Kim Gordon
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Image:Kim Gordon, Le Rock Dans Tous ses Etats.jpg Kim Gordon (born April 28, 1953, in Rochester, New York) plays bass and guitar in the rock/experimental & punk band Sonic Youth. She also plays in the band Free Kitten. In 1989 she, Sadie May, and Lydia Lunch teamed up as the band Harry Crews and released the album Naked in Garden Hill. Her work has influenced recording artist and fellow Rochestarian Del Rivers. She also directed The Breeders' "Cannonball" video.
In 1984 she married fellow Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore, with whom she has a daughter, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore. Gordon, Moore, and Coco currently reside in the Northampton, MA area. They are frequently sighted in the area and in 2004 played a benefit concert with Cat Power for the Greenfield Center School.
Fellow rock band Rapeman recorded a tribute to her on their album Two Nuns and a Pack Mule entitled "Kim Gordon's Panties".
She is also a well-established artist. She recently starred in Gus Van Sant's Last Days, a fictionalized biopic of one of her close friends, Kurt Cobain. She is also the only close friend of Cobain's who has publicly claimed to believe that he was murdered.
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