NIRVANA NEWS: Representatives of Nirvana are openly...

NIRVANA NEWS: Representatives of Nirvana are openly discouraging efforts on an unauthorized book on the band that Hyperion Press plans to publish in the spring. The group’s lawyer sent a letter to the book’s English publisher last month accusing the authors of “misrepresenting” themselves to interviewees, and associates of the band have been asked not to talk with the writers. But they deny allegations made by writers Britt Collins and Victoria Clarke that band leader Kurt Cobain and his wife, Courtney Love, have made threatening phone calls to them.

Meanwhile, Cobain has been doing some writing of his own. In a lengthy liner note to the band’s upcoming “Insesticide” album--a collection of rare and unreleased tracks--the singer lists the good things of his recent life as a star (Love and their new baby rank on top) and some bad things:

“Last year a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song ‘Polly,’ ” he writes. “I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience. Sorry to be so (politically correct), but that’s the way I feel.”