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Kidnapper Gerald Arthur Friend: Tortured Two Girls. Inspired Kurt Cobain to Write a Song

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When the American rock band Nirvana released their second album Nevermind in 1991, it included the song Polly by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain, with somewhat strange and not entirely easy to understand lyrics. In it, Cobain stylized himself as a kidnapper addressing a girl he was forcibly holding. The song was inspired by a real kidnapping case from 1987, but its perpetrator had been on the rampage much earlier – he first struck in the summer…
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When the American rock band Nirvana released their second album Nevermind in 1991, it included the song Polly by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain, with somewhat strange and not entirely easy to understand lyrics. In it, Cobain stylized himself as a kidnapper addressing a girl he was forcibly holding. The song was inspired by a real kidnapping case from 1987, but its perpetrator had been on the rampage much earlier – he first struck in the summer…

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Deník.cz broke the news in on Tuesday, August 19, 2025.
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