ON THIS DAY IN 1989

American grunge band Nirvana’s debut album Bleach was released in the US. The title for the album came from a poster, Bleach Your Works, urging drug users to bleach their needles. The band’s vocalist and guitar player, Kurt Cobain (left) claimed that most of the lyrics on the album were written the night before recording while he was feeling “pissed off” and that he did not regard them highly.