As a new era of alternative rock bands arose, Courtney Love's insatiable lust
for fame drove Hole to become the queens of the early 1990s grunge movement.
After first discovering Patti Smith while in a juvenile detention centre, Love
fled to Britain at 16 to hang out with Julian Cope and Ian McCulloch, before
spending years as a stripper in Portland auditioning for bands such as Faith No
More and Babes in Toyland and talking her way into the hit movie Sid and Nancy.
Filtering the strains of punk and new wave with a tough, disenfranchised,
feminist stance, Love formed Hole in Los ...