The Untold Truth Of Courtney Love

While Courtney Love created Hole, it operated under a collaborative atmosphere at first. The other members Kristen Pfaff, Eric Erlandson, and Patty Schemel all received songwriting credits on Hole's second album "Live Through This," but the band would continue on with revolving membership as Love used the band as her personal artistic vehicle

While Courtney Love created Hole, it operated under a collaborative atmosphere at first. The other members — Kristen Pfaff, Eric Erlandson, and Patty Schemel — all received songwriting credits on Hole's second album "Live Through This," but the band would continue on with revolving membership as Love used the band as her personal artistic vehicle into the 2010s. The band was a very personal thing for Love, and that's reflected in how she named the entity on her own, inspired by both a work of classical theater and a harsh comment delivered by her mother.

Hole referenced a line from Euripedes' ancient Greek tragedy, "Medea." "The woman is called Medea, and she killed her children. And apparently — there's different translations -– but she said, 'there's a hole that burns right through me,'" Love told the BBC (via Far Out). "And she's talking about the void, the abyss that she feels and which needs to be filled, but she doesn't know what with. It's not a genital reference or anything, it's the void in all of us."

There's also the possibility that Love picked up on something she once heard. "My mother's this kind of new-age psychologist, and I said, 'You know, I had this terrible childhood,' and she said, 'Well, you can't have a hole running through you all the time, Courtney,'" Love recalled on "Later... with Jools Holland" (via Far Out).

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