Hollywood Justice: Courtney Love

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Courtney Love has long been one of the most volatile, violent and litigious performers in Hollywood. A punk rocker, actress, and widow of rock legend Kurt Cobain.

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Courtney Love
born: 09-08-1964
birth place: San Francisco, USA

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born to parents Linda Caroll, a well-known publicist and Hank Harrison, a publisher. It can be said that her so-called free spirit ways emanated from an early age as she travelled around with her family, mostly in hippy communes.

In 1984, Love received a trust fund from her grandmother and took the opportunity to put it to use for travelling the world, visiting places such as Japan, Ireland and even Liverpool where she met a musician named Julian Cope and moved in with him, becoming a regular face at his gigs.

The relationship didn’t last and Love eventually returned to America where, having been infected with the notion of the music ‘scene’, she began singing with bands in the local area. Love soon caught the attention of film director Alex Cox in 1986 who decided to cast her in the leading role in Sid and Nancy, a film about Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his lover Nancy Spungen.

Sid and Nancy wasn’t a success but Love persisted with her acting career with another of Cox’s ventures, Straight To Hell the following year, but this was even more of a flop, going straight to DVD.

During this time, Love was balancing her acting failures with musical dabbling. Her association with fellow musician Kat Bjelland led to the forming of several different bands, in which Love ended up being kicked out of each. Love’s first band collaboration with Bjelland was called Sugar Baby Doll in which the two styled themselves accordingly to the band’s name in baby doll dresses and heavily smeared make-up.

Next the duo formed a band named The Pagan Babies, recording four demo tracks before once again booting Love out. The final reincarnation of the Love/Bjelland music relationship came with Babes in Toyland with Love on bass but once again her involvement was to be short-lived when she asked to leave for the last time.

With no job and no money, Love had to resort to the lows of stripping, apparently being turned away from local clubs for being too fat, she headed back to LA.

Love had taught herself to play guitar properly by 1989 and it was this iconic year that she decided to form her own band, placing an ad for musicians in a local magazine - the result of which became the band Hole with Eric Erlandson (guitar), Jill Emery (bass), and Caroline Rue (drums).

The band’s debut album Pretty on the Inside released in 1991 and whilst it didn’t set the charts on fire, it did receive rave reviews in the British music press and soon Love began to meet and befriend more influential musicians such as Michael Stipe of REM and Billy Morgan of The Smashing Pumpkins.

The same year as Hole’s album release, Love met Kurt Cobain from the band Nirvana at the Satyricon club in Portland. The whirlwind romance led to a Hawaii beach wedding in February 1992 and by August of that year, the couple’s daughter Frances Bean was born.

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