Kurt Had Just Died When Hole Performed This Live… Hole – “Violet” (Later… with Jools Holland, 1995) Courtney Love wrote “Violet” in 1991 — years before Live Through This came out, and long before she lost Kurt. But by the time Hole performed it in 1995, everything about the song had shifted. Cobain had died the year before. The album had just dropped. And Courtney was being dragged through media scrutiny instead of given space to grieve. Some said she moved on too fast. Others said she was explo