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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. Today, music and memory.

We'll take a trip around the world with the retro sound of Pink Martini.

The band is really a cross between, if you were to cross the Lawrence Welk show with the Muppet Show,

and maybe laugh in and maybe all set it in the United Nations of 1962 lobby.

And some new science explains those dreaded snippets of song that burrow into your brain, earworms.

About 25% report experiencing them several times a day.

But first, remembering Kurt Cobain, the voice of his generation.

April 5th marks the 20th anniversary of Cobain's suicide at age 27. He had a history of depression and chronic pain, a heroin

addiction, and a complicated relationship with fame. Charles Cross is the author of the definitive

Cobain biography, heavier than heaven. And he's just

released a new book called Here We Are Now, the lasting impact of Kurt Cobain. Steve Paulson talks with him.

Charles, can you take me back to how you found out about Kurt Cobain's death? I was the editor of a

magazine called The Rocket, which was a biweekly music and entertainment

magazine in the Northwest. And I was sitting in my office on April 8, 1994, and got a phone call

from someone at a local radio station, and the words out of his mouth were, do you think

it's possible? Kurt Cobain is dead. And local radio station, and the words out of his mouth were, do you think it's

possible Kurt Cobain is dead? And that radio station had just gotten a call from bizarrely an electrical

contractor who'd been installing some stuff in Kurt's house, and the police had just then been

called, and the station was calling me to see if I potentially could confirm it or if I knew anything.

And you hadn't known anything at that point.

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