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Avali has vowed to appeal the decision. also on the program from the outside world in austria a massive rockslide has blocked access to over one hundred people in a remote valley. and fresh clashes erupted in peru over the pardon granted to former lead to alberto fujimori protesters accusing the current president head of the christians of issuing the pardon to save his own career. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a thanks for joining us russian opposition leader alexei not only ha...

Everybody came to the same conclusion simultaneously. something new needs to happen here and its got to be real-sounding, more garage, less produced. ♪ i need an easy friend >> this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that werent looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or what was being played on radio. ♪ ♪ i can see you every night >> eventually radio and mtv came to them. >> the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are...

>> at the end of the 80s, everybody came to the same conclusion simultaneously. something new needs to happen here and its got to be real-sounding, more garage, less produced. ♪ i need an easy friend >> this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that werent looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or what was being played on radio. ♪ i can see you every night >> eventually radio and mtv came to them. >> the seeds of what will happen ...

In. ♪ >> out of the ashes of nirvana dave grohl created the foo fighters. >> this is the first time in my life ive ever fronted a band, had to actually stand up and sing. and seem charismatic or whatever, which i cant do. but i need to just keep playing and making music. ♪ looking to the sky to save me ♪ ♪ looking for a sign of life ♪ looking for something to help me burn out bright ♪ >> in an era when everything was serious and had a heavy tone especially after kurt cobains death th...

And nirvana unplugged was this kind of thing, like, the clouds parted. you know? seemed like everything was going to be okay. ♪ night through [ cheers and applause ] >> from seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. >> the lead singer of nirvana shot and killed himself at his home in seattle, washington, today. >> it didnt come as a major surprise, but it was -- devastating, because of the way it happened. >> i pulled over and i was there like 20 minutes, half an hour just crying right there...

And if you turned to music for solace in your life, to then see your hero kill himself, it was devastating. it certainly sucked the air out of alternative rock. you know, the best band fell apart after only making a couple records. you know? what do you do after that? ♪ >> oasis, the verve, blur, the britpop thing, it was like the hangover of grunge. oh, my god, my heads pounding. this has been insane. lets turn on oasis. ♪ and after all ♪ youre my wonderwall >> they were the opposite of n...

>> why dont you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? >> everybodys a grunge band. >> all of these bands sound pretty different from each other were being lofted up to the mainstream as this is what grunge is. >> tell me a little bit about the seattle music scene. >> with all the attention, no ones ever asked us that before. >> never heard that question. >> so tell me about the seattle sound, whats going on up there? >> whats in the water? ♪ ive got...

>> we decided to lay low and obviously that was -- you know, someone would say, oh, because kurts on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- its been really damaging to us. tell you the truth. its really affected my personal life a lot. [ applause ] >> i was in the front row of the unplugged performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didnt play the hits. those songs were chosen for a particular reason. ♪ my girl, my girl dont lie ♪ to me ♪ tell me when did you sleep last...

The speculation kurts not doing well, kurt has drug problems. and nirvana unplugged was this kind of thing like the clouds parted. you know? and it seemed like everything was going to be okay. ♪ night through [ cheers and applause ] >> from seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. >> the lead singer of nirvana shot and killed himself at his home in seattle, washington today. >> it didnt come as a major surprise, but it was devastating because of the way it happened. >> i pulled over and i w...

♪ welcome to the weekend rock. it was week lit up in a large way by the release of "in utero," a much anticipated third album by nirvana. >> walmart is refusing to sell nirvanas new release including a song called "rape me." the chain wants to be sensitive to its customers moral standards. >> to get into walmart they had to change the title from "rape me" to waif me." kurt wanted to maintain punk authenticity and also wanted to be popular. ♪ rape me >> the star-making machine had sucked ni...