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There was nothing particularly special about April 8, 1994. I came to work as usual,

saw of usual people, and prepared for my radio show in the usual way.

I made note that the Toronto Blue Jays were playing a soloed game that day.

One of the stories in the news was that American troops were upset about a smoking ban that had come into effect on some military bases, but that was about it.

It was just a regular Friday.

But at about 1.45, 15 minutes before airtime, Anita, who was working in the newsroom,

popped her head into the studio. Just a heads up, she said, something's going on in Seattle.

It looks like it has something to do with Kurt Cobain. Now, if I'm honest, most of us were prepared

for some, well, bad news.

We knew that Kurt had his issues, his health problems, his heroin addiction, his crazy marriage to Courtney Love, the canceled European tour, and, of course, an apparent suicide attempt in a Rome hotel room about a month earlier.

Still, all that was pretty abstract.

It was gossip, stories, and magazines.

But over the next 90 minutes, everything resolved into harsh, terrible, awful reality.

If you were around then, you probably remember exactly where you were and what you

were doing when you heard the news. It was one of those rare, rare moments. The same sort of thing

felt with the assassination of John Lennon on Monday, December 8th, 1980, and the death of Elvis

Presley on Tuesday, August 16th, 1977.

Was that really 25 years ago?

Yeah, it was.

If you were there, let's revisit things.

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