Who wrote “Old Age”?
I cannot say for sure. There is a recording of Kurt, supposedly from March 1991, where he is playing this song. Courtney Love, his wife, later released this song, with no credit to Kurt, and many claim she is stealing his song. But she has recognised the fact that is was written by Kurt at many live shows, most notably the Hole Unplugged performance from 02/14/95, and the song was released while he was alive, so it is probable that Kurt ‘gave’ the song to Courtney and didn’t want any credit for it. There was a big story about it in the Seattle magazine, “The Stranger.” It can be found in the links section of this page. • Hey, why isn’t anybody stopping Courtney from ripping off Kurt’s line “use once and destroy” and using it as the title for a song on her new album, “Celebrity Skin”? Actually, this slogan apparently originally appeared on a Hole shirt in 1991. Courtney let Kurt use the quote, much like Kurt probably let Courtney use Old Age, etc. They collaborated and shared. • Hey, I
