Tony Hawk Reveals Heartbreaking Reason He Wishes Kurt Cobain Was Still Alive
Tony Hawk and Kurt Cobain.
If Tony Hawk’s moving tribute to Kurt Cobain makes you cry, all apologies.
Over the weekend, Hawk decided to honour the late Nirvana frontman after stumbling upon an old ticket stub from a concert he went to in October 1991.
Posting an image of the stub to his Instagram story, Hawk explained that after he competed in a skateboarding competition in Houston, Texas, he decided to check out an alternative rock band from Seattle called Nirvana — who had just released the hit Smells Like Teen Spirit two months prior.
“Went straight from S.U.A.S event at Houston skatepark to this concert in 1991,” he wrote. “It was as transformative as live music can possibly be: We all experienced something rare and powerful that night. The world would never be the same.”
Although many rock fans likely share the same sentiment about the band, which consisted of Cobain, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic at the height of their fame — Hawk’s post then takes a very personal turn.
Cobain died by suicide in 1994, leaving his wife, musician and actor Courtney Love, to raise their 20-month-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, on her own.
Frances Bean Cobain (left), Kurt Cobain's daughter, married........
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