“I have many ideas of how we should alter that cover, but we’ll see what happens,” Grohl told The Sunday Times in an interview published in October.
Grohl recently suggested the “Nevermind” cover could change.
Headlined by hits including “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Come as You Are” and “In Bloom,” the album is preserved by the Library of Congress in its National Recording Registry. Nirvana’s groundbreaking album Nevermind turned the picture of a baby boy into one of the most iconic images of the 90s but what happened when that baby grew up Around the turn of the 90s, the US rock scene enjoyed a significant makeover, with bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains ushering in a new era. His lawyer said that the naked baby on the cover and the dollar suggest a child sex worker. “Nevermind” was the second studio album released by Nirvana, an influential grunge band that featured late singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl. Hes suing the band over child sexual exploitation. Their failure to do so resulted in the dismissal. “(Elden) has re-enacted the photograph in exchange for a fee, many times he has had the album title… tattooed across his chest he has appeared on a talk show wearing a self-parodying, nude-colored onesie he has autographed copies of the album cover for sale on eBay and he has used the connection to try to pick up women,” the band’s filing asserts, according to the BBC.Įlden’s lawyers had until last Thursday to respond to that filing. Spencer Elden, now 30, claims he is the naked baby pictured in a swimming pool on the 1991 album artwork and that the image is child based sexual abuse. Spencer Elden, 31, said his appearance on the front of the. The lawsuit contends that the album cover photo chosen by Nirvana’s late leader Kurt Cobain suggests a “sex worker grabbing for a dollar bill.”Įlden’s suit alleges the defendants “used child pornography depicting Spencer as an essential element of a record promotion scheme commonly utilized in the music industry to get attention, wherein album covers posed children in a sexually provocative manner to gain notoriety, drive sales, and garner media attention, and critical reviews.Nirvana’s legal team then asked for the lawsuit’s dismissal in November. A US judge has dismissed a man's latest lawsuit against Nirvana over the band's iconic 1991 album cover which showed him naked as a baby. “To ensure the album cover would trigger a visceral sexual response from the viewer, (photographer Kirk) Weddle activated Spencer’s ‘gag reflex’ before throwing him underwater in poses highlighting and emphasizing Spencer’s exposed genitals,” the suit alleges. It is among the best-known album covers in rock. The cover of Nevermind - released in 1991 by the Geffen/UMG label - depicts a naked baby swimming underwater, seemingly towards a fish hook with a dollar bill attached. dollar bill on a fishhook just out of his reach. Spencer Elden, the baby on Nirvana's Nevermind. Vivendi's Bid To Sell 10% Universal Music Stake To Bill Ackman SPAC Collapses Deal Transfers To Ackman's Hedge FundĪccording to the suit, the defendants “knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so…Despite this knowledge, defendants failed to take reasonable steps to protect Spencer and prevent his widespread sexual exploitation and image trafficking.”Įlden’s parents never signed a release authorizing the use of the photos taken of the four-month-old baby in a Pasadena aquatic center in 1990 and Elden received no compensation, lawyers for the plaintiff allege. Nirvana's Nevermind has one of the most iconic album covers of all time, featuring a naked baby swimming in a pool, following a dollar bill hooked on a fishing line. ArtworkEdit The album cover shows a naked baby boy swimming underwater with a U.S. And agin, in 2016, at 25 years of age, Spencer recreated that infamous shoot for a second time, this time with some very grunge-like long hair.