{"product_id":"the-amplified-come-as-you-are-the-story-of-nirvana-isbn-9780063279933","title":"The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Nirvana, updated with exclusive new content exploring the personal and cultural forces that inspired the music, the author’s friendship with Kurt Cobain and why multiple generations remain fascinated by the 1990s. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Just tell the truth. That’ll be better than anything else that's been written about me.”—Kurt Cobain to author Michael Azerrad\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has been three decades since Nirvana upended the pop cultural landscape with \u003cem\u003eNevermind\u003c\/em\u003e, the landmark album that became the soundtrack of Generation X, capturing its confusion, frustration, and passion. In 1993, Michael Azerrad published what stands as the definitive biography of this revolutionary band and its star-crossed leader Kurt Cobain. Written with the band’s complete cooperation, \u003cem\u003eCome as You Are: The Story of Nirvana\u003c\/em\u003e became a massive bestseller and was, in the words of Cobain, \"the best rock book I’ve ever read.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven months after the book’s original publication, Cobain was dead by suicide, making \u003cem\u003eCome as You Are\u003c\/em\u003e the only book about Nirvana that features original interviews with Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic, and drummer Dave Grohl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, Azerrad has revisited and reconsidered his original text. The result is this “amplified” version—a truly unique book-within-a-book featuring hundreds of extensive new essay-like annotations that deepen our understanding of this legendary band and the time in which it existed. Azerrad reconsiders the key players and their cultural context; ruminates on topics such as punk rock, selling out, and Generation X; and offers insights into the inner life and creative mind of one of the most significant songwriters and musicians in rock history—a haunting and haunted artist whose influence continues powerfully to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt all comes down to a search for the answer to the question: Why was this music so extraordinarily powerful?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivid, evocative, and thought-provoking, this gorgeous hardcover book—featuring 100 photos and ephemera—is an essential document not just for Nirvana fans but for anyone interested in the cultural legacy of the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Michael Azerrad has always demonstrated \u003cstrong\u003ea passionate feeling\u003c\/strong\u003e for the ideas, the ambitions, that drive the notable moments of recent musical history. But this annotated edition of his earlier book, which was already \u003cstrong\u003ea very successful biography, breaks out even further into high art\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eHe's the perfect narrator, now, for a very important question\u003c\/strong\u003e, perhaps increasingly forgotten: why was punk important and how do we talk about it now? The urgencies of this question are everywhere in this \u003cstrong\u003epowerful, uncertain, and profoundly human work\u003c\/strong\u003e. Azzerad's restless plunging onward, represents the further entanglement in deep, fraught, endangered wisdom.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRick Moody, bestselling author of The Ice Storm and Hotels of North America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years after its original publication, rock writer Azerrad (\u003cem\u003eOur Band Could Be Your Life\u003c\/em\u003e) updates and nearly doubles the number of pages of his groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eCome as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. \u003c\/em\u003eThe author intersperses hundreds of new, detailed paragraphs throughout the original text to amplify and clarify the earlier material. Most satisfying, he adds a lengthy epilogue which deals with events that happened after the 1991 release of the album \u003cem\u003eNevermind\u003c\/em\u003e, including Kurt Cobain’s last months and tragic death in 1994. New material includes the Nirvana tours and practice sessions that Azerrad attended; Cobain’s meeting with one of his heroes, William Burroughs; the telltale signs that pointed to Cobain’s self-destructive impulses and his eventual death; and the utter remorse that Azerrad and other insiders felt after Cobain’s suicide at age 27. \u003cstrong\u003eVERDICT\u003c\/strong\u003e (...) Nirvana fans will want to read it. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Essential for Nirvana fans.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Enriched with new anecdotes, insights and info-morsels, this super-expanded Michael Azerrad classic is a great story made even more gripping. Nirvana’s underground-overground arc becomes a prism for understanding an entire era of rock music and pop culture.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating examination of a band's rise and demise; life and death, personality flaws and mistakes and the ways in which someone in the public eye deals with them\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulture Catch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Music journalist Azerrad provides an electric revision to his 1993 account of the defining band of the grunge movement. (...) The band’s myriad fans will be rapt.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Veteran music scribe \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Azerrad\u003c\/strong\u003e’s absorbing, admirable and deeply personal sequel to his acclaimed 1993 bio \u003cem\u003eCome As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana\u003c\/em\u003e. (...) [This] might be the most fully rounded portrait of the artist to date” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTinnitist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890504462565,"sku":"NP9780063279933","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063279933.jpg?v=1730233437","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-amplified-come-as-you-are-the-story-of-nirvana-isbn-9780063279933","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}