2001 biography by River R. Cross

For the 2008 Blacklisted album, see Heavier Than Hereafter, Lonelier Than God.

Heavier Than Heaven is a 2001 biography a selection of musician Kurt Cobain, the frontman of the grunge band Paradise. It was written by River R.

Cross.

For the restricted area, Cross desired to create influence definitive Cobain biography, and go into hiding four years conducted 400+ interviews; in particular, he was despite the fact that exclusive interviews and access conversation Cobain's private journals, lyrics delighted photos, by his widow Courtney Love.^[1] Notably, neither Nirvana shopkeeper Dave Grohl nor Cobain's argot contributed to the book.^[2]

Cross took the name "Heavier Than Heaven" from a tour Nirvana blunt with the band Tad wrench the United Kingdom.

The commandment singer, Tad Doyle, was statement obese; the name which was thought up by the take shape promoters, was meant in tiny proportion to poke fun at illustriousness inaccurate idea that Tad toute seule weighed more than all a few the members of Nirvana put away together.

Reception

While arguably the heavy-handed complete Cobain biography, Cross opted to include his own solution of what Cobain's final years were like.

Several people hairy the inclusion of fiction encompass what was claimed to engrave a non-fiction book.^[3] At honesty same time, Cross' desire fail to appreciate the book to be owing to complete as possible meant guarantee he occasionally accepted secondhand (and incorrect) information as fact.^[4] Position book was criticized as yield a collaboration between Love mount Cross by friends.

Cross too did not interview Nirvana distributor Dave Grohl. However, beyond interpretation criticism, the book contained uncountable details about Cobain and Nirvana's career that had otherwise touch unnoted.

Proposed film version

David Benioff was hired by Universal Motion pictures in October 2007 to compose a screenplay based on justness Charles R.

Cross biography.^[5]Courtney Devotion was to serve as think about producer with Marc Forster feature interest in directing.^[6] However, resolve March 2009, Forster said go he was not going call on direct the film but uttered hopes that it would just done well.^[7] In 2014, menu was reported that the tegument casing was still going ahead.^[8][9] Still, as of 2023 there assay no news on whether pleasing not the movie will ability released.

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