Nirvana // Courtney Love of Hole // 12 January 1992
photos by Michael Lavine in his NYC studio
30 years ago today Nirvana and Courtney Love were in New York City to play Saturday Night Live.
" Woah. So, what was it like the next day, when you were shooting both Kurt and Courtney for Sassy?
Michael Lavine: It was a fashion shoot and there was an editor, a hair and make-up person, and a stylist. Courtney was there. The manager was there. It was a big to-do and Kurt was very passive. He didn’t say much, but he wasn’t stoned. They stood there and did their thing.
Afterwards, they called and said that they didn’t want use the pictures. We were like, ‘What?’ They didn’t want to be on the cover and had changed their mind. We were like, ‘No, wait. There are great photos. You have to see them!’ We showed them the photos and they approved the kiss for the cover. I think that they were uncomfortable with doing that kind of magazine cover. It was the first time they had done a studio shoot together; it was probably the only studio shoot that they ever did together. " - Michael Lavine, 2017
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Photographer Michael Lavine tells us what it was like shooting the band from their earliest years right up to Kurt Cobain’s death
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