You join us at Courtney Love‘s home, high in the Hollywood Hills. Courtney and Michael discuss make-up.
She wants to know if he has any left over from the Velvet Goldmine shoot.
He says he has some great lip gloss she can have because his lips never chap.
Courtney and Michael have some history. They go back a long way to the extent that, famously, in the bad old days Courtney once told an interviewer that, while her husband, KURT COBAIN, was still alive, she tried to get him off with Michael.
They’re going out for dinner together, so we get started.
Part 2 NME: It’s said that stars often make friends with other stars because they’re the only people they can trust, the only ones who are unlikely to be on the make.
NME: You’ve said in the past that you got kicked out of bands for liking REM.
CL: “It’s true, I did. There was a time before I was in Hole when I was living in San Francisco and I had a real pop sensibility – I played the Peter Buck D chord with the pinky. And in the first band, which was called Sugar Babylon, with Kat Bjelland and Jennifer Finch, literally the verbatim was, ‘You like REM too much. You wanna be REM too much’ because I’d just be listening to ‘Reckoning’ all the time. And I was thrown out of Babes In Toyland and Faith No More for that literal exact reason.
NME: When did you actually meet?
More of this interview tomorrow when they discuss movies, fame and work.
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