About a Girl is a song by Nirvana, written by Kurt Cobain. It is the third song on their debut album, Bleach, released in June 1989. Frequently described as one of Cobain’s strongest and most melodic early compositions, About a Girl was written about his then girlfriend, Tracy Marander. In the 1998 documentary Kurt and Courtney, Marander revealed that Cobain had never told her the song was about her, and that she found out only after reading the 1993 Nirvana biography, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad. A live, acoustic version, recorded during Nirvana‘s MTV Unplugged appearance in November 18, 1993, was released as a single in October 24, 1994, to promote the album, MTV Unplugged in New York. It was the first single released since Cobain‘s death in April 1994, reaching number one on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 22 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 Airplay chart.
Tracklist:
MTV Unplugged version.
Australian CD, French CD, French CD distributed in Europe
- About a Girl
- Something in the Way
Nirvana
Kurt Cobain: guitar, vocals
Krist Novoselic: bass guitar
Chad Channing: drums
Kurt Cobain (February 20, 1967 April 5, 1994).
