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TIL that Kurt Cobain didn’t want to release “Come As You Are” as a single due to its similarity to “Eighties” by Killing Joke, but the record company insisted. However, Killing Joke abandoned legal action after Cobain’s death and Dave Grohl later contributed to one of their albums.

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