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Courtney Love
Profile photograph of Courtney Love
Love at the 2014 Life Ball
Born Courtney Michelle Harrison
(1964-07-09) July 9, 1964 (age 54)
San Francisco, California, United States
Residence Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation
  • Singer
  • musician
  • actress
Years active 1981–present
Spouse(s)
Children Frances Bean Cobain
Musical career
Origin Portland, Oregon, United States
Genres
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • keyboards
Labels
Associated acts
Signature
Signature of "Courtney Love", with a heart drawn on the end

Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and visual artist. A notable presence in the punk and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love's career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love has drawn public attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontational lyrics, as well as her highly publicized personal life following her marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

The daughter of countercultural parents, Love had an itinerant childhood. Born in San Francisco, she was raised primarily in Portland, Oregon, where she played in a series of short-lived bands and was active in the local punk scene. After being interned in a juvenile hall, she spent a year abroad living in Dublin and Liverpool before returning to the United States and being cast in two films by British director Alex Cox. She formed Hole in 1989 in Los Angeles, and received attention from underground rock press for the group's 1991 debut album, produced by Kim Gordon. Hole's second release, Live Through This (1994), gave her high-profile renown with critical accolades and multi-platinum sales. In 1995, Love returned to acting, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure in Miloš Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), which established her as a mainstream actress. The following year, Hole's third album, Celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for three Grammy Awards.

Love continued to work as an actress into the early 2000s, appearing in big-budget pictures such as Man on the Moon (1999) and Trapped (2002), before releasing her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, in 2004. The next years were marked by publicity surrounding Love's legal troubles and drug addiction, which resulted in a mandatory lockdown rehabilitation sentence in 2005 while she was writing a second solo album. That project became Nobody's Daughter, released in 2010 as a Hole album but without the former Hole lineup. Between 2014 and 2015, Love released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series Sons of Anarchy and Empire.

Love has also had endeavors in writing; she co-created and co-wrote three volumes of a manga, Princess Ai, between 2004 and 2006, and wrote a memoir, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love (2006). In 2012, she premiered an exhibit of mixed media visual art, And She's Not Even Pretty.

Early life

Love was born Courtney Michelle Harrison[a] on July 9, 1964 at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, California,[3] the first child of psychotherapist Linda Carroll (née Risi) and Hank Harrison, a publisher and road manager for the Grateful Dead.[4][5] Love's godfather is the founding Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh.[6][7] Her mother, who was adopted at birth and raised by a prominent Italian-Catholic family in San Francisco,[8] was later revealed to be the biological daughter of novelist Paula Fox;[9][10] Love's maternal great-grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox.[11] According to Love, she was named after Courtney Farrell, the protagonist of Pamela Moore's 1956 novel Chocolates for Breakfast.[12] She is of Cuban, English, German, Irish, and Welsh descent.[13]

"There were hairy, wangly-ass hippies running around [our house] naked [doing] Gestalt therapy. My mom was also adamant about a gender-free household: no dresses, no patent leather shoes, no canopy beds, nothing."

–Love on her unconventional childhood[14]

Love spent her early years in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco until her parents' 1969 divorce, spurred by her mother's allegations that her father had fed her LSD when she was a toddler.[15][16] Though he denied the claim, full custody of Love was awarded to her mother.[17] In 1970, Carroll relocated with Love to the rural community of Marcola, Oregon where they lived along the Mohawk River[18] while she completed her psychology degree at the University of Oregon.[19] There, Love was adopted by her then-stepfather, Frank Rodriguez.[18] He and her mother had two daughters and a son who died in infancy of a heart defect when Love was ten; they also adopted a boy.[20] Love attended a Montessori school in Eugene, where she struggled academically and had trouble making friends.[21][22] At age nine, a psychologist noted that she exhibited signs of autism.[14][21][23]

In 1972, Love's mother divorced Rodriguez, remarried, and moved the family to Nelson, New Zealand.[24] There, she enrolled Love at Nelson College for Girls,[25] from which she was soon expelled.[26] In 1973, she was sent back to live in the United States, where she was raised in Portland, Oregon[27] by her former stepfather and other family friends.[28][29] During this time, her mother gave birth to two of Love's other half-brothers.[18] At age fourteen, she was arrested for shoplifting a T-shirt from a Woolworth's,[30] and was sent to Hillcrest Correctional Facility, a juvenile hall in Salem, Oregon.[22][31] She was subsequently placed in foster care until she became legally emancipated at age sixteen.[16] She supported herself by working illegally as a topless dancer[32][33] at Mary's Club in downtown Portland[34] adopting the last name "Love" to conceal her identity; she later adopted "Love" as her surname.[18] She also worked various odd jobs, including picking berries at a farm in Troutdale, Oregon,[35][36] and as a disc jockey at a gay disco.[37] During this time, she enrolled at Portland State University, studying English and philosophy.[38][39] Love has said that she "didn't have a lot of social skills,"[40] and that she learned them while frequenting gay clubs and spending time with drag queens.[41]

In 1981, she was granted a small trust fund that had been left by her adoptive grandparents, which she used to travel to Dublin, Ireland, where her biological father was living.[42] While there, she enrolled in courses at Trinity College, studying theology for two semesters.[43][44] She would later receive honorary patronage from Trinity's University Philosophical Society in 2010.[45] After leaving Trinity, Love relocated to Liverpool, where she became acquainted with musician Julian Cope and his band, The Teardrop Explodes, and briefly lived in his house.[46] "They kind of took me in", she recalled. "I was sort of a mascot; I would get them coffee or tea during rehearsal."[47] In Cope's autobiography Head-On, Love is referred to as "the adolescent."[48] After spending a year abroad, Love returned to Portland: "I thought that [going to the United Kingdom] was my peak life experience," she said in 2011. "—that nothing else [would] happen to me again."[49] In 1983, she took short-lived jobs working as an erotic dancer in Japan and later Taiwan, but was deported after the club was shut down by the government.[50][51]

Career

1981–1987: Early projects; music and film

Love began several music projects in the 1980s, first forming Sugar Babylon (later Sugar Babydoll)[b] in Portland with her friends Ursula Wehr and Robin Barbur.[53] In 1982, Love attended a Faith No More concert in San Francisco and convinced the members to let her join as a singer.[54][55][56] The group recorded material with Love as a vocalist, but she was subsequently kicked out of the band. According to the Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum, who remained Love's friend in the years after, the band wanted a "male energy."[57]

A woman posed for a photo staring into the camera
Love in a publicity headshot for Straight to Hell, 1986

She later formed the Pagan Babies with friend Kat Bjelland, whom she met at the Satyricon club in Portland in 1984.[58] As Love later reflected, "The best thing that ever happened to me in a way, was Kat."[59] Love asked Bjelland to start a band with her as a guitarist, and the two moved to San Francisco in June 1985, where they recruited bassist Jennifer Finch and drummer Janis Tanaka.[60] According to Bjelland, "[Courtney] didn't play an instrument at the time" aside from keyboards, so Bjelland would transcribe Love's musical ideas on guitar for her.[22] The group played several house shows and recorded one 4-track demo before disbanding in late 1985.[61][62] After Pagan Babies, Love moved to Minneapolis, where Bjelland had formed the group Babes in Toyland, and briefly worked as a concert promoter before returning to California.[22]

Deciding to shift her focus to acting, Love enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute[63] and studied film under experimental director George Kuchar.[64][65] Love featured in one of his short films, titled Club Vatican.[66][67][68] In 1985 she submitted an audition tape for the role of Nancy Spungen in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy (1986), and was given a minor supporting role by director Alex Cox.[69][70] After filming Sid and Nancy in New York City, she worked at a peep show in Times Square and squatted at the ABC No Rio social center and Pyramid Club in the East Village.[71][72] The same year, Cox cast her in a leading role in his film Straight to Hell (1987),[73] a spaghetti western starring Joe Strummer and Grace Jones filmed in Spain in 1986.[74] The film caught the attention of Andy Warhol, who featured Love in an episode of Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes with Robbie Nevil.[75] She also had a part in the 1988 Ramones music video for "I Wanna Be Sedated," appearing as a bride among dozens of party guests.[76][77][78]

In 1988, Love aborted her acting career and left New York, returning to the West Coast, citing the "celebutante" fame she'd attained as the central reason.[79] She returned to stripping in the small town of McMinnville, Oregon, where she was recognized by customers at the bar.[80] This prompted Love to go into isolation, so she relocated to Anchorage, Alaska, where she lived for three months to "gather her thoughts," supporting herself by working at a strip club frequented by local fishermen.[81] "I decided to move to Alaska because I needed to get my shit together and learn how to work", she said in retrospect. "So I went on this sort of vision quest. I got rid of all my earthly possessions. I had my bad little strip clothes and some big sweaters, and I moved into a trailer with a bunch of other strippers."[82]

1988–1991: Beginnings of Hole

Main articles: Hole (band) and Pretty on the Inside
"She was the most gung-ho person I've ever met ... She gave 180%. I've worked with some people that you've had to coax the performance out of them. With Courtney, there was no attitude."

–Don Fleming, who co-produced Hole's debut album with Kim Gordon, on Love[83]

Woman in dress playing guitar, with a man in background
Love performing with Hole, 1989

At the end of 1988, Love taught herself to play guitar and relocated to Los Angeles,[84] where she placed an ad in a local music zine: "I want to start a band. My influences are Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac."[85] Love recruited lead guitarist Eric Erlandson; Lisa Roberts, her neighbor, as bassist; and drummer Caroline Rue, whom she met at a Gwar concert.[86] Love named the band Hole after a line from Euripides' Medea[87] ("There is a hole that pierces right through me")[88] as well as a conversation she had had with her mother, in which she told her that she couldn't live her life "with a hole running through her."[89]

Love continued to work at strip clubs in Hollywood (including Jumbo's Clown Room and the Seventh Veil)[85] in the band's formative stages, saving money to purchase backline equipment and a touring van,[90] and rehearsed at a studio in Hollywood that was loaned to her by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.[91] Hole played their first show in November 1989 at Raji's, a rock club in central Hollywood.[92] The band's debut single, "Retard Girl", was issued in April 1990 through the Long Beach indie label Sympathy for the Record Industry, and was given airtime by Rodney Bingenheimer's show on local rock station KROQ.[22] That fall, the band appeared on the cover of Flipside, a Los Angeles-based punk fanzine.[86] In early 1991, the band released their second single, "Dicknail", through Sub Pop Records.[93]

With no wave, noise rock and grindcore bands being major influences on Love,[86] Hole's first studio album, Pretty on the Inside, captured a particularly abrasive sound and contained disturbing, graphic lyrics,[94][95] described by Q magazine as "confrontational [and] genuinely uninhibited."[96] The record was released in September 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth with assistant production from Gumball's Don Fleming; Love and Gordon had initially met when Hole opened for Sonic Youth during their promotional tour for Goo at the Whisky a Go Go in November 1990.[97] In early 1991, Love sent Gordon a personal letter asking her to produce the record for the band, to which she agreed.[95][98]

Though Love would later say it was "unlistenable" and "[un]melodic,"[99] the album received generally positive critical reception from indie and punk rock critics[100] and was labeled one of the twenty best albums of the year by Spin magazine.[101] It also gained a following in the United Kingdom, charting at 59 on the UK Albums Chart,[102] and its lead single, "Teenage Whore", entered the country's indie chart at number one.[102] The underlying feminist slant of some of the album's songs led many to mistakenly tag the band as being part of the riot grrrl movement,[103] a movement that Love did not associate with.[104][105] The band toured in support of the record, headlining with Mudhoney in Europe; in the United States, they opened for the Smashing Pumpkins,[106] and performed at CBGB in New York City.[107]

1992–1995: Breakthrough

After the release of Pretty on the Inside, Love began dating Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and became pregnant. During Love's pregnancy, Hole recorded a cover of "Over the Edge" for a Wipers tribute album,[108] and recorded their fourth single, "Beautiful Son", which was released in April 1993. Love and Cobain married in February 1992 and, after the birth of their daughter Frances Bean Cobain, relocated to Carnation, Washington and then to Seattle.[109][110] On September 8, 1993, Love and Cobain made their only public performance together at the Rock Against Rape benefit in Hollywood, performing two acoustic duets of "Pennyroyal Tea" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night."[111] Love also performed electric versions of two new Hole songs, "Doll Parts" and "Miss World," both written for the band's upcoming second album.[111]

Woman playing guitar and screaming into microphone
Love performing with Hole at Big Day Out, Melbourne, 1995

In October 1993, Hole recorded their second album, Live Through This, in Atlanta. The album featured a new lineup with bassist Kristen Pfaff and drummer Patty Schemel. Live Through This was released on Geffen's subsidiary label DGC in April 1994, four days after Love's husband, Cobain, was found dead after having committed suicide in their Seattle home. Two months later, in June 1994, bassist Kristen Pfaff died of a heroin overdose,{{sfn|Behind the Music}}; Love recruited Melissa Auf der Maur for the band's impending tour. Love, who was rarely seen in public in the months preceding the tour, split time between two Washington homes, Atlanta, the Paramount Hotel in New York City, and the Namgyal Buddhist Monastery in New York.[39]

Live Through This was a commercial and critical success,[112][113][114] hitting platinum RIAA certification in April 1995 and receiving numerous critical accolades.[77] The success of the record combined with Cobain's suicide resulted in a high level of publicity for Love, and she was featured on Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People in 1995.[115] At Hole's performance on August 26, 1994 at the Reading Festival— Love's first public performance following her husband's death— she appeared onstage with outstretched arms, mimicking crucifixion.[116][117] An MTV review of their performance referred to it as "by turns macabre, frightening and inspirational."[118] John Peel wrote in The Guardian that Love's disheveled appearance "would have drawn whistles of astonishment in Bedlam", and that her performance "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."[119]

The band performed a series of riotous concerts during the tour, with Love frequently appearing hysterical onstage, flashing crowds, stage diving, and getting into fights with audience members.[116][120] One journalist reported that at the band's show in Boston in December 1994, "Love interrupted the music and talked about her deceased husband Kurt Cobain, and also broke out into Tourette syndrome-like rants. The music was great, but the raving was vulgar and offensive, and prompted some of the audience to shout back at her."[121] In retrospect, Love said she "couldn't remember much" of the shows as she was using drugs heavily at the time.[91] On Valentine's Day 1995,[122] Hole performed a well-reviewed acoustic set on MTV Unplugged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music,[123] and they continued to tour late into the year, concluding their world tour with an appearance at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, where they were nominated for Best Alternative Video for "Doll Parts".[124]

1996–2000: Acting and mainstream success

"I went for that part so hard because I felt a need for atonement for some cultural damage that had arisen out of me and things that I had done. By doing that role, I felt that, personally and creatively, I could exemplify why this was the most un-glorious, unglamorous, fucked-up thing. And then, bang!, I was done with all that. I could fuck off and do something else."

–Love on her role in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)[125]

After Hole's world tour concluded in 1996, Love made a return to acting, first in small roles in the Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Basquiat and the drama Feeling Minnesota (1996),[126] before landing the co-starring role of Larry Flynt's wife Althea in Miloš Forman's critically acclaimed 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt. Despite Columbia Pictures' reluctance to hire Love due to her troubled past,[127] she received critical acclaim for her performance in the film after its release in December 1996, earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress,[128] and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress.[129] Critic Roger Ebert called her work in the film "quite a performance; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress."[130] She won several other awards from various film critic associations for the film.[131][132] During this time, she also modeled for Versace advertisements[133][134][135] and appeared in Vogue Italia.[136]

In late 1997, Hole released a compilation album, My Body, the Hand Grenade, featuring rare singles and B-sides, and an EP titled The First Session which consisted of the band's first recording session in 1990. In September 1998, Hole released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which marked something of a transformation for Love, featuring a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.[137] Love divulged her ambition of making an album where "art meets commerce ... there are no compromises made, it has commercial appeal, and it sticks to [our] original vision."[137] She said she was influenced by Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, and My Bloody Valentine when writing the album.[137][138] Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan co-wrote several songs on the album. Celebrity Skin was well received by critics; Rolling Stone called it "accessible, fiery and intimate—often at the same time ... a basic guitar record that's anything but basic".[139] Celebrity Skin went multi-platinum, and topped "Best of Year" lists at Spin and The Village Voice.[77] The album garnered the band their only No. 1 hit single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart with the title track "Celebrity Skin".[140] The band promoted the album through MTV performances and at the 1998 Billboard Music Awards,[141] and were subsequently nominated for three Grammy Awards at the 41st Grammy Awards ceremony.[142]

Hole toured with Marilyn Manson on the Beautiful Monsters Tour in 1999, but dropped out of the tour nine dates in after a dispute over production costs between Love and Manson, in addition to the fact that Hole was forced the open for Manson under an agreement with Interscope Records.[143] Hole resumed touring with Imperial Teen.[144][145] Love would later make claims that an additional reason the band left the tour was due to Manson and Korn's (whom they also toured with in Australia) sexualized treatment of teenage female audience members.[146] Love told interviewers at 99X.FM in Atlanta: "What I really don't like—there are certain girls that like us, or like me, who are really messed up... and they do not need to be—they're very young—and they do not need to be taken and raped, or filmed having enema contests... going out into the audience and picking up fourteen and fifteen-year-old girls who obviously cut themselves, and then having to see them in the morning... it's just uncool."[143]

Before the release and promotion of Celebrity Skin, Love and Fender designed a low-priced Squier brand guitar, called Vista Venus.[147] The instrument featured a shape inspired by Mercury, a little-known independent guitar manufacturer,[148] Stratocaster, and Rickenbacker's solid body guitars and had a single-coil and a humbucker pickup, and was available in 6-string and 12-string versions.[148] 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."[147] In 1999, Love was awarded an Orville H. Gibson award for Best Female Rock Guitarist.[149] During this time, she also starred opposite Jim Carrey as his longtime partner Lynne Margulies in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon (1999), which was followed with a role as William S. Burroughs's wife Joan Vollmer in Beat (2000) alongside Kiefer Sutherland.[150]

After touring for Celebrity Skin finished, Auf der Maur left the band to tour with The Smashing Pumpkins; Hole's touring drummer Samantha Maloney left soon after. Love and Erlandson released the single "Be A Man"—an outtake from the Celebrity Skin sessions—for the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday (1999). The group became dormant in the following two years.[142][151]

2001–2011: Solo work and Hole revival

In 2000, Love was cast as the lead in John Carpenter's sci-fi horror film Ghosts of Mars, but backed out of the role after injuring her foot.[152] The part instead went to Natasha Henstridge.[153] The following year, Love starred in several additional films, including in Julie Johnson (2001) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L.A.'s Outfest,[154] and in the thriller Trapped (2002), alongside Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron.[155]

With Hole in disarray, Love began a "punk rock femme supergroup" called Bastard in March 2001, enlisting Schemel, Veruca Salt co-frontwoman Louise Post, and bassist Gina Crosley.[156] "She was like, 'Listen, you guys: I've been in my Malibu, manicure, movie star world for two years, alright? I wanna make a record. And let's leave all that grunge shit behind us, eh?'" recalled Post. "We were being so improvisational, and singing together, and with a trust developing between us. It was the shit."[157] The group recorded a demo tape, but by September 2001, Post and Crosley had left the band, with Post citing "unhealthy and unprofessional working conditions."[158][159] In May 2002, Hole officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.[160]

Woman in corset holding microphone onstage
Love performing in London, 2007

In 2002, Love began composing an album with songwriter Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes, titled America's Sweetheart. Love signed with Virgin Records in July 2003,[161] and began recording the album in France shortly after.[162] A total of 32 songs were recorded during these sessions.[161] America's Sweetheart was released in February 2004, and received mixed reviews.[163] Charles Aaron of Spin called it a "jaw-dropping act of artistic will and a fiery, proper follow-up to 1994's Live Through This" and awarded it eight out of ten stars,[164] while Amy Phillips of The Village Voice wrote: "[Love is] willing to act out the dream of every teenage brat who ever wanted to have a glamorous, high-profile hissyfit, and she turns those egocentric nervous breakdowns into art. Sure, the art becomes less compelling when you've been pulling the same stunts for a decade. But, honestly, is there anybody out there who fucks up better?"[165] The album sold less than 100,000 copies.[77] Love has publicly expressed her regret over the record,[166] reasoning that her drug issues at the time were to blame: "America's Sweetheart was my one true piece of shit. It has no cohesive thread. I just hate it," she commented in 2014.[167] Shortly after the record was released, she told Kurt Loder on TRL: "I cannot exist as a solo artist. It's a joke."[168] After the release of America's Sweetheart, Love collaborated on a semi-autobiographical manga titled Princess Ai (Japanese: プリンセス·アイ物語), which she co-wrote with Stu Levy. The manga was illustrated by Misaho Kujiradou and Ai Yazawa, and was released in three volumes in both the United States and Japan between 2004 and 2006.[169][170]

In 2005, Love was ordered into lockdown rehab by a California judge after a series of legal issues and controlled substance charges.[40] After her release in 2006, she published a memoir, Dirty Blonde, and started recording what would become her second solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean,[40] collaborating again with Perry and Smashing Pumpkins vocalist/guitarist Billy Corgan. Love had written several songs, including an anti-cocaine song titled "Loser Dust", during her time in rehab in 2005.[171] She told Billboard: "My hand-eye coordination was so bad [after the drug use], I didn't even know chords anymore. It was like my fingers were frozen. And I wasn't allowed to make noise [in rehab] ... I never thought I would work again."[172] Tracks and demos for the album (planned for release in 2008) were leaked on the internet in 2006, and a documentary entitled The Return of Courtney Love, detailing the making of the album, aired on the British television network More4 in the fall of that year. A rough acoustic version of "Never Go Hungry Again", recorded during an interview for The Times in November, was also released. Incomplete audio clips of the song "Samantha", originating from an interview with NPR, were distributed on the internet in 2007.[173]

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Love with Patty Schemel at a screening of Hit So Hard at the Museum of Modern Art, 2011

In June 2009, NME published an article detailing Love's plan to reunite Hole and release a new album, Nobody's Daughter.[174] In response, former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson stated in Spin magazine that contractually no reunion could take place without his involvement; therefore Nobody's Daughter would remain Love's solo record, as opposed to a "Hole" record.[175] Love responded to Erlandson's comments in a Twitter post, claiming "he's out of his mind, Hole is my band, my name, and my Trademark".[176] Nobody's Daughter was released worldwide as a Hole album on April 27, 2010. For the new line-up, Love recruited guitarist Micko Larkin, Shawn Dailey (bass guitar), and Stu Fisher (drums, percussion). Nobody's Daughter featured material written and recorded for Love's unfinished solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, including "Pacific Coast Highway", "Letter to God", "Samantha", and "Never Go Hungry", although they were re-produced in the studio with Larkin and engineer Michael Beinhorn.[177] The album's subject matter was largely centered on Love's tumultuous life between 2003 and 2007, and featured a polished folk rock sound, and more acoustic guitar work than previous Hole albums.[178]

The first single from Nobody's Daughter was "Skinny Little Bitch", released to promote the album in March 2010.[179] The album received mixed reviews.[180] Robert Sheffield of Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five, saying Love "worked hard on these songs, instead of just babbling a bunch of druggy bullshit and assuming people would buy it, the way she did on her 2004 flop, America's Sweetheart".[181] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine also gave the album three out of five: "It's Marianne Faithfull's substance-ravaged voice that comes to mind most often while listening to songs like 'Honey' and 'For Once in Your Life'. The latter track is, in fact, one of Love's most raw and vulnerable vocal performances to date ... the song offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a woman who, for the last 15 years, has been as famous for being a rock star as she's been for being a victim."[182] Love and the band toured internationally from 2010 into late 2012 promoting the record, with their pre-release shows in London and at South by Southwest receiving critical acclaim.[166] After 2012, Love decided to drop the Hole name and perform as a solo artist.[183]

2012–present: Art and fashion; return to acting

Woman in dress holding a purse stands to the left of a man with glasses.
Love with Terry Richardson at New York Fashion Week, 2011

In May 2012, Love debuted an art collection at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York titled "And She's Not Even Pretty",[184] which contained over forty drawings and paintings by Love composed in ink, colored pencil, pastels, and watercolors.[185][186] Later in the year, she collaborated with Michael Stipe on the track "Rio Grande" for Johnny Depp's sea shanty album Son of Rogues Gallery,[187] and in 2013, co-wrote and contributed vocals on "Rat A Tat" from Fall Out Boy's album Save Rock and Roll; she also appeared in the music video for the track.[188] After solo performances in December 2012 and January 2013,[189][190] Love appeared in advertisements for Yves Saint Laurent alongside Kim Gordon and Ariel Pink.[191] Love completed a solo tour of North America in mid-2013,[192][193] which was purported to be in promotion of an upcoming solo album; however, it was ultimately dubbed a "greatest hits" tour, and featured songs from Love's and Hole's back catalogue.[194] Love told Billboard at the time that she had recorded eight songs in the studio.[195]

On April 22, 2014, Love debuted the song "You Know My Name" on BBC Radio 6 to promote her tour of the United Kingdom.[196] It was released as a double A-side single with the song "Wedding Day" on May 4, 2014, on her own label Cherry Forever Records via Kobalt Label Services.[197] The tracks were produced by Michael Beinhorn, and feature Tommy Lee on drums.[198] In an interview with the BBC, Love revealed that she and former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson had reconciled, and had been rehearsing new material together, along with former bassist Melissa Auf der Maur and drummer Patty Schemel, though she did not confirm a reunion of the band.[199] On May 1, 2014, in an interview with Pitchfork, Love commented further on the possibility of Hole reuniting, saying: "I'm not going to commit to it happening, because we want an element of surprise. There's a lot of is to be dotted and ts to be crossed."[200][201]

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Love performing in Ventura, California, 2015

In 2013 and 2014, Love worked with rock journalist Anthony Bozza to co-write her memoir, to be titled Girl with the Most Cake. Bozza submitted Love a manuscript in 2014 that he was quite pleased with, later calling it "possibly the greatest thing I’ll ever do with anybody."[202] Love, however, disliked it, and said in an interview that the text made her sound like she was "jacked on coffee and sugar in a really bad mood."[167] Love refused to pay Bozza for the work he had done, and he sued her in 2015 for lack of payment.[202]

In 2014, Love was cast in several television series in supporting parts, including the FX series Sons of Anarchy,[203] Revenge,[204] and Lee Daniels' network series Empire in a recurring guest role as Elle Dallas.[205] The track "Walk Out on Me" featuring Love was included on the Empire: Original Soundtrack from Season 1 album, which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200.[206] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian praised the track, saying: "The idea of Courtney Love singing a ballad with a group of gospel singers seems faintly terrifying ... the reality is brilliant. Love's voice fits the careworn lyrics, effortlessly summoning the kind of ravaged darkness that Lana Del Rey nearly ruptures herself trying to conjure up."[207]

In addition to television acting, Love collaborated with theater producer Todd Almond, starring in Kansas City Choir Boy, a collaborative "pop opera" which showed at the Manhattan arts center Here during their annual Prototype festival in January 2015.[208] Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praised her performance, noting a "soft-edged and bewitching" stage presence, adding: "Her voice, never the most supple or rangy of instruments, retains the singular sound that made her an electrifying front woman for the band Hole: a single sustained noted can seem to simultaneously contain a plea, a wound and a threat."[209] The show toured later in the year, with performances in Boston and Los Angeles.[210] In early 2015, Love joined Lana Del Rey on her Endless Summer Tour, performing as an opener on the tour's eight West Coast shows.[211] During her tenure on Del Rey's tour, Love debuted a new single, "Miss Narcissist", released on Wavves' independent label Ghost Ramp.[212] She also was cast in a supporting role in James Franco's film The Long Home, based on William Gay's novel of the same name, marking her first film role in over ten years.[213]

In January 2016, Love released a clothing line in collaboration with Sophia Amoruso titled "Love, Courtney", featuring eighteen pieces reflecting Love's style over the course of her career.[214] In November 2016, she began filming the pilot for A Midsummer's Nightmare, a Shakespeare anthology series adapted for Lifetime.[215] She then starred as Kitty Menendez in Menendez: Blood Brothers, a biopic television film based on the lives of Lyle and Erik Menendez, which premiered on Lifetime in June 2017.[216] The same year, she was cast in Justin Kelly's biopic JT LeRoy, opposite Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Diane Kruger, and Kelvin Harrison Jr..[217] In March 2018, Love appeared in the music video for Marilyn Manson's "Tattooed in Reverse,"[218] which she followed with an April 5 guest-judge appearance on RuPaul's Drag Race.[219]

Artistry

Influences

Love performing "The Light Pours Out of Me" with Gavin Friday of the Virgin Prunes, one of her musical influences, at Carnegie Hall in 2009

Love has been candid about her diverse musical influences, the earliest being Patti Smith, The Runaways, and The Pretenders, artists she discovered while in juvenile hall at age fifteen.[220] As a child, her first exposure to music was records that her parents retrieved each month through Columbia Record Club.[221] The first record Love owned was Leonard Cohen's Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), which she obtained from her mother: "He was so lyric-conscious and morbid, and I was a pretty morbid kid," she recalled.[221] As a teenager, she named Flipper, Kate Bush, Soft Cell, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro,[222] Lou Reed, and Dead Kennedys among her favorite artists.[46] She has also spoken of her appreciation for new wave and post-punk bands she became acquainted with while living as a teenager in the United Kingdom, such as Echo and the Bunnymen,[223] The Smiths,[224] Siouxsie and the Banshees,[225] Television,[225] Bauhaus,[224] and Joy Division.[226]

While in Dublin at age fifteen, Love attended a Virgin Prunes concert, an event she credited as being a pivotal influence: "I had never seen so much sex, snarl, poetry, evil, restraint, grace, filth, raw power and the very essence of rock and roll," she recalled. "[I had seen] U2 [who] gave me lashes of love and inspiration, and a few nights later the Virgin Prunes fucked–me–up."[227] Decades later, in 2009, Love introduced the band's frontman Gavin Friday at a Carnegie Hall event, and performed a song with him.[227]

Love's diverse genre interests were illustrated in a 1991 interview with Flipside, in which she stated: "There's a part of me that wants to have a grindcore band and another that wants to have a Raspberries-type pop band."[86] Discussing the abrasive sound of Hole's debut album, she said she felt she had to "catch up with all my hip peers who'd gone all indie on me, and who made fun of me for liking R.E.M. and The Smiths."[222] She has also embraced the influence of experimental artists and punk rock groups, including Sonic Youth, Swans,[228] Big Black, Diamanda Galás,[229] the Germs, and The Stooges.[230] While writing Celebrity Skin, she drew influence from Neil Young and My Bloody Valentine.[137] She has also cited her contemporary PJ Harvey as an influence, saying: "The one rock star that makes me know I'm shit is Polly Harvey. I'm nothing next to the purity that she experiences."[231] In 2014, she named "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve as one of her favorite songs.[221]

Literature and poetry have often been a major influence on her songwriting; Love said she had "always wanted to be a poet, but there was no money in it."[232] She has named the works of T.S. Eliot and Charles Baudelaire as influential,[36][233] and referenced works by Dante Rossetti,[234] William Shakespeare,[235] Rudyard Kipling, and Anne Sexton in her lyrics.[236]

Musical style and lyrics

Musically, Love's work with Hole and her solo efforts have been characterized as alternative rock;[237] Hole's early material, however, was described by critics as being stylistically closer to grindcore and aggressive punk rock.[238] Spin's October 1991 review of Hole's first album noted Love's layering of harsh and abrasive riffs buried more sophisticated musical arrangements.[239] In 1998, she stated that Hole had "always been a pop band. We always had a subtext of pop. I always talked about it, if you go back ... what'll sound like some weird Sonic Youth tuning back then to you was sounding like the Raspberries to me, in my demented pop framework."[137]

Love's lyrical content is composed from a female's point of view,[240] and her lyrics have been described as "literate and mordant"[241] and noted by scholars for "articulating a third-wave feminist consciousness."[242] Simon Reynolds, in reviewing Hole's debut album, noted: "Ms. Love's songs explore the full spectrum of female emotions, from vulnerability to rage. The songs are fueled by adolescent traumas, feelings of disgust about the body, passionate friendships with women and the desire to escape domesticity. Her lyrical style could be described as emotional nudism."[240] Journalist and critic Kim France, in critiquing Love's lyrics, referred to her as a "dark genius" and likened her work to that of Anne Sexton.[243]

According to a 2014 interview, lyrics have remained the most important component of songwriting for Love: "I want it to look just as good on the page as it would if it was in a poetry book".[244] A great deal of her songwriting has been diaristic in nature.[245] Common themes present in Love's songs during her early career included body image, rape, suicide, conformity, elitism, pregnancy, prostitution, and death. In a 1991 interview with Everett True, she said: "I try to place [beautiful imagery] next to fucked up imagery, because that's how I view things ... I sometimes feel that no one's taken the time to write about certain things in rock, that there's a certain female point of view that's never been given space."[246]

Critics have noted that Love's later musical work is more lyrically introspective.[247] Celebrity Skin and America's Sweetheart are lyrically centered on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while continuing Love's interest in vanity and body image. Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle for sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics written while she was in rehab in 2006.[248]

Vocals, performance, and equipment

Love, pictured playing a Fender Mustang in 2012, has often played both Fender and Rickenbacker guitars throughout her career

Love possesses a contralto vocal range,[249][250] and her vocal style has been described as "raw and distinctive."[251] According to Love, she never wanted to be a singer, but rather aspired to be a skilled guitarist: "I'm such a lazy bastard though that I never did that," she said. "I was always the only person with the nerve to sing, and so I got stuck with it."[36] She has been regularly noted by critics for her husky vocals as well as her "banshee[-like]" screaming abilities.[252][253] Her vocals have been compared to those of Johnny Rotten,[254][255] and David Fricke of Rolling Stone described them as "lung-busting" and "a corrosive, lunatic wail."[254] Upon the release of Hole's 2010 album, Nobody's Daughter, Amanda Petrusich of Pitchfork compared Love's raspy, unpolished vocals to those of Bob Dylan.[256]

She has played a variety of Fender guitars throughout her career, including a Jaguar and a vintage 1965 Jazzmaster; the latter was purchased by the Hard Rock Cafe and is on display in New York City.[257] Between 1989 and 1991, Love primarily played a Rickenbacker 425[258] because she "preferred the 3/4 neck,"[147] but she destroyed the guitar onstage at a 1991 concert opening for The Smashing Pumpkins.[106] In the mid-1990s, she often played a guitar made by Mercury, an obscure company that manufactured custom guitars,[148] as well as a Univox Hi-Flier.[259] Fender's Vista Venus, designed by Love in 1998, was partially inspired by Rickenbacker guitars as well as her Mercury.[148] During her 2010 and more recent tours, Love has played a Rickenbacker 360 onstage.[260] Her setup has included Fender tube gear, Matchless, Ampeg, Silvertone and a solid-state 1976 Randall Commander.[147]

Love has referred to herself as "a shit guitar player," further commenting in a 2014 interview: "I can still write a song, but [the guitar playing] sounds like shit ... I used to be a good rhythm player but I am no longer dependable."[261] Throughout her career, she has also garnered a reputation for unpredictable live shows.[120] In the 1990s, her performances with Hole were characterized by confrontational behavior, with Love stage diving, smashing guitars[106] or throwing them into the audience,[262] wandering into the crowd at the end of sets,[262] and engaging in sometimes incoherent rants.[121] Critics and journalists have noted Love for her comical, often stream-of-consciousness-like stage banter.[263][264] In a review of a live performance published in 2010, it was noted that Love's onstage "one-liners [were] worthy of the Comedy Store."[264]

Public image and legal troubles

Love's candidness concerning her struggles with drug addiction[c] and her public legal issues have made her subject to significant media interest over the course of her career.[269][270][271][272] Journalist Neil Strauss, commenting on her in 1995, noted that she had "acquired a strange distinction reserved for Presidents, major felons and celebrity widows: every word she said and wrote became newsworthy."[273] Several journalists have compared her to Yoko Ono, with some branding her the "Yoko Ono of Generation X" (based on her relationship to husband Kurt Cobain, comparing it to that of John Lennon and Ono).[274][275][276] Commenting on her association to the media in 2014, The Guardian referred to Love as "a PR team’s worst nightmare: brash, unforgiving, cocky, lovable and talented—which also makes her the ideal stage personality."[277]

1990–2002

"Just marrying [him] created a mythology around me that I didn’t expect for myself, because I had a very controlled, five-year plan about how I was going to be successful in the rock industry. Marrying Kurt, it all kind of went sideways in a way that I could not control and I became seen in a certain light–a vilified light that made Yoko Ono look like Pollyanna–and I couldn’t stop it."

–Love on her public image after marrying Kurt Cobain[278]

Her first major media exposure was a 1992 profile of herself and husband Kurt Cobain for Vanity Fair by journalist Lynn Hirschberg, entitled "Strange Love."[279] After being asked to participate in a cover story for the magazine, Love was urged by her manager to accept the request.[280] In the year prior, Love had been addicted to heroin along with Cobain, and the profile, published in September 1992, painted the couple in an unflattering light and suggested that Love had been addicted to heroin during her pregnancy.[281] The article ultimately resulted in the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services investigating, and custody of Love and Cobain's newborn daughter, Frances, was temporarily awarded to Love's sister, Jaimee.[282] Love claimed she was misquoted by Hirschberg, and asserted that she had immediately quit using heroin during her first trimester after she discovered she was pregnant.[283][284][280] Love would later claim that the publication of the article had serious implications for her marriage as well as Cobain's mental state,[285][286][287] suggesting it was a factor in his suicide.[280][288]

After Cobain committed suicide in April 1994, public interest in Love heightened; simultaneously, her erratic onstage behavior and various legal troubles during Hole's 1994–1995 world tour compounded the media coverage of her.[273] She would later say that she retained little memory of this time period,[91] blaming the fact that she had been using large quantities of heroin and Rohypnol at the time.[289] In January 1995, she was arrested in Melbourne for disrupting a Qantas Airways flight after getting into an argument with a stewardess.[290] On July 4, 1995, at the Lollapalooza Festival in George, Washington, she punched musician Kathleen Hanna in the face after alleging she had made a joke about her daughter.[291] Love was charged with assault, to which she pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to anger management classes.[292] In November 1995, two male teenagers attempted to sue Love for allegedly punching them during a Hole concert they attended in Orlando, Florida in March 1995. The judge ultimately dismissed the case on grounds that the teens "weren't exposed to any greater amount of violence than could reasonably be expected at an alternative rock concert."[293]

In 1996, Love went through rehabilitation and quit using heroin at the insistence of director Miloš Forman, who had cast her in a leading role in The People vs. Larry Flynt. She was ordered to take multiple urine tests under the supervision of Columbia Pictures while filming the movie, and passed all of them.[127][294] The film saw Love nominated for a Golden Globe award, and during this time she maintained what the media noted as a more decorous public image,[295] though she would attract attention in May 1998 after punching Los Angeles Times journalist Belissa Cohen in the face at a party; the suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.[296]

2003–2018

In February 2003, she was banned from Virgin Airlines by founder Richard Branson after being arrested at Heathrow Airport for disrupting a flight.[297] In October of that year, in the midst of what Love would later admit was a cocaine and prescription drug addiction,[166][298] she was arrested in Los Angeles after breaking several windows of her producer and then-boyfriend James Barber's home, and was charged with being under the influence of a controlled substance;[299] the ordeal resulted in her temporarily losing custody of her daughter.[300]

On March 17, 2004, Love appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote her recent solo album.[301] Her appearance drew media coverage when, during the interview segment, she lifted her shirt multiple times,[302] flashed Letterman, and stood on his desk.[301] A New York Times article noted: "The episode was not altogether surprising for Ms. Love, 39, whose most public moments have veered from extreme pathos—like the time she read the suicide note of her famous husband, Kurt Cobain, on MTV—to angry feminism to catfights to incoherent ranting."[303] Hours later, in the early morning of March 18, Love was arrested in Manhattan for allegedly striking a 23-year-old male fan with a microphone stand during a small concert she performed at an East Village venue.[303] She was released within hours of the incident, enabling her to perform a concert scheduled for the following evening at the Bowery Ballroom.[303] Four days later, on March 22, she called in multiple times to The Howard Stern Show, claiming in broadcast conversations with Stern that the incident had not occurred, and that actress Natasha Lyonne, who was at the concert, was told by the alleged victim that he had been paid $10,000 to file a false claim leading to Love's arrest.[304][305]

On July 9, 2004, Love's 40th birthday, she was arrested for failing to make a court appearance for the March 2004 charges, and taken to Bellevue Hospital, allegedly incoherent, where she was placed on a 72-hour watch.[306] According to police, she was believed to be a potential "danger to herself," but was deemed mentally sound and released to a rehab facility two days later.[307][308] Amidst public criticism and press coverage, comedian Margaret Cho published an opinion piece on her official website in defense of Love, titled "Courtney [Love] Deserves Better from Feminists," arguing that negative associations of Love with her drug and personal problems (including from feminists) overshadowed discussion of her music and, more importantly, her personal well-being.[309] Love would ultimately plead guilty in October 2004 to disorderly conduct over the alleged striking of the audience member.[310]

Blonde woman waving and smiling at a crowd
Love onstage in 2015

Her appearance as a roaster on the Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson in August 2005 attracted Love further media attention due to her appearing visibly intoxicated and disheveled.[311] One review of the program noted that Love "acted as if she belonged in a [psychiatric] institution."[311] Six days after the show's airing, she was sentenced to a 28-day lockdown rehab program for allegedly being under the influence of a controlled substance, violating her probation.[312] To avoid jail time, she accepted an additional 180-day rehab sentence in September 2005.[313] In November 2005, after successfully completing the program, Love was discharged from the rehab center under the provision that she complete further outpatient rehab.[314] In subsequent interviews in the following years, she would admit to having been dealing with various addictions during this time to prescription drugs, cocaine, and crack cocaine.[315][316] She has stated she has been sober since completing rehabilitation in 2007, and cited her Buddhist practice as integral to her sobriety.[317][318]

In 2009, fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir brought a libel suit against Love concerning a defamatory post Love made on her Twitter account, which was settled for $450,000.[319] Six years later, Simorangkir filed another lawsuit against Love for further defamatory Twitter posts, and Love paid a further $350,000 in recompense.[319] A similar suit was brought against Love by her former attorney Rhonda Holmes in 2014, who also accused Love of online defamation, seeking $8 million in damages.[320] It was the first case of alleged Twitter-based libel in U.S. history to make it to trial.[321] The jury, however, found in Love's favor.[320]

Personal life

In 1989, Love married James Moreland (vocalist of The Leaving Trains) in Las Vegas, but has said that Moreland was a transvestite and that their marriage was "a joke," ending in an annulment filed by Love several months later.[322] After forming Hole in 1989, Love and bandmate Eric Erlandson had a romantic relationship for over a year,[323] and she also briefly dated Billy Corgan of the rock band The Smashing Pumpkins in 1991, with whom she has maintained a volatile friendship over the years.[322][324]

Two women in crowd, looking up to their left, smiling
Love with daughter Frances Bean Cobain at the premiere of Montage of Heck, January 2015

Her most documented romantic relationship was with Kurt Cobain.[325] It is uncertain when they first met, and there are varying accounts of how they came to know one another.[d] Journalist Michael Azerrad states that the two met in 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub in Portland, Oregon, though Cobain biographer Charles Cross has claimed the date was actually February 12, 1990, and that Cobain playfully wrestled Love to the floor after she commented to him in passing that he looked like Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum.[327] According to Love, she first met him at a Dharma Bums show in Portland,[328][329] while Love's bandmate Eric Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Palladium on May 17, 1991.[323] Sometime in late 1991, Love and Cobain became reacquainted through Jennifer Finch, one of Love's longtime friends and former bandmates.[330][331]

After dating for several months, Love and Cobain were married on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii on February 24, 1992. Love wore a satin and lace dress once owned by actress Frances Farmer, and Cobain wore plaid pajamas.[332] Six months later, on August 18, the couple's only child, a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born. In April 1994, Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in their Seattle home while Love was in rehab in Los Angeles.[333] During their marriage, and after Cobain's death, Love became something of a hate-figure among some of Cobain's fans.[283] After his cremation, Love divided portions of Cobain's ashes; she kept some in a teddy bear and some in an urn.[334] Another portion of his ashes was taken by Love to the Namgyal Buddhist Monastery in Ithaca, New York in 1994, where they were ceremonially blessed by Buddhist monks and mixed into clay which was made into memorial sculptures.[334] After Cobain's death, between 1996 and 1999, Love dated her The People vs. Larry Flynt co-star Edward Norton,[335][336] and was also linked to comedian Steve Coogan in the early 2000s.[337][338]

Love has practiced several religions, including Catholicism, Episcopalianism and New Age religions, but has said that Buddhism[339] is the "most transcendent" path for her.[40][340] She has studied and practiced both Tibetan and Nichiren Buddhism since 1989.[40] She has also openly discussed suffering from depression[341] and drug addiction throughout her life, as well as self-harming.[342] Love is a supporter of the Democratic Party.[343] In 2000, she gave a speech at the Million Mom March to advocate stricter mental health evaluation for gun ownership in the United States.[344] Love has also advocated for LGBT rights throughout her career: In 1997, she used her award speech at the MTV Fashion Awards to advocate for acceptance of the LGBT community.[345] Love identifies as a feminist.[346][347][348]

In 2000, Love publicly advocated for reform of the record industry in a personal letter published by Salon.[349] In the letter, Love said: "It's not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster or Gnutella or Freenet or iMesh or beaming their CDs into a My.MP3.com or MyPlay.com music locker. It's piracy when those guys that run those companies make side deals with the cartel lawyers and label heads so that they can be 'the label's' friend', and not the artists."[349] In a subsequent interview with Carrie Fisher, she said that she was interested in starting a union for recording artists,[13] and also discussed race relations in the music industry, advocating for record companies to "put money back into the black community [whom] white people have been stealing from for years."[350]

Philanthropy

In 1993, Love and husband Kurt Cobain performed an acoustic set together at the Rock Against Rape benefit in Los Angeles, which raised awareness and provided resources for victims of sexual abuse.[111] She has also contributed to amfAR's AIDS research benefits and held live musical performances at their events.[351] In 2009, Love performed a benefit concert for the RED Campaign at Carnegie Hall alongside Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, and Scarlett Johansson, with proceeds going to AIDS research.[352] In May 2011, she attended Mariska Hargitay's Joyful Heart Foundation event for victims of child abuse, rape, and domestic violence, donating six of her husband Kurt Cobain's personal vinyl records for auction.[353]

Love has also supported the Sophie Lancaster Foundation[354] as well as LGBT youth charities, specifically with the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, where she has taken part in several of the center's "An Evening with Women" events.[355] The proceeds of the event help provide food and shelter for homeless youth; services for seniors; legal assistance; domestic violence services; health and mental health services, and cultural arts programs. Love participated with Linda Perry for the event in 2012, and performed alongside Aimee Mann and comedian Wanda Sykes. Speaking on her collaboration on the event, Love said: "Seven thousand kids in Los Angeles a year go out on the street, and forty percent of those kids are gay, lesbian, or transgendered. They come out to their parents, and become homeless... for whatever reason, I don't really know why, but gay men have a lot of foundations—I've played many of them—but the lesbian side of it doesn't have as much money and/or donors, so we're excited that this has grown to cover women and women's affairs."[356]

Influence

Woman playing guitar, with her left leg up on a monitor.
Love, pictured in 2015, with her leg supported on the monitor, noted by critics as one of her signature stage moves[88][357]

Love has had a notable impact on female-fronted alternative acts and performers.[358] She has been cited as influential on young female instrumentalists in particular,[359] having once infamously proclaimed: "I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming...[360] I strap on that motherfucking guitar and you cannot fuck with me. That's my feeling."[361] In The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, it is noted:

[Love] truly lived up to Paul Westerberg's (The Replacements) assessment of pretty girls 'playing makeup/wearing guitar' ... She frequently stood on stage, microphone in hand and foot on monitor, and simply let her Fender guitar dangle around her neck. She truly embodied the empowerment that came with playing the electric guitar ... Love depended heavily upon her male lead guitar foil Eric Erlandson, but the rest of her band remained exclusively female throughout several lineup changes.[357]

With over 3 million records sold in the United States alone,[e] Hole became one of the most successful rock bands of all time fronted by a woman.[359][363] VH1 ranked Love no. 69 in their list of The 100 Greatest Women in Music History in 2012.[364] In 2015, the Phoenix New Times declared Love the number one greatest female rock star of all time, writing: "To build a perfect rock star, there are several crucial ingredients: musical talent, physical attractiveness, tumultuous relationships, substance abuse, and public meltdowns, just to name a few. These days, Love seems to have rebounded from her epic tailspin and has leveled out in a slightly more normal manner, but there's no doubt that her life to date is the type of story people wouldn't believe in a novel or a movie."[365]

Among the alternative musicians who have cited Love as an influence are Scout Niblett;[366] Brody Dalle of The Distillers;[367] Dee Dee Penny of Dum Dum Girls;[368] and Nine Black Alps.[369] Contemporary female pop artists Lana Del Rey,[370] Avril Lavigne,[371] Tove Lo,[372] and Sky Ferreira[373] have also cited Love as an influence. Love has frequently been recognized as the most high-profile contributor of feminist music during the 1990s,[374] and for "subverting [the] mainstream expectations of how a woman should look, act, and sound."[375] According to music journalist Maria Raha, "Hole was the highest-profile female-fronted band of the '90s to openly and directly sing about feminism."[376] Patti Smith, a major influence of Love's, also praised her, saying: "I hate genderizing things ... [but] when I heard Hole, I was amazed to hear a girl sing like that. Janis Joplin was her own thing; she was into Big Mama Thornton and Bessie Smith. But what Courtney Love does, I'd never heard a girl do that."[377]

She has also been noted as a gay icon since the mid-1990s,[378] and has jokingly referred to her fanbase as consisting of "females, gay guys, and a few advanced, evolved heterosexual men."[262] Love's aesthetic image, particularly in the early 1990s, also became influential, and was dubbed "kinderwhore" by critics and media. The subversive fashion mainly consisted of vintage babydoll dresses accompanied by smeared makeup and red lipstick.[94][379] MTV reporter Kurt Loder described Love as looking like "a debauched rag doll" onstage.[380][381] Love later said she had been influenced by the fashion of Chrissy Amphlett of the Divinyls.[382]

Cultural depictions

Love has been depicted in popular culture across various mediums: Artist Barbara Kruger used one of Love's quotes on her New York City bus project,[383] and the indie pop punk band The Muffs named their second album Blonder and Blonder (1995) after a quote by Love,[384] while a recording of her talking about a stolen dress appears as the track "Love" on the band's 2000 compilation album Hamburger.[385] She was also the basis of the character "Courtney" in Michael Hornburg's 1995 novel Bongwater; the novel, set in Portland, Oregon, is based on Hornburg's teenage years living there, where he had known her.[386] The novel was adapted as the 1998 film Bongwater, in which the character was renamed "Serena", played by Alicia Witt.

In December 1995, Love was parodied by Molly Shannon in a Saturday Night Live skit entitled "The Courtney Love Show," in which Shannon (as Love) recklessly interviews Julie Andrews (portrayed by Christine Baranski).[387] In 1999, Love was depicted in The Simpsons episode "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" appearing on a Wheaties cereal box.[388] There is also a band named after her.[389]

Discography, filmography, and other credits

Main articles: Hole discography and Courtney Love discography
See also: List of awards and nominations received by Courtney Love

Hole discography

Courtney Love discography

Filmography

Main article: Courtney Love filmography

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ Some publications have noted that Love was born Love Michelle Harrison, ostensibly based on claims Love made early in her career that she had been born with the first name Love. However, according to the California Birth Index, she was born Courtney Michelle Harrison in San Francisco County.[2]
  2. ^ There are several different versions in circulation of how Sugar Babydoll (and later, Pagan Babies) formed. The version told in the E! True Hollywood Story as told by Kat Bjelland fails to mention the alternate names of the group, though Love's 1998 biography by Poppy Z. Brite notes the shift in name from Sugar Babylon to Sugar Babydoll.[52]
  3. ^ Love has discussed her substance abuse issues with the media on multiple occasions, ranging from the 1990s[265][266] to the 2010s.[267][268]
  4. ^ There are varying accounts of how Love and Cobain were introduced, though the most commonly-repeated location of their meeting is the Satyricon nightclub in Portland, Oregon. Love stated in a 2010 interview that she first met Cobain there while performing spoken word at a Dharma Bums show. Journalist Michael Azerrad dates their meeting at the Satyricon in 1989, though Cobain biographer Charles Cross has claimed the date was actually February 12, 1990.[325] However, Mark Arm of Mudhoney, who toured with Hole, suggested that the story about Love and Cobain meeting at the Satyricon was apocryphal, and that she had inquired about Cobain while she and Arm were on tour together in the fall of 1991.[326] According to Eric Erlandson per his 2012 book Letters to Kurt, both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain on May 17, 1991 at the Hollywood Palladium after a Butthole Surfers concert. Alternately, Lori Barbero of Babes in Toyland claimed to have introduced the two at the 1991 Reading Festival during the filming of 1991: The Year Punk Broke.[326]
  5. ^ As of 2003, Pretty on the Inside had sold over 200,000 copies in the U.S.;[362] Live Through This, 1,600,000; Celebrity Skin, 1,400,000 (the latter two per 2010 approximations).[363]

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