music · 28 November 1991 · 33 years ago
Nirvana recorded a performance for BBC TV music show Top Of The Pops in London. When asked to lip-sync Smells Like Teen Spirit to a pre-recorded tape Kurt Cobain protested by singing an octave lower (he later confirmed he was imitating Morrissey from The Smiths), and attempted to eat his microphone at one point. He also changed some of the lyrics, exchanging the opening line "load up on guns, bring your friends," for "load up on drugs, kill your friends."
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