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'''Courtney Michelle'''<ref name="michelle" /> (formerly known as Courtney Love)<ref name="name">Although some sources give Love’s natal name as “Love Michelle Harrison,” her listing on the ''[[California Birth Index]]'' from the Center for Health Statistics gives a natal name of “Courtney Michelle Harrison." Between adoption from several step-fathers, she has also gone by the names “Courtney Michelle Rodriguez” and “Courtney Michelle Menely.” The name change to “Courtney Michelle Love” happened in early 1990s, in the beginning of her music career and after the end of her first marriage (of which the legal records still feature the name “Courtney Michelle Menely”). According to the same statistics list above, the natal status of Courtney’s 1992 born daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, already include “Love” as the mother’s maiden surname.</ref> (born '''Courtney Michelle Harrison''' on July 9, 1964) is an [[People of the United States|American]] [[rock music|rock]] musician and actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.in-forum.com/archive/purchases/?page=view&type=active_paper&id=31086|title=NEWSMAKER:COURTNEY LOVE |date=May 12, 2003|publisher=IN-FORUM|accessdate=2008-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20041022-9999-lz1c22love.html|title=Courtney Love is back from the brink and hoping music will be her saving grace|last=Peterson|first=Karla|date=October 22, 2004 |publisher=SignOnSanDiego.com|accessdate=2008-11-14}}</ref> Love is primarily known as lead singer, guitarist and lyricist for the [[alternative rock]] band [[Hole (band)|Hole]] and for her marriage to the late [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] front man [[Kurt Cobain]]. Love made her debut into the entertainment industry with a supporting role in [[Alex Cox]]'s ''[[Sid and Nancy]]'' (1986), and later transitioned into music, forming Hole in 1989. She has occasionally taken film roles throughout her career, including a part in ''[[The People vs. Larry Flynt]]'' (1996), for which she was nominated for a [[Golden Globe]]. Love continued her position as lead singer for Hole in various incarnations until 2002, when the group disbanded; it re-formed with new members in 2009, with Love resuming as lead singer and lyricist.
'''Courtney Love'''<ref name="michelle" /> <ref name="name">Although some sources give Love’s natal name as “Love Michelle Harrison,” her listing on the ''[[California Birth Index]]'' from the Center for Health Statistics gives a natal name of “Courtney Michelle Harrison." Between adoption from several step-fathers, she has also gone by the names “Courtney Michelle Rodriguez” and “Courtney Michelle Menely.” The name change to “Courtney Michelle Love” happened in early 1990s, in the beginning of her music career and after the end of her first marriage (of which the legal records still feature the name “Courtney Michelle Menely”). According to the same statistics list above, the natal status of Courtney’s 1992 born daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, already include “Love” as the mother’s maiden surname.</ref> (born '''Courtney Michelle Harrison''' on July 9, 1964) is an [[People of the United States|American]] [[rock music|rock]] musician and actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.in-forum.com/archive/purchases/?page=view&type=active_paper&id=31086|title=NEWSMAKER:COURTNEY LOVE |date=May 12, 2003|publisher=IN-FORUM|accessdate=2008-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20041022-9999-lz1c22love.html|title=Courtney Love is back from the brink and hoping music will be her saving grace|last=Peterson|first=Karla|date=October 22, 2004 |publisher=SignOnSanDiego.com|accessdate=2008-11-14}}</ref> Love is primarily known as lead singer, guitarist and lyricist for the [[alternative rock]] band [[Hole (band)|Hole]] and for her marriage to the late [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] front man [[Kurt Cobain]]. Love made her debut into the entertainment industry with a supporting role in [[Alex Cox]]'s ''[[Sid and Nancy]]'' (1986), and later transitioned into music, forming Hole in 1989. She has occasionally taken film roles throughout her career, including a part in ''[[The People vs. Larry Flynt]]'' (1996), for which she was nominated for a [[Golden Globe]]. Love continued her position as lead singer for Hole in various incarnations until 2002, when the group disbanded; it re-formed with new members in 2009, with Love resuming as lead singer and lyricist.


Additionally, Love has garnered significant media attention over the years for her wild behavior and candid treatment of her grapples with [[drug addiction]].<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2618266&page=1|work=NBC News|title=Courtney Love's Trip Back From the Bottom|date=31 October 2006|accessdate=15 February 2010}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' called Love “the most controversial woman in the history of rock”.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|url=http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,1969245,00.html |title=Love me do Rock &#124; Guardian Unlimited Music |publisher=Music.guardian.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2009-05-16}}</ref>
Additionally, Love has garnered significant media attention over the years for her wild behavior and candid treatment of her grapples with [[drug addiction]].<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2618266&page=1|work=NBC News|title=Courtney Love's Trip Back From the Bottom|date=31 October 2006|accessdate=15 February 2010}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' called Love “the most controversial woman in the history of rock”.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|url=http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,1969245,00.html |title=Love me do Rock &#124; Guardian Unlimited Music |publisher=Music.guardian.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2009-05-16}}</ref>

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This article is about the person. For the band of the same name, see Courtney Love (band).
Courtney Love

Courtney Love[1] [2] (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and actress.[3][4] Love is primarily known as lead singer, guitarist and lyricist for the alternative rock band Hole and for her marriage to the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain. Love made her debut into the entertainment industry with a supporting role in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy (1986), and later transitioned into music, forming Hole in 1989. She has occasionally taken film roles throughout her career, including a part in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. Love continued her position as lead singer for Hole in various incarnations until 2002, when the group disbanded; it re-formed with new members in 2009, with Love resuming as lead singer and lyricist.

Additionally, Love has garnered significant media attention over the years for her wild behavior and candid treatment of her grapples with drug addiction.[5] Rolling Stone called Love “the most controversial woman in the history of rock”.[6]

Family background

Love’s mother Linda Carroll was adopted by an Italian-American couple at birth, retaining no contact with her birth father or her birth mother, who she discovered was the children’s writer Paula Fox. Carroll's autobiography Her Mother’s Daughter, in 2006, told of her relationship with both adoptive mother and elder daughter.[7]

Conflicting news began to appear in August 2003 regarding Love’s family tree, with some remarking that Love’s mother had taken D.N.A. tests that proved that Carroll’s father was Marlon Brando. The reports implied this disclosure would appear in Carroll’s memoir. Later that month, Carroll’s publisher, Doubleday, told the New York Daily News, “There was nothing in Linda Carroll’s book proposal about Marlon Brando, nor will there be anything in the book about him. I’ve spoken to her and she has told me that there is no truth to the suggestion that she is related to Marlon Brando.”[8][9]

Early life

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Linda Carroll, a therapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher.[10][11][12] Through her maternal grandmother Paula Fox, Love is related to the mother of actor Douglas Fairbanks.[13] Love’s family broke up soon after her birth. During a child custody case following her parents’ divorce, her mother and one of her friends presented letters implying her father had given the child, then 3 years old, LSD.[14] Harrison denies this allegation[15] and has passed polygraph tests; however, these allegations led to full custody being awarded to Love’s mother.

Love spent a troubled childhood with her mother, settled in hippie communes in Oregon.[16] Before arriving in New Zealand, Love had been left in the United States with Shirley, a friend of her mother's, a therapist, while her mother, the new husband and her half-sisters settled in New Zealand. Shortly after reuniting with her family in New Zealand, Love was sent to the boarding school in Nelson.[14]

While in boarding school, Love joined a Bay City Rollers fan club, and, aged 12, applied to join the Mickey Mouse Club;[17] she was rejected after reading a poem by Sylvia Plath at the audition.[18]

At 16, Love traveled around the U.S., England and Ireland, living on a trust fund established for her by her mother’s adoptive parents.[19] While in Ireland, Love took two semesters at Trinity College in Dublin and worked as a photographer for Hotpress.[20] In England, she moved into the Toxteth, Liverpool, home of musician Julian Cope, of The Teardrop Explodes, and became a regular at rock shows. In his autobiography Head-On, Cope refers to her as "the adolescent" in place of using her name.[21][22] She also developed a friendship with Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen.[23]

Eventually, she moved to Portland, Oregon, still pursuing music, and then on to Los Angeles. She briefly attended Portland State University, but never graduated with a degree. Love worked as an erotic dancer, choosing the stage surname Love as a tribute to the motto peace and love.[24]

While in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, she met and married "Falling" James Moreland, lead singer of the band The Leaving Trains.[25]

Early musical career

Love began her music career with a brief stint as lead singer of Faith No More. Keyboardist Roddy Bottum described the band as “democratic”,[This quote needs a citation] saying that Love’s dominating personality did not fit in. The two have remained friends, working together in 2005 on a track for the film Adam & Steve.

At 22, Love moved to Portland, then to Los Angeles in 1987 with musician Kat Bjelland, beginning a period in which she formed bands with Bjelland only to be ousted from each. The pair first formed a band in Los Angeles, with Jennifer Finch, called Sugar Baby Doll (alternately Sugar Babylon).[26] Love and Bjelland began to dress alike, wearing dirty babydoll dresses, plastic hair clips, ripped stockings and overdone, smeared makeup. An argument between the two raged over who had come up with their style, later dubbed "kinderwhore". Love claimed she took the style from Christina Amphlett of 1980s Australian rock group, Divinyls.[27]

Love and Bjelland formed a band called The Pagan Babies in San Francisco, with Deidre Schletter on drums and Janis Tanaka on bass.[28] The band recorded a demo of four tracks, then ejected Love and renamed themselves Italian Whorenuns. Lastly, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bjelland started her longest-running band, Babes in Toyland. Love played bass but was kicked out of this group as well.[29]

Love also began pursuing an acting career at this time, appearing as Gretchen, a friend of Nancy Spungen in Alex Cox’s Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy in 1986, and in Cox’s spaghetti-western, Straight to Hell in 1987.

In 1989, Love taught herself to play guitar and set out to form her own band. She placed an ad in Flipside, to which Eric Erlandson replied. Love and Erlandson founded Hole and are the only two constant members through the band’s history. The group made their first gig in November 1989, after three months of rehearsal, and made singles on the Long Beach, California, independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry. The debut album Pretty on the Inside was released in early 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Don Fleming of the band Gumball. It sold well for an independent release and received favorable reviews in the British alternative music press.[30] During this period, she befriended many figures in the alternative rock scene, including Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins (whom she briefly dated).[31]

Marriage

Love met Kurt Cobain, on January 12, 1990, in Portland's Satyricon nightclub[32] when the two still led underground rock bands.[33] Love made advances but Cobain was evasive. Early in their courtship Cobain broke off dates and ignored Love’s advances because he wasn’t sure he wanted a relationship. Cobain noted, "I was determined to be a bachelor for a few months [...] But I knew that I liked Courtney so much right away that it was a really hard struggle to stay away from her for so many months."[34]

In an interview with The Guardian, Love revealed the opposition to their marriage from various people: "Kim Gordon [of Sonic Youth] sits me down and says, 'If you marry him your life is not going to happen, it will destroy your life.' But I said, 'Whatever, I love him, and I want to be with him!'... It wasn't his fault. He wasn't trying to do that."[6]

Love and Cobain married on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 24, 1992. Love wore a satin and lace dress once owned by the actress Frances Farmer, and Cobain wore green pajamas, because he’d been "too lazy to put on a tux". Six months later, on August 18, the couple’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born.

On April 8, 1994, four days before the release of Hole’s first major-label album, Live Through This, Cobain was found in his Seattle, Washington home, killed by a self inflicted shotgun wound to his head. Two days later, fans assembled at a memorial service in Seattle. During the memorial, a recording was played of Love reading his suicide note, excluding several last lines addressed to wife and daughter.[35]

Live Through This tour (1994)

Bassist Kristen Pfaff died of an apparent heroin overdose on June 16, 1994, two months after Cobain's death and the new album.[36] Love recruited 22-year-old bassist Melissa Auf der Maur on Corgan’s recommendation to fill in for Pfaff, and took Hole on the road, appearing at the Reading Festival in England. The band’s performance was written up by broadcaster John Peel in The Guardian:

Courtney’s first appearance backstage certainly caught the attention. Swaying wildly and with lipstick smeared on her face, hands and, I think, her back, as well as on the collar of her dress, the singer would have drawn whistles of astonishment in Bedlam. After a brief word with supporters at the foot of the stage, she reeled away, knocking over a wastebin, and disappeared. Minutes later she was onstage giving a performance which verged on the heroic... Love steered her band through a set which dared you to pity either her recent history or that of the band...the band teetered on the edge of chaos, generating a tension which I cannot remember having felt before from any stage.[37]

Meanwhile, Live Through This was a commercial and critical success. Spin and the Village Voice declared it “Album of the Year”, and by November the record was certified gold. By April 1995, it went platinum. Hole embarked on a tour opening for Nine Inch Nails.[38]

Celebrity Skin era (1998–2000)

Love received acclaim as Larry Flynt’s wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman’s 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite Woody Harrelson as Flynt. She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Drama and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for best supporting actress. During this time she began dating Edward Norton, a relationship which after four years would become her longest. The two were engaged but broke up.[39]

In 1998, Hole released Celebrity Skin. Rolling Stone gave the album four out of five stars, saying “the album teems with sonic knockouts that make you see all sorts of stars. It’s accessible, fiery and intimate—often at the same time. Here is a basic guitar record that’s anything but basic.”[40] Celebrity Skin went on to go multi-platinum, and topped “Best of Year” lists at Spin, the Village Voice, and other periodicals.[41] Erlandson was still the lead guitarist, and now there were Melissa Auf der Maur’s backup vocals and bass, but drummer Patty Schemel was replaced by a session drummer during the recording.[42]

Love and Fender’s low-price Squier brand created her line of guitars, Vista Venus[43] (as Cobain did in 1994, doing the design of his Fender Jag-Stang). The instrument featured a shape inspired by Mercury, Stratocaster and Rickenbacker’s solidbodies and had a single-coil and a humbucker pickup. In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: “I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar. I didn’t want it all teched out. I wanted it real simple, with just one pickup switch. Because I think that cultural revolutions are in the hands of guitar players”. She also declared, “my Venus is better than the Jag-Stang”.[44] The Squier Vista Venus model is currently discontinued, as is the Jag-Stang as of 2006.

Hole toured Australia in 1999 to support the album, then the U.S. on a tour with Marilyn Manson. The two bands mocked each other on stage.[45] Hole dropped off the tour, citing the obligation to pay 50% of Manson’s staging costs as a reason. The singers of both bands told MTV there was no animosity and they were happy to end the tour. Hole finished the year’s dates with Imperial Teen opening.[46]

In May 2000, Love spoke in New York at the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference, criticizing the major American record labels. The speech was reproduced on the news site Salon.com.[47] Love accused the labels of a corrupt system of recording contracts to make the labels millions, while the band “may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.”

Post-Hole era (2001–2003)

With Hole in disarray, Love began a “punk rock femme supergroup” called Bastard during autumn 2001, enlisting Schemel, Veruca Salt co-frontwoman Louise Post, and bassist Gina Crosley, whom Post recommended. Though a demo was completed, the project never reached fruition: conflicts between Love and Crosley, then between Love and replacement bassist Corey Parks from Nashville Pussy, led to the group’s demise.[48][49] On May 24, 2002, Hole announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group.

Courtney Love worked with photographer David LaChapelle, appearing on the cover of his book 'Heaven to Hell' depicting the pieta.[50]

Health, drug abuse and legal issues

On October 2, 2003, Love was arrested in Los Angeles while breaking windows to enter the home of her boyfriend, manager and producer Jim Barber. Barber did not press charges (Love says she had paid for the home), but the police charged her with being under the influence of a controlled substance.[51] Released on bail, four hours later Love was treated for an accidental overdose of oxycodone.[52] Eight days later, on October 10, Frances Bean was taken by the L. A. County Department of Children and Family Services and placed with Cobain’s mother, Wendy O’Connor.[53] Authorities ordered a 72-hour hospital evaluation of Love’s health, but she walked from the facility, claiming she was ready to head to rehab. When Love didn’t attend, her lawyer said he may move to have the police department’s toxicology reports re-examined. In public appearances, Love protested her arrest, denying charges and describing the drugs found on her as “one expired Percocet and one Ambien”.[This quote needs a citation] The police, however, alleged possession of oxycodone and hydrocodone without prescription.[54] She had released her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, eight days earlier.

During this period, an estimated $20 million belonging to Love and her daughter was apparently siphoned off in a case still being investigated by the FBI.[55] “It was my hell time. I was doing cocaine and had incredible financial trouble. $20 million was stolen from us and at the time I couldn’t do the math very well. So I took this drug to help me. It turned out the crazy math was real. The FBI looked at the paperwork and saw $1.2 million to the UK, $180,000 to Nice. It was the former boyfriend and the two assistants. They had power of attorney and they purchased property. They started in about 2000 without me knowing and I got more out of it. I think they thought she will die. In fact I should not be alive after what I went through in the Letterman period.”[56][57]

British artist Stella Vine has frequently painted Courtney Love in works such as Courtney black cab (2004).[58] Vine publicly defended Love and has said that her paintings depicting Love such as Courtney guilty were made during Love's trial when Vine felt Love was under attack by the media.[59] Identifying with Love's life story, Vine said: "She's one of those people who are prepared to put the truth out, warts and all, even though you will be attacked for it.[59]

After a state-enforced rehabilitation program and probation, Love regained custody of her daughter in January 2005. Child welfare authorities alluded to drug addiction when responding to the press, although they didn’t comment directly.[60][61]

On August 19, 2005, Love admitted using drugs in violation of her probation. She was ordered into a 28-day treatment program by a judge who said “my belief was that you need to go to the county jail.” This program was also violated, and on September 21 she was sentenced to six months in lock down rehab.[62]

Love was released from house arrest on February 3, 2006, and said: “I would just like to thank the court for allowing me these 90 days... [It] helped me deal with a very gnarly drug problem, which is behind me... I’ve just been playing guitar and taking care of my daughter. I want to [take this opportunity] to let the community know I’m doing great... I’ve been really inspired and have remained inspired.”[63] On July 2, 2007 she traveled to Europe with her band.

Pictures of an emaciated Love raised concern for her health in August 2007. Love claimed she "had to take care of my eating disorder."[64] When more photos of Love appearing to be in ill health emerged in June 2008,[65] a U.S. website wrote an "Open Letter to Courtney Love," pleading with the mother of Frances Bean to "wake up."[66] Love admitted being suicidal following the theft of Cobain's ashes in her possession.[67] On October 2, 2008, Love's publicist told Gigwise.com that Cobain's ashes “were never taken” and that the story had been “erroneously reported ”.[68]

Also in 2006, Love reportedly sold 25% of Nirvana’s catalog for $50 million. Love claims $20 million was embezzled from her by members of her entourage, leaving her "on the verge of applying for food stamps."[69][70]

Love said in April 2007 that “I’m going to have a Christie’s auction,” to hock the bulk of Cobain’s belongings with a portion going to charity.[71]

London & Co. filed a lawsuit against Love on July 22, 2008, claiming she sold Nirvana's publishing catalog without paying a share of the profits. The catalog was sold for $19.5 million and, according to an oral contract with Love, she had to share the 5% of her company The End of Music's earnings. London & Co. is seeking $975,000, which would have been its share of the sale.[72][73]

America’s Sweetheart, solo album (2004)

Courtney Love released her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, in 2004 on Virgin Records. The album was a commercial flop. Spin called it a “jawdropping act of artistic will”, while Rolling Stone suggested that, “for people who enjoy watching celebrities fall apart, America’s Sweetheart should be more fun than an Osbournes marathon.”

In early 2004, as she had completed her first batch of songs, Love asked ex-Hole drummer Samantha Maloney to fly to France (after drummer Patty Schemel departed for the second time) and add drums to Love’s solo debut, America's Sweetheart. Returning to the States, Maloney was put in charge of assembling Love’s live band. After auditions, Maloney reconnected with guitarist Radio Sloan, found guitarist Lisa Leveridge, bassist Dvin Kirakosian,[74] and the four women formed the core of Love’s backing band. Violinist Emilie Autumn later joined the band.[75]

Mono was the first single released from America's Sweetheart. The music video was directed by Chris Milk. The song peaked at #19 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, now known as Alternative Songs chart.

The album in its first three months sold about 86,000 copies according to Nielsen Soundscan.[76]

It was apparent during the promotion for America's Sweetheart that Love was indeed not clean and sober as she had claimed in interviews. Courtney appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman on March 17, 2004 performing the song Hold On To Me and a disastrous interview to follow which included Love standing on Letterman's desk and flashing her breasts.

Hold On To Me was the second and final single to be released from America's Sweetheart. The song peaked at #39 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

In October 2006 Courtney Love published a 304-page memoir titled Dirty Blonde. The book, published by Faber & Faber and released in October 2006, contains journal entries, letters, poetry, handwritten song lyrics, collages, school and juvenile hall entries, show fliers, photographies and notes.

Nobody's Daughter and Hole reunion (2009–2010)

Love at a book signing November, 2006

In June 2005, three months after her release from drug rehabilitation, Love started recording what was going to be her second solo LP, Nobody's Daughter.[77] An anti-cocaine song entitled "Loser Dust", as well as other new songs ("My Bedroom Walls", "Pacific Coast Highway", "Sunset Marquis"), were written during her time in rehab.[63] Former 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry started as the producer of the record with the writing and recording collaboration of Billy Corgan.

Some tracks and demos from the album (initially planned for release in 2008[78]) were put on the internet in 2006. The Return of Courtney Love, a documentary about the making of Nobody's Daughter, was filmed, written and produced by Will Yapp and aired on the British television network More4 on September 27, 2006. This resulted in distribution of clips of some of its songs. The first entire song available for downloading was a rough acoustic version of "Never Go Hungry Again", recorded during an interview for The Times in November.[79] Incomplete audio clips of the song "Samantha", originating from an interview with NPR.org, were also distributed on the Internet in May 2007.[80]

On June 1, 2007, Love made her stage comeback at a Linda Perry show at House of Blues in Los Angeles. With Perry and the producer’s backup band, she performed "Nobody’s Daughter", "Sunset Marquis", "Pacific Coast Highway" and "Letter to God". On July 23, 2007, Love added the first song, "Dirty Girls", to her MySpace page, followed by a piano-and-vocal demo of "Sunset Marquis", and in July 2008 with "Letter to God".

On June 17, 2009, NME reported that Hole would be reuniting. Former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson stated in Spin magazine that contractually no reunion can take place without his involvement; therefore Nobody's Daughter would remain Love's solo record, as opposed to a "Hole" record. Love responded to Erlandson's comments in a Twitter post, claiming that "he's out of his MIND, Hole is MY band, MY name, and MY Trademark". Shortly after this quarrel, Love began posting new Hole logos, stage ideas, and guitar pick ideas on her Facebook page, implying, though not confirming, that Hole had reformed.

As of April 2010, it has been confirmed that Nobody's Daughter will be released worldwide on April 26-27, 2010 as a Hole album.[citation needed] Hole now consists of Courtney Love (guitar, vocals), Micko Larkin (guitar), Shawn Dailey (bass guitar), and Stu Fisher (drums, percussion). Some songs from the sessions with Linda Perry and Billy Corgan are on the album, including "Pacific Coast Highway", "Letter to God", "Samantha", and "Never Go Hungry" although they have been re-produced with Micko Larkin.

The first single from Nobody's Daughter is the critically acclaimed "Skinny Little Bitch" which was the most added song on Alternative rock radio in early March, 2010.[citation needed] Hole will perform on The David Letterman Show on April 27, 2010; Courtney Love will be interviewed. Hole will also perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on April 29, 2010, on the outdoor stage.

In April 2010, Love announced that she was retiring the name and persona of Courtney Love, preferring to be referred to as Courtney Michelle.[1]

Discography

Main articles: Courtney Love discography and Hole discography
Hole
Solo

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1986 Sid and Nancy Gretchen
1987 Straight to Hell Velma
1988 Tapeheads Norman's spanker Uncredited
1996 Basquiat Big Pink
Feeling Minnesota Rhonda the Waitress
The People vs. Larry Flynt Althea Leasure Flynt Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1999 200 Cigarettes Lucy
Man on the Moon Lynne Margulies
2000 Beat Joan Vollmer Burroughs
2001 Julie Johnson Claire L.A. Outfest Award for Best Actress
2002 Trapped Cheryl
2005 Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula Caligula Short film

As herself

Year Film Notes
1992 1991: The Year Punk Broke
1996 Not Bad for a Girl
1997 Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's Uncredited
1998 Kurt & Courtney
2000 Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope
2001 Last Party 2000
Crossover
2003 Mayor of the Sunset Strip
2004 (This Is Known As) The Blues Scale
2006 The Return of Courtney Love Channel 4 special
2010 Alan Carr Chatty Man Channel 4 interview

References

  1. ^ a b "Courtney Love reverts to her real name". BBC. 2010-4-21. Retrieved 2010-4-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  2. ^ Although some sources give Love’s natal name as “Love Michelle Harrison,” her listing on the California Birth Index from the Center for Health Statistics gives a natal name of “Courtney Michelle Harrison." Between adoption from several step-fathers, she has also gone by the names “Courtney Michelle Rodriguez” and “Courtney Michelle Menely.” The name change to “Courtney Michelle Love” happened in early 1990s, in the beginning of her music career and after the end of her first marriage (of which the legal records still feature the name “Courtney Michelle Menely”). According to the same statistics list above, the natal status of Courtney’s 1992 born daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, already include “Love” as the mother’s maiden surname.
  3. ^ "NEWSMAKER:COURTNEY LOVE". IN-FORUM. May 12, 2003. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
  4. ^ Peterson, Karla (October 22, 2004). "Courtney Love is back from the brink and hoping music will be her saving grace". SignOnSanDiego.com. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
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