'We miss you': Courtney Love remembers 'twin flame' Kurt Cobain in emotional tribute
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: Courtney Love paid an emotional tribute to her late husband and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. A day after the April 5th anniversary of Cobain's death, Love, 58, posted a close-up black-and-white image of the singer's hands on Instagram, alluding to the late musician as her "twin flame."
Love hailed the image of her "twin flame" captured by R.E.M. member Michael Stipe as a "powerful photograph." Frances Bean Cobain also paid homage to her late father in Instagram Stories.
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'My twin flame'
The 'Hole' singer began the post by saying that she loves "beautiful hands, it’s the first thing I look at in another." Love captioned the Instagram post saying, "It is one of the only images (or sounds/ tastes etc) that makes me miss him deeply. But he chanted with me & often, & truly was moved by our Buddhist practice. Thus ,I know he’s in an enlightened place, more so, than we here in mappo are.’ The arms of a 1000 Buddhas outstretched to greet you’ the gosho says. Nam myoho renge kyo dear Kurt DC we love & miss you."
Love also praised photographer Stipe's skills in capturing the image mentioning "Micheal saw these hands." She wrote, "I love that the only photograph of Kurt that @michaelstipe took, despite being a lover of all sorts of beauty, kudzu, @helenachristensen , river pheonix; dozens if not 100s of gorgeous photos of people he finds and sees their ‘Shen’ (a Chinese word of what’s in the eyes - loosely translated as ‘mojo’ but more about the ‘twinkle’) But Micheal saw these hands. These left handed beautiful hands like a votive/ a mudra, a shot this singular, powerful photograph of my twin flame."
'There’s just something about Kurt Cobain'
Fans quickly took to the comment section of the Instagram post to express their love and pay tribute to the 'Something in the Way' singer. One fan commented, "There’s just something about Kurt Cobain and it never loses its potency, what a beautiful picture." A second fan wrote a lengthy comment by saying, "His hands are so ancient and still so young. It’s weird to look back at him from middle age versus being a star struck teenager. The adoration is there but shifted, softer, wiser, edge-less but nevertheless endless. Those hands carried so much weight and so much power for someone so young. Thank you for sharing this, I know it must be tough to share your grief with so many when so few knew him like you did and so few grieve as deeply as you do." Another fan commented, "Beautiful words, 29 years have passed without Kurt Cobain, but he lives on in every song and interview. There he leaves his soul." "He is with you and Frances at all times, a love like your family’s will never fade away!" commented another fan. One more fan typed, "Yes, those hands and those EYES. All thoughts to your daughter, you, his family and friends and all the people who keep a place for him in their hearts."
Kurt Cobain's tragic death
In January 1992, Nirvana's 'Nevermind' replaced Michael Jackson's 'Dangerous' at the top of the charts, making Cobain the new king of rock. He married Love the very following month, on February 24, 1992, on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, as reported by The New York Post. But drugs, particularly heroin, were a divisive factor in their relationship. Two years later, on April 5, 1994, Cobain shot himself in the head with a gun, allegedly due to mental illness and addiction.
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