After lying motionless briefly, Cobain returned to his feet, put his guitar on and the band immediately started their set. He was met by Nirvana's bassist Krist Novoselic, who shook his hand and told the audience that 'with the support of his friends and family, he's gonna make it.' Cobain pretended to struggle to his feet as he stood up in front of the microphone, sang a line from the Amanda McBroom song ' The Rose,' then collapsed to the ground. Mocking the rumors of his poor health, Cobain was pushed onstage in a wheelchair, wearing a hospital gown and wig, by English music journalist Everett True. According to, there was an audience of 60,000 in attendance at Nirvana's 1992 Reading Festival appearance. According to Grohl, there was an audience of 50,000 in attendance at Nirvana's 1992 Reading Festival appearance. With Nirvana closing the third and final night of the festival, Cobain had programmed the day's bill, which featured acts like the Melvins, the Screaming Trees, L7, Mudhoney, Teenage Fanclub (who allowed Eugenius to play one song after the tent they were due to play in blew down), Pavement, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Bjorn Again, and intentionally excluded what Cobain called 'lame-ass limey bands.' The 1992 Reading Festival which Nirvana headlined was sold out and it was reported that the co-existing British music festival held at Donington Park had suffered an attendance loss of 10,000 as a result. I walked backstage and some of my best friends in bands that were opening would see me and say, ‘What are you doing here?’ And I'd go, ‘We’re fucking headlining!’ And they’d be like, ‘You're actually going to play?!’ I didn't realise there was any question that we were going to play.' Sensationalism.' As Nirvana's drummer Dave Grohl recalled in a 2018 interview with Kerrang!, “I remember showing up to Reading ’92 and there being so many rumours that we weren't going to play, that we had cancelled. Cobain discussed the rumors in the 1993 Nirvana biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad, calling them examples of 'classic, typical English journalism. It was also performed amid press reports of Nirvana's possible dissolution, due to rumors of Cobain's addiction to heroin and tension within the band. The 30 August 1992 concert in Reading occurred shortly after the birth of Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of Nirvana's vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain and his wife Courtney Love, vocalist and guitarist of the American rock band, Hole. The band's first appearance at Reading had been on 23 August 1991, when they played an approximately 40-minute set on the afternoon of the first day of the festival, during their two-week European tour with American rock band Sonic Youth. It was also their final concert in the United Kingdom. Nevermind had elevated them to the position of what Pitchfork called the 'biggest' rock band in the world.

Nirvana's appearance at the 1992 Reading Festival was the band's second performance at the annual music festival and their first since the success of their second album.

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