Lead singer Kurt Cobain agreed to only one compromise: a strategically placed sticker that would read: “If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile.” The original album art went out untouched. WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS: According to band biographer Michael Azerrad ( Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana), the label wanted to use a different image. 'NEVERMIND' BABY REFILES LAWSUIT AGAINST NIRVANA AFTER DISMISSAL Nirvana has won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a man who claimed his depiction as a naked four-month-old baby on the cover of the. The label was okay with the anti-capitalism message, but had concerns about the prominent display of baby genitalia. The now-iconic album cover featured a three-month old infant - the new son of the photographer’s friend - swimming towards a dollar bill hooked on some fishing line. The decision was the third of a series and it will now be impossible for Elden to return to the office.THE CONTROVERSY: One score and one year ago, a rock trio from Aberdeen, Washington, released their first “official” album, Nevermind, collection of 12 - okay, 13 - songs that would come to be regarded as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. In the lawsuit, which began in August 2021, Elden spoke of emotional distress, loss of earning power and "loss of the enjoyment of life" and that it all continued into adulthood, but the judge again rejected these arguments. Weddle photographed the baby in 1991 at the Pasadena Aquatic Center in California. In the third appeal, former band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, several record labels and photographer Kirk Weddle, author of the iconic cover shot of perhaps the band's most famous album, were involved. Olguin, however, said that the man waited too long to be able to accuse Nirvana of having sexually exploited him. "It has been over ten years since Elden became aware of the fact," argued Los Angeles District Judge Fernando Olguin.Įlden had accused the famous grunge band of child pornography for the image in which he as a baby chased a dollar bill hanging from a fish hook. (ANSA) - NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 03 - The spirit of Kurt Cobain can now rest in peace: Nirvana have obtained the filing of the case for the cover photo of 'Nevermind', brought by Spencer Elden, portrayed as a child in the iconic shot of the cover of the Seattle band's most famous album, while swimming in the pool.
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