10 Things You Didn't Know About Nirvana's Nevermind

6. Almost Split Up Over Royalties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv96yJYhk3M After the explosion of Nevermind firmly set in and the band proceeded to knock the king of pop Michael Jackson off his perch atop the Billboard 100, Nirvana became a band very much in demand. In the linear notes, Cobain is listed as song writer and lyricist, with the band as a whole noted down as providing the music. With radio-friendly unit shifter Smells Like Teen Spirit receiving a whole bunch air time on national radio, the price of royalties for their material rose considerably. Consequently it drove a negligible chink amongst the band members when Cobain put his case across that he should receive a bigger slice of his already large royalty pie. As you can imagine, Novoselic and Grohl weren€™t best pleased with his demands and threatened to quit the band if the issue wasn€™t resolved. We obviously know the band came to an agreement and settled their differences of opinion, but if things hadn€™t of been sorted, we may of have another one album wonder, a la Sex Pistols, on our hands.