New York City and Philadelphia were host to Guided by Voices’ return to the live stage (and first shows outside of Ohio) in 1993.
DGC had hoped to have a new Nirvana album ready for a late 1992 holiday season; instead, it released the compilation album Incesticide in December 1992.
Citing exhaustion, Nirvana did not undertake another American tour in support of Nevermind , and made only a handful of performances later that year. In March 1992, Cobain sought to reorganize the group’s songwriting royalties (which to this point had been split equally) to better represent that he wrote the…
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Amid rumors that the band was disbanding due to Cobain’s health, Nirvana headlined the closing night of the 1992 Reading Festival in England. Cobain programmed the performance lineup. Nirvana’s performance at Reading is often regarded as one of the most memorable of their career. A few days later, Nirvana performed…
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With the release of the ultra-limited album Propeller in 1992 (of which only 500 copies were pressed, each with a unique, handmade cover), Guided by Voices for the first time gained some recognition outside of their hometown.
but released only in 1992 due to disagreement with the record company.
In January 1992, the album displaced Michael Jackson ‘s Dangerous at number one on the Billboard album charts, and topped the charts in numerous other countries.
Love filed a defamation lawsuit against Brian due to how he was presented in Brian’s 1992 memoir Wouldn’t It Be Nice: My Own Story . Its publisher HarperCollins settled the suit for $1.5 million. He later wrote that the suit allowed his lawyer “to gain access to the transcripts of…
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The month Nevermind reached number one, Billboard proclaimed, “Nirvana is that rare band that has everything: critical acclaim, industry respect, pop radio appeal, and a rock-solid college/alternative base.”
By Christmas 1991, Nevermind was selling 400,000 copies a week in the US.