“Just a glorified T-shirt salesman”: Ben Shepherd’s bizarre stint with Nirvana
“It was a scam”.
Soundgarden
The grunge band corrupted by greed that Billy Corgan grew to hate: “One more round at the till”
“We have never made a record that sucked.”
‘Black Hole Sun’: the advice that unlocked the most defining grunge anthem of 1994
The power of intuition.
The 1989 song Soundgarden used to parody the stupid side of rock: “Ditch all the euphemisms”
Soundgarden takes on hair metal.
The moment in 1990 Chris Cornell called “the death of the innocence” in grunge
When music goes from fun to deadly serious.
The 1988 album that Chris Cornell was devastated by: “He was a complete idiot”
Hurting his sense of drive.
“My older brother”: Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder and the gravelly voice of the 1990s
A lasting friendship…
Posthumous phone calls: Jeff Buckley and Chris Cornell’s heartbreaking connection
Two friends lost 20 years apart.
The grunge album Eddie Vedder called one of the greatest: “One of my favourite records”
The sound of earnest rock and roll.