Nirvana: The Ugly Battle Over Kurt Cobain's Last Song 'You Know You're Right' With Courtney Love

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Today we take a look at the song 'You Know You're Right' released in the fall of 2002 to coincide with the band's first greatest hits album.

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9 years after the release of Nirvana’s last studio album In Utero, fans were finally rewarded with a new song titled “You Know You’re Right”. Released on the band’s greatest hits collection that came out in october of 2002, the road to release the song was a long ugly one that even involved U2’s Bono

"You Know You're Right" was written in 1993 and years prior to it’s release fans only knew about the song from a bootlegged live version that was recorded by Nirvana on october 23, 1993 at a show in Chicago. Even Kurt Cobain’s wife Courtney Love performed the song during her band Hole’s MTV Unplugged performance in february of 1995. Nirvana would record the song in late January at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle approximately 2 months before Kurt Cobain would die.

The song would soon enough become the center of a legal dispute between the surviving members of Nirvana including drummer Dave Grohl, bassist Krist Noaselic and Cobain’s widow Courtney Love. The dispute arose over how to release the song. There was talk in 2001 of releasing a massive compilation box set to honor the 10th anniversary of Nevermind and include the song on the box set. The box set was to be made up of 45-tracks that would have been compiled by Novoselic, . But in June of that year, Love filed suit and blocked it’s release.

So why did Courtney Love want to stop the song from being released on the box set? Well Love’s suit alleged that the song was would have been "wasted" on a box set and would be better-suited to a single-disc collection similar to The Beatles' 1. Her lawsuit called the song a "potential 'hit' of extraordinary artistic and commercial value," and her manager claimed that a release with the song could sell upwards of 15 million copies.Novoselic responded claiming: "I've always considered everything she said. We've considered it and agreed and said, 'Hey, that's a great idea, Courtney.' I tried to get along with Courtney as best I could, but there's only so much you can do." he’d say

And Love also sought exclusive ownership to Nirvana’s legacy trying to gain control over any unreleased material. Grohl and Novaselic would countersue and claimed that the box set they had been working on was in the works for 5 years already and only recently Love changed her mind at the last minute.

The legal battle got so ugly that as part of Love’s lawsuit she was trying to dissolve the Nirvana partnership claiming that Nirvana was a one-man show, Love claimed that the band "could never be a partnership because it was in the living manifestation of the creative vision, personal will and life force of a single unique individual.” Love also insisted that Cobain had decided to break up Nirvana several months before his death in 1994.

And the papers further allege that more than three years after Cobain's death, Grohl and Novoselic took advantage of Love's grief and coerced her into signing their current partnership agreement which gave the three equal control of Nirvana business. Since that time, she says the pair have interfered with a Kurt Cobain movie, prevented new Nirvana releases, and even threatened to destroy Nirvana recordings.

As for Love's comments on what Cobain thought of his band mates, and his plans to break up the band, Novoselic says that they "dishonor Nirvana and dishonor the memory of her husband."
He also accuses her of distorting the facts about Kurt's life and death in interviews. The bassist would also claim that he and Grohl have refrained from granting interviews on the subject out of respect for Cobain and his family saying"Courtney offered up many interviews on the topic of Kurt's life and death," interviews which he claimed contained "glaring inaccuracies." In addition to that Novaselic and Grohl questioned love’s mental state and asked for her to see a psychiatrist.

At one point Bono of U2 almost got involved as it was reported that he would testify as a character witness for love when the case went to superior US court.

And by the following summer cooler heads would finally prevail and Novaselic and Grohl gave into Courtney Love’s demands prior to the case going to a higher court and agreed to release the song on a single disc release, which would be the group’s 2002 greatest hits album.

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