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Baby Turned 30-Year-Old Man From Infamous Nirvana Album Cover Says “Nevermind… I’m Suing The Band!”

today26 August 2021

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Throwback Thursday: Watch Nirvana Play David Bowie's 'The Man Who Sold the World' Acoustic | Acoustic Guitar
source: Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Nirvana is often noted as the grunge band of the ’90s (though they formed in ’87) and their classic record Nevermind that broke the trio into the mainstream is held on a pedestal against the rest of their releases.

Spawning evergreen hits like ‘Come As You Are’ and ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, Nevermind quickly grew in popularity and it didn’t hurt that they had such an evocative album cover to match.

The Nirvana Baby Claims Nevermind Art Is Porn, Sues Nirvana
source: Vulture

The album cover shows a baby in a swimming pool reaching out for a dollar bill that’s being dangled by a fishing hook. I don’t need to explain it, because by now, we all know what the cover symbolises.

Spencer Elden, the baby from the cover, is now 30-years-old and while he had been happy to be a part of such an iconic artwork all these years by posing with it and even recreating it in his 20s, he is now changing his tune.

Similar to the instantly recognisable cover from the Artic Monkeys’ Whatever…

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Written by: Ameera Rosli


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