Nevermind has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.

The album represents Nirvana's mainstream breakthrough and a seismic shift in the landscape of pop music in the '90s. The 30th anniversary of Nevermind is September 24. Elden is seeking $150,000 from each defendant for allegedly producing, possessing and advertising 'commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so.'Įlden claims that Cobain initially agreed to place a sticker on the album, covering his genitals, but the sticker was never incorporated into the LP design. The lawsuit names 15 defendants - including Kurt Cobain's estate, surviving Nirvana band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl and the band's record labels. Spender Elden, 30, is suing Nirvana for damages and one of his lawyers, Maggie Mabie, said her client is 'asking for Nirvana to do what Nirvana should have done 30 years ago and redact the images of his genitalia from the album cover,' reports the New York Times. It’s strange that I did this for five minutes when I was 4 months old and it became this really iconic image,” he told the newspaper.The man who was photographed nude as a baby for Nirvana's iconic Nevermind album cover claims in a new lawsuit against the band that he was exploited for the image.

Nonetheless, Elden, who has “Nevermind” tattooed across his chest, shared some thoughts about being a really famous baby. “I said to the photographer, ‘Let’s do it naked.’ But he thought that would be weird, so I wore my swim shorts,” Elden told the New York Post. Elden originally asked the photographer if he could jump in the pool sans undergarments, to better simulate his original nakedness. That naked baby is now a fully clothed man named Spencer Elden, and last Saturday he recreated the iconic photo for the album’s 25th anniversary. As far as album covers go, it's instantly recognizable.

Nirvana’s 1994 album Nevermind - which changed rock 'n’ roll and sold 30 million copies worldwide and a bunch of other stuff - featured on its cover a naked baby swimming in a pool, chasing after a dollar attached to a fishing line.

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