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Courtney Love Wallpaper Biography
This article is about the person. For the band of the same name, see Courtney Love (band).
Courtney Love
Love performing with Hole at SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, March 2010
Background information
Birth name Courtney Michelle Harrison[1]
Born July 9, 1964 (age 48)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres Alternative rock
Instruments Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
Years active 1982–present
Labels Sympathy for the Record Industry, Sub Pop, Caroline, DGC, Geffen, City Slang, Universal, Virgin, Mercury
Associated acts Hole, Babes in Toyland, Sugar Babydoll, Pagan Babies, Faith No More, Emilie Autumn
Notable instruments
Rickenbacker 425[2]
Rickenbacker 360[3]
Fender Jazzmaster[4]
Fender Squier Venus[5]
Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; 9 July 1964)[1] is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actress and artist. Love initially gained notoriety in the Los Angeles indie rock scene as vocalist and rhythm guitarist of alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, later receiving international critical and commercial acclaim for their albums Live Through This (1994) and Celebrity Skin (1998). Love had a brief solo career and then re-formed Hole with new members in 2010, a decade after the original band had broken up, and released Nobody's Daughter (2010). Love also had an intermittent acting career, debuting in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy (1986) and later receiving a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Althea Flynt in Miloš Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996).
Love, who grew up primarily in Oregon, is the daughter of psychotherapist Linda Carroll, and writer and ex-Grateful Dead manager Hank Harrison. Love was married to Kurt Cobain, frontman of the grunge band Nirvana, with whom she has a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.[6] Throughout her career, Love's wild stage antics and subversive feminist attitude have polarized audiences and critics,[7][8] with Rolling Stone once calling her "the most controversial woman in the history of rock."[9][10]
Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 Music career
2.1 1980s
2.2 1990s
2.3 2000s
2.4 2010s
3 Acting career
4 Other projects
5 Influences and artistry
6 Personal life
6.1 Relationships
7 Discography
8 Filmography
9 References
10 External links
Early life
Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California to psychotherapist Linda Carroll and Hank Harrison, publisher and brief manager of the Grateful Dead; consequently Love was featured in a group photo on the back cover of the band's album Aoxomoxoa (1969).[11][12][13] Love's parents divorced in 1969 and Harrison's custody was withdrawn after Carroll alleged that he had fed LSD to Love.[13][14] Carroll moved the family to Marcola where they lived on a commune in what Love described as "a teepee".[15] Love struggled in school and was diagnosed as mildly autistic.[15] Through relationships with two other men, Carroll gave birth to Love's two half-sisters and adopted a son, and later two half-brothers; another male half-sibling of Love's had died in infancy of a heart defect when Love was 10.[16]
In 1972, Carroll moved with her then-husband to New Zealand, and Love was left in Oregon with her former stepfather and various friends. At age 14, she was arrested for shoplifting a t-shirt and was sent to Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility, a juvenile hall in Salem, Oregon.[17][18] She spent the following several years in and out of foster homes before becoming legally emancipated at age 16. Love moved to Portland, Oregon and lived in the Northwest District, supporting herself by working illegally as a stripper,[13][15][17][19][20] a DJ, and various odd jobs,[21] and intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English literature.[22][23]
In 1981, Love was granted a small trust fund through her adoptive grandparents, which she used to travel to England and Ireland; there, she was accepted into Trinity College due to high test scores, where she studied theology for two semesters.[24] She also became acquainted with musician Julian Cope in Liverpool and moved into his house briefly before returning to the United States.[25][26][27] Love has said that she "didn't have a lot of social skills",[28] and that she learned them while frequenting gay clubs with friends.[15][29]
Love continued to relocate frequently, spending time in Portland and San Francisco (where she briefly studied at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute),[22][30] and also took stint jobs illegally working at strip clubs in Japan and Taiwan.[17][31] In 1985, Love sent in an audition tape for the role of Nancy Spungen in the biopic Sid & Nancy (1986), and caught the attention of director Alex Cox, who wrote a small role for her in the film.[13] She was subsequently offered a lead part in his next film, a spaghetti Western titled Straight to Hell (1987), which starred an array of punk rock icons and other well known actors, although the film was poorly received. Love returned to Oregon, and then retreated to Anchorage, Alaska for several months where she returned to stripping to support herself.[13][17][32]
Music career
1980s
Love initially began several music projects in the 1980s, first forming Sugar Babydoll, and then having a brief stint as a singer in Faith No More.[13] Love later formed the Pagan Babies with friend Kat Bjelland, Jennifer Finch and Janis Tanaka, recording one 4-track demo before disbanding.[33][34] Love briefly played bass in Bjelland's group Babes In Toyland in 1987 before being ejected from the band.[35]
1990s
Main article: Hole (band)
Flyer made by Courtney Love promoting a Hole show in 1991, Los Angeles
In 1989, Love taught herself to play guitar and relocated to Los Angeles, where she placed an ad in a local music zine, reading: "I want to start a band. My influences are Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac"[36] to which guitarist Eric Erlandson replied. Love named the band Hole, bought her neighbor Lisa Roberts a bass guitar, and recruited drummer Caroline Rue after meeting her at a Gwar concert.
Hole played their first show in November 1989 at Raji's after three months of rehearsal, and began making singles on the Long Beach, California, independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry. Their first single, titled "Retard Girl", was issued in early 1990. Disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer jokingly said that Love would often "stalk him" at a Denny's restaurant, insisting that he should give "Retard Girl" air time on his station, KROQ.[17] One year later, the band debuted their second single, "Dicknail" through Sub Pop Records.
Influenced by the style of no wave and noise rock bands, Love convinced Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon to produce Hole's first studio album. The album, titled Pretty on the Inside, was released in August 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming. The album gained a following in the United Kingdom, charting at 59 on the UK Albums Chart,[37] as well as its lead single, "Teenage Whore" entering the country's Indie chart at number one.[38] Pretty on the Inside received generally positive critical acclaim,[39] and was labelled one of the 20 best albums of the year by Spin Magazine.[40] The band toured the United States and Europe in support of the record.
Hole recorded their second album, Live Through This, in late 1993 in Atlanta and released it in April 1994, just four days after Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound in their home. The album featured a new lineup, with Kristen Pfaff on bass and Patty Schemel on drums. In June 1994, Pfaff died of an apparent heroin overdose,[13] and Love recruited bassist Melissa Auf der Maur for the band's upcoming tour. Throughout the months preceding the tour, Love was rarely seen in public, spending her time in her home or visiting the Namgyal Buddhist Monastery in New York.[22]
Meanwhile, Live Through This was an immense commercial and critical success, receiving rave reviews from major music periodicals[41] and going certified gold. By April 1995, it went platinum. It went on to be declared one of the best albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time issue in 2003.[42]
The live performances for Hole's 1994 and 1995 tours became notorious in the media due to Love's fraught emotional state,[13] with Love often altering hurtful song lyrics toward herself, dedicating songs to Cobain and Pfaff, provoking fans, throwing guitars into the audience,[43] and breaking into screaming fits onstage.[44]
In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences. Rolling Stone called the album "accessible, fiery and intimate—often at the same time [...] a basic guitar record that's anything but basic."[45] Celebrity Skin went on to go multi-platinum, and topped "Best of Year" lists at Spin, the Village Voice, and other periodicals.[46] The album garnered the band their first and only No. 1 hit single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart with the title track "Celebrity Skin".
During the release and promotion of Celebrity Skin, Love and Fender designed a low-price Squier brand guitar, called Vista Venus.[47] The instrument featured a shape inspired by Mercury, Stratocaster, and Rickenbacker's solidbodies and had a single-coil and a humbucker pickup. 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".[48]
After touring for Celebrity Skin finished, Auf der Maur left the band to tour with The Smashing Pumpkins; Hole's touring drummer Samantha Maloney left soon after. Love and Erlandson continued to pursue with the band, and released the single "Be A Man"— an outtake from the Celebrity Skin sessions— for the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday (1999). The group became dormant in the following two years, and on May 24, 2002, officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.
Courtney Love Wallpaper Biography
This article is about the person. For the band of the same name, see Courtney Love (band).
Courtney Love
Love performing with Hole at SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, March 2010
Background information
Birth name Courtney Michelle Harrison[1]
Born July 9, 1964 (age 48)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres Alternative rock
Instruments Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
Years active 1982–present
Labels Sympathy for the Record Industry, Sub Pop, Caroline, DGC, Geffen, City Slang, Universal, Virgin, Mercury
Associated acts Hole, Babes in Toyland, Sugar Babydoll, Pagan Babies, Faith No More, Emilie Autumn
Notable instruments
Rickenbacker 425[2]
Rickenbacker 360[3]
Fender Jazzmaster[4]
Fender Squier Venus[5]
Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; 9 July 1964)[1] is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actress and artist. Love initially gained notoriety in the Los Angeles indie rock scene as vocalist and rhythm guitarist of alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, later receiving international critical and commercial acclaim for their albums Live Through This (1994) and Celebrity Skin (1998). Love had a brief solo career and then re-formed Hole with new members in 2010, a decade after the original band had broken up, and released Nobody's Daughter (2010). Love also had an intermittent acting career, debuting in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy (1986) and later receiving a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Althea Flynt in Miloš Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996).
Love, who grew up primarily in Oregon, is the daughter of psychotherapist Linda Carroll, and writer and ex-Grateful Dead manager Hank Harrison. Love was married to Kurt Cobain, frontman of the grunge band Nirvana, with whom she has a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.[6] Throughout her career, Love's wild stage antics and subversive feminist attitude have polarized audiences and critics,[7][8] with Rolling Stone once calling her "the most controversial woman in the history of rock."[9][10]
Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 Music career
2.1 1980s
2.2 1990s
2.3 2000s
2.4 2010s
3 Acting career
4 Other projects
5 Influences and artistry
6 Personal life
6.1 Relationships
7 Discography
8 Filmography
9 References
10 External links
Early life
Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California to psychotherapist Linda Carroll and Hank Harrison, publisher and brief manager of the Grateful Dead; consequently Love was featured in a group photo on the back cover of the band's album Aoxomoxoa (1969).[11][12][13] Love's parents divorced in 1969 and Harrison's custody was withdrawn after Carroll alleged that he had fed LSD to Love.[13][14] Carroll moved the family to Marcola where they lived on a commune in what Love described as "a teepee".[15] Love struggled in school and was diagnosed as mildly autistic.[15] Through relationships with two other men, Carroll gave birth to Love's two half-sisters and adopted a son, and later two half-brothers; another male half-sibling of Love's had died in infancy of a heart defect when Love was 10.[16]
In 1972, Carroll moved with her then-husband to New Zealand, and Love was left in Oregon with her former stepfather and various friends. At age 14, she was arrested for shoplifting a t-shirt and was sent to Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility, a juvenile hall in Salem, Oregon.[17][18] She spent the following several years in and out of foster homes before becoming legally emancipated at age 16. Love moved to Portland, Oregon and lived in the Northwest District, supporting herself by working illegally as a stripper,[13][15][17][19][20] a DJ, and various odd jobs,[21] and intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English literature.[22][23]
In 1981, Love was granted a small trust fund through her adoptive grandparents, which she used to travel to England and Ireland; there, she was accepted into Trinity College due to high test scores, where she studied theology for two semesters.[24] She also became acquainted with musician Julian Cope in Liverpool and moved into his house briefly before returning to the United States.[25][26][27] Love has said that she "didn't have a lot of social skills",[28] and that she learned them while frequenting gay clubs with friends.[15][29]
Love continued to relocate frequently, spending time in Portland and San Francisco (where she briefly studied at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute),[22][30] and also took stint jobs illegally working at strip clubs in Japan and Taiwan.[17][31] In 1985, Love sent in an audition tape for the role of Nancy Spungen in the biopic Sid & Nancy (1986), and caught the attention of director Alex Cox, who wrote a small role for her in the film.[13] She was subsequently offered a lead part in his next film, a spaghetti Western titled Straight to Hell (1987), which starred an array of punk rock icons and other well known actors, although the film was poorly received. Love returned to Oregon, and then retreated to Anchorage, Alaska for several months where she returned to stripping to support herself.[13][17][32]
Music career
1980s
Love initially began several music projects in the 1980s, first forming Sugar Babydoll, and then having a brief stint as a singer in Faith No More.[13] Love later formed the Pagan Babies with friend Kat Bjelland, Jennifer Finch and Janis Tanaka, recording one 4-track demo before disbanding.[33][34] Love briefly played bass in Bjelland's group Babes In Toyland in 1987 before being ejected from the band.[35]
1990s
Main article: Hole (band)
Flyer made by Courtney Love promoting a Hole show in 1991, Los Angeles
In 1989, Love taught herself to play guitar and relocated to Los Angeles, where she placed an ad in a local music zine, reading: "I want to start a band. My influences are Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac"[36] to which guitarist Eric Erlandson replied. Love named the band Hole, bought her neighbor Lisa Roberts a bass guitar, and recruited drummer Caroline Rue after meeting her at a Gwar concert.
Hole played their first show in November 1989 at Raji's after three months of rehearsal, and began making singles on the Long Beach, California, independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry. Their first single, titled "Retard Girl", was issued in early 1990. Disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer jokingly said that Love would often "stalk him" at a Denny's restaurant, insisting that he should give "Retard Girl" air time on his station, KROQ.[17] One year later, the band debuted their second single, "Dicknail" through Sub Pop Records.
Influenced by the style of no wave and noise rock bands, Love convinced Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon to produce Hole's first studio album. The album, titled Pretty on the Inside, was released in August 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming. The album gained a following in the United Kingdom, charting at 59 on the UK Albums Chart,[37] as well as its lead single, "Teenage Whore" entering the country's Indie chart at number one.[38] Pretty on the Inside received generally positive critical acclaim,[39] and was labelled one of the 20 best albums of the year by Spin Magazine.[40] The band toured the United States and Europe in support of the record.
Hole recorded their second album, Live Through This, in late 1993 in Atlanta and released it in April 1994, just four days after Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound in their home. The album featured a new lineup, with Kristen Pfaff on bass and Patty Schemel on drums. In June 1994, Pfaff died of an apparent heroin overdose,[13] and Love recruited bassist Melissa Auf der Maur for the band's upcoming tour. Throughout the months preceding the tour, Love was rarely seen in public, spending her time in her home or visiting the Namgyal Buddhist Monastery in New York.[22]
Meanwhile, Live Through This was an immense commercial and critical success, receiving rave reviews from major music periodicals[41] and going certified gold. By April 1995, it went platinum. It went on to be declared one of the best albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time issue in 2003.[42]
The live performances for Hole's 1994 and 1995 tours became notorious in the media due to Love's fraught emotional state,[13] with Love often altering hurtful song lyrics toward herself, dedicating songs to Cobain and Pfaff, provoking fans, throwing guitars into the audience,[43] and breaking into screaming fits onstage.[44]
In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences. Rolling Stone called the album "accessible, fiery and intimate—often at the same time [...] a basic guitar record that's anything but basic."[45] Celebrity Skin went on to go multi-platinum, and topped "Best of Year" lists at Spin, the Village Voice, and other periodicals.[46] The album garnered the band their first and only No. 1 hit single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart with the title track "Celebrity Skin".
During the release and promotion of Celebrity Skin, Love and Fender designed a low-price Squier brand guitar, called Vista Venus.[47] The instrument featured a shape inspired by Mercury, Stratocaster, and Rickenbacker's solidbodies and had a single-coil and a humbucker pickup. 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".[48]
After touring for Celebrity Skin finished, Auf der Maur left the band to tour with The Smashing Pumpkins; Hole's touring drummer Samantha Maloney left soon after. Love and Erlandson continued to pursue with the band, and released the single "Be A Man"— an outtake from the Celebrity Skin sessions— for the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday (1999). The group became dormant in the following two years, and on May 24, 2002, officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.
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