Photographer Weddle shot 18 frames and Spencer’s parents were paid $200. That’s why we’re telling you the basics about the cover to Nirvana’s classic, Nevermind. ![]() Peterson/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images Kirk Weddle It’s one of the most famous album covers from the past 30 years, and that means you probably have some questions about it. Nirvana: Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain, & Krist Novoselic.Ĭharles J. Elden, in an interview with CNN, said, 'Looking back, it feels kind of stupid doing interviews about it, because I had nothing to do with it, but a lot to do with it all at the same time. In the suit Elden claimed that the album cover, which depicts him at four months old and was taken by a family friend, had caused him permanent harm and a lifelong loss of income-earning. ![]() You hold him up really close to your face. He got a huge Nevermind tattoo on his chest in cursive letters and recreated the album cover thrice: at the ages of 11, 17, and finally 25. “You blow in the kid's face and it creates a gag reflex. Spencer’s dad Richard was actually a lifeguard, so he knew what he was doing: “There's tricks to it,” he told CNN in 2008. In the 30 years since it first appeared, Nirvana’s diamond-selling record Nevermind has seen several re-releases and. ![]() I was just born so they went down to the local pool and threw me in the drink.” Baby chasing the dollar on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Spencer Elden was just four months old when he featured on Nirvnana's Nevermind cover.Įlden told Buzzfeed in 2011: “He called up my dad saying, ‘They’re paying me to take this picture of a baby underwater and I don’t have a baby’.
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