“I guarantee you I will screw this song up,” Kurt Cobain told the crowd before Nirvana launched into their stirring cover of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World” on MTV Unplugged back in 1993.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many fans might have preferred some bracing footage of Nirvana fully amped up and defiantly live before a seething mosh pit.

Nirvana, one of the most influential grunge bands of the ’90s, recorded their first live session at MTV Unplugged in November 1993, five months before the death of lead singer Kurt Cobain. The live ...

April 8, 1994. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s death reverberates a ripple of shock around the world. For a man so reserved, Cobain carried himself with what seemed an unshakable sense of himself; he ...

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Dave Grohl has revealed that Nirvana's famous MTV Unplugged concert almost forced the group to split. The Foo Fighters star claimed that tensions between him and Kurt Cobain before the gig meant that ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In 1993, Nirvana broke the mold with MTV Unplugged in New York, a concert ...