Nathaniel Penn
In 1991 pop music had just about bottomed out. Hair metal and prefab boy bands ruled the charts. But that June, three grungy dudes from Washington recorded an album that changed everything. Nirvana's "Nevermind" would sell 25 million copies, alter the course of music and fashion, and transform Kurt Cobain into the reluctant voice of a generation. Twenty years later, GQ re-creates those heady days by talking to virtually everyone who was there: Dave Grohl, fellow musicians, the studio geniuses behind it all -- oh, yeah, and some chick named Courtney.
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