Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged: How a near-disaster became an iconic live performance

Listening to Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York, recorded 32 years ago today, remains a haunting experience.

Taped live in November 1993, and released as a Grammy-winning, chart-topping album a year later, the intimate, informal concert was captured just five months before frontman Kurt Cobain’s…