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Date Posted: 10:46:00 03/13/06 Mon
Author: taurus
Subject: Courtney Love
COURTNEY LOVE To Sell NIRVANA Back Catalog - Mar. 13, 2006
According to NME.COM, Courtney Love has said she is preparing to sell a share of her rights to the NIRVANA back catalogue.
Love has been in London over the last week. While in the U.K. she's had meetings about a new record deal, making a TV documentary, taking a theatre role in the West End, and been to various gigs.
"I have decided that I need some co-management and a strategic partner [to help me] as it's such a huge responsibility," Love told NME.COM of her NIRVANA plans. "This is the right thing to do for my family...whoever I do this deal with, I really have to like."
Love is also quoted in the Sunday Mirror (March 12) as saying that she's thinking about selling "25 per cent of the catalogue for quite a lot of money."
Love was married to NIRVANA singer Kurt Cobain prior to his suicide in 1994.
**Note, The Presleys also did the samething last year.**
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Re: Courtney Love -- lump, 10:53:26 03/13/06 Mon [1]
Yeah - she definately needs an assistant. Someone to remind her to cross her legs and keep them that way. Someone to keep her home when she's all strung out. And it'd be nice if she just gave the Nirvana rights to the remaining guys and removed her skanky hands from it. Skank.
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Re: Courtney Love -- 23, 10:56:05 03/13/06 Mon [1]
^!!!!!
Yeah, hopefully that "someone" will be Dave & Kris.
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Re: Courtney Love -- taurus, 11:02:42 03/13/06 Mon [1]
Well hopefully whoever it will be, won't be battling Dave and Krist over releasing any material. I'm just afraid now Kurt will be marketed like Frank Sinatra or someone and he'll be in t.v commercials and totally exploited.
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Re: Courtney Love -- lump, 11:04:23 03/13/06 Mon [1]
Yeah - I hear they have an Axe commercial for him too.
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Re: Courtney Love -- rdtwo, 12:06:14 03/13/06 Mon [1]
well now. michael jackson can buy those rights
and he'll be the king of grunge rock! (think
the mtv awards) =) happy mundaney people
who is the king(s) of grunge rock? hmm.
mudhoney? they always leaned more towards the sounds
of the stooges, which isn't a bad thing.
soundgarden? cobain was annointed king, but we know
cc and the boys influnced them first.
screaming trees? hmmm.
sorry, i'm rambling. blame the morning coffee. =)
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Re: Courtney Love -- taurus, 12:09:59 03/13/06 Mon [1]
Well, the Grandfather of Grunge is Neil Young, so I don't know if there is a king. I know sometimes Jack Endino has been referred to as the father of grunge.
Ewww does that mean that Courtney is the Mother or the Queen of Grunge.
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Re: Courtney Love -- lump, 12:13:55 03/13/06 Mon [1]
Good question.
Layne.
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Re: Courtney Love -- 23, 12:18:48 03/13/06 Mon [1]
I'd say she's more like the groupie of grunge.
And if Elvis is the King of Rock, then Kurt is the King of Grunge. It's not like Elvis invented rock any more than Kurt invented grunge, it's just that he was the most popular face of it. There were plenty of other musicians in the beginnings of R&R that were more inflential and important than Elvis (Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, etc.), but Elvis was the most popular. Like Kurt.
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Re: Courtney Love -- taurus, 12:28:39 03/13/06 Mon [1]
Holy Crap, I didn't even think about it, but I'm listening to Elvis right now!
What's next Nirvana?....perhaps :)
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Re: Courtney Love -- Taurus, 12:32:57 03/13/06 Mon [1]
Oh yeah, Did anyone here like Holes "Live Through This"?
I did, I thought it was great "doll parts" and such...
Even Celebrity Skin was good.
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Re: Courtney Love -- taurus, 08:17:24 03/27/06 Mon [1]
I hate U2 and I hate Bono more than anyone and now this! Urgh...
NIRVANA Stake To be Acquired By U2's BONO?
James Hall of the U.K.'s Telegraph.co.uk is reporting that Elevation Partners - the private equity company whose partners include Bono, the U2 singer - is thought to be the front-runner in a multi-million pound deal to acquire a stake in the back catalogue of NIRVANA, the 1990s grunge pioneers.
The publishing rights to the group's songs are currently owned by Courtney Love, the widow of Kurt Cobain, NIRVANA's singer, who committed suicide in April 1994.
Love is looking to sell a 25 percent stake in the band's back catalogue, which includes songs such as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come As You Are".
The deal would give any investor a cut of the royalties every time a NIRVANA song is played.
Read more at Telegraph.co.uk.
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Re: Courtney Love -- Jes, 08:39:52 03/27/06 Mon [1]
At least if it's Bono...well, let's put it this way. I'd trust Bono. And it's better than the idiot that sold the Beatles to Micheal Jackson. I really think Bono would respect the integrity of the songs. And I'm not even a U2 fan.
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Re: Courtney Love -- 23, 10:43:33 03/27/06 Mon [1]
I think they'd be in better hands with Bono than Courtney.
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Re: Courtney Love -- chico781, 01:53:04 03/28/06 Tue [1]
"I think they'd be in better hands with Bono than Courtney."
Amen to that!
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Re: Courtney Love -- taurus, 08:10:27 03/28/06 Tue [1]
With Bono only having 25% of the share, he wold be controlled by Courtney. Anyone who bi=uys it would be in business with her.
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Re: Courtney Love -- t, 09:08:11 03/31/06 Fri [1]
Courtney Sells Nirvana Rights Share
Kurt Cobain's widow partners with ex-Virgin Records COO/GM to manage catalog ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
When Nirvana singer and lead songwriter Kurt Cobain died in 1994, his widow, rocker Courtney Love, became the primary benefactor of his estate, which includes more than ninety-eight percent of the band's publishing rights. Band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl were left with part of the remainder. Now Love tells Rolling Stone that she has finally sold twenty-five percent of her share of Nirvana's sought-after publishing catalog -- to Larry Mestel of Primary Wave Music Publishing, former COO/GM of Virgin Records.
"I took on a strategic partner, Larry Mestel, to help me co-manage the estate because it was overwhelming," Love explains. "The affairs of Nirvana are so massive and so huge, and they've all fallen on my lap. I own almost all of [the publishing], . . . and it proved to be too much for me. I needed a partner to take Kurt Cobain's songs and bring them into the future and into the next generation. And this guy's the guy to do it."
Mestel says his three-month-old company, Primary Wave, is thrilled to have bought into an American musical legacy. "The appeal to me is that [Kurt was] one of the most important songwriters of his time," Mestel says. "Kurt was an incredible songwriter, and Courtney is an exceptionally talented person herself. So I felt the combination of Courtney's creativity and the things I can add can really help in creating more value for these copyrights."
Though Love and Mestel declined to comment on specifics, a source close to the deal tells Rolling Stone that Mestel has likely paid in excess of $50 million for the rights.
Exactly what the partnership will mean for the life of Nirvana's music -- including the Nineties hits "Come As You Are" and "All Apologies" -- is unclear. Thus far, the tracks have been notably absent from corporate ad campaigns and blockbuster action-movie soundtracks. The new partners are already eager to curb speculation that any of the generation-defining songs might end up in, say, a deodorant ad.
"We're going to remain very tasteful, and we're going to [retain] the spirit of Nirvana and take Nirvana places it's never been before," says Love. "My goal is to keep the music very true to who the songwriter was and what his passions and tastes would be," Mestel adds, "and to work through Courtney to figure out exactly the best way to go about exposing his music to a new youth culture to a new generation."
In other news, Love says she has entered into another partnership -- a musical one, with New York-based electronic artist Moby. According to Love, Moby has agreed to co-produce the follow-up to her 2004 effort, America's Sweetheart, which Linda Perry is also at work on. The two met up when Love was in New York last week, and ended up spending a night out with Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys and Michael Stipe.
"A long time ago, Moby was Christian, and I had this fantasy I was Mary Magdalene and he was Jesus. I've always had a little crush on him," says Love. "And I trust him. I'll talk all sort of shit, and he'll keep trying to focus me back on the music."
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