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Neil Young has admitted that he was deeply affected by the suicide of Kurt Cobain and that he had attempted to help the troubled Nirvana frontman.
Cobain killed himself in 1994, quoting a line from Neil Young's 'Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)' in his suicide note.
Writing in his autobiography, Young said that seeing his lyric 'It's better to burn out than fade' away' in Cobain's letter got to him and left him affected by the suicide.
'When he died and left that note, it struck a deep chord inside of me. It fucked with me.' Young wrote in his Waging Heavy Peace biography.
Young adds that he had attempted to help Cobain before his tragic death, aged just 27. Young had wanted to suggest ways that Cobain could deal with the music industry he had grown to resent.
"I, coincidentally, had been trying to reach him. I wanted to talk to him. Tell him only to play when he felt like it." writes Young.
Young previously revealed how he went completely sober, quitting drink and weed, in order to pen his autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, which is due for release on 11 October 2012. He has revealed it was curiosity, more than anything else, that was the driving influence behind his new found sobriety.
"I did it for 40 years. Now I want to see what it's like to not do it," Neil Young told the New York Times. "It's just a different perspective."
"The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognise myself. I need a little grounding in something, and I am looking for it everywhere," he adds.
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