It’s a holy grail for “music died in 19xx” rockists of all generations, a previously unheard cover of The Beatles by Kurt Cobain. Cobain’s version will be printed on a 7-inch and backed with another rarity, “Sappy”.
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Following the pandemonium surrounding a potential Kurt Cobain solo album, a lost cover of The Beatles” “And I Love Her’ has surfaced and will be released on record, Gigwise reveals.
“Nobody in Kurt’s life – not his management, wife, bandmates – had ever heard his Beatles thing”, Morgen told Rolling Stone.
The news of the 7-inch release was confirmed by Morgen after the news was posted on the Vinyl Collector forum.
An official Montage of Heck album is due for release in November on the same day the film comes out on DVD. It’s priced at $10.98 with a November 20th release date. Morgen says there will also be “audio montages that Kurt Cobain created” and recordings of the artist talking between musical tracks.
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For the making of Montage Of Heck, director Brett Morgen was given unprecedented access to Cobain’s personal archives, where he discovered over 100 cassette tapes of previously unheard recordings made by the Nirvana frontman. Morgen describes the music featured as ranging “from thrash to ragtime and everything in between”.
