| "Old Age" | |
|---|---|
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Holeoldage.png) B-side label of Hole's UK single | |
| Song by Nirvana (re-recorded by Hole) | |
| Released | by Hole: April 1993 ("Beautiful Son") January 1995 ("Violet") October 28, 1997 (My Body, the Hand Grenade) by Nirvana: November 23, 2004 (With the Lights Out) November, 2005 (Sliver: The Best of the Box) September 27, 2011 (Nevermind 20th Anniversary Deluxe edition) |
| Genre | Alternative rock |
| Length | 4:22 (1991 Nirvana boom-box recording) 4:20 (1991 Nirvana recording) 3:36 (1993 Hole recording) 4:24 (1994 Hole recording) |
| Label | DGC (Nirvana version) City Slang, DGC (Hole versions) |
| Composer(s) | Kurt Cobain |
| Lyricist(s) | Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love |
"Old Age" is a song first released by the American rock band Hole, composed by Kurt Cobain of Nirvana with lyrics later written by Courtney Love. At the time of Hole's recording of the song, Love was married to Cobain.
The song was unknown as a Nirvana song during the band's existence, and its authorship was originally attributed to Love. In a 1997 Melody Maker interview, Love revealed that the song was "partly someone else's composition"[1] without specifying whom, saying, "It's something somebody had a little bit of and I said 'let me have the rest of it' and I wrote this thing in it and tried to make it goth. I found it, wrote it, and recorded it the same night."[1] In 1998, a cassette of Nirvana performing the song during a rehearsal in March 1991 was given to the Seattle newspaper, The Stranger.
- ^ a b Love, Courtney. Melody Maker. 1997.
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