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Kurt Cobain On the 5th of April Kurt Cobain the leader of Nirvana, the grunge band that redefined the sound of the nineties, barricaded himself into the granny flat behind his mansion, put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. On Thursday April the 7th ~ two days after a medical examiner says Cobain shot himself and the day before his body was found police say Courtney Love Kurt's wife was taken to hospital in L.A. for a drug overdose. Released on bail, Love checked herself into a rehab center but left soon after a friend called her the next day with news of Cobain's death. Cobain's body was found when an electrician visiting the house to install a security system went round the back of the house when no one answered the front door and peered through windows. He thought he saw a mannequin sprawled on the floor until he noticed a splotch of blood by Cobain's ear. When police broke down the door they found Cobain dead on the floor, a shotgun still pointed at his chin and on a nearby counter a suicide note written in red ink addressed to Love and the couples then 19 month old daughter Frances Bean. Kurt Cobain was the leader of Nirvana, the grunge band that redefined the sound of the nineties.  Click on the audio logo and listen to a real audio file of Nirvana.  Michael Hutchence Australian pop star Michael Hutchence, lead singer of the rock group INXS, has been found dead in a Sydney hotel. Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio quoted police as saying Hutchence had died of a drug overdose. Other radio reports said he had hanged himself. ``We have no confirmation on the identity of the person concerned. We are waiting until the family and spouse have been identified,'' a police spokeswoman said. The media reports said Hutchence's body was found at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the exclusive harbor side suburb of Double Bay. A telephone operator at the hotel refused to comment on the reports and said Hutchence was not registered there. INXS, born in the Australian pub-circuit in 1977, has been one of the world's most durable music groups. Hutchence helped create modern rock sounds with such hits as ``What You Need'' and "New Sensation.'' INXS' tenth studio album, Elegantly Wasted, was out in April 1997. It is as good, if not better, as familiar yet as different, than anything the band has done before. 
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