We went to lunch and we were like ‘How about a burrito?’ ‘Oh there’s a dog, what about a dog?’ … it just went on for hours. Another was a CD or something to kind of symbolise music. One idea was a piece of meat, like a big raw steak.

We spent the afternoon sitting around thinking of all the funny things we could put on the fishhook. So Kurt came up with the idea of adding a fishhook to make it more menacing. “We thought ‘Ok, we’ve gotta make it more than just a baby underwater’. I couldn’t find any really good pictures and they were all way too graphic to use.” But it was just like … there’s no way we can make an album cover out of this. Back then before the Internet you would have to go down to the local bookstore and go through child birthing books and try to find photos. Kurt wanted a baby being born underwater. But once I got the advance cassette copy I was blown away. Nobody at the label had any idea it was gonna be that big. I was excited when I heard that Geffen was going to sign Nirvana, so I went and asked if I could work on it. Deixler, a lawyer for the defendants, told the New York Times that his clients were 'pleased this meritless case has been brought to a swift conclusion.“I was hired as a designer out of art school and I worked my way up to an art director position. 'Plaintiff fails to allege that he knew of a violation that occurred while he was a minor or an injury that forms the basis of the claim within ten years of filing this action,' Olguin wrote.Īccording to Reuters, when he was 12 years old in 2003, Elden told Rolling Stone that he was 'probably going to get some money' from being on the album cover.īert H. In a decision published Friday, US District Judge Fernando Olguin dismissed the lawsuit because Elden had waited too long to file it - and ordered that he could not attempt to file a new version of his complaint. Spencer Elden, who was photographed as a 4-month-old for the image that would become the cover, filed the lawsuit in federal court in August 2021, claiming that he was the victim of 'commercial sexual exploitation.' Elden, now 31, asked for $150,000 in damages from 15 defendants, including living former band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic and singer Kurt Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, as well as Cobain's estate managers, photographer Kirk Weddle, and art director Robert Fisher. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the band Nirvana filed by a man who claimed that his depiction as a naked infant on the cover of their 1991 album, Nevermind, was 'child pornography.'

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