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Dave Grohl Talks About Cobain's Death
Dave Grohl has been talking about the death of his former Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain. In an interview with Radio 1 to promote the Foo Fighter's hits package, he said that he didn't expect his former bandmate to live to an old age, remarking that “sometimes you just can't save someone from themselves”.
He continued: “There are some people that you meet in life that you just know that they are not going to live to be a 100 years old. In some ways, you kind of prepare yourself emotionally for that to be a reality”.
Nevertheless, even Grohl didn't expect to lose his bandmate quite so prematurely. Calling Cobain's 1994 suicide “a terrible surprise”, he said that the Nirvana frontman's death “was probably the worst thing that has happened to me in my life. I remember the day after that I woke up and I was heartbroken that he was gone. I just felt like, 'OK, so I get to wake up today and have another day and he doesn't'”.