10 Worst Burnouts In Rock History
1. Kurt Cobain - Nirvana
No rock star really plans on being the voice of a generation. Even though the idea of being a highly respected musician is awfully good, the idea of speaking for a whole new movement can be daunting even for the most extroverted of people. When you give it to one of the most unstable minds in alternative rock though, things are bound to blow up.
Ever since starting out, Kurt Cobain had always toed the line between pop sweetness and punk rock harshness in everything he did, which worked like gangbusters once Nirvana's Nevermind stormed the charts and announced the arrival of the alternative movement. As the acclaim started racking up though, Kurt found himself more and more unhappy with the way things were going, going so far as to not tour behind his biggest record. Though his artistic self came out in spades on In Utero, this would prove to be the beginning of the end for Kurt's legacy.
While on the stadium tour to promote In Utero, Cobain was getting tired of the rock star fame machine, often turning to heroin to calm his nerves. Though he eventually was revived from an overdose of pills in Rome, the star power eventually got the better of him when he was found dead in his home by suicide. As opposed to just leading the way for alternative music going forward, any chance of grunge taking over the mainstream any further was snuffed out that day.