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MTV aired many great moments in music history but rarely did the music network have a hand in actually creating them. But such was the case in November 1993 when Nirvana performed on the acoustic music series MTV Unplugged. Surrounded by candles and lilies, Kurt Cobain shied away from his band’s big hits, instead preferring to cover the likes of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World” and the traditional folk song “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” The performance was one of Cobain’s last; he would commit suicide just six months later. Nirvana’s Unplugged performance — subsequently released as a multiplatinum album — captured the band in all its stark, depressive beauty.