On the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain鈥檚 death, dozens of people left flowers, candles and handwritten messages at a Seattle park near the house where the Nirvana frontman killed himself.

Cobain, whose band rose to global fame in the city鈥檚 grunge rock music scene of the early 1990s, was 27 when he died April 5, 1994, in his home in a wealthy neighbourhood near Lake Washington.

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Fans trekked Friday to nearby Viretta Park, leaving memorials on benches, where flowers mixed with handwritten phrases like 鈥渢hank you for your art鈥� and 鈥渇ind your place.鈥�

In an essay on the Crosscut news website, Cobain biographer Charles R. Cross wrote that few Seattle musicians 鈥渉ave been as tied to Seattle in the mind of the popular zeitgeist as Kurt Cobain.鈥�

Nirvana鈥檚 breakthrough album, 鈥淣evermind,鈥� was released in 1991. Featuring the hit 鈥淪mells Like Teen Spirit,鈥� the album went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts and has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.

Nirvana was the most prominent of the era鈥檚 series of Seattle grunge bands, including Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, that would go on to release bestselling records.

Cobain鈥檚 angst-filled lyrics and his band鈥檚 powerful, dark rock struck a chord with young people. Days after his death, thousands of people gathered near the Space Needle for a public memorial.

An investigation determined he took a massive dose of heroin and then shot himself.

The Associated Press

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