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How Paul McCartney Ended Up Replacing Kurt Cobain in Nirvana

Or “Sirvana,” as this Grammy Award-winning project has been called.  Forbes takes a look.

“I blame Johnny Depp,” McCartney explained to a group of reporters gathered at the Staples Center’s media room. “Because he’d just given me this little cigar box guitar, which I was wildly excited about, so I took it along [to the studio].”

So it was Johnny Depp’s doing?  Read on.

Alan Cross

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