Fandom can be an intense thing. Unsettling, even.

Not only are there swarms of Beatles fans who think that the involvement of Yoko Ono is solely responsible for the demise of the most famous pop group in history, but fans of Seattle grunge group Nirvana are willing to take it even further.

According to certain fans, authors, and investigators, Kurt Cobain’s famous 1994 suicide by shotgun was not the consequence of a struggling man with the entire world on his shoulders. He was murdered by his wife, Hole frontwoman Courtney Love, in a nefarious plot for financial control of his estate.

This is not some niche conspiracy either, otherwise it would be easy enough to ignore. Plenty of books have been written, the popular Nick Broomfield documentary Kurt & Courtney tries to validate the theory, and each generation of Nirvana fan eventually makes their way to it.

I don’t want to hear ‘Yoko Ono broke up The Beatles’ ever again

It should be a simple case of Occam’s razor. Did Cobain, a man clinically depressed since early childhood, who struggled to develop healthy coping skills, and had a tumultuous time in the limelight, commit suicide? Or was it an elaborate hitman plot by his wife, which has been silenced and hidden away from us for three decades?

The evidence put forward of this supposed hitman plot is always conjecture, mere theories taken as fact by the believers.

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