Charles R. Cross (1957 – August 9, 2024) was an American music journalist, author and editor who was based in Seattle.
Cross documented the Seattle music scene as the editor of The Rocket in Seattle from 1986–2000. He founded Backstreets Magazine, a periodical for fans of Bruce Springsteen. His 2001 biography of Kurt Cobain (Heavier Than Heaven) won the 2002 ASCAP Award for Outstanding Musical Biography.[1][2]
In 2004, while conducting research for his biography of Jimi Hendrix, Cross discovered the gravesite of Jimi Hendrix's mother, Lucille Jeter Hendrix, in an abandoned section of Greenwood Memorial Park, where Jimi Hendrix was buried. Her gravesite was lost because the standard welfare marker of her day, an inscribed brick, was buried in decades of mud. [3]
Cross died on August 9, 2024, at the age of 67.[4]