9 h. ago Kurt Cobain: what was the Nirvana singer's final performance as today marks 31 years since his death?

The final performance took place a month before Kurt Cobain’s death, aged 27

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3 d. ago Kurt Cobain’s Iconic MTV Unplugged Guitar Comes to London for the First Time

Kurt Cobain’s Iconic MTV Unplugged Guitar Comes to London for the First Time  That Eric Alper

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5 d. ago Kurt Cobain’s ’Unplugged’ guitar going on display in London

Kurt Cobain’s ’Unplugged’ guitar going on display in London  105.7 The Point

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5 d. ago Kurt Cobain’s MTV Unplugged guitar to feature at upcoming London exhibition

Kurt Cobain’s MTV Unplugged guitar to feature at upcoming London exhibition  NME

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5 d. ago Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show to go on display in UK

The Martin D-18E, played at renowned performance five months before singer’s suicide, sold for £4.8m in 2020The world’s most expensive guitar, which Kurt Cobain played in one of Nirvana’s most acclaimed performances – the MTV Unplugged in New York show – is to be displayed in the UK for the first time.The Royal College of Music in London has been loaned the Martin D-18E by its owner, Peter Freedman (the chair of Røde microphones), who bought the guitar for $6m (£4.8m) in 2020, making it the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Kurt Cobain’s Unplugged guitar to go on show at London’s Royal College of Music Museum

Kurt Cobain’s Unplugged guitar to go on show at London’s Royal College of Music Museum  Kerrang!

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8 d. ago Zelenskyy employs strategic optimism to highlight Russia’s abundant bad faith

Ukrainian president has learned Trump’s team demand positivity and there is little point in trying to ‘inject reality’At a press briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday, explaining where initial US-brokered peace negotiations had got to, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, struck a notably different tone. Long gone is the tetchiness on display in London in the aftermath of the Ukrainian leader’s catastrophic trip to the White House. In its place was a degree of optimism so high that it could only be interpreted as political positioning.Though he complained about comments made by Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, that four Ukrainian regions wholly or partly occupied by Russia consisted of people who wanted Moscow’s rule in an “overwhelming majority” – these were “in line with the messages of the Kremlin”, Zelenskyy said – he insisted that had advantages too. Continue reading...

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1 week ago UFC London: Sean Brady upsets Leon Edwards with dominant display

UFC London: Sean Brady upsets Leon Edwards with dominant display  BBC.com

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2 w. ago Worst record covers in the world from nightmarish rabbits to a giant manbaby

A collection of the worst album covers of all time has gone on display in London and the Daily Star is happy to present some of the cringe-worthy LPs being featured

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3 w. ago Elgin Marbles should be returned to their native Greece, a anthropologist and TV presenter Alice Roberts urges

Professor Alice Roberts believes the 30-plus classical Greek monuments, which have been on display in the British Museum in London for more than 200 years, belong 'back in Athens'.

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4 w. ago The Independent’s Influence List goes on display at London’s Outernet for International Women’s Day

This International Women's Day, The Independent has returned to Tottenham Court Road's Outernet — together with Refuge —  to demand Women. Now.

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4 w. ago Princess Beatrice is seen for the first time since giving birth to daughter Athena as she and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi attend gala

The Duke and Duchess of York's daughter put on a radiant display as she attended the occasion at The V&A in London, on Thursday evening.

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