

And, fortunately, I don’t have to do the paperwork.”īack in August, Elden filed a lawsuit against the band, seeking $150,000 in damages. More than 30 million copies of Nevermind have been sold worldwide A judge in California has dismissed a lawsuit against Nirvana made by Spencer Elden, who appeared as a naked baby on the cover of. It brought alternative rock to the mainstream and almost overnight made Nirvana the biggest band in the world. When asked about the lawsuit, Grohl told the magazine: “I think that there’s much more to look forward to and much more to life than getting bogged down in those kinds of things. The Designer of Nirvana’s Nevermind Cover on Shooting Babies and Working with Kurt Cobain By Ollie Campbell Art direction Design Music When it was released in 1991, Nirvana’s Nevermind sent shockwaves through the music world. Nevermind’s cover features a naked 4-month-old Elden in a swimming pool reaching for a dollar bill. Grohl’s comments come just over a month after Nirvana was sued by Spencer Elden, the man who as a baby was famously featured on the album’s cover, for child sexual exploitation. 2 min read A few weeks ago, Nirvana fired back at Spencer Elden over his lawsuit alleging child pornography on the Nevermind album art.Nevermind became an unexpected critical and commercial. I’m sure we’ll come up with something good.” Nevermind is the second studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991. “I have many ideas of how we should alter that cover, but we’ll see what happens,” he said. In a recent interview with The Times Magazine, Dave Grohl revealed that future Nevermind reissues could potentially come with different artwork. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Nirvanas Nevermind album the original money-chasing baby Spencer Elden joined photographer John Chapple in.

Thirty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark 1991 album Nevermind, it looks like the band may be forced to change the LP’s iconic cover. The man who was photographed naked underwater as a baby and later ended up on Nirvana's iconic 'Nevermind' album cover filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging he was a victim of child pornography.
