Linda Stein's Personal Assistant Arrested for Her Murder

Ten days after former Ramones manager and New York real estate tycoon Linda Stein was found bludgeoned to death in her 5th Avenue apartment, the police have made an arrest. Twenty-six-year-old Natavia Lowery, who worked as Stein's personal assistant, has seemingly all but confessed to the crime, telling officials they had an acrimonious relationship. "It was that Linda just kept yelling at her, over everything" a law enforcement official told The New York Times. "They fought. It was like a continuous thing, like a buildup." Last December Lowery was charged with identity theft.

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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