Courtney Love says her new solo album is “done” and “really good”, as she shares how she “almost died” and “lost all my hair” in hospital
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Courtney Love has said her long-awaited second solo album is complete and describes it as “really good”, marking her first solo release since 2004’s ‘America’s Sweetheart’. She also revealed that a severe illness in 2019 left her repeatedly hospitalised, dangerously underweight and fearing for her life, but said she has since recovered and is healthy.
Love said she wrote and recorded much of the album while in hospital, believing it could be her final record. The project is expected to feature Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant and former Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur; Love said she particularly wants to tour and sing again, though she is still working out how to return to live performance.
- Courtney Love says her second solo album is finished.
- She says a 2019 illness nearly killed her.
- The album may feature Will Sergeant and Melissa Auf Der Maur.
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Courtney Love is an American singer, songwriter and actor best known as the frontwoman of the alternative rock band Hole. The band became prominent in the 1990s with albums including Live Through This, and Love later released her first solo album, America’s Sweetheart, in 2004.
Her career has often drawn public attention because of both her music and her personal life, including her marriage to Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, who died in 1994. Love has continued to make music intermittently since Hole’s main period of activity, while the band’s membership and status have changed over time.
A new solo album would be her first under her own name in more than two decades. The reported collaborators are figures from alternative and post-punk music, including Will Sergeant of Echo & The Bunnymen and Melissa Auf Der Maur, who previously played bass in Hole.