“I’ve been going through it my whole life. In 2016, he admitted to GQ Australia that he was “pissed off” about the picture. Though he has “Nevermind” tattooed on his chest, Elden’s view of the iconic image has seemingly changed in recent years.
In adulthood, Elden has recreated the famous cover on multiple occasions. Big Spirits, Little Bodies, by Linda Crispell Aronson. Flying Cups and Saucers : Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Debbie Notkin and the Secret Feminist Cabal. Since kids are always an unknown at shoots, I did several prelight and prefocus. Nevermind : Nirvana, by Jim Berkenstadt and Charles R. I placed a camera with a motor drive, in an underwater housing, mounted on a tripod at the bottom of a pool. According to a 2008 report from NPR, Elden’s father, Rick, was paid $200 for his child’s modeling work. Kirk continues: A 4-month-old baby was cast and I conducted the shoot with just his parents and a lifeguard present. Its cover, featuring the naked four-month-old Elden in a swimming pool, being lured by a dollar bill on a fishing line, ranks among the most iconic album covers of all time. The LP rocketed Nirvana to stardom and became the definitive release of the grunge revolution. The iconic album cover features infant Spencer Elden underwater unable to breathe going after money on a fish hook. The Pieces and the Fat - Dreams Forgotten and Psalm 63 from their demo album. LOS ANGELES - A 30-year-old man who appeared nude at 4 months old in 1991 on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind album is suing the band and others, alleging the image is child pornography they have profited from. Phish - Entire albums: Billy Breathes, Farmhouse, and Undermind. Even the corny ones like 'Hey baby' still go hard. Not super cohesive, but that makes sense seeing how their sound changed a bit across the years. Philmore - Our Finest Hour from Take Time To Listen - Volume 5. Nirvana In Utero: Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York: Nirvana Nevermind: No Doubt The Singles 1992-2003: This hits collection is amazing. 24, 1991, Nevermind would become one of the most legendary albums in rock history. Imagine if Fall Out Boy became Christian, that’s what Philmont sounds like. “Neither Spencer nor his legal guardians ever signed a release authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him,” the documents further state.Įlden claims that the image has caused him to “suffer lifelong damages." Interestingly, the suit cites album covers for Scorpion’s Virgin Killer, Blind Faith’s Blind Faith, and Van Halen’s Balance as other examples of previous “controversial campaigns used to promote music with sexually explicit material depicting a child or outright child pornography.” The suit further alleges that Cobain “agreed to redact Spencer’s image by releasing the album with a sticker strategically placed over Spencer’s genitals with the text: ‘If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile.’” Such a sticker was “never incorporated” into the album’s cover.