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Fans mourn grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain 25 years after death

Cobain was 27 when he died in 1994 in his home near Lake Washington
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Travis Ridgen, 22, of Winnipeg displays his hockey mask customized with Kurt Cobain-inspired artwork while visiting a park adjacent to where Cobain took his life 25 years earlier, Friday, April 5, 2019, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

On the 25th anniversary of Kurt CobainBԪַs death, dozens of people left flowers, candles and handwritten messages at a Seattle park near the house where the Nirvana frontman killed himself.

Cobain, whose band rose to global fame in the cityBԪַs grunge rock music scene of the early 1990s, was 27 when he died April 5, 1994, in his home in a wealthy neighbourhood near Lake Washington.

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Fans trekked Friday to nearby Viretta Park, leaving memorials on benches, where flowers mixed with handwritten phrases like BԪַthank you for your artBԪַ and BԪַfind your place.BԪַ

In an essay on the Crosscut news website, Cobain biographer Charles R. Cross wrote that few Seattle musicians BԪַhave been as tied to Seattle in the mind of the popular zeitgeist as Kurt Cobain.BԪַ

NirvanaBԪַs breakthrough album, BԪַNevermind,BԪַ was released in 1991. Featuring the hit BԪַSmells Like Teen Spirit,BԪַ the album went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts and has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.

Nirvana was the most prominent of the eraBԪַs series of Seattle grunge bands, including Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, that would go on to release bestselling records.

CobainBԪַs angst-filled lyrics and his bandBԪַs powerful, dark rock struck a chord with young people. Days after his death, thousands of people gathered near the Space Needle for a public memorial.

An investigation determined he took a massive dose of heroin and then shot himself.

The Associated Press

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