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This article contains references to drug use, mental health issues, and suicide.

Is there any celeb couple who encapsulates the archetypal rockstar romance better than Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love?

In their heyday, they were grunge royalty, leading two of the most influential bands of the '90s: Nirvana and Hole, respectively. He was a new breed of rock god — sensitive, socially conscious, and lacking the machismo of his predecessors; she was a ripped-babydoll-dress-sporting chanteuse kicking the patriarchy's butt with her provocative gravel-voiced songs.

Together, they were, as Cobain once told Rolling Stone, "Evian water and battery acid." But theirs was a love that could be at once passionate, and dynamic, yet anything but pretty on the inside.

As Love put it in an interview with Everett True for The Stranger, "Glamour aside, there could be no more perfect cou