The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been victims of sexual abuse, but may when they have repeatedly come forward publicly, as Elden has. Spencer Elden, the man whose unusual baby portrait was used for one of the most recognizable album covers of all time, Nirvana ’s Nevermind, filed a. im no lawyer but wouldnt they first have to prove that nirvanas album cover is CP in the first place for this argument to work thats gonna be a pretty. Nevermind is the second studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991, by DGC Records.Produced by Butch Vig, it was Nirvanas first release on the DGC label, as well as the first to feature drummer Dave Grohl. He added, “It’d be nice to have a quarter for every person that has seen my baby penis." He told the New York Post in 2015 that it was “cool but weird to be part of something so important that I don’t even remember.” Spencer Elden, now 30, claims the photo was sexual exploitation and is suing the surviving members of the rock band and Kurt Cobain’s estate for 150,000 (109,000). “Cobain chose the image depicting Spencer - like a sex worker - grabbing for a dollar bill that is positioned dangling from a fishhook in front of his nude body with his penis explicitly displayed,” the lawsuit says.Įlden has recreated the image several times, always with clothes or swim trunks on, for anniversaries of the album's release, and he has expressed mixed feelings about it in interviews that have grown increasingly negative through the years. NIRVANA’S iconic Nevermind album cover, which featured a naked baby in a swimming pool, is at the centre of a new controversy after the muse has started legal action. When the cover was shot, Nirvana was a little-known grunge band with no sense they were making a generation-defining album in “Nevermind," their first major label release, whose songs included “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Come as You Are” and “Lithium.”Įlden's father was a friend of the photographer, Kirk Weddle, who took pictures of several swimming babies in several scenarios at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena, California. “If there is a 30th anniversary re-release, he wants for the entire world not to see his genitals,” Mabie said. A case filed Tuesday alleges that the grunge rock band engaged in commerial child pornography when it used a photo of a naked baby on the cover of its iconic album Nevermind in 1991.
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