High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Beautiful Son" is a song by American alternative rock band Hole, written collectively by frontwoman Courtney Love, lead guitarist Eric Erlandson and drummer Patty Schemel. The song was released as the band`s fourth single in April 1993 on the European label City Slang. To coincide with the song`s lyrics, Love used a photograph of her husband, Kurt Cobain, at age 7 as the single`s artwork.