Tuesday, May 06, 2008
A blast of Queen in Kurt Cobain documentary.


Or at least the trailer, linked above, from Kurt Cobain: About a Son. Cobain mentions listening to Queen's News of the World on 8-track and draining the battery of his father's van while waiting for his shift was over. The blast of Queen is from that album, "It's Late," a Brian May composition. Some details here.

I am kind of baffled why there's no Queen song on the soundtrack. My knee-jerk reaction would include a railing against rock critic types, but we like Michael Azerrad, who was the person who conducted the interviews with Kurt Cobain on which this documentary is based. Azerrad is cool.

UPDATE 5/12/08: Said baffling about Queen song solved. Michael Azerrad emails me to tell me that it was something on Queen's end that prevented the song appearing on the soundtrack. But the track "It's Late," he tells me, is indeed in the film itself. So it's off to Netflix to move it to the top of my queue.

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