Courtney Love

**Courtney Michelle Love** (born **Courtney Michelle Harrison** on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and actress. She is best known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole and as the widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, with whom she had a daughter named Frances Bean Cobain. *Rolling Stone* has called Love "the most controversial woman in the history of rock". In the 90s there was a twee band who were called, 'Courtney Love', named after her.

## Career
In 1981 Love started Sugar Babydoll. In 1982 she went to a Faith No More concert. She convinced the members to let her join as a singer. She was kicked out of the band because they wanted "male energy". In 1984 she started Pagan Babies.

### Hole
In 1989 Love began Hole. In 1990 Hole's first single "Retard Girl" was released. The band released its first album *Pretty on the Inside* in 1991. On April 12, 1994 Hole's second album *Live Through This* was released, four days after Love's husband Kurt Cobain was found dead in their home. The album got very good reviews. On September 8, 1998 *Celebrity Skin* was released.

On February 10, 2004 Love released ''America's Sweetheart''. Hole's last album ''Nobody's Daughter* was released on April 27, 2010.

In 2006 she published a memoir, *Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love''.

Love sung on "Rat a Tat" on Fall Out Boy's fifth album *Save Rock and Roll*, released April 12 2013. She also wrote the song.

Love said that her next album would be released for Christmas 2013 along with *Courtney Love: My Story*, a book about her life so far.

In 2014 Love released her first single in ten years, "Know My Name".

## Personal life
Love is a feminist. She is open about having had cosmetic surgery.

Love was married to Kurt Cobain from 1992 until his death in 1994. They have one daughter born in 1992.

## Discography
### Hole discography
* *Pretty on the Inside* (1991)
* *Live Through This* (1994)
* *Celebrity Skin* (1998)
* ''Nobody's Daughter* (2010)

### Solo discography
* *America's Sweetheart* (2004)

## Filmography
* *Sid and Nancy* (1986)
* *Straight to Hell* (1987)
* *Tapeheads* (1988)
* *1991: The Year Punk Broke* (1992/Documentary)
* *Tank Girl* (1995/Executive Music Producer)
* *Basquiat* (1996)
* *Feeling Minnesota* (1996)
* *The People vs. Larry Flynt* (1996)
* *Not Bad for a Girl* (1995/Documentary/Co-Producer)
* *Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's* (1997/Documentary)
* *Kurt & Courtney* (1998/Documentary)
* *Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl* (1999/Documentary/Narrator)
* *200 Cigarettes* (1999)
* *Man on the Moon* (1999)
* *Beat* (2000)
* *Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope* (2000/Documentary)
* *Julie Johnson* (2001)
* *Last Party 2000* (2001/Documentary)
* *Trapped* (2002)
* *Mayor of the Sunset Strip* (2003/Documentary)
* *(This Is Known As) The Blues Scale* (2004/Documentary)
* *Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson*
* *Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula* (2005/Short Film)
* *The Return of Courtney Love *(2006/documentary)
* *Straight to Hell Returns* (2010)
* *Hit So Hard *(2011)
* *Courtney In Wonderland* (2011)
* *Sunset Strip* (2012)
* *Bob and the Monster* (2013)

## Awards
## References 
## Other websites 
* Official Courtney Love site  
* Official Courtney Love MySpace
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* Courtney Love Interview  (2006) on her book *Dirty Blonde'' by AOL Books
* Court TV Coverage