In the mid 1980's the isolated city of Seattle was developing a regional sound, no one at the time had a name for the heavy sound, but it was crushing and extreme. By late 1991 this sound and attitude had coined the term Grunge, and the bands that were used to playing in small clubs and pubs for a pittance, became megastars over night, playing big arena's and selling ten's of millions of albums and the …showed first 75 words of 5202 total…

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