（Washington town's city council votes 10-1 NOT to name a bridge linked to Kurt Cobain after the local hero）
A City Council in has voted 10-1 against a resolution to rename a bridge after the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.
Eight Aberdeen citizens and several council members spoke against renaming the bridge after the iconic rock-star.
The bridge, which spans the Wishkah River, is presently unofficially named after pioneer Alexander Young who built it.
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana during the taping of MTV Unplugged at Sony Studios in New York City in November 1993, five months before he died
The Alexander Young Bridge will not be renamed after Kurt Cobain after losing in a 10-1 vote
Some people were concerned about memorializing the grunge rock musician because of his drug use, suicide and negative comments about his hometown.
In July 2009, a monument to the rockstar was mounted on the bridge.
It included the somewhat controversial quote: '...Drugs are bad for you. They will f*** you up.'... sans stars.
The city decided to sandblast the expletive so the 'uck' were erased but fans have since come in their droves to chisel it back in.
Tributes: Fans have scrawled on the bridge (left) and in April, commemorating the 17th anniversary of Kurt's death, the guitar sculpture was erected in his memory
Kurt Cobain married Courtney Love and in 1993 they had baby Francis Bean
The star wrote about the bridge in the song 'Something in the Way.'
Kurt has close ties to the bridges in his hometown, having occasionally stayed under the Sixth Street bridge when he was homeless at age 18.
The council did vote to name a small body of land on the Wishkah River the Cobain Landing.
LIFE AND DEATH
Life: Born February 20, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.
Nirvana was a 'flagship band of Generation X' and Mr Cobain, as it's front man, become their 'spokesman'
The band has sold some 25 million albums
He was ranked by Rolling Stone as the 12th greatest guitarist and 45th greatest singer of all time and by MTV as 7th in the '22 Greatest Voices in Music'
Love:
January 1990: He met Courtney Love and she pursued him for months
May 1991: They were officially presented as a couple .
February 1992: After discovering she was pregnant, the two married on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. Cobain wore green pyjamas because he was 'too lazy to put on a tux'
August 1992: the couple's daughter Frances Bean Cobain was born
Death: c. April 5, 1994 (aged 27) in Seattle, U.S.
Following multiple suicide attempts and breaking out of a drug rehabiliation facility, Kurt was found April 8 at his Lake Washington home with a shotgun pointed at his chin and heroin and Valium in his blood.
There was a suicide note next to him that said: 'I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing . . . for too many years now'
Nirvana was a 'flagship band of Generation X' and Mr Cobain, as it's front man, become their 'spokesman'
The band has sold some 25 million albums
He was ranked by Rolling Stone as the 12th greatest guitarist and 45th greatest singer of all time and by MTV as 7th in the '22 Greatest Voices in Music'
Love:
January 1990: He met Courtney Love and she pursued him for months
May 1991: They were officially presented as a couple .
February 1992: After discovering she was pregnant, the two married on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. Cobain wore green pyjamas because he was 'too lazy to put on a tux'
August 1992: the couple's daughter Frances Bean Cobain was born
Death: c. April 5, 1994 (aged 27) in Seattle, U.S.
Following multiple suicide attempts and breaking out of a drug rehabiliation facility, Kurt was found April 8 at his Lake Washington home with a shotgun pointed at his chin and heroin and Valium in his blood.
There was a suicide note next to him that said: 'I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing . . . for too many years now'
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