America’s Sweetheart (2001–2004)
In early 2004, just as she had completed her first batch of songs, Love contacted ex-Hole drummer Samantha Maloney asking her to fly to France (after drummer Patty Schemel departed for the second time) and add drums to Love’s otherwise complete solo debut, America’s Sweetheart. Returning to the States, Maloney was put in charge of assembling Love’s live band. After a world wide search and countless auditions Maloney reconnected with guitarist Radio Sloan, found guitarist Lisa Leveridge, bassist Dvin Kirakosian, and the four women formed the core of Love’s backing band. Violinist Emilie Autumn later joined the band. After playing with the band for only a few weeks Love decided to call her new band “The Chelsea†after Maloney’s previous endeavour.[citation needed]
More about Courtney Love (From Wikipedia)
Early Life
Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California to a family of Irish and Jewish descent. She regards herself as "a nice Jewish girl". Love’s biological family read more...
Early Musical Career
Love began her professional music career with a brief stint as the lead singer of Faith No More. Keyboardist Roddy Bottum described the band at the time as “democraticâ€, read more...
Marriage
Love met Kurt Cobain on January 12, 1990, in Portland, Oregon’s Satyricon club before fame hit, when the two singers still led underground rock bands. Love made advances afterwards, read more...
Live Through This Tour (1994)
Hole was struck by disaster again when bassist Kristen Pfaff died of an apparent heroin overdose on June 16, 1994, just two months after Cobain's death and the new album's release. read more...
Celebrity Skin Era (1996–2000)
Love received considerable acclaim for her role as Larry Flynt’s wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman’s 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, opposite Woody Harrelson as read more...
Health, Drug Abuse And Legal Issues
In 1992, while unknowingly carrying Kurt Cobain’s child, Love admitted to taking heroin, and other drugs. This led to media questioning her on whether Frances was born addicted read more...
America’s Sweetheart (2001–2004)
In early 2004, just as she had completed her first batch of songs, Love contacted ex-Hole drummer Samantha Maloney asking her to fly to France (after drummer Patty Schemel departed read more...
2005–present
In June 2005, three months after being released from court-ordered drug rehabilitation, Love started recording her second solo LP, Nobody's Daughter. An anti-cocaine song entitled read more...
Family History
Love’s mother Linda Carroll was adopted by an Italian-American couple at birth, retaining no contact with her birth father or her birth mother, whom she later discovered was read more...
Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress. Love is best known as lead singer, songwriter read more...