Come as you are. The story of Nirvana, told by Kurt Kobein and recorded by Michael Azerrad

“It seemed that he did not know how to say“ without comment ”, and answered all the questions that I asked him,” the author of this book recalls his communication with Kurt Cobain. The biography, written by Michael Azerrad, became the only narrative about Nirvana, recorded and released to the tragic death of its leader.

The first edition was born in 1993, it was a monumental work assembled from dozens of exclusive and detailed interviews with members of the group Kurt Cobain, Krista Novoselich and Deive Grales, with their friends and family members. "Come as you are" is a close -up, an intimate story of Nirvana, revealing the phenomenon of the group that has taken from nowhere, whose albums immediately began to diverge multimillion -dollar circulations. Whose voice personified all the confusion, disappointment and passion of the new generation. So it was in the 1990s, this remains this day. This is a book about rebels, and not about legends, about life, and not about fatality. A fresh story that differs from all posthumous studies of their work.

“Come as you are "is the first book that comprehensively passes the group’s path from Aberdin, Washington, to world domination.” - Rolling Stone

The only biography of the group written and published during the life of Kurt Cobain is in 1993. It does not have a shade of tragedy that is found in all
Subsequent stories about Nirvana. All of it is full of excitement, energy and passions with which the group burst into the stage in the early 90s and infected everyone around.

The author of the book Michael Azerrad gathered dozens of detailed and exclusive interviews with participants and former members of the group, with their friends and relatives. He
I talked for many hours with Kurt Kobein, Krista Novoselich and Deive Grail, to find out all the details of the amazing phenomenon of the group, never from the first lips
not striving for commercial success and nevertheless sold their albums with millions of circulations around the world. Decades later, Nirvana not only
It remains on the wave, but also gained the status of cult, and the number of its fans only invariably grows.

Later, the publication was supplemented by the “last chapter”, which Azerrad wrote after the death of Kurt, it is dedicated to the memories of their communication during the creation
Books and what happened in the first days after the death of the musician