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Article: Music: Courtney Love: From shriek to chic; Courtney Love is not one to be ignored, and her fame is as much down to determination as to talent. THOMAS QUINN reveals how she made it.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 8, 1999
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Who the hell is Courtney Love? As Brits we can be forgiven for asking. We vaguely think of her - if at all - as Kurt Cobain's widow. But in America that is only the starting point of her fame.
There, Love's band Hole have replaced Cobain's Nirvana in the public consciousness and next to Madonna she is the country's leading female rock star.
With Malibu - the second single from her acclaimed current album Celebrity Skin - due out on January 18, it's time to bring the UK up to date with a brief history of Courtney - in her own words, of course.
Love ...