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Courtney Love
Background information
Birth name Courtney Michelle Harrison
Also known as Courtney Michelle Love
Born July 9, 1964 in San Francisco, CA, USA
Genre(s) Alternative rock
Grunge
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, music producer, film producer, actress
Instrument(s) Vocals, Guitar
Label(s) Sympathy for the Record
Caroline
DGC / Geffen
Universal Music
Virgin
Custard Records
Associated
acts		 Hole
Kurt Cobain
Babes in Toyland
Faith No More
Billy Corgan

Courtney Michelle Love[1] (born July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress, best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Rolling Stone has referred to her as the most controversial woman in rock.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Family history

Love is estranged from her parents, the writer Hank Harrison and the therapist Linda Carroll (née Risi), both of whom have spoken publicly about the lack of a relationship with their daughter.

Estrangement runs through Love's family background: Carroll was adopted by an Italian-American couple at birth, retaining no contact with her birth father or her birth mother, whom she later discovered was the well-known children's writer Paula Fox (herself also adopted). Carroll penned an autobiography titled Her Mother's Daughter, released in 2006, about her dysfunctional relationship with both adoptive mother and elder daughter[2]

Recent controversy raged over the identity of Love's maternal grandmother Tereza Kesovija . Conflicting news stories began to appear in August 2003 regarding Love's family tree, some of them remarking that Love's mother, Linda Carroll, had taken DNA tests, and that the results proved that Carroll's father was noted actor Marlon Brando. The story bears a significant possibility of truth: Paula Fox did, by most accounts, have an affair with Brando, but since that time the truth has yet to be confirmed publicly by any of the parties involved. [3] [4]

[edit] Early life

Courtney Love was born Courtney Michelle Harrison[1], on July 9, 1964, in San Francisco, California, where her parents first met and married.

Love's biological family broke up at a very young age. During a child-custody case following Love's parents' divorce, both her mother Linda and one of her girlfriends presented letters to the court implying her father had given a 4-year-old Courtney LSD. Harrison denies this allegation and has passed polygraph tests; however, these allegations led to full custody being awarded to Linda Carroll. When Courtney turned 12, she tried to join the Mickey Mouse club. She was denied this privilege because her entry poem by suicidal poet Sylvia Plath did not appeal to the judges.

Love spent a troubled childhood with her mother as she wandered through four husbands and as many hippie communes in Oregon, various schools (many of which kicked her out) including a boarding school in Nelson, New Zealand. By the time she was a teenager, Love was a veteran of reform schools and juvenile halls. At 15 as said by her, she broke away from her family, got emancipated and travelled around the U.S., United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, living on a trust fund established for her by her mother's adoptive parents. During her time in England, Courtney met, befriended and moved in with musician Julian Cope in his Toxteth Liverpool home. That is when Courtney changed her name to "Love" her boyfriend supposedly called over to her with a "courtney, love pass me the coffee". She then changed her last name to Love

Love's first rock musician boyfriend was Rozz Rezabek, who had an affair with her while she was still underage. Though the two wrote each other copious love letters, Love has said in many interviews she never lost her virginity to Rozz. That came later, according to her, in a one-night stand with Michael Mooney, a sometimes-guitarist for Echo & the Bunnymen and later to Spiritualized. Mooney denies the relationship.

In her late teens, Love came in and out of foster homes and state facilities. She worked sporadically in Japan, Taiwan, Guam, Los Angeles and Alaska as a stripper, a job she returned to at several points in her life before attaining fame. This work provided Love with adventure (as a means to travel the world and live in exotic places) and gave her great inspiration, she told Liz Evans of The Guardian:

“Writing songs has a lot to do with your sexuality…I danced for a while and just being around that made me aware of what people use. And if you grow up being blessed with a certain beauty or a certain intelligence that enhances your beauty, you can get into a better position in life. Stripping can be really powerful... it’s how I got a guitar. It’s how I had a band.”

At age 22 Love moved back to Portland, Oregon, then on to Los Angeles, California in 1987 with fellow musician Kat Bjelland. She and Bjelland formed their first band there, which lasted just two gigs and a demo tape. Love and Bjelland tried to launch another band in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but broke up again. Love eventually crossed paths with The Leaving Trains, whose lead singer Falling James Moreland she would marry, then quickly have the union annulled: both musicians felt it a stupid mistake. Love developed personal relationships with many musicians who would later become alternative rock icons, among them Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Jeff Buckley and Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins.

Love and Corgan, in particular, had a complicated personal history; Corgan was the last relationship prior to her marriage to Kurt Cobain. Corgan and Love have had several public rifts, but have resolved their differences and worked together. Corgan is actively participating on her album in works as well as the new Smashing Pumpkins album.

[edit] Early musical career

About the time of her early relationship with Corgan, she also became the singer in the all-female pop-rock band Sugar Baby Doll with Kat Bjelland and Jennifer Finch. None of their Bangles-influenced material has ever been officially released. Love had more early success as an actress, appearing as the best friend of Nancy Spungen in Alex Cox's Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy in 1986, and in Cox's Straight to Hell in 1987, as well as some small roles on television episodes. Love has also appeared in The Ramones 'I wanna be sedated' video. Love then began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More, until she was kicked out of the band sometime around 1985. Roddy Bottum described the band at the time as "democratic", saying that Courtney's dominating personality did not fit in, though the two have remained friends to present day.

Returning to music in her adopted hometown of Minneapolis, Love claims she co-founded Babes in Toyland as bassist with leader Kat Bjelland, but this is denied by others; either way, acrimony between Love and Bjelland led to Love's quick exit from the band. The band's biographer claims she stole house receipts to attend a Butthole Surfers concert.

In 1989, Love taught herself to play guitar and set out to form her own band. To do so, she placed an ad in an issue of Flipside magazine to which.Eric Erlandson replied. Love and Erlandson co-founded Hole and are the only two members to remain constant throughout the band's history. The group made their first gig in November 1989, after three months of rehearsal, and quickly started releasing singles on the Long Beach, California independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry. The band's abrasive debut Pretty on the Inside was released in early 1991 on Caroline Records and was produced by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Don Fleming of the band Gumball. It sold well for an independent release and received ecstatic reviews in the influential British alternative music press.

[edit] Love and marriage

Love met Kurt Cobain at a concert in 1989, and they eventually fell in love in October/November 1991. A few days after the conclusion of Nirvana's Australian tour on February 24, 1992, Love and Cobain were married on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. On August 18 of that year, the couple's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born.

The public image of the new Love-Cobain family was tarnished by a 1992 article in Vanity Fair entitled "Strange Love," in which it was alleged that Love had continued using heroin in the early stages of pregnancy. As a result, Child Welfare Services briefly investigated the Cobains' fitness as parents, removing Frances Bean from their custody for a short period. Love claims to this day that she was misquoted, saying she had told author Lynn Hirschberg that she had stopped using it once she learned she was pregnant.

A week before the release of Hole's breakthrough album Live Through This, on April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain mysteriously died in his home in Seattle, Washington. Love read his suicide note to assembled, mourning fans at a memorial service in Seattle a few days after his body was found. Clearly crying, she interrupted the note frequently to express her anger and sorrow ("Kurt, the worst crime I can think of is for you to just continue being a rock star when you fucking hate it, just fucking stop"), even inciting the crowd to call him an "asshole" for leaving everyone behind. On the audio recording that day you can hear the crowd obey. Finally, Love implored Nirvana fans not to listen to Cobain's infamous final words, "It's better to burn out than fade away," a lyric cribbed from Neil Young's "My My, Hey Hey."

[edit] Live Through This tour (1994)

The band was struck by disaster again when bassist Kristen Pfaff died of an apparent heroin overdose on June 16, 1994, just two months after Cobain's death and the new album's release.

In the wake of these tragedies, Love told MTV's Kurt Loder, "you know...people go back to work. This is what I do. I gotta make a living." Hole recruited 21-year-old bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur (a recommendation of Billy Corgan's) to fill in for Pfaff, and took Hole on the road, appearing for the first time since Cobain's death at the Reading Festival in England, 1994. The band's performance was written up by famous broadcaster John Peel in The Guardian:

"Courtney's first appearance backstage certainly caught the attention. Swaying wildly and with lipstick smeared on her face, hands and, I think, her back, as well as on the collar of her dress, the singer would have drawn whistles of astonishment in Bedlam. After a brief word with supporters at the foot of the stage, she reeled away, knocking over a wastebin, and disappeared. Minutes later she was onstage giving a performance which verged on the heroic...Love steered her band through a set which dared you to pity either her recent history or that of the band...the band teetered on the edge of chaos, generating a tension which I cannot remember having felt before from any stage."[5]

Meanwhile, Live Through This was a commercial and critical success. Arguably the three largest music periodicals in the U.S.--Rolling Stone, SPIN, and the Village Voice--all declared Live Through This "Album of the Year", and by November the record was certified gold. By April 1995 it went platinum.

Hole next embarked on a tour opening for Nine Inch Nails, where Courtney received a death threat before the first show began. To advice against playing, Love responded "it's from a girl, it's bullshit...besides, if someone were to shoot me onstage, what a nice footnote to rock'n'roll history."

The madness continued on tour. In Pittsburgh, on the Lollapalooza tour, a shotgun shell was thrown onstage. "Is this what you want? Thanks. Goodbye," she said, and the band simply left the stage. At another show, Love hurled her guitar at a concertgoer, telling a reporter later "He kept yelling, 'Who's your next victim?' and then named all these rock-star guys I've been involved with or allegedly involved with...it was just so hard to concentrate hearing all those names. Sometimes they hold up T-shirts with pictures of Kurt on them. They abuse me, I abuse them." [6]

[edit] Celebrity Skin era (1996-2000)

In 1998, four years after their second album, Hole released Celebrity Skin. Rolling Stone gave the album four stars, saying "the album teems with sonic knockouts that make you see all sorts of stars. It's accessible, fiery and intimate – often at the same time. Here is a basic guitar record that's anything but basic." [7] Celebrity Skin went on to go multiplatinum, and topped "Best of Year" lists at Spin magazine, the Village Voice, and other periodicals.[8] Erlandson was still the lead guitarist, and now there were Melissa Auf Der Maur's backup vocals and bass, but drummer Patty Schemel was replaced by a session drummer during the recording. There have been conflicting reports from the band members over whether this was due to drug problems or enmity between Schemel and the album's producer, Michael Beinhorn.

Hole toured Australia in 1999 to support the album, then hit the U.S. on an ultimately failed co-headlining tour with Marilyn Manson. The two bands often mocked each other on stage, sometimes to hilarious effect. [9] Hole eventually dropped off the tour, citing their obligation to pay 50% of Manson's extravagant staging costs as a major reason. The singers of both bands told MTV there was no personal animosity, and they were happy to end the tour. Hole finished off the year's dates with Imperial Teen opening.

In May 2000, Courtney Love spoke in New York at the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference, giving a speech criticizing the major American record labels. The speech was then reproduced on the news site Salon.com, and was, at the time, their most popular article to date.[10] In the speech, Love accused the major labels of devising a corrupt system of recording contracts to make the labels millions, while the band itself "may as well be working at a 7-Eleven."

[edit] Going solo (2001-2002)

With Hole fallen into disarray, Love attempted to begin a "punk rock femme supergroup" called Bastard during summer/autumn of 2001, enlisting Veruca Salt frontwoman Louise Post, Hole drummer Patty Schemel, and bassist Gina Crosley (recommended by Post). Though a demo was completed, the project never reached fruition: conflicts between Love and Crosley, then between Love and replacement bassist Corey Parks from Nashville Pussy, led to the group's demise. [11][12] On May 24th, 2002, Hole announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group.

On September 21, 2002, MTV2 aired 24 Hours of Love, a live special that Love hosted. For the special, Love took control of MTV2's airwaves for 24 hours, playing a selection of videos that she wanted to see, taking calls from viewers, and inviting guests into the studio.

In October 2001, Love had performed solo a few times, and almost three years later she released her first album, America's Sweetheart. The album was a commercial flop and received a mixed reaction from critics. Spin called it a "jawdropping act of artistic will", while Rolling Stone proclaimed "For people who enjoy watching celebrities fall apart, America's Sweetheart should be more fun than an Osbournes marathon." The record was re-recorded and finished at a difficult time, while Love was either fresh from or still undergoing rehab, and in its first three months the album sold about 86,000 copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.[13]

[edit] Present day (2005-2006)

On February 3, 2005, Love was released from house arrest (more under, on Controversy section) and issued the following statement: "I would just like to thank the court for allowing me these ninety days... [It] helped me deal with a very gnarly drug problem, which is behind me... I've just been playing guitar and taking care of my daughter. I want to [take this opportunity] to let the community know I'm doing great... I've been really inspired and have remained inspired."[14]

Three months after being released, Love started recording her second solo LP, tentatively titled How Dirty Girls Get Clean. She began writing the new material during her court-ordered drug rehabilitation. Song titles include "My Bedroom Walls", "The Depths of My Despair", "Sunset Marquis", and the anti-cocaine rant "Loser Dust", among others. [14]

Poptones' boss Alan McGee declared in an interview that "she is in excellent shape. Her state of mind and being is the best that I’ve seen her in five years. Her Buddhist techniques are keeping her strong mentally and physically. And the songs? The songs are classic. They are acoustic demos but they are the strongest songs that I’ve heard out of Courtney in ages. They are heavy blues numbers ... the one that they talked about in The Guardian[15], ‘How Dirty Girls Get Clean’, is a classic Courtney Love billowy number. And the others are like PJ Harvey, heavy rock blues on acoustic. [16]

Former 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry is producing the record. Perry has expressed her intent to bring back "the queen of rock and roll". Perry said of Love's post rehab progress: "[she] looks great, sounds great, [has] really great ideas [and] great songs that she's written. My job now is to make that [Courtney Love] rock and roll record that everybody's gonna love." Long time friend Billy Corgan, of the Smashing Pumpkins, has also assisted Love extensively in recording the tracks, and in fact lived with her from February to October; Corgan had his own wing in her Hollywood Hills mansion[17].

On May 1, Love officially returned to stage, playing at the Gay and Lesbian Community Centre benefit at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. With the support of Corgan and Perry, she performed two of the new songs acoustically: "Sunset Marquis" and "Pacific Coast Highway".[18] Upon being interviewed by NME, Love gave them a preview of the demos. She played pre-recorded demos of "Pacific Coast Highway" and "Never Go Hungry Again", and then gave the reporters acoustic renditions of "Stand Up Motherfucker", "Good in Bed" and "How Dirty Girls Get Clean". When NME ran the article, they showed great enthusiasm for the material, declaring that it was "all brilliant".[19]

Love signed Linda Perry's record label, Custard Records, for the release, and Universal Music — the record company which Hole once fought a legal battle against in 2000 — may be the worldwide distributor of the album. Love declared "not holding any grudges about it". On August 6, 2006, was announced in the New York Post gossip column pagesix that the first single of Love's new album will be entitled "Letter to God". Brett Ratner, director of X-Men: The Last Stand and friend of Love, is slated to direct the video. However these claims have not been verified by Love, Ratner or Custard Records and should generally be treated as rumours until more information surfaces.

A documentary about the making of the record, entitled The Return of Courtney Love, was filmed, written and produced by Will Yapp and aired on British TV network More4 on September 27, which resulted in leaking of sound clips of some of the songs off of How Dirty Girls Get Clean. The first entire song to be available for downloading was "Never Go Hungry Again", recorded in a rough acoustic version during an interview for The Times in November.[20]

Love has released a memoir/diary collection book, Dirty Blonde, in October 2006, and her sophomore album is slated for a 2007 release.[21].

She currently lives in Hollywood with her daughter, Frances.

[edit] Film career

Love also has a career in film. Her first film credit was a small role in the film Sid and Nancy. Love was persistent in her attempts to land the role of Nancy Spungen in the film, and at one point sent director Alex Cox a rambling videotape in which she described her suitability for the part. (This video often turns up online, and has been featured on various VH1 "Before They Were Rock Stars" shows.)

Love received considerable acclaim for her role as Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite Woody Harrelson as Flynt, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Drama.

She was also praised for her supporting role in the 1998 Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon, which starred Jim Carrey as Kaufman. Other notable film credits include Trapped, Basquiat, 200 Cigarettes, and Feeling Minnesota.

[edit] Controversy

[edit] Legal problems

In recent years, Love has faced legal action for some of her more rock and roll behaviour:

  • On her fortieth birthday, July 9, 2004, she missed a scheduled court appearance relating to an attempted break-in at a boyfriend's house and was found in contempt of court. Her attorney later said she missed the appearance due to medical problems. Later in the month she appeared in court and was sentenced to an 18-month probation and drug rehabilitation program.
  • In 2003, Love pleaded not guilty to felony drug charges related to possession of painkillers. In February of 2004, an arrest warrant was issued for Love after she failed to appear at a preliminary hearing. The warrant was subsequently rescinded when she appeared in court on February 18. She released her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, just eight days earlier, on February 10.
  • In January 2005, Love regained the custody of her daughter that she had lost in October 2003, after completing a state-enforced rehabilitation program and enduring a probational period. Child welfare authorities alluded to drug addiction when responding to the press on the matter, though they didn't comment directly. [22] [23]
  • On August 19, 2005, Love admitted using drugs in violation of her probation terms. She was ordered into a 28-day drug treatment program by a judge who initially said "my belief was that you need to go to the county jail." This program was also violated, and on September 21 she was sentenced to 6 months in lock down rehab. [24]
  • On October 31, 2006, Courtney Love said: "Mel Gibson helped me get sober". Courtney Love, now clean and sober for 15 months, says she had some high-profile help on her road to recovery: Mel Gibson. While she was doing drugs with some men in a posh Beverly Hills hotel room, Love revealed on Tuesday's Good Morning America, the leading man showed up along with addiction counselor Warren Boyd. [25]

[edit] Cobain Conspiracy

Since Cobain's death, conspiracy theories have speculated that he was murdered at Love's instigation. No member of Nirvana or Cobain's family (apart from Leland Cobain, Kurt's grandfather) has ever suggested homicide, but this theory gained media attention with the release of Nick Broomfield's documentary Kurt & Courtney in 1998. Kurt & Courtney featured interviews with, among others, Love's father, and private investigator Tom Grant, who said they believed Love ordered her husband murdered; and also with punk singer El Duce, who claimed that Love offered him $50,000 to kill Cobain. (Neither Harrison nor Grant ever met Cobain while he was alive.) Broomfield declares at the end of his documentary that he does not believe the evidence points to Love being a murderer.

[edit] Other media coverage

Love has often been noted in the press for her behaviour, including cursing at paparazzi and a sometimes physical disagreement with Cobain's alleged former girlfriend, folksinger Mary Lou Lord. Love also received attention when she posed nude for British magazines Q in 2003 and Pop in 2006.

In August 2005, tabloid papers such as News of the World began reporting that Love became pregnant during an affair with British actor and comedian Steve Coogan. Coogan's spokeswoman, alongside Love's publicists, have discredited the story as "nonsense". [26]

[edit] Trivia

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[edit] Music, acting and career-related

  • Love's first instrument was a Casio keyboard, purchased when she was eighteen.
  • In 2006, Roddy Bottum, Faith No More's keyboardist and Courtney's ex-bandmate, wrote and recorded with her the song "Love, Love, Love" for the film Adam & Steve.
  • Love is a fan of soft-rock legend Stevie Nicks, and has stated she has been very influenced by her, even covering Nicks' song "Gold Dust Woman". In fact, Stevie Nicks is the second person Love mentions on her thanks list in the sleeve of Celebrity Skin. Love has publicly stated that Nicks and Fleetwood Mac were an inspiration for the Californian-rock theme that she had in mind for Hole's third album.
  • Love is featured on The Ramones' video for "I Wanna Be Sedated". Love is dressed as a bride and is carried away by a man at the end of the song.
  • In Utero, the title of Nirvana's final original album, comes from a poem written by Love.
  • As Kurt Cobain did in 1994, creating the design of Fender Jag-Stang, Love also had a personal line of guitars. Through Fender's low-price sub-brand Squier, she co-designed Vista Venus[27], an electric guitar with shape inspired on Mercury, Stratocaster and Rickenbacker's solidbodies and which had a single and a humbucker pickups. In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: "I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar. I didn't want it all teched out. I wanted it real simple, with just one pickup switch. Because I think that cultural revolutions are in the hands of guitar players". She also declared, "my Venus is better than the Jag-Stang". [28] The Squier Vista Venus model is currently discontinued, as is the Jag-Stang as of 2006.
  • Love was cast to star as legendary cowgirl Texas Guinan in the story of her life, called Hello Sucker!. The film was never made.
  • There was a late '80s/early '90s Olympia band named Courtney Love, led by Lois Maffeo, that existed before Love's own music career took off. The band released three records on the Kill Rock Stars record label.
  • In 2004, Courtney worked with manga artists Ai Yazawa, Misaho Kujiradou and DJ Milky (pen name of TOKYOPOP CEO Stu Levy) to create her personal series in Japan, named Princess Ai.

[edit] Others

  • Love has said that she is possibly "at least five-eighths Jewish" and "partly Irish" by ancestry.[29]
  • Love is said to having spent close to four years in college, majoring in English at Portland State University, San Francisco Art Institute and Trinity College, Dublin[30]. But the statement seems to be, at least, partially untrue, because, according to the San Francisco's referred college site, it doesn't provides a graduation program in English. This information, allied to Courtney's dysfunctional educational history, including expellings and grade skippings between traditional and alternative schools, make the information less trustworthy.
  • In her early career, Love adopted a "kinderwhore" look, which she was accused of having imitated after Kat Bjelland. Love stated that the look was inspired by Christina Amphlett of 1980s rock group Divinyls. Love's style has since evolved toward more sophisticated designer labels.
  • Love used to have three tattoos during her early career, amongst two of them are still visible: a vine of four-leafed clovers on her left ankle, and a small letter "K" (which stands for Kurt) on the top of the abdomen. The third one was placed on the right side of her upper back, and it first was an artwork including a star in the middle of a vine, but later changed to a big angel. It seems to have been lasered circa 2004-2005.
  • Love has been a Nichiren Buddhist since age 24, on and off. She allegedly started chanting its mantra nam-myoho-renge-kyo for quitting heroin, finding a band and a husband. Love is known for having had experiences with Tibetan Buddhism (after reading Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying in the period that Kurt Cobain committed suicide, she gave him a Tibetan funeral, spent two weeks meditating and participating of ceremonies at Namgyal temple in Ithaca, New York, and left part of her husband's ashes for making deity statues named tsatsas)[31] and Baptist Evangelicalism[32] after it, but returned to her original faith in 2005. Love also was responsible for introducing Hole's guitar player Eric Erlandson to her Buddhist school, Nichiren Shoshu.
  • Love, like many celebrities, is yoga-related benefits supporter, and started practicing the kundalini sub-discipline in 1997, with A-list yogi Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, at the Viper Room. She also started practicing ashtanga at about the same time.
  • Love was engaged to Edward Norton in the late nineties. Courtney told Spin that she would have been "happier if I married Edward. I'll regret that to my dying day".
  • According to Neil Strauss's book The Game, at some point before 2005, Courtney Love spent a good amount of time staying at the mansion called "Project Hollywood" where pick-up artists such as the famous "Mystery" resided.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] With Hole

[edit] Solo

[edit] Singles

[edit] With Hole

[edit] Solo

  • Mono (2004) US Rock Singles #18 UK #41
  • Hold On To Me (2004) PROMO ONLY US Rock Singles #39
  • Letter to God (TBR)

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Although some sources give Love's birth name as "Love Michelle Harrison", her listing on the California Birth Index from the Center for Health Statistics gives a birth name of "Courtney Michelle Harrison". Between adoptions from several stepfathers, she also gone by the names "Courtney Michelle Rodriguez" and "Courtney Michelle Menely". The name change to "Courtney Michelle Love" happened in early 1990s, in the beginning of her musical career. According to the same statistics list above, the birth status of Courtney's 1992-born daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, already include "Love" as the mother's maiden surname.
  2. ^ The Guardian: Sins of the mothers
  3. ^ Brando Shocks Courtney Love
  4. ^ Courtney Love Not Brando's Granddaughter
  5. ^ London Guardian, August 30, 1994
  6. ^ http://www.moonwashedrose.com/media/hart15.html
  7. ^ James Hunter reviews Celebrity Skin
  8. ^ Entry for Celebrity Skin at Acclaimed Music
  9. ^ http://www.chartattack.com/road/reviews/1999/19990302-hole.html
  10. ^ "Courtney Love does the math" "an unedited transcript of Courtney Love's speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference, given in New York on May 16, 2000."
  11. ^ http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/1018
  12. ^ http://www.juicemagazine.com/COREYPARKS.html
  13. ^ FOX News — Did Virgin Records Use Her?
  14. ^ a b Courtney Is Cleared, Ready To Rock
  15. ^ Enduring Love
  16. ^ Alan in LA with Dirty Pretty Things and Courtney Love!
  17. ^ Courtney Love to Play London's West End
  18. ^ Courtney Makes Shock Live Appearance
  19. ^ "What do Dave and Krist think about me selling the Nirvana rights? Tough shit!"
  20. ^ TheTimes.co.uk: Podcasts
  21. ^ Blood On The Tracks — Moonwashedrose's September 2006 Interview with Courtney Love
  22. ^ Courtney Love Fighting For Custody Of Daughter Frances Bean
  23. ^ Courtney Love Regains Custody Of Frances Bean Cobain
  24. ^ Teary-Eyed Courtney Love Ordered Back To Rehab By Judge
  25. ^ Mel Gibson helped me get sober
  26. ^ [1]
  27. ^ Drown Soda: Fender Squier Vista Venus
  28. ^ Hole Tones: The Secrets Of Celebrity Skin's Smooth Sound
  29. ^ Courting disaster
  30. ^ Entertainment Weekly, 1994: The Power of Love
  31. ^ Nirvanafreak.net — Articles & Interviews — Endless Love
  32. ^ Courtney Love: She definitely wouldn't have apologized at the Grammy's (archive link, was dead; history)

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