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TIL Kurt Cobain's famous line “It’s better to burn out than to fade away” is a reference to Neil Young's song ‘Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)’. In an interview, Young said: "When he died and left that note, it struck a deep chord inside of me. It fucked with me."

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