He covered Kurt Cobain’s death and interviewed everyone from Madonna to Prince to the Spice Girls — but Kurt Loder never really felt like “a TV person.” With MTV News shutting down, the longtime anchor looks back.
When you were interviewing Madonna at the VMAs in 1995, and Courtney Love kept interrupting and eventually jumped in on the interview, that’s become a legendary little moment. But was it actually irritating for you as a journalist?
He was. We did something out of his house in L.A. once and I think, like, the night before he had chased his girlfriend down the street with a backhoe or something.That was an interesting time in the metal world, too. Everybody would just wake up and start slugging Jim Beam and snorting coke off their girlfriend’s tummy. He was a part of that. I haven’t seen him in a long time, but he was fun. He was fun to do stuff with..
Everyone in showbiz is very touchy about being on camera. We were doing something with Madonna once, and it was all set up, the lights were set up, tech guys had spent hours setting up the shot. She came and looked at it and said no. Said redo it. “I’m the one that has to look at this for the rest of my life.” That’s how they feel about it. I’d feel that way too. Whatever you shoot today is gonna be around forever, especially on the internet.
The first decision was to call me up and wake me up and tell me this awful news. I don’t think it was a huge surprise that Kurt Cobain ended his life. He had been trying to do that before. But anybody who had ever seen that band, they were just so rousing. They were so great. Our producer, Dave Sirulnick, said, “We’ve gotta stay with this. This person has meant a lot to people.” He could see already that people are very upset, that they’re gathering out in Seattle and we should cover it.
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