Classic Rock

KURT COBAIN

our chords. That’s all it took to shatter the world order of electric guitar. Leading out Nirvana’s watershed second album in September 1991, the brittle intro to was almost laughably prosaic. The presiding lords of the hair-metal scene wouldn’t even have deigned to play it as a sound-check warm-up. None of them could have realised they were hearing

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