An MTV Unplugged cover of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World became an iconic performance that surpassed the original.

“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.

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 ...

The final song on Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged album, this track is actually a cover of Lead Belly’s famed tune, “In the Pines”. For whatever reason, Kurt Cobain and company decided to change the title for ...

In the 1990s, MTV Unplugged was the place to be. The series got your favorite bands together to strip down (well, not like that!) and play more classical instruments, trading buzzy electric guitars ...

Who can say why MTV chose to air Nirvana’s performance on the network’s Unplugged program over and over, like a tape loop, in the hours and days following the discovery of Cobain’s lifeless body on ...

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 ...

Picasso once famously said that good artists borrow and great artists steal—though if we assume he was following his own motto, it’s highly unlikely the quote was even his to begin with. A similar ...

LOS ANGELES - Some of the most legendary performances in music television history are now finally streaming. Paramount+ has added a treasure trove of "MTV Unplugged" episodes to its platform — more ...

Pat Smear has said that the surviving members of Nirvana should be able to play the band's songs when they get together. The former Germs musician joined Nirvana in September 1993 as a second ...