Courtney Love

By Gil Kaufman The upside? You said you no longer use cocaine yourself. But then you complain that your label didn’t give you the rock-and-roll treatment some of your predecessors got. “I’d have been booked in at the Ritz with 5 grams of cocaine on my table.”

By MTV News “Courtney Love!” I screamed to myself. Before I had a chance to react, I was face-to-face with an icon of ’90s grunge. For someone like myself who worshiped Nirvana and everything surrounding them, this was a big deal. She was mind-numbingly honest. She talked about Billy Corgan (”He sh–s gol...

The backstage thing was the most interesting, because it was Courtney [Love] and it was Kurt [Cobain] and it was Axl. It was like two worlds colliding. That was sort of an important moment in the way fashions changed, and you really saw ...