Courtney Michelle Love (nÃÆ' Â © e Harrison , born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and visual artist. An important presence in the 1990s punk and grunge scenes, Love's career has spanned four decades. He became known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band, Hole, which he formed in 1989. Love has drawn public attention to his straightforward live performances and confrontational lyrics, as well as his highly publicized private life after his marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
The daughter of counter-cultural parents, Love has a childhood childhood. Born in San Francisco, he grew up primarily in Portland, Oregon, where he played in a series of short-lived and active bands in the local punk scene. After being interned in the teenage hall, he spent a year abroad living in Dublin and Liverpool before returning to the United States and cast in two films by British director Alex Cox. He formed Hole in 1989 in Los Angeles, and received attention from the underground rock press for his 1991 debut album, produced by Kim Gordon. Hole's second release, Live Through This (1994), gave it a notorious fame with critical acclaim and multi-platinum sales. In 1995, Love returned to acting, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure on Milo? Forman The People vs Larry Flynt (1996), which sets him as the lead actress. The following year, Hole's third album, Celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for three Grammy Awards.
Love continued to work as an actress in the early 2000s, appearing in big-budget pictures such as Man in the Moon (1999) and Trapped (2002), before releasing solo albums first, America's Sweetheart , in 2004. The following years were marked by the publicity surrounding Love's law and drug addiction issues, which resulted in a mandatory lockdown rehabilitation sentence in 2005 while he was writing a second solo album. The project became Nobody's Daughter , released in 2010 as a Hole album but without the previous Hole ranks. Between 2014 and 2015, Love released two solo singles and re-acted in the Sons of Anarchy series and Empire series.
Love also has a writing effort; he co-wrote and wrote three volumes of manga, Princess Ai , between 2004 and 2006, and wrote a memoir, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love (2006). In 2012, he premiered a mixed media art exhibition, And He Is Not Even Beautiful .
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Love was born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964 at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, California, the first child psychotherapist Linda Carroll (nÃÆ' Â © e Risi) and Hank Harrison, a publisher and street manager for the Grateful Dead. The godfather of love is the founder of Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh. His mother, who was adopted at birth and raised by a prominent Italian-Catholic family in San Francisco, was later revealed to be the biological daughter of novelist Paula Fox; The maternal grandmother of love is the screenwriter of Elsie Fox. According to Love, he was named after Courtney Farrell, the protagonist of the 1956 Pamela Moore novel Chocolates for Breakfast . He is of Cuban, English, German, Irish and Welsh descent.
Love spent her early years in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco until her parents' divorce in 1969, sparked by her mother's accusations that her father fed LSD when she was a toddler. Although she rejects the claim, loving custody is given to her mother. In 1970, Carroll moved with Love to the rural community of Marcola, Oregon where they lived along the Mohawk River while he completed his psychology degree at the University of Oregon. There, Love was adopted by her stepfather, Frank Rodriguez. She and her mother had two daughters and a son who died in a heart defect when Love was ten years old; they also adopted a boy. Love attended Montessori's school in Eugene, where she struggled academically and had difficulty in finding friends. At the age of nine, a psychologist noted that he showed signs of autism.
In 1972, Love's mother divorced Rodriguez, remarried, and moved the family to Nelson, New Zealand. There, she enrolled Love at Nelson College for Girls, from whom she was soon expelled. In 1973, he was sent back to live in the United States, where he grew up in Portland, Oregon by his stepfather and other family friends. During this time, his mother gave birth to two other half-brothers. At the age of fourteen, he was arrested for sending a T-shirt from Woolworth's, and sent to Hillcrest Correctional Facility, a teenage hall in Salem, Oregon. He was then placed in an orphanage until he became legally acquitted at the age of sixteen. She supports herself by working illegally as a topless dancer at Mary's Club in downtown Portland adopting the last name "Love" to hide her identity; he then adopted "Love" as his last name. He also works a variety of strange jobs, including picking berries on a ranch in Troutdale, Oregon, and as a disc jockey in a gay disco. During this time, he enrolled at Portland State University, studying English and philosophy. Love says that she "lacks a lot of social skills," and that she learned it while visiting a gay club and spending time with transvestites.
In 1981, he was given a small trust fund left by his adoptive grandparents, whom he used to travel to Dublin, Ireland, where his real father lived. While there, he enrolled in various courses at Trinity College, studying theology for two semesters. He will then receive honorary patronage from Trinity University Philosophical Society in 2010. After leaving Trinity, Love moved to Liverpool, where he became acquainted with musicians Julian Cope and his band, The Teardrop Explodes, and briefly stayed at his home. "They brought me in," he recalled. "I'm sort of a mascot, I'll buy them coffee or tea during practice." In Cope's autobiography Head-On, Love is referred to as a "teenager." After spending a year abroad, Love returned to Portland: "I think [going to England] is my ultimate life experience," he said in 2011. "- nothing else will happen to me again. In 1983, he took short-working work as an erotic dancer in Japan and then Taiwan, but was deported after the club was closed by the government.
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Careers
1981-1987: Initial project; music and movies
Love started several music projects in the 1980s, first forming Sugar Babylon (later Sugar Babydoll) in Portland with her friends Ursula Wehr and Robin Barbur. In 1982, Love attended Faith No More concert in San Francisco and convinced his members to let him join as a singer. The group recorded the material with Love as a vocalist, but he was later expelled from the band. According to Keyboard Faith No More holder Roddy Bottum, who remains a friend of Love in the years since, the band wants "male energy".
She later formed Pagan Baby with friend Kat Bjelland, whom she met at Satyricon's club in Portland in 1984. As Love then reflected, "The best thing that ever happened to me in a way, was Kat." Love asked Bjelland to start the band with him as a guitarist, and both moved to San Francisco in June 1985, where they recruited bassist Jennifer Finch and drummer Janis Tanaka. According to Bjelland, "[Courtney] did not play a musical instrument at that time" next to the keyboard, so Bjelland would write Love's music idea on the guitar for him. The group played several home performances and recorded a 4-song demo before disbanding in late 1985. After Pagan Babies, Love moved to Minneapolis, where Bjelland formed the Babes group in Toyland, and briefly worked as a concert promoter before returning to California.
Deciding to shift his focus to acting, Love enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute and studied films under the experimental director George Kuchar. Love is featured in one of her short films, titled Vatican Club . In 1985 he submitted audition recordings to the role of Nancy Spungen in Sid Vicious Sid and Nancy's (1986) biography, and was given minor supporting role by director Alex Cox. After filming Sid and Nancy in New York City, she worked at a peek at Times Square and crouched at the social center of ABC No Rio and Pyramid Club in the East Village. In the same year, Cox threw him into a lead role in his movie Straight to Hell (1987), a western spaghetti starring Joe Strummer and Grace Jones filmed in Spain in 1986. The film caught the attention of Andy Warhol, who featuring Love in the episode of Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes with Robbie Nevil. She also had a part in the 1988 Ramones music video for "I Want to Be Sedated," appearing as a bride among dozens of party guests.
In 1988, Love aborted his acting career and left New York, returning to the West Coast, citing the "celebutante" fame he gained as the main reason. He returned to stripping in the small town of McMinnville, Oregon, where he was recognized by customers in the bar. This prompted Love to go to the isolation room, so she moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where she stayed for three months to "gather her thoughts," supporting herself by working in a strip club frequented by local fishermen. "I decided to move to Alaska because I had to work together and learn how to work," he said in retrospect. "So I went on searching for this kind of vision, I got rid of all mine in the world, I had my little little strip shirt and some big sweaters, and I moved into a trailer with a bunch of other strippers."
1988-1991: Early Hole
At the end of 1988, Love taught himself to play guitar and move to Los Angeles, where he advertised on local music zine: "I want to start a band, my influence is Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac." Love recruits guitarist Eric Erlandson; Lisa Roberts, her neighbor, as a bassist; and drummer Caroline Rue, whom she met at Gwar's concert. Love was named after the line of the band Hole Euripides' Medea ("There is a hole that penetrated my right") as well as the conversation he did with his mother, where he told him that he could not live his life " through it. "
Love continues to work in strip clubs in Hollywood (including Jumbo's Clown Room and Seventh Veil) in the band stage, saving money to buy backline equipment and van tours, and rehearsing in a studio in Hollywood lent to him by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Hole played their first show in November 1989 at Raji's, a rock club in the center of Hollywood. The band's single debut, "Retard Girl", was released in April 1990 through the indie label Long Beach Sympathy for the Recording Industry, and was airtime by Rodney Bingenheimer's show at local rock station KROQ. That fall, the band appeared on the cover of Flipside, a Los Angeles-based punk fanzine. In early 1991, the band released their second single, "Dicknail", via Sub Pop Records.
Without waves, noise rock and grindcore bands became the main influences on Love, Hole's first studio album, Pretty on the Inside, captured a very rough voice and contained disruptive lyrics, described by Q magazines as "confrontational [and] totally unhindered." The record was released in September 1991 at Caroline Records, produced by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth with production assistants from Gumball's Don Fleming; Love and Gordon initially met when Hole opened for Sonic Youth during their promotional tour for Goo at Whiskey a Go Go in November 1990. In early 1991, Love sent a personal letter to Gordon asking him to produce a record for the band , which he approves. Although Love would later say it was "unlockable" and "melodic", "the album received generally generally positive reception from indie and punk rock critics and labeled one of the twenty best albums of the year by Spin magazine. It also gained followers in the UK, charting at 59 on the UK Albums Chart, and its main single, "Teenage Whore", entered the country indie chart at number one. The fundamental feminist tendency of some album songs causes many people to misinterpret the band as part of the grrrl movement, a movement that Love does not relate to. The band toured in support of the record, headlining with Mudhoney in Europe; in the United States, they open for Smashing Pumpkins, and perform at CBGB in New York City.
1992-1995: Breakthrough
After the release of Pretty on the Inside, Love began dating Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and becoming pregnant. During Love's pregnancy, Hole recorded the cover of "Over the Edge" for the Wiper tribute album, and recorded their fourth single, "Beautiful Son", released in April 1993. Love and Cobain married in February 1992 and, after the birth of their daughter Frances Bean Cobain, moved to Carnation, Washington and then to Seattle. On September 8, 1993, Love and Cobain made their only public performances together at Rock Against Rape in Hollywood, performing two acoustic duets "Pennyroyal Tea" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night." Love also featured an electric version of two new Hole songs, "Doll Parts" and "Miss World," both written for the band's upcoming second album.
In October 1993, Hole recorded their second album, Live Through This , in Atlanta. The album featured a new lineup with Christian bassist Pfaff and drummer Patty Schemel. Live Through This was released on the label of Geffen subsidiary DGC in April 1994, four days after Love's husband Cobain was found dead after a suicide at their Seattle home. Two months later, in June 1994, Christian bassist Pfaff died of a heroin overdose, {{sfn | Behind the Music}}; Love to recruit Melissa Auf der Maur for the upcoming band tour. Love, rarely seen in public in the months before the tour, split time between two Washington homes, Atlanta, Paramount Hotel in New York City, and Namgyal Buddhist Monastery in New York.
Live Through This was a commercial and critical success, achieved the RIAA platinum certification in April 1995 and received many critical awards. The record's success combined with Cobain's suicide resulted in high level publicity for Love, and he was featured on Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People in 1995. At the Hole appearance on August 26, 1994 at the Reading Festival - The first public show Love after the death of her husband - she appeared on stage with her outstretched hand, mimicking the crucifixion. MTV's review of their performance referred to it as "horribly, frighteningly, and inspirational turns." John Peel writes in The Guardian that the untidy Love appearance "will attract the amazed whistle in Bedlam", and that his performance is "very heroic... Love directs his band through a set that challenges you to pity either his recent history or that of the band... the band staggered on the edge of chaos, producing tension that I do not remember ever feeling before from any stage. "
The band performed a series of rioto concerts during the tour, with Love often appearing hysterically on stage, blinking crowds, diving stages, and engaging fights with the audience. A journalist reported that at the band's performance in Boston in December 1994, "Love interrupted music and talked about her dead husband, Kurt Cobain, and also racially churned like Tourette's syndrome. The music was good, but rambling vulgar and offensive, and encouraging some of the audience to shout back at him. "In retrospect, Love says that she" can not remember much "the event because she was very much using drugs at the time. On Valentine's Day 1995, Hole performed a well-reviewed acoustic set at MTV Unplugged at the Brooklyn Music Academy, and they continued touring until the end of the year, ending their world tour with performances in 1995. MTV Video Music Awards , where they were nominated for Best Alternative Videos for "Puppet Sections".
1996-2000: Acting and ultimate success
After the Hole world tour ended in 1996, Love returned to acting, first in a minor role in the biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat Basquiat and drama Feeling Minnesota (1996), before landing a role starring Larry Flynt's wife, Althea on Milo? The critically acclaimed Forman film in 1996 The People vs Larry Flynt . Despite Columbia Pictures's reluctance to hire Love because of his troubled past, he received critical acclaim for his performance in the film after being released in December 1996, earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Critic Award for Best Supporting Actress. Critics Roger Ebert calls his work in the movie "pretty good, Love proves he's not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress." He won several other awards from various film critic associations for the film. During this time, he also modeled the Versace ad and appeared on Italian Vogue .
In late 1997, Hole released a compilation album, My Body, the Hand Grenade , featuring rare singles and B-sides, and an EP titled The First Session consisting of recording sessions first band in 1990. In September 1998, Hole released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which marks something of a transformation for Love, featuring a stark pop power pop as opposed to a previous punk group. influence rock. Love unfolds his ambition to create an album where "art meets the trade... no compromise is made, it has a commercial appeal, and it's attached to our [original] vision." He said he was influenced by Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, and My Bloody Valentine while writing the album. Vocalist Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan, wrote several songs on this album. Celebrity Skin is well received by critics; Rolling Stone calls it "accessible, fiery and intimate - often at the same time... a baseless basic guitar recording". Celebrity Skin became multi-platinum, and topped the "Best of the Year" list on Spin and The Village Voice . The album garnered their only single hit single No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart with the title song "Celebrity Skin". The band promoted the album through MTV shows and the 1998 Billboard Music Awards, and was later nominated for three Grammy Awards at the 41st Grammy Awards ceremony.
Hole toured with Marilyn Manson on the Beautiful Monsters Tour in 1999, but came out of the tour nine times after a production cost dispute between Love and Manson, despite the fact that Hole was forced to open for Manson under an agreement with Interscope Records. Hole resumes tour with Imperial Teen. Love will then make a claim that the additional reason the band left the tour is because Manson and Korn (who they also toured with in Australia) were sexually groomed from the members of a teenage female audience. Love told an interviewer at 99X.FM in Atlanta: "What I really do not like - there are certain girls who like us, or like me, who are really messed up... and they do not have to - they are still very young - and they do not have to be taken and raped, or filmed having an enema contest... go to the audience and take the girls fourteen and fifteen years who obviously cut themselves, and then have to see them in the morning... that's not cool. "
Prior to the release and promotion of Celebrity Skin, Love and Fender designed the Squier brand guitar at a low price, called Vista Venus. The instrument features a form inspired by Mercury, a little-known little guitar, Stratocaster, and a Rickenbacker solid body guitar and features single-coil and humbucker pickups, and is available in 6-string and 12-string versions. In an interview in early 1999, Love said of Venus: "I want a guitar that sounds very warm and pop, but who needs just one box to get dirty... And something that could also be your first band guitar. "I want everything to be determined, I want it to be really simple, with just one pickup switch." In 1999, Love was awarded Orville H. Gibson for Best Female Rock Guitarist. During this time, he also starred against Jim Carrey as his longtime partner Lynne Margulies in the biopic of Andy Kaufman Man in the Moon (1999), followed by the role of William S. Burroughs wife, Joan Vollmer. in Beat (2000) with Kiefer Sutherland.
After the tour for Celebrity Skin, Auf der Maur left the band for a tour with The Smashing Pumpkins; Drummer Hole tour, Samantha Maloney, soon left after that. Love and Erlandson released their single "Be A Man" - an outtake from Celebrity Skin - for the Oliver Stone movie soundtrack Any Given Sunday (1999). The group becomes inactive within the next two years.
2001-2011: The solo work and Revival Holes
In 2000, Love played the lead role in John Carpenter's sci-fi horror movie Ghosts of Mars, but retired from the role after injuring his leg. The reverse part goes to Natasha Henstridge. The following year, Love starred in several additional films, including in Julie Johnson (2001) as lesbian lover of Lili Taylor, where she won an Extraordinary Actress award at LA's Outfest, and in the thriller Caught (2002), along with Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron.
With a messy Hole, Love began the "punk rock femme supergroup" called Bastard in March 2001, asking Schemel, Veruca Salt co-frontwoman Louise Post, and bassist Gina Crosley. "He's like, 'Look, guys: I've been in Malibu, manicure, world movie star for two years, okay? I want to take notes, and let's leave all the grunge shit behind us, eh? "We are very improvisational, and sing along, and with the confidence that develops between us.That is nonsense." The group recorded a demo tape, but in September 2001, Post and Crosley had left the band, with the Post citing "unhealthy and unprofessional working conditions." In May 2002, Hole officially announced their separation amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record deal.
In 2002, Love started making an album with songwriter Linda Perry from 4 Non Blondes, titled America's Sweetheart . Love signed with Virgin Records in July 2003, and began recording an album in France shortly thereafter. A total of 32 songs were recorded during this session. America's Sweetheart was released in February 2004, and received mixed reviews. Charles Aaron of Spin referred to it as "the act of dropping artistic and flaming follow-up and passionate in 1994's Live Through This" and awarding it eight out of ten stars, while Amy Phillips from The Village Voice wrote: "[Love is] willing to act out of the dreams of every juvenile delinquent who ever wants to have glamorous, high-profile hissyfit, and she transforms them into egocentric nerve disorders into art. , the art becomes less attractive when you've pulled the same action for a decade.But, honestly, is there anyone out there that is getting better? "The album sold for less than 100,000 copies. Love has openly expressed regret over the record, arguing that the drug problem at the time was to blame: "America's Sweetheart is the only true shit, it has no cohesive thread, I just hate it. "he remarked in 2014. Shortly after the recording was released, he told Kurt Loder about TRL :" I can not exist as a solo artist.This is a joke. "After the release of America's Sweetheart , Love collaborated in a semi-autobiographical manga titled Princess Ai (Japan: ????? Ã, Â · ????), whom she co-wrote with Stu Levy. The manga is illustrated by Misaho Kujiradou and Ai Yazawa, and was released in three volumes in both the United States and Japan between 2004 and 2006.
In 2005, Love was ordered into lockdown rehab by California judge after a series of legal issues and allegations of controlled substance. After being released in 2006, he published a memoir,
In June 2009, NME published an article detailing Love's plan to reunite Hole and release a new album, Nobody's Daughter . In response, former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson declared in the Spin magazine that contractually no reunions could take place without his involvement; therefore Nobody's Daughter will remain Love's solo album, as opposed to the "Hole" record. Love responded to Erlandson's comments on a Twitter post, claiming "he's out of his mind, Hole is my band, my name, and my Trademark". Nobody's Daughter was released worldwide as a Hole album on April 27, 2010. For the new line-up, Love recruited guitarist Micko Larkin, Shawn Dailey (bass guitar), and Stu Fisher (drums, percussion). Nobody's Daughter featured material written and recorded for the unfinished Love solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean , including "Pacific Coast Highway", "Letter to God", " Samantha ", and" Never Go Hungry ", although they were re-produced in the studio alongside Larkin and engineer Michael Beinhorn. The subject of this album mostly centered on Love's vibrant life between 2003 and 2007, and featured polished folk rock sounds, and more acoustic guitar work from previous Hole albums.
The first single from Nobody's Daughter was "Skinny Little Bitch", released to promote the album in March 2010. The album received mixed reviews. Robert Sheffield of Rolling Stone gave this album three out of five, saying Love "worked hard on these songs, rather than just babbling nonsense and assuming people would buy it, as he did on his failures in the year 2004, America's Sweetheart ". Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine also gave the album three out of five: "It's the voice that Marianne Faithfull's substance destruces most often when listening to songs like 'Honey' and 'For Once in Your Life The last song is, on in fact, one of the most raw and vulnerable vocal shows of the moment... this song offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a woman who, for the past 15 years, has become famous for being a rock star because she has been a victim. " Love and band toured internationally from 2010 to the end of 2012 promoting the recording, with their pre-release performances in London and in the South by Southwest receiving critical acclaim. After 2012, Love decided to drop the name of Hole and appear as a solo artist.
2012-present: Art and fashion; back to acting
In May 2012, Love debuted with a collection of art at the Fred Torres Collaboration in New York entitled " Dan She Not Even Pretty ", containing more than forty drawings and paintings by Love consisting of ink, pencil colors, pastels, and watercolors. Later that year, he collaborated with Michael Stipe on "Rio Grande" for Johnny Depp's Son of Rogues Gallery and in 2013, co-wrote and contributed vocals to "Rat A Tat" from Fall Out Boy album Save Rock and Roll ; she also appeared in the music video for the song. After the solo show in December 2012 and January 2013, Love appeared in an ad for Yves Saint Laurent with Kim Gordon and Ariel Pink. Love completes North American solo tour in mid-2013, which purportedly will promote the upcoming solo album; However, it was eventually dubbed the "greatest hits" tour, and featured songs from Love's and Hole's back catalog. Love told Billboard when she had recorded eight songs in the studio.
On April 22, 2014, Love debuted the song "You Know My Name" on BBC Radio 6 to promote his UK tour. The album was released as a double A-side single with the song "Wedding Day" on May 4, 2014, on its own label Cherry Forever Records via Cobalt Label Services. The track was produced by Michael Beinhorn, and featured Tommy Lee on drums. In an interview with the BBC, Love revealed that he and former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson have reconciled, and have rehearsed new material together, along with former bassist Melissa Auf der Maur and drummer Patty Schemel, though she does confirm the reunion of the ribbon. On May 1, 2014, in an interview with Pitchfork , Love commented further about the possibility of reunited Hole, saying: "I will not commit to that happening, because we want a surprise element. > i s to be dotted and t s to be crossed. "
In 2013 and 2014, Love worked with rock journalist Anthony Bozza to write with his memoir, titled Girl with the Most Cake . Bozza submitted the Love manuscript in 2014 which he was very excited about, then called it "probably the biggest thing I would do with anyone." Love, however, disliked him, and said in an interview that the text made him sound like he "boosted coffee and sugar in a really bad mood." Love refused to pay Bozza for the work he had done, and he sued him in 2015 for lack of payment.
In 2014, Love plays several television series in the support section, including the FX Sons of Anarchy Revenge series, and the Lee Daniels series Empire , which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. Alexis Petridis from The Guardian i> praised the song, saying: "The idea of ​​Courtney Love singing ballads with a group of gospel singers seems rather frightening... the reality of love matches the careworn lyrics, easily summoning the kind of darkness that Lana Del Rey has almost broken himself trying to bring up. "
In addition to television acting, Love collaborated with theater producer Todd Almond, starring in the Kansas City Choir Boy collaborative pop opera featured at Manhattan art center here during their annual Prototype i> festivals in January 2015. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praised his performance, noting the presence of a "soft and fascinating" stage, adding: "His voice, never the most pliable or easily swayed instrument, maintaining a single voice that makes it the thrilling front woman for the Hole band: an ongoing record seems to be able to simultaneously contain appeals, wounds and threats. "The show was held later this year, with performances in Boston and Los Angeles. In early 2015, Love joins Lana Del Rey on his Endless Summer Tour, making an opening appearance on eight West Coast shows. During his tenure on the Del Rey tour, Love debuted with a new single, "Miss Narcissist", which was released on the independent label Wavves, Ghost Ramp. She also plays a role in supporting roles in James Franco's The Long Home movie, based on William Gay novel of the same name, marking her first film role in over ten years.
In January 2016, Love released a clothing line in collaboration with Sophia Amoruso titled "Love, Courtney", featuring eighteen pieces reflecting the style of Love during her career. In November 2016, he began filming a pilot for A Midsummer's Nightmare, a series of Shakespeare anthologies adapted for Lifetime. She later starred as Kitty Menendez in Menendez: Blood Brothers, a biopic television film based on the lives of Lyle and Erik Menendez, which aired in Lifetime in June 2017. That same year, she played a role in Justin Biography film of Kelly JT LeRoy , in front of Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Diane Kruger, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. In March 2018, Love appeared in the music video for Marilyn Manson's "Tattooed in Reverse," which he followed with a guest-judge appearance on April 5th at RuPaul's Drag Race.
Arts
Influences
Love has been frank about the diverse influences of music, the earliest being Patti Smith, The Runaways, and The Pretenders, an artist he found while in a teenage room at the age of fifteen. As a child, his first musical exposure was a recording his parents took every month through the Columbia Record Club. The first note that Love possesses is Leonard Cohen The songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), which he obtained from his mother: "He is very conscious and unhealthy lyric, and I am a pretty horrible child," he remember. As a teenager, he named Flipper, Kate Bush, Soft Cell, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Lou Reed, and the Dead Kennedys among his favorite artists. He also spoke of his appreciation of the new wave and the post-punk bands he knew while he was alive as a teenager in England, such as Echo and Bunnymen, The Smiths, Siouxsie and Banshees, Television, Bauhaus, and Joy Divisions.
While in Dublin at the age of fifteen, Love attended the Virgin Prunes concert, an event he calls an important influence: "I have never seen so much sex, snarl, poetry, crime, curse, grace, defilement, brute force and great essence of rock and roll, "he recalled. "[I have seen] U2 [that] gave me a whip of love and inspiration, and a few nights later Virgin Prunes made love to me." Decades later, in 2009, Love introduced vocalist Gavin on Friday at Carnegie Hall, and performed a song with him.
The love interest of the genre was illustrated in a 1991 interview with Flipside, where he stated: "There's a part of me that wants to have a grindcore band and another band that wants to have a Raspberry-type pop band." Discussing the sound of Hole's hard debut album, he said he felt he had to "chase all my hip friends who had gone all indie on me, and who made fun of me for being REM and The Smiths." He also embraced the influence of experimental artists and punk rock groups, including Sonic Youth, Goose, Big Black, Diamanda GalÃÆ'¡s, Germs, and The Stooges. While writing Celebrity Skin, she gets influence from Neil Young and My Bloody Valentine. He also quotes his contemporary PJ Harvey as an influence, saying: "The only rock star who makes me know I'm unlucky is Polly Harvey. I'm nothing besides the purity he's experiencing." In 2014, he named "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve as one of his favorite songs.
Literature and poetry are often the main influences in songwriting; Love says that he "always wants to be a poet, but there is no money in it." He has named T.S. Eliot and Charles Baudelaire were very influential, and were referenced by Dante Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling and Anne Sexton in the lyrics.
Music styles and lyrics
Musically, Love's work with Hole and his solo efforts has been characterized as an alternative rock; The initial material of Hole, however, is described by critics as a style closer to grindcore and aggressive punk rock. Spin ' in October 1991 Hole's first album review noted that the rough and crude coarse love layers immersed the more sophisticated music settings. In 1998, he stated that Hole has always been a pop band.We always have a pop subtext.I always talk about it, if you come back... what would sound like some strange Sonic Youth tuning then for you sounds like Raspberry to me , in my crazy pop frame. "
Love's lyrical content consists of a female point of view, and the lyrics have been described as "literate and rough" and recorded by scholars to "articulate a third wave of feminist consciousness." Simon Reynolds, in reviewing Hole's debut album, notes: "Ms. Love's songs explore the full spectrum of female emotions, from vulnerability to anger.These songs are triggered by teenage trauma, disgust about the body, passionate friendships with women and desires to get out of the household.Lyrical style can be described as emotional nudism. "French journalist and critic Kim, in criticizing the lyrics of Love, called himself a" dark genius "and likened his work to Anne Sexton.
According to an interview in 2014, the lyrics remain the most important component of songwriting for Love: "I want it to look just as good on a page like that if it's in a book of poetry." Most of the songwriting is diaristic. Common themes in Love's songs during his early career include body image, rape, suicide, self-adjustment, elitism, pregnancy, prostitution, and death. In a 1991 interview with Everett True, he said: "I tried to put [the beautiful picture] next to the chaotic picture, because that's how I see things... I sometimes feel that no one takes the time to write about certain things in rock, that there is a certain female viewpoint that is never given space. "
Critics have noted that Musical works later Love is more lyrical introspective. Celebrity Skin and America's Sweetheart lyrically centered on the lives of celebrities, Hollywood, and drug addicts, while continuing Love's interest in pride and body image. Nobody's Daughter reflectively reflects his past love affair and his struggle for calm, with the majority of his lyrics written while he was in rehabilitation in 2006.
Vocals, performance, and tools
Love has a contralto voice range, and its vocal style has been described as "raw and distinctive." According to Love, she never wanted to be a singer, but wanted to be an expert guitarist: "I'm such a lazy bastard, I never did that," he said. "I'm always the only one with the guts to sing, so I'm stuck with it." He has been regularly recorded by critics for husky vocals as well as the ability to "scream" banshee [-like]. His vocals have been compared to Johnny Rotten, and David Fricke of Rolling Stone describes them as "lung busters" and "loud, corrupt, mad". After the release of Hole's 2010 album, Nobody's Daughter, Amanda Petrusich of Pitchfork compares hoarse and rough sounds to Bob Dylan's voice.
He has played various Fender guitars throughout his career, including Jaguar and the 1965 vintage Jazzmaster; the latter being bought by the Hard Rock Cafe and on display in New York City. Between 1989 and 1991, Love mainly played Rickenbacker 425 because he "preferred the 3/4 neck," but he smashed the guitar on stage at the opening of the 1991 concert for The Smashing Pumpkins. In the mid-1990s, he often played guitars made by Mercury, an unknown company that produced custom guitars, as well as Univox Hi-Flier. Fender's Venus Venus, designed by Love in 1998, was partly inspired by Rickenbacker's guitar and Mercury. During the 2010 and newer tours, Love has played Rickenbacker 360 on stage. The settings include the Fender, Matchless, Ampeg, Silvertone, and Randall Commander 1976 fixtures.
Love has called herself a "fucking guitar player," a further comment in the 2014 interview: "I can still write songs, but [guitar playing] sounds like dirt... I used to be a good rhythm player but I am no longer reliable. "Throughout his career, he also earned a reputation for unexpected live performances. In the 1990s, his appearance with Hole was characterized by confrontational behavior, with Diving stages, destroying the guitar or throwing them to the audience, wandering into the crowd at the end of the set, and engaging in sometimes unclear stimuli. Critics and journalists have noted Love for his funny and often flowing banter. In a review of live performances published in 2010, it was noted that on stage Love "one of the coatings was eligible for the Comedy Store."
Public image and legal issues
The courage of love about her struggle with drug addiction and her public legal issues has made her subject to significant media interests during her career. Journalist Neil Strauss, commenting on him in 1995, notes that he has "gained a strange difference reserved for the President, the main villain and the celebrity widow: every word he says and writes becomes news." Some journalists have compared it to Yoko Ono, with some people giving him "Yoko Ono of Generation X" (based on his relationship with her husband Kurt Cobain, comparing it to John Lennon and Ono). Commenting on his relationship with the media in 2014, The Guardian called Love "the worst homework nightmare: brash, unforgiving, arrogant, fun and talented - which also made him the ideal stage personality."
1990-2002
Her first major media exposure was her 1992 profile of herself and her husband Kurt Cobain for Vanity Fair by journalist Lynn Hirschberg, entitled "Strange Love." After being asked to participate in a cover story for the magazine, Love is urged by his manager to accept the request. In the previous year, Love had been addicted to heroin along with Cobain, and the profile, published in September 1992, painted the couple in an unattractive light and suggested that Love had been addicted to heroin during her pregnancy. The article eventually resulted in the Department of Children and Los Angeles Family Services investigating, and custody of Love and Cobain girls, Frances, temporarily given to the sister of Love, Jaimee. Love claims he was misquoted by Hirschberg, and confirmed that he immediately stopped using heroin during his first trimester after he found out he was pregnant. Love will then claim that the publication of the article has serious implications for her marriage as well as Cobain's mental state, which suggests it is a factor in suicide.
After Cobain committed suicide in April 1994, public interest in Love increased; simultaneously, erratic stage behavior and legal issues during the 1994-1995 Hole world tour added to media coverage of him. He would then say that he kept a little memory of this time period, blaming the fact that he had used a large amount of heroin and Rohypnol at the time. In January 1995, he was arrested in Melbourne for disrupting Qantas Airways flight after a fight with a flight attendant. On July 4, 1995, at the Lollapalooza Festival in George, Washington, he beat musician Kathleen Hanna in the face after accusing him of making a joke about his daughter. Love was accused of assault, which he pleaded guilty to, and was sentenced to anger management class. In November 1995, two teenage boys attempted to sue Love for allegedly hitting them during a Hole concert they attended in Orlando, Florida in March 1995. The judge finally dismissed the case on the grounds that the teenagers "were not exposed to a larger amount the violence that can be expected from alternative rock concerts. "
In 1996, Love underwent rehab and stopped using heroin at the insistence of director Milo? Forman, who has given him a lead role in The People vs Larry Flynt . He was ordered to take some urine tests under the supervision of Columbia Pictures while filming the movie, and through it all. The film sees Love nominated for a Golden Globe award, and during this time he retains what print media as a more polite public image, though he will draw attention in May 1998 after punching Los Angeles Times journalist Belissa. Cohen in the face at the party; the lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
2003-2018
In February 2003, he banned Virgin Airlines by founder Richard Branson after being arrested at Heathrow Airport for disrupting the flight. In October of that year, in the midst of what I later admit was a cocaine addiction and prescription drug, he was arrested in Los Angeles after breaking several windows from his producer and then the home of his boyfriend James Barber, and was accused of being under the influence of controlled substances; a temptation that led to the loss of her daughter's care for a while.
On March 17, 2004, Love appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote his new solo album. His appearance attracted media coverage when, during the interview segment, he raised his shirt several times, displaying Letterman, and standing at his desk. A New York Times article noted: "The episode was not too surprising for Ms. Love, 39, whose most public moments have changed from extreme pathos - like when she read suicide notes of her success. , Kurt Cobain, on MTV - became an angry feminism for a fight with an obscure chirp. "Hours later, on the morning of March 18, Love was arrested in Manhattan for allegedly attacking a 23-year-old male fan by standing microphone during a small concert which he did at the East Village. She was released a few hours after the incident, allowing her to perform a concert scheduled for the next night at Ballroom Bowery. Four days later, on March 22, he called several times to The Howard Stern Show, claiming in a conversation broadcasted with Stern that the incident did not occur, and actress Natasha Lyonne, who was at the concert, was told by the alleged victim that he had paid $ 10,000 to file a false claim that led to the capture of Love.
On July 9, 2004, Love's 40th birthday, she was arrested for failing to make court appearances for allegations in March 2004, and taken to Bellevue Hospital, which was allegedly incoherent, where she was placed at 72 hours. According to police, he is believed to have the potential to "harm himself," but is considered mentally healthy and released to a rehabilitation facility two days later. Amid public criticism and press coverage, comedian Margaret Cho publishes an opinion on her official website in defense of Love, titled "Courtney [Love] Deserves Better Than Feminist," arguing that the negative associations of Love with drugs and personal problems (including feminists) discussion of his music and, more importantly, his personal well-being. Love will ultimately plead guilty in October 2004 to an unmanifest behavior on the alleged beating of the audience.
His performance as a roaster in Comedy Central Roast from Pamela Anderson in August 2005 caught the attention of the Media further because he looked visibly drunk and matted. One review of the program notes that Love "acts as if she belongs to a [psychiatric] institution." Six days after the show aired, she was sentenced to a 28 day lockdown rehabilitation program for allegedly under the controlled substance, violating her probation. To avoid jail time, he received an additional 180-day penalty in September 2005. In November 2005, after successfully completing the program, Love was removed from the rehabilitation center under the condition that he complete further outpatient rehabilitation. In subsequent interviews in subsequent years, he will admit to having dealt with various addictions during this time for prescription drugs, cocaine, and cocaine. He has stated he has been conscious since completing his rehabilitation in 2007, and cites his Buddhist practice as an integral part of his calm.
In 2009, fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir brought a libel suit against Love related to a fitnah post made by Love on his Twitter account, which was settled for $ 450,000. Six years later, Simorangkir filed another lawsuit against Love to slander further Twitter posts, and Love paid another $ 350,000 in compensation. A similar uniform was filed against Love by his former lawyer, Rhonda Holmes in 2014, who also accused online defamation Love, seeking $ 8 million in damages. It was the first case of alleged Twitter-based slander in US history to get him to trial. However, the jury, apparently liked Love.
Personal life
In 1989, Love married James Moreland (vocalist of The Leaving Trains) in Las Vegas, but said that Moreland was a transvestite and that their marriage was a "joke", ending with a cancellation filed by Love a few months later. After forming a Hole in 1989, Love and bandmate Eric Erlandson had a romantic relationship for over a year, and he also dated Billy Corgan from rock group The Smashing Pumpkins in 1991, with whom he has maintained a fickle friendship during many years.
His most documented romantic relationship was with Kurt Cobain. Not sure when they first met, and there are various stories about how they know each other. Journalist Michael Azerrad stated that the two met in 1989 at Satyricon's nightclub in Portland, Oregon, although Cobain's biographer Charles Cross had claimed that the date was actually February 12, 1990, and that Cobain happily wrestled Love to the floor after he commented to him in passing that he looks like Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum. According to Love, he first met him at the Dharma Bums show in Portland, while fellow band Love Eric Erlandson stated that both he and Love were officially introduced to Cobain in the parking lot after the Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Palladium on May 17, 1991. Some time in late 1991, Love and Cobain became famous again through Jennifer Finch, one of the old friends and former members of the old band Love.
After dating for several months, Love and Cobain got married on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii on February 24, 1992. Love wore a satin and lace dress once owned by actress Frances Farmer, and Cobain wore plaid pajamas. Six months later, on August 18, the only child of the couple, a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born. In April 1994, Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in their Seattle home while Love was in rehabilitation in Los Angeles. During their marriage, and after Cobain's death, Love became a hateful figure among some of Cobain's fans. After his cremation, Love split some of Cobain's ashes; he keeps some teddy bears and some in a jar. Another part of his ashes was taken by Love to Namgyal Buddhist Monastery in Ithaca, New York in 1994, where they were blessed by Buddhist monks and mixed into clay made into memorial statues. After Cobain's death, between 1996 and 1999, Love dated him, Edward Norton, and was also associated with comedian Steve Coogan in the early 2000s.
Love has practiced several religions, including Catholicism, Episcopalism, and New Age religions, but has said that Buddhism is the "most transcendent" way for him. He has studied and practiced Tibetan and Nichiren Buddhism since 1989. He has also openly discussed the agony of depression and drug addiction throughout his life, and self-harm. Love is a Democratic Party supporter. In 2000, he gave a speech at Million Mom March to advocate a closer mental health evaluation for weapons possession in the United States. Love also advocates LGBT rights throughout his career: In 1997, he used his award speech at the MTV Fashion Awards to advocate for LGBT community acceptance. Love identifies as a feminist.
In 2000, Love publicly advocated reforming the recording industry in a private letter published by Salon . In the letter, Love says: "It is not piracy when children exchange music over the Internet using Napster or Gnutella or Freenet or iMesh or broadcast their CDs to My.MP3.com or MyPlay.com music lockers.This is piracy when people it runs the company making side deals with cartel lawyers and label heads so they can become 'friend' labels, and not artists. "In subsequent interviews with Carrie Fisher, he said that he was interested in starting unions for recording artists, discussed race relations in the music industry, encouraged record companies to "return money to the black community [who] whites have been stealing for years."
Philanthropy
In 1993, Love and husband Kurt Cobain performed a set of acoustics together at Rock Against Rape benefit in Los Angeles, which raises awareness and provides resources for victims of sexual abuse. He also contributed to the benefits of amfAR AIDS research and held live musical performances on their show. In 2009, Love performed a charity concert for the RED Campaign at Carnegie Hall with Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, and Scarlett Johansson, with AIDS research results. In May 2011, she attended Yayasan Hati Sukacita Mariska Hargitay for victims of child abuse, rape and domestic violence, contributing six of her husband's personal vinyl recordings to Kurt Cobain for auction.
Love has also supported the Sophie Lancaster Foundation as well as the LGBT youth charity, especially with the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, where she has participated in several "An Evening with Women" events at the center. The results of the event help provide food and shelter for homeless teenagers; services for the elderly; legal aid; domestic violence services; health and mental health services, and cultural arts programs. Love participates with Linda Perry for the event in 2012, and performs with Aimee Mann and comedian Wanda Sykes. Speaking of his collaboration at the event, Love said: "Seven thousand children in Los Angeles a year go down the street, and forty percent of the kids are gay, lesbian, or transgendered, they come to their parents, and become homeless... for whatever reason, I do not really know why, but gay men have a lot of basics - I've played many of them - but the lesbian side does not have a lot of money and/or donors, so we're glad that this has grown to include women's and women's affairs. "
Influence
Love has an important impact on the actions and alternative players held by women. He has been cited as influential on young female instrumentalists in particular, having once proclaimed cruelly: "I want every girl in the world to pick up the guitar and start screaming... I strap on a motherfucking guitar and you can not make love to me.. "In the Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, it is recorded:
[Love] really fit Paul Westerberg's (The Replacements) judgment about the make-up/playing of a beautiful girl guitar... She often stands on stage, microphones in hands and feet on the monitor, and lets her Fender guitar roam around around. his neck. He really embodies the empowerment that comes with playing the electric guitar... Love relies heavily on male lead guitar Eric Eric Erlandson, but the rest of his band remains exclusively female across multiple lineup changes.
With more than 3 million records sold in the United States alone, Hole became one of the most successful rock bands of all time held by a woman. VH1 rated Love no. 69 on their list 100 Greatest Women in Music History in 2012. By 2015, Phoenix New Times declared Likes the greatest female rock star of all time, writes: "To build a perfect rock star, there are some important ingredients: musical talent, physical attraction, turbulent relationships, substance abuse, and public destruction, just for these few days, Love seems to have recovered from its cruel and ending surprise in a slightly more normal way, but there is no doubt that his life to date is the kind of story that people would not believe in a novel or a movie. "
Among the alternative musicians who call Love as influence is Scout Niblett; Brody Dalle of The Distillers; Dee Dee Penny from Dum Dum Girls; and Nine Black Alps. Contemporary female pop artists Lana Del Rey, Avril Lavigne, Tove Lo, and Sky Ferreira also call Love an influence. Love is often recognized as the highest contributor of feminist music during the 1990s, and to "undermine the ultimate expectation of how a woman should see, act, and sound." According to music journalist Maria Raha, "Hole is the highest-profile women-fronted band of the 90s to openly and instantly sing about feminism." Patti Smith, Love's main influence, also praised him, saying: "I hate genderising things... [but] when I hear Hole, I am amazed to hear a girl sing like that.Joplin Joplin is his own, he is to Big Mama Thornton and Bessie Smith.But what Courtney Love did, I never heard a girl do that. "
He has also been noted as a gay icon since the mid-1990s, and has jokingly referred to his fan base as being comprised of "women, gay men, and some heterosexual men who are progressing and evolving." The aesthetic image of love, especially in the early 1990s, also became influential, and was dubbed the "kinderwhore" by critics and the media. The subversive mode consists mainly of vintage babydoll dresses accompanied by makeup and red lipstick; MTV reporter Kurt Loder describes Love as looking like a "patterned fabric doll" on stage. Love then says he has been influenced by Chrissy Amphlett mode from Divinyls.
Cultural depictions
Love has been portrayed in popular culture in various media: Artist Barbara Kruger uses one Love quote on the New York City bus project, and the indie pop punk band The Muffs named their second album Blonder and Blonder (1995) after quote by Love, while the recording he talked about the stolen dress appeared as the song "Love" on the 2000 Hamburger band's compilation album . He is also the basis of the character "C
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