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Kurt Cobain Owned & Worn Striped Shirt.
Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain's personally owned and worn white short-sleeved shirt with black stripes. A signature look for Cobain!
Provenance: From the personal collection of renowned booking agent and promotional manager Irwin Pate. For over four decades Pate promoted talent all over the United States and internationally. During his long career, he and his wife Clarine obtained a large collection of personal clothing and articles belonging to numerous entertainers. When traveling on concert tours Irwin often would obtain many of these articles from the entertainers themselves, crew members and venue staff.
Kurt Cobain was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the beloved grunge band Nirvana. Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establishment persona, his compositions widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock music. He was heralded as a spokesman of Generation X and is widely recognized as one of the most influential alternative rock musicians. Cobain tragically died at the early age of 27, when he committed suicide in April of 1994, ;leaving behind a suicide note, addressed to his childhood imaginary friend Boddah, that stated that Cobain had not "felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing ... for too many years now."
Size: No label indicating size, we estimate it as a men's medium.
Cobain can be seen wearing a similar shirt.
Condition: Good, with some staining along the neck line.
Authentication: Gotta Have Rock and Roll Certificate of Authenticity.