The full session was first broadcast on November 22, 1989.
On October 26, 1989, a version of "About a Girl" was recorded by Ted de Bono at Maida Vale Studios in London, England, during Nirvana's first BBC Peel Session. So it was a pretty easy record to make." Post-Bleach
They would do the songs in one or two takes get the vocals as one overdub, that would be it, and then on to the next song. The 30-hour, six-day session ultimately yielded nine of the songs that ended up on the band's July 1989 debut album, Bleach, including "About a Girl." As Endino recalled in a 2004 interview with Rob Nash of The Independent, "They just banged it out-they had it all figured out they were rehearsed. Although Nirvana's then-label, Sub Pop, had only requested an EP, Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Chad Channing entered the studio intending to record a full album, working as quickly as possible using money borrowed from second guitarist Jason Everman. "About a Girl" was first recorded in the studio in December 1988 by Jack Endino at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle, Washington. The song debuted live at a dorm party at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in February 1989. Featuring alternate lyrics, it was recorded at Cobain's home in Olympia, Washington in 1988. The earliest known recording is a solo electric home demo that was posthumously released on the band's rarities box set, With the Lights Out, in November 2004. "About a Girl" was written in 1988, reportedly after Cobain spent an afternoon repeatedly listening to Meet the Beatles!, the 1964 second American release by English rock band the Beatles. It was the first single released since Cobain's death in April 1994, reaching number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 22 on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart. In the 1998 documentary Kurt and Courtney, Marander revealed that Cobain had never told her the song was about her, and that she found out only after reading the 1993 Nirvana biography, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad.Ī live, acoustic version, recorded during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged appearance in November 1993, was released as a single in October 1994, to promote the album, MTV Unplugged in New York. It is the third song on their debut album, Bleach, released in June 1989.įrequently described as one of Cobain's strongest and most melodic early compositions, "About a Girl" was written about his then-girlfriend, Tracy Marander. " About a Girl" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain.
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