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Source: Radio New Zealand
Listening to Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York, recorded 32 years ago today, remains a haunting experience.
Taped live in November 1993, and released as a Grammy-winning, chart-topping album a year later, the intimate, informal concert was captured just five months before frontman Kurt Cobain’s death by suicide, aged 27.
The performance has been inextricably linked to that tragic context. But it also risks overshadowing what makes MTV Unplugged so potent.
Released November 1, 1994, MTV Unplugged In New York debuted atop the US charts with the highest first-week sales of Nirvana’s career.
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