Courtney Love

why we like her?

We love edgy, hard-rockers, and Courtney fits the bill. She knows how to blend hard rock with glamour, and does so with elegant flare -- but that doesn't mean she's afraid to speak her mind.

why is she famous?

She was once been known as the widow of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, but she has carved a successful career for herself as the lead singer of Hole and as an actress in movies such as Man On The Moon.

overall rating
69

Courtney Love is quite a figure -- and we are not taking about her body. Okay, so saying she is beautiful might be a slight exaggeration but that doesn't mean she can't try to be glamorous. Although she is better known for her big mouth than her musical talent, no one can blame the girl for trying.

Biography for
Courtney Love

Birth name
Courtney Michelle Harrison
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Nickname
CLover
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Height
5' 9½" (1.77 m)
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Mini biography
The daughter of The Grateful Dead devotee Hank Harrison and psychologist Linda Caroll, Courtney Love spent her early years in hippie communes and at schools in Europe and New Zealand. As a musician, she played in early incarnations of Babes In Toyland and Faith No More, as well as acting in bit parts for some Alex Cox films. She started her own band, Hole, and in 1992 married Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain. After Cobain's suicide in 1994, and the release of Hole's second album "Live Through This", Love continued to thrill her fans and enrage her detractors with her on- and off-stage antics.

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IMDb mini-biography by
Alexander Lum <aj_lum@postoffice.utas.edu.au>
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Spouse
Kurt Cobain (24 February 1992 - 5 April 1994) (his death) 1 child
James Moreland (1989 - 1989) (divorced)

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Trivia
Nightlife columnist Belissa Cohen sued Love for "assault, battery, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress" resulting from an incident involving Cohen's attempt to photograph Love at an LA fashion show. [28 May 1998]

Daughter of Hank Harrison

Has one daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, (b. 18 August 1992)

Linked romantically to Edward Norton. [1996-1998]

Auditioned for the role of Nancy in Sid and Nancy (1986) but was given the small role as Gretchen instead.

Love's biological grandmother is children's author Paula Fox.

Godmother of daughter 'Frances Bean Cobain' is Drew Barrymore.

Alex Cox gave her bit parts in her first two films (Sid & Nancy and Straight to Hell), starting her movie career.

Has admitted to having extensive plastic surgery on her face and body.

Love suffered a miscarriage. She refused to name the father. [15 May 2001]

Her legal name since February 24, 1992 has been Courtney Michelle Cobain, though she uses the name Courtney Love professionally.

It was announced that Love's band, 'Hole', has broken up. [May 24, 2002]

4 February 2003: arrested at Heathrow airport in London for disorderly conduct on an aircraft flying from L.A. She was given a caution. She had flown to London for a performance at The Old Vic Theatre

Measurements: 35C-26-36 (after "lifting" in 1995), 34B-25-35 1/2 (implants removed 1997), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Took ballet as a child through her teens and has had extensive surgery done on her feet (due to injuries).

Was in the early weeks of pregnancy during the filming of Trapped (2002) but miscarried.

Ranked #68 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll

October 2003: Lost custody of her daughter after her arrest in Los Angeles on cocaine and illegal-prescription drug charges. Court officials placed 11 year old Frances Bean into the custody of her paternal grandmother, Wendy.

Though the band denies it, she insists she inspired the song "Crush With Eyeliner" that appeared on the 1990s R.E.M. album "Monster".

Was a member of the band Sugar Babylon

Released her solo album, "America's Sweetheart" in February 2004

The Nirvana song "Heart-Shaped Box" is about her

The song "Malibu" (1998) was written specifically for Kurt Cobain.

In 1998, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins helped produced the album, "Celebrity Skin".

20 October 2004 - Pled guilty in a NYC court to disorderly conduct for striking a fan, Gregory Burgett, in the head with a microphone during a concert. She was ordered to pay $2,236 in medical expenses, to attend a drug-treatment program, remain drug-free and commit no crimes for a year.

Was in the process of being divorced by Kurt Cobain at the time of his death.

11 January 2005 - An LA court ruled she could regain custody of her daughter, Frances Bean. She lost custody to her mother-in-law in October 2003 as a result of drug charges.

10 February 2005 - An LA court gave her three years probation after she pled no contest to attacking a woman at her ex-boyfriend/manager's house. Although accepting the plea, she maintained she did nothing wrong.

Beat out Angelina Jolie for the lead role in Lovelace

Dedicated Hole's My Body, The Hand Grenade CD to her late husband Kurt Cobain and former Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, who died of a heroin overdose.

She wore an antique silk dress that had once belonged to actress Frances Farmer to her wedding with Kurt Cobain.

Is a skilled ballerina and her dance abilities can be seen in "The People VS. Larry Flynt" and in a music video for "Hole."

Daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, born 18 August 1992.

Great-granddaughter of screenwriters Elsie Fox and Paul Hervey Fox.

According to her mother Linda Carroll, her stage name originated because Linda called her "Courtney, love" as a child.

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Personal quotes
"I'm not a woman, I'm a force of nature."

"I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me." --about Dave Grohl in a Howard Stern interview

"Cocaine is like really evil coffee." (What she told her daughter about drugs.)

"You're no one in the rock industry unless you've feuded with me or slept with Wynona Ryder."

"Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed. And plenty of you are out there in the smoker shed too. When it comes to rock 'n' roll, it's just like high school." (from an interview in the August 2004 Seventeen magazine.)

"Knowing me, I'd probably end up at a bar, asking some guy to get me another martini. Still bleaching my hair at 59." (her response to what she thinks she'll be like when she's old.)

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URBAN DICTIONARY

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LYRICS

LIVE THROUGH THIS
1994 Geffen Records

VIOLET

And the sky was made of amethyst
And all the stars were just like little fish
You should learn when to go
You should learn how to say no

Might last a day
Minus forever
Might last a day, yeah
Minus forever

When they get what they want
They never want it again
When they get what they want
They never want it again

Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to

And the sky was all violet
I want it again, but violent
More violence
Yeah, I'm the one with no soul
One above and one below

Might last a day
Minus forever
Might last a day, yeah
Minus forever

When they get what they want
They never want it again
When they get what they want
They never want it again

Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything, I dare you to

I told you from the start
Just how this would end
When I get what I want
I never want it again

Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to

Spin a lie in your mind, you're mine, forever...

Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to

Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything
Take everything
Take everything

MISS WORLD

I am the girl you know can't look you in the eye
I am the girl you know, so sick I cannot try
I am the one you want, can't look you in the eye
I am the girl you know, I lie and lie and lie

I'm Miss World
Somebody kill me
Kill me pills
No one cares, my friends
My friend

I'm Miss World
Watch me break and watch me burn
No one is listening, my friend
Yeah

I made my bed, I'll lie in it
I made my bed, I'll die in it
I made my bed, I'll lie in it
I made my bed, I'll die in it

Kill girls watch when I eat ether
Suck me under
Maybe forever, my friends
Yeah

I made my bed, I'll lie in it
I made my bed, I'll die in it
I made my bed, I'll die in it
I made my bed, I'll cry in it
I made my bed, I'll lie in it
I made my bed, I'll cry in it
I made my bed, I'll die in it
I made my bed, I'll die in it
My friend

I am the girl you know can't look you in the eye

PLUMP

Shakes his death rattle
Spittle on his bib
And I don't do the dishes
I throw them in the crib

I'm eating you
I'm overfed
Your milk's in my mouth
It makes me sick

Now I've stumbled here
Failed to make it mine
They say I'm plump
But I threw up all the time

I'm eating you
I'm overfed
Your milk's in my mouth
It makes me sick

Do you fake it for me like I...
Do you fake it for me like I...
Do you fake it for me like I...

My baby's in her arms
Crawling up her legs
Like a liar at a witch trial
You look good for your age

I'm eating you
I'm overfed
Your milk's in my mouth
It makes me sick

ASKING FOR IT

Every time that I sell myself to you
I feel a little bit cheaper than I need to
I will tear the petals off of you
Rose red, I will make you tell the truth

Was she asking for it?
Was she asking nice?
If she was asking for it
Did she ask you twice?

Every time that I stare into the sun
Angel dust and my dress just comes undone
Every time that I stare into the sun
Be a model or just look like one
Wild eye rot gut do me in
Do you think you can make me do it again?

Was she asking for it?
Was she asking nice?
If she was asking for it
Did she ask you twice?

If you live through this with me
I swear that I would die for you
And if you live through this with me
I swear that I would die for you

Was she asking for it?
Was she asking nice?
If she was asking for it
Did she ask you twice?

JENNIFER'S BODY

Well I know it, I can feel it
Well I know it enough to believe it
And I know it, I can see it
But I know it enough to believe it

Bettering you, bettering me
My better half has bitten me
Bettering you, bettering me
I'm sleeping with my enemy
Myself
Myself

Found pieces of Jennifer's body
Found pieces of Jennifer's body
Found pieces of Jennifer's body
Just relax, just relax, just go to sleep
Just relax, just relax, just go to sleep

You're ugly but I'm starving
He cuts you down from the tree
He keeps you in a box by the bed
Alive, but just barely

He said, "I'm your brother, I'm your friend
I'm purity, hit me again
With a bullet, number one
Kill the family, save the son"
Himself
Himself

Found pieces of Jennifer's body
Found pieces of Jennifer's body
Found pieces of Jennifer's body
Just relax, just relax, just go to sleep
Just relax, just relax, just go to sleep
Now she dies

DOLL PARTS

I am doll eyes
Doll mouth, doll legs
I am doll arms
Big veins, dog bait

Yeah, they really want you
They really want you, they really do
Yeah, they really want you
They really want you, but I do too

I want to be the girl with the most cake
I love him so much, it just turns to hate
I fake it so real I am beyond fake
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
Someday you will ache like I ache

I am doll parts
Bad skin, doll heart
It stands for a knife
For the rest of my life

Yeah, they really want you
They really want you, they really do
Yeah, they really want you
They really want you, but I do too

I want to be the girl with the most cake
He only loves those things because he loves to see them break
I fake it so real I am beyond fake
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
Someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache!
And someday you will ache like I ache!
And someday you will ache like I ache!
And someday you will ache like I ache!
Someday you will ache like I ache...

CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD

And I will await your highness
I'm so high I cannot walk
And I will await
You cripple, you take away my time
My peace, my empathy
No babies sleep on atrophy
Your unborn love and fetal stress
Hard bitter candy, legless caress

Go for credit in the straight world
Look a dealer in the eye
Go for credit in the real world
Won't you try?

I got some credit in the straight world
I lost a leg, I lost an eye
Go for credit in the real world
You will die
Yeah

It's the credit in the straight world
Leave your money when you die
Lots of credit in the real world
Gets you high
Yeah

I got some credit in the straight world
I lost a leg, I lost an eye
Go for credit in the real world
You will die
Yeah

SOFTER, SOFTEST

I tell you everything
And I hope that you won't tell on me
I'd give you anything
I know that you won't tell on me

The pee girl gets the belt
It only makes me mind
Your milk is so sour
And I can only cry
And I can only cower
And I can only cry
You have all the power

I've got a blister from touching everything I see
The abyss opens up
It steals everything from me

The pee girl gets the belt
It only makes me mind
Your milk is so sick
Your milk has a dye
Your milk has a dick
Your milk has a dye
Your milk has a dick

Burn the witch
The witch is dead
Burn the witch
Just bring me back her head

The pee girl gets the belt
It only makes me mind
Your milk is so mean
Your milk turns to crime
Your milk turns to cream
Your milk turns to crime
Your milk turns to cream
Your milk turns to crime!
Your milk turns to cream!
Your milk turns to crime
Your milk turns to cream

SHE WALKS ON ME

Geeks do not have pedigrees
Or perfect punk rock resumes
Or anorexic magazines
It smells like girl, it smells like girl

She walks over me
She walks over me

Hold you close like we both died
My ever-present suicide
My stupid fuck, my blushing bride
Oh tear my heart out, tear my heart out

She walks over me
She walks over me

I'd shut my mouth with you for a gag
I gotta use the rest of you for a rag
I gotta shut my mouth with you for a gag
I gotta use the rest of you

Kitty, kitty, please come here
But don't you touch me, don't you dare
We look the same, we talk the same
We are the same, we are the same

She walks over me
She walks over me

I'd shut my mouth with you for a gag
I gotta use the rest of you for a rag
I gotta shut my mouth with you for a gag
I gotta use the rest of you

Nothing seems to walk the same
And nothing seems to talk the same
You never know what you will get
You never know what you'll forget

She walks over me
She walks over me
She walks

I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE

I'm stupid
I'm smarting
I'm stupid
I'm smarting

I want my baby
Where is the baby?
I want my baby
Who took my baby?

Rose white, rose red
Rose up in my head
Rose white, rose red

Yeah yeah
I want some
Yeah yeah
There is none

I want my baby
Where is the baby?
I want my baby
There is a baby

There is no milk!
There is no milk!
There is no milk!
There is no milk!

Rose white, rose red
Rose up in my head
Rose white, rose red

She lost all her innocence
Gave it to an abscess
She lost all her innocence
She said, "I am not a feminist"

It's not yours - fuck you!

There is no milk
There is no milk
There is no milk
There is no milk
There is no milk

GUTLESS

All my friends are embryonic
All my friends are dead and gone
All my friends are microscopic
All my friends wake up alone

Girl germs eat your little virus
Revolution come and die
Elitists who eat the virus
Sleep with me, wake up alive

Gutless...you're gutless
You're gutless...you're gutless

You can try to suck me dry
But there's nothing left to suck
Just you try to hold me down
Come on, try to shut me up

Step and fetch, grease my hips
I don't even have to pause
I don't really miss God
But I sure miss Santa Claus

Gutless...you're gutless
Gutless...you're gutless

I want to drink the honey blood
I want to drink the honey blood

Gutless...you're gutless
Gutless...you're undressed
You're gutless...you're gutless
You're gutless...you're undressed

ROCK STAR

Well, I went to school...oh
Well, I went to school...ha-ha!

Well, I went to school in Olympia
And everyone's the same
Well, what do you do with a revolution?

Well, I went to school in Olympia
And everyone's the same
We look the same
We talk the same Yeah

Don't you please make me real - fuck you!
Make me sick - fuck you!
Make me real - fuck you!

Well, I went to school in Olympia
Everyone's the same
And so are you in Olympia
And everyone's the same
We look the same
We talk the same, yeah
We even fuck the same
Well, I went to school in Olympia

Don't you please make me real - come on!
Make me sick - come on!
Make me real
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(Do it for the kids)
Do it for the kids
Do it for the kids, yeah
Do it for the kids, yeah
(Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it for the kids)
Do it for the kids, yeah
(Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it for the kids)
Do it for the kids, yeah
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it for the kids

No, we're not done

Well, I went to school in Olympia
Fascist bastard pigs are sweet, are we?
Bye-bye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Bye-bye
Goodbye

Musical career and marriage

Love began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More in the early 1980s. She was kicked out of the band for being overly controlling shortly after. About this time she also played in an all-female pop-rock band called Sugar Baby Doll with Kat Bjelland and Jennifer Finch. None of their Bangles-influenced material has ever been 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.

Returning to music in her adopted hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Love claims she co-founded the all-female rock band Babes in Toyland with Kat Bjelland, but this is denied by others; acrimony between Love and Bjelland led to Love's quick exit from the band. The band's biographer claims she stole house receipts to a Butthole Surfers concert. In 1991 Love formed her own band, Hole. The band's debut album garnered little critical or popular attention in the U.S. but was celebrated in the influential British alternative music press. Already a star in England, Hole's fortunes improved considerably following Love's marriage to Cobain and the publicity following Cobain's death.

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 she admitted to using heroin in the early stages of pregnancy. As a result, Child Welfare Services briefly investigated the Cobains' fitness as parents. 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, sometimes erratic behavior, such as cursing at paparazzi and publicly harassing Cobain's former girlfriend, folksinger Mary Lou Lord.

Shortly before the release of Hole's breakthrough album Live Through This in April 1994, Cobain committed suicide. Love read his suicide note at a televised memorial a few days later, sobbing hysterically and alternately cursing her husband as a "fucking asshole" and pleading with him to come back.

Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff died of drug overdose two months later. She was replaced by Melissa Auf Der Maur later that year.

Life after Cobain

Love was a fashion trendsetter. In her early career, she modelled a "kinderwhore" look, which she was accused of having ripped off of Bjelland, although other sources suggest the rip-off was in fact in the opposite direction. Love stated that the look was inspired by Christina Amphlett of 1980s rock group The Divinyls, most famously in a lengthy phone message recorded and subsequently released by The Muffs, who had ironically titled their album Blonder and Blonder after a sarcastic quote by Love regarding lead singer, Kim Shattuck. Love's style has since evolved, and she has modelled for more sophisticated designer labels.

Love received considerable acclaim for her role as Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Milos Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite Woody Harrelson as Flynt. 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.

Controversy

Since Cobain's death, conspiracies have circulated that he was in fact murdered at Love's instigation.

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. She became known for her criticism of unfair record contracts and mistreatment of artists.

With Hole having fallen into disarray, Love attempted to begin a "punk rock femme supergroup" called Bastard during summer/autumn of 2001, though this project never reached fruition. Hole broke up that year amid continuing litigation. Love in October 2001 performed in some solo shows as an opening act.

Controversial cover of the March 2003 edition of Q magazine, in which Courtney Love posed nudeIn 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, she appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and flashed her breasts at David Letterman six times.

On her 40th 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 August of 2004, Love alienated some fans when she allowed a bill for a message board tied into her website to go unpaid. Love had agreed to pay (and had been paying) the bill though the board was owned by a fan, which she had decided to reimburse in order to influence aspects of the website's design and usage. The site is now separately managed and no longer affiliated with Love.

Love recently regained the custody of her daughter after beginning a state-enforced rehabilitation program, although it is still in jeopardy due to a possible drug-related incident which is the subject of current legal action.

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.

On August 19, 2005, Love admitted using drugs in violation of her probation terms. The rocker-actress 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. [2]

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". [3]

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

Punk band Cancerous Giraffe's self-titled first album includes a song defending Love against accusations of causing the death of Cobain (and pokes fun at those who believe the hype) in a song called "Courtney Love is a Dirty, Dirty, Whore".

Love is set to release her sophomore solo album, Exile In Blonde, under Virgin Records in 2006.

Manga

When Love lived in Japan, she became a fan of manga. She co-created a series called Princess Ai ('Ai' meaning 'Love'). Princess Ai features the character design of Ai Yazawa. Dialogue for Princess Ai's main character, Ai, is taken from Love's song lyrics.

'Princess Ai: Volume I was released by TOKYOPOP in the United States on July 6, 2004.

Actress - filmography

(In Production) (2000s) (1990s) (1980s)

Lovelace (2006) (announced) .... Linda Lovelace

Trapped (2002) .... Cheryl Hickey

... aka 24 Stunden Angst (Germany)

Julie Johnson (2001) .... Claire

Beat (2000) .... Joan Vollmer Burroughs

Man on the Moon (1999) .... Lynne Margulies

... aka Mondmann, Der (Germany)

200 Cigarettes (1999) .... Lucy

The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) .... Althea Leasure

... aka Larry Flynt (Canada: French title)

Feeling Minnesota (1996) .... Rhonda the Waitress

Basquiat (1996) .... Big Pink

... aka Build a Fort, Set It on Fire

"Saturday Night Live"

... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: original title)

... aka SNL

... aka SNL 25 (USA: new title)

... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: new title)

- Episode #20.9 (1994) TV Episode (as Hole) .... Musical Guest

Tapeheads (1988) .... Norman's Spanker

Straight to Hell (1987) .... Velma

Sid and Nancy (1986) .... Gretchen

... aka Sid and Nancy: Love Kills

Photos

Moms That Rock

Check out this photo spread to celebrate the MOMS THAT ROCK! Of course my favorite, Courtney Love is included! Thanks to Courtney and the rest of the ladies that give us a good name! Click on any photo for bigger image and info on the MOM!