Tony Hawk remembers first time he heard Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’: “Everyone stopped what they were doing”
nme.comNirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ for the first time, noting that “everyone stopped what they were doing”.The skateboarding legend has reminisced about his memory of the day in a new NBC documentary My Generation, which covers the rise of Generation X in the early-’90s.In the episode, Hawk says: “I was actually in New York interviewing a band for Thrasher magazine.
Someone from the label said, ‘Hey, we have this new Nirvana’, and put it on in the room.”“Everyone stopped what they were doing and everyone looked around,” he added. “And you just knew.
You knew this was it.”‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was the lead single from Nirvana’s second album ‘Nevermind’, and was released in September 1991.
It rose to Number Six on the Billboard Hot 100, and ushered in the grunge era, bringing the Seattle band and several of their contemporaries into the heart of mainstream popular culture.In October last year, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean Cobain married Riley Hawk, the son of Tony, in San Diego, as officiated by former R.E.M.
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