birthday 20/2/1967 with Cobain. That was a chilling thing to learn, not least because I had a ticket to see them live.

― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 21 February 2014 08:51 (twelve years ago)

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