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Biography

Early life

Courtney Love was born Courtney Michelle Harrison^[1], the daughter of Hank Harrison and Linda Carroll (née Risi). She was born on July 9th, 1964, in San Francisco, California, where her parents first met and married.

Love's biological family broke up at a very young age. During a child-custody case following her parents' divorce, both Courtney's mother Linda and one of her girlfriends presented letters to the court implying her father had given a 4-year-old Courtney LSD. Harrison denies this allegation and has passed polygraph tests; however, these allegations led to full custody being awarded to Linda Carroll.

Love spent a troubled childhood with her mother as she wandered through four husbands and as many hippie communes in Oregon, various schools (many of which kicked her out) including a boarding school in Nelson, New Zealand. By the time she was a teenager, Courtney was a veteran of reform schools and juvenile halls. At 16, she broke away from her family, got emancipated and traveled around the U.S., United Kingdom and Ireland, living on a trust fund established for her by her mother's adoptive parents. During her time in England, Courtney met and befriended musician Julian Cope.

Love's first rock musician boyfriend was Rozz Rezabek, who had an affair with the still-underage Courtney. In her late teens she worked in Japan, Taiwan, Guam and Alaska as a stripper, a job that she would return to at several points in her life before attaining fame. At age 22 she found herself back in Portland, Oregon, then moved to Los Angeles, California in 1987 along with Kat Bjelland, and formed her first band, which lasted just two gigs and a demo tape. Love would still retry to make a band with Kat in Minneapolis, Minnesota, before taking up in Los Angeles with The Leaving Trains, a group in which she briefly married the lead singer, Falling James Moreland. Viewed by some as a social climber, she bedded and/or befriended many musicians who would later become alternative rock icons, among them Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins.

The last connection has a complicated history. Corgan was the last relationship prior to her marriage to Kurt Cobain. Love relates that her time with Corgan was purely sexual and that she was enticed by his love letters rather than his actual presence in the relationship. Corgan was distant and maintained relations with others, though Love remained supportive of him and his band even after the relationship ended. This was a source of contention for Cobain, as, throughout the marriage, he felt jealous and suspicious of Love's continued friendship of Corgan. Corgan and Love still maintain a platonic friendship, and, after the death of Cobain, Corgan came to console her. These days Love says Corgan lives in a wing of her Hollywood Hills mansion. Corgan is actively participating on her album in works as well as the new album for his band.

Early Musical Career

About this time she also became the singer in the all-female pop-rock band Sugar Baby Doll with Kat Bjelland and Jennifer Finch. None of their Bangles-influenced material has ever been officially released. Love had more early success as an actress, appearing as the best friend of Nancy Spungen in Alex Cox's Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy in 1986, and in Cox's Straight to Hell in 1987, as well as some small roles on television episodes.

Love then began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More, until she was kicked out of the band sometime around 1985. Roddy Bottum described the band at the time as "democratic", saying that Courtney's dominating personality did not fit in, though the two have remained friends to present day.

Returning to music in her adopted hometown of Minneapolis, Love claims she co-founded Babes in Toyland as bassist with leader Kat Bjelland, but this is denied by others; either way, acrimony between Love and Bjelland led to Love's quick exit from the band. The band's biographer claims she stole house receipts to attend a Butthole Surfers concert.

In 1989, Love taught herself to play guitar (her first instrument was indeed a Casio keyboard, bought at 18) and formed her own band, Hole. The group made their first gig in November of the same year, after three months of rehearsal, and quickly started releasing singles on the Long Beach, California independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry. The band's abrasive debut Pretty on the Inside was released in early 1991 on Caroline Records and was produced by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon. It sold well for an independent release and received ecstatic reviews in the influential British alternative music press.

Love met her future husband Kurt Cobain at a concert in 1989; they began dating around 1991 and, a few days after the conclusion of Nirvana's Australian tour, on February 24, 1992, Love and Cobain were married on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. On August 18 of that year, the couple's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born.

Unpopular with some Nirvana fans (comparisons to Yoko Ono were made early on and persist to this day), Love's image was further tarnished by a 1992 article in Vanity Fair entitled "Strange Love", in which it was alleged that she had continued using heroin in the early stages of pregnancy. As a result, Child Welfare Services briefly investigated the Cobains' fitness as parents, removing Frances Bean from their custody for a short period. Love claims to this day that she was misquoted, saying she had told author Lynn Hirschberg that she had stopped using it once she learned she was pregnant.

Similarly to Axl Rose, she was often ridiculed in the press for her abrasive behaviour, such as cursing at paparazzi and publicly harassing Cobain's former girlfriend, folksinger Mary Lou Lord.

Four days before the release of Hole's breakthrough album Live Through This on April 12, 1994, Kurt Cobain was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head at their home in Washington (though the manner of his death has been disputed by some and conspiracy theories abound). Love read his suicide note (via a tape-recorded message) to assembled, mourning fans at a memorial service in Seattle a few days later. Clearly crying, she interrupted the note frequently to express her anger and sorrow ("Kurt, the worst crime I can think of is for you to just continue being a rock star when you fucking hate it, just fucking stop"), even inciting the crowd to call him an "asshole" for leaving everyone behind. On the audio recording that day you can hear the crowd obey. Finally, Love implored Nirvana fans not to listen to Cobain's infamous final words, "It's better to burn out than fade away," cited from Neil Young's 'Hey Hey, My My'.

On June 16th, just two months after Cobain's death, Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff was found dead of an apparent drug overdose.

Live Through This tour (1994)

In the wake of the album's release and her husband's death, Love recruited 21 year old bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur (a recommendation of Billy Corgan's) to fill in for Pfaff, and took Hole on the road.

The band's first re-appearance at Reading was written up by famous broadcaster John Peel in The Guardian:

"Courtney's first appearance backstage certainly caught the attention. Swaying wildly and with lipstick smeared on her face, hands and, I think, her back, as well as on the collar of her dress, the singer would have drawn whistles of astonishment in Bedlam. After a brief word with supporters at the foot of the stage, she reeled away, knocking over a wastebin, and disappeared. Minutes later she was onstage giving a performance which verged on the heroic...Love steered her band through a set which dared you to pity either her recent history or that of the band...the band teetered on the edge of chaos, generating a tension which I cannot remember having felt before from any stage."^[2]

Hole next embarked on a tour opening for Nine Inch Nails, receiving a death threat before the show begins. To advice against playing, Love responds "It's from a girl, it's bullshit...besides, if someone were to shoot me onstage, what a nice footnote to rock n' roll history." In another gig, a bullet shell was thrown onstage and Courtney left the place after the fourth song.

Courtney is also known for having had a relationship with NIN's leader, Trent Reznor, during the tour, but after the fling became sour, they started loathing each other on press.

Celebrity Skin era (1996-1998)

Love received considerable acclaim for her role as Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite Woody Harrelson as Flynt, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She was also praised for her supporting role in the 1998 Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon, which starred Jim Carrey as Kaufman. Other notable film credits include Basquiat, 200 Cigarettes, and Feeling Minnesota.

In 1998, four years after their second album, Hole released Celebrity Skin. Rolling Stone gave the album four stars, saying "the album teems with sonic knockouts that make you see all sorts of stars. It's accessible, fiery and intimate – often at the same time. Here is a basic guitar record that's anything but basic."^[3] Celebrity Skin went on to go multiplatinum, and topped Best Of Year lists at Spin magazine, the Village Voice, and other periodicals.^[4] Erlandson was still the lead guitarist, and now there were Melissa Auf Der Maur's backup vocals and bass, but drummer Patty Schemel was replaced by a session drummer during the recording. There have been conflicting reports from the band members over whether this was due to drug problems or enmity between Schemel and the album's producer, Michael Beinhorn.

Post-Hole Releases (2001-Present)

With Hole fallen into disarray, Love attempted to begin a "punk rock femme supergroup" called Bastard during summer/autumn of 2001, enlisting Veruca Salt frontwoman Louise Post, Hole drummer Patty Schemel, and bassist Gina Crosley (recommended by Post). However, things turned sour when Courtney fired Crosley for undisclosed reasons, replacing her with Corey Parks, to Post's disdain. Though a demo was completed, the project never reached fruition. Hole broke up that year amid continuing litigation. In October 2001, Love performed in some solo shows as an opening act, and almost three years later she released her first album, America's Sweetheart. The album was a commercial flop and received a mixed reaction from critics. Spin magazine called it a "jawdropping act of artistic will", while Rolling Stone proclaimed "For people who enjoy watching celebrities fall apart, America's Sweetheart should be more fun than an Osbournes marathon." The record was re-recorded and finished at a difficult time, while Love was either fresh from or still undergoing rehab, and in its first three months the album sold ~86,000 copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.^[5]

She is set to release a memoir book, named Dirty Blonde, in late 2006, and her sophomore solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, will probably be out in early 2007^[6].

Controversy

Love has been a strong critic of the music industry, especially the RIAA. In 2000, she publicly announced her admiration for Napster which, at the time, was being accused of fostering illegal file-sharing.^[7] She became known for her criticism of unfair record contracts and mistreatment of artists.

Conflicting news stories began to appear in August of 2003 regarding Love's family tree, some of them remarking that Love's mother, Linda Carroll, had taken DNA tests revealing her father to be Marlon Brando, and that these facts would appear in Carroll's then-forthcoming memoir. Later that month, however, a spokeswoman for Carroll's publisher, Doubleday, told the New York Daily News, "There was nothing in Linda Carroll's book proposal about Marlon Brando, nor will there be anything in the book about him. I've spoken to her and she has told me that there is no truth to the suggestion that she is related to Marlon Brando." The story bears a significant possibility of truth: Carroll's mother Paula Fox did, by most accounts, have an affair with Brando, but since that time the truth has yet to be confirmed by law or any of the parties involved. ^{[8] [9]}

In 2003, Love pleaded not guilty to felony drug charges related to possession of painkillers. In February of 2004, an arrest warrant was issued for Love after she failed to appear at a preliminary hearing; the warrant was subsequently rescinded when she appeared in court on February 18. She released her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, just eight days earlier, on February 10.

Early on the morning of March 19, 2004 Love was arrested in New York City for allegedly throwing a microphone stand and hitting a man on the head. Earlier in the night, appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman, Love stepped up on the talk show host's desk saying "oh, Drew [Barrymore], you've had it," and flashed her breasts at Letterman.

On her fortieth birthday, July 9, 2004, she missed a scheduled court appearance relating to an attempted break-in at a boyfriend's house and was found in contempt of court. Her attorney later said she missed the appearance due to medical problems. Later in the month she appeared in court and was sentenced to an 18-month probation and drug rehabilitation program.

In January of 2005, Love regained the custody of her daughter that she'd lost in October of 2003, after completing a state-enforced rehabilitation program and enduring a probational period. Child welfare authorities alluded to drug addiction when responding to the press on the matter, though they didn't comment directly. ^{[10] [11]}

Since Cobain's death, conspiracy theories have circulated, alleging that he was in fact murdered at Love's instigation. This theory gained the most media attention with the release of Nick Broomfield's documentary Kurt & Courtney in 1998, which featured interviews with, among others, Love's father (who accused her of being a psychopath) and private investigator Tom Grant, who said they believed Love ordered her husband murdered, and punk singer El Duce, who claimed that Love offered him $50,000 to kill Cobain. Most of the various conspiracy theories are appraised in the book "Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain" which is written by Max Wallace and Ian Halperin.

On August 19, 2005, Love admitted using drugs in violation of her probation terms. She was ordered into a 28-day drug treatment program by a judge who initially said "my belief was that you need to go to the county jail." This program was also violated, and on September 21 she was sentenced to 6 months in lock down rehab. ^[12]

In August 2005, tabloid papers such as News of the World began reporting that Love became pregnant during an affair with British actor and comedian Steve Coogan. Coogan's spokeswoman, alongside Love's publicists, have discredited the story as "nonsense." ^[13]

Life After Rehab

On Friday 3rd February, Love was released from house arrest and issued the following statement: "I would just like to thank the court for allowing me these ninety days . . . [It] helped me deal with a very gnarly drug problem, which is behind me . . . I've just been playing guitar and taking care of my daughter. I want to [take this opportunity] to let the community know I'm doing great...I've been really inspired and have remained inspired."^[14]

Love is currently recording her second solo LP, tentatively titled How Dirty Girls Get Clean. She began writing the new material during her court-ordered drug rehab: "make no mistake, I've written these songs by myself. It's great to have good musicians, but this is me and a guitar." Song titles include "My Bedroom Walls", The Depths of My Despair", "Sunset Marquis", and the anti-cocaine rant "Loser Dust", among others. Those who have heard the songs say that they sound "gritty--very Janis Joplin. They are amazing". ^[14]

Poptones' boss Alan McGee declared in an interview that "she is in excellent shape. Her state of mind and being is the best that I’ve seen her in five years. Her Buddhist techniques are keeping her strong mentally and physically. And the songs? The songs are classic. They are acoustic demos but they are the strongest songs that I’ve heard out of Courtney in ages. They are heavy blues numbers ... the one that they talked about in The Guardian^[15], ‘How Dirty Girls Get Clean’, is a classic Courtney Love billowy number. And the others are like PJ Harvey, heavy rock blues on acoustic. I was just there as her mate and I’ve got to say that I’m really pleased that she’s got herself sorted."^[16]

Former 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry is producing the record, declaring that her dedication is to bring back "the queen of rock and roll". Perry said of Love's post rehab progress: "[she] looks great, sounds great, [has] really great ideas [and] great songs that she's written. My job now is to make that [Courtney Love] rock and roll record that everybody's gonna love." Long time friend Billy Corgan, of the Smashing Pumpkins, has also assisted Love extensively in recording the tracks, and has in fact been living with her since February; Corgan has his own wing in her Hollywood Hills mansion^[17].

On May 1st, Love officially returned to stage, playing at the Gay and Lesbian Community Centre benefit at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. With the support of Corgan and Perry, she performed two of the new songs acoustically: 'Sunset Marquis' and 'Pacific Coast Highway'.^[18]

Upon being interviewed by NME, Love gave them a preview of the demos. She played pre-recorded demos of "Pacific Coast Highway" and "Never Go Hungry Again", and then gave the reporters acoustic renditions of "Stand Up Motherfucker", "Good In Bed" and "How Dirty Girls Get Clean". When NME ran the article, they showed great enthusiasm for the material, declaring that it was "all brilliant".^[19]

Love is rumoured to be signing to Linda Perry's record label, Custard Music, for the release, and Universal Music -- the record company which Hole once fought a legal battle against in the year 2000 -- may be the worldwide distributor of the album. Love declared "not holding any grudges about it". Some of the new lyrics, like the title-track, "Letter To God" and "Sunset Marquis", plus excerpts from "Sad But True" and "Stand Up Motherfucker", seemed to leak recently in Internet, but there's no evidence of audio archives available for listening or download.

In August 6th, 2006, was announced in the New York Post gossip column pagesix that the first single of Love's new album will be entitled "Letter To God", Brett Ratner, director of X-Men: The Last Stand and friend of Love, is slated to direct the video. However these claims have not been verified by Love, Ratner or Custard Records and should generally be treated as rumours until more information surfaces.

A documentary about the making of the record, entitled "The Return of Courtney Love", was filmed, written and produced by Will Yapp and aired on British TV network More4 on September 27.

Trivia

• In Utero, the title of Nirvana's final original album, comes from a poem written by Love.

• In her early career, Love adopted a "kinderwhore" look, which she was accused of having imitated after Kat Bjelland. Love stated that the look was inspired by Christina Amphlett of 1980s rock group Divinyls. Love's style has since evolved toward more sophisticated designer labels.

• In 2006, Roddy Bottum, Faith No More's keyboardist and Courtney's ex-bandmate, wrote and recorded with her the song "Love, Love, Love" for the film "Adam & Steve".

• A fan of A Streetcar Named Desire, Love used to check into hotels under the name 'Blanche DuBois'.

• Courtney is a fan of soft rock legend Stevie Nicks, and has stated she has been very influenced by her, even covering Nicks' song 'Gold Dust Woman'. In fact, Stevie Nicks is the second person Love mentions on her thanks list in the sleeve of 'Celebrity Skin'. Love has publicly stated that Nicks and Fleetwood Mac were an inspiration for the Californian-rock theme that she had in mind for 'Celebrity Skin'.

• Courtney began to consider becoming a rock star after being given three albums – Pretenders, Squeeze and Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols – by an intern at a reform school.

• Love used to have three tattoos during her early career, amongst two of them are still visible: a vine with small flowers on her left ankle, and a small letter 'K' (which stands for Kurt) on the top of the abdomen. The third one was placed on the right side of her upper back, and it first was an artwork including a star in the middle of a vine, but later changed to a big angel. It seems to have been lasered recently.

• As Kurt Cobain did in 1994, creating the design of Fender Jag-Stang, Love also had a personal line of guitars. Through Fender's low-price sub-brand Squier, she co-designed Vista Venus^[20], an electric guitar with shape inspired on Mercury, Stratocaster and Rickenbacker's solidbodies and which had a single and a humbucker pickups. In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: "I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar. I didn't want it all teched out. I wanted it real simple, with just one pickup switch. Because I think that cultural revolutions are in the hands of guitar players". She also declared, "my Venus is better than the Jag-Stang". ^[21] The Squier Vista Venus model is currently discontinued, as is the Jag-Stang as of 2006.

• Courtney is said to having spent close to four years in college, majoring in English at Portland State University, San Francisco Art Institute and Trinity College, Dublin^[22]. But the statement seems to be, at least, partially untrue, because, according to the San Francisco's referred college site, it doesn't provides a graduation program in English. This information, allied to Courtney's messed-up educational history, including expellings and grade skippings between traditional and alternative schools, make the information less trustworthy.

• Love's mother is writer Paula Fox's daughter, but was given up for adoption to an Italian-American couple, who raised the Jewish-born child Catholic ^[23]. Love's mother, Linda Carroll, penned an autobiography titled "Her Mother's Daughter", released in 2006, about her dysfunctional relationship with both adoptive mother and elder daughter^[24].

• Love is a Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist since age 24, on and off. She allegedly started chanting its mantra nam-myoho-renge-kyo for quitting heroin, finding a band and a husband. Love is known for having had experiences with Tibetan Buddhism (after reading Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying in the period that Kurt Cobain committed suicide, she made him a Tibetan funeral, spent two weeks meditating and participating of ceremonies at Namgyal temple in Ithaca, New York, and left part of her husband's ashes for making deity statues named tsatsas)^[25] and Baptist Evangelicalism^[26] after it, but returned to her original faith in 2004. Love also was responsible for introducing Hole's guitar player Eric Erlandson to Nichiren Buddhism.

• Among many celebrities, Love is a yoga endorser, and started practicing the kundalini sub-discipline in 1997, with A-list supported yogi Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, at the Viper Room. Briefly after, she also started practicing ashtanga at Jivamukti, in New York City.

• Love was very persistent in her attempts to land the role of Nancy Spungen in the film Sid and Nancy, at one point even sending director Alex Cox a rambling videotape in which she described her suitability for the part. This video often turns up online, and has been featured on various VH1 "Before They Were Rock Stars" shows.

• Love is featured on The Ramones' video for "I Wanna Be Sedated". Love is dressed as a bride and is carried away by a man at the end of the song.

• Love and Madonna have appeared more than once in stories sniping at each other. In one famous incident following an MTV Video Music Awards 1995 ceremony, Love interrupted Madonna's live interview with Kurt Loder by throwing her makeup at the pop star from below. "Shall we let her up here?" Loder asks, and Madonna replies, "no, don't." Nevertheless, Love comes up to say hello, and Loder interviews them both. By most accounts Madonna appears uncomfortable, and it all ends with Courtney yelling after her, "Madonna? Are you mad at me? Are you pissed? Swear to God?"

• Love was a guest star on MTV's reality series The Osbournes, offering love advice to Jack Osbourne.

• Love was engaged to Edward Norton in the late nineties. Courtney told Spin that she would have been "happier if I married Edward. I'll regret that to my dying day".

• According to Neil Strauss's book The Game, at some point before 2005, Courtney Love spent a good amount of time staying at the mansion called "Project Hollywood" where Pick-Up Artists such as the famous "Mystery" resided.

• Love was cast to star as legendary cowgirl Texas Guinan in the story of her life, called Hello Sucker!. The film was never made.

• There was a late 80s/early 90s Olympia band named Courtney Love that existed before Love's own music career took off. The band released three records on the Kill Rock Stars record label. They named themselves after her based on the strength of her early acting roles and general persona.

• In 2004, Courtney has also worked with manga artists Ai Yazawa, Misaho Kujiradou and DJ Milky (pen name of Stu Levy) to create her personal series in Japan, named Princess Ai.

• Love claimed that her late husband hated former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl in an interview with Howard Stern.

Discography

Albums

With Hole

• Pretty on the Inside (1991)
• Live Through This (1994, Platinum)
• Ask for It (EP) (1995)
• My Body, the Hand Grenade (B-sides & Rarities) (1997)
• The First Session (EP) (1997)
• Celebrity Skin (1998, Platinum)

Solo

• America's Sweetheart (2004)
• How Dirty Girls Get Clean (set to early 2007)

Singles

With Hole

• Retard Girl (1990)
• Dicknail (1991)
• Teenage Whore (1991)
• Beautiful Son (1993) UK #54
• Miss World (1994) US Modern Rock #13 UK #64
• Doll Parts (1995) US #58 UK #16
• Violet (1995) US Modern Rock #29 UK #17
• Softer, Softest (1995) US #32
• Gold Dust Woman (1996) US #31
• Celebrity Skin (1998) US #85 UK #19
• Malibu (1998) US #81 UK #22
• Awful (1999) US Modern Rock #13 UK #42
• Be a Man (2000)

Solo

• Mono (2004) US Rock Singles #18 UK #41
• Hold On To Me (2004) US Rock Singles #39
• Letter to God (to be announced)

Filmography

• Sid and Nancy (1986)
• Straight to Hell (1987)
• Tapeheads (1988)
• 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992) (documentary)
• Tank Girl (1995) (as executive music producer)
• Basquiat (1996)
• Feeling Minnesota (1996)
• The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
• Not Bad for a Girl (1996) (documentary) (also co-producer)
• Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) (documentary)
• Kurt & Courtney (1998) (documentary)
• 200 Cigarettes (1999)
• Man on the Moon (1999)
• Beat (2000)
• Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope (2000) (documentary)
• Julie Johnson (2001)
• Last Party 2000 (2001) (documentary)
• Trapped (2002)
• Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003) (documentary)
• (This Is Known As) The Blues Scale (2004) (documentary)
• Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005) (short film)
• Lovelace (2007) (announced)

Notes

1. ^ ^a b Although some sources give Love's birth name as "Love Michelle Harrison", her listing on the California Birth Index from the Center for Health Statistics gives a birth name of "Courtney Michelle Harrison". Between adoptions from several stepfathers, she also gone by the names "Courtney Michelle Rodriguez" and "Courtney Michelle Menely". When she married Nirvana's lead singer, reports appeared claiming her as "Courtney Michelle Cobain" and "Courtney Michelle Love-Cobain", but there are legal entries between 1995 and 2004 identifying her still as "Courtney Michelle Menely". Court documents and BMI website show that her official name is now "Courtney Michelle Love".
2. ^ London Guardian, August 30th, 1994
3. ^ James Hunter reviews Celebrity Skin
4. ^ Entry for Celebrity Skin at Acclaimed Music
5. ^ FOX News - Did Virgin Records Use Her?
6. ^ Blood On The Tracks - Moonwashedrose's September 2006 Interview with Courtney Love
7. ^ "Courtney Love does the math" "an unedited transcript of Courtney Love's speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference, given in New York on May 16, 2000."
8. ^ Brando Shocks Courtney Love
9. ^ Courtney Love Not Brando's Granddaughter
10. ^ Courtney Love Fighting For Custody Of Daughter Frances Bean
11. ^ Courtney Love Regains Custody Of Frances Bean Cobain
12. ^ Teary-Eyed Courtney Love Ordered Back To Rehab By Judge
13. ^ [1]
14. ^ ^a b Courtney Is Cleared, Ready To Rock
15. ^ Enduring Love
16. ^ Alan in LA with Dirty Pretty Things and Courtney Love!
17. ^ Courtney Love to Play London’s West End
18. ^ Courtney Makes Shock Live Appearance
19. ^ "What do Dave and Krist think about me selling the Nirvana rights? Tough shit!"
20. ^ Drown Soda: Fender Squier Vista Venus
21. ^ Hole Tones: The Secrets Of Celebrity Skin's Smooth Sound
22. ^ Entertainment Weekly, 1994: The Power of Love
23. ^ The Absolutely Final Word on Courtney Love—Well, Maybe
24. ^ The Guardian: Sins of the mothers
25. ^ Nirvanafreak.net - Articles & Interviews - Endless Love
26. ^ Courtney Love: She definitely wouldn't have apologized at the Grammy's

External links

• Courtney Love's Official homepage
• Courtney Love All Music Guide Page
• Courtney Love at the Internet Movie Database