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by Nathan Lichtman
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
A bitter legal battle between Kurt Cobain’s widow Courtney Love and the surviving members of Nirvana, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, seems to be resolved. Last Friday, Love revealed that she and Nirvana’s survivors had reached an agreement on when and how to release future Nirvana recordings.
The three Nirvana beneficiaries had been involved in a contentious legal battle for the last year, with both parties arguing that they should have full control of Nirvana’s music and future releases from the band.
One day after Love’s appearance on the Howard Stern radio program, Nirvana’s last recorded song, “You Know You’re Right,” was posted on the Internet. Within hours, the song spread like a virus. Recorded in Seattle just three months before Cobain committed suicide in 1994, the track had been under lock and key for the last eight years.
In May, 49 fragmented seconds of “You Know You’re Right” appeared online. An immediate injunction was handed down and the track was removed from most websites. The full recording remained elusive until now.
The finished studio version of the track clocks in at just over three and a half minutes. A “best of” compilation, tentatively titled Nirvana, is expected by Christmas. No word yet on whether “You Know You’re Right” or any other unreleased Nirvana tracks will be included.
