If it had not been for Elden's mother, Weddle might not have come up with the concept for the Nirvana album cover at all. And then all of a sudden, it took off, and I just happened to be on the album cover." "At the time, my parents didn't know who Nirvana was. It never really struck me like, 'Oh, shit, that's me on the cover.' It's always just been whatever for me," said Elden. "It's kind of cool, knowing that I've been on an album cover, but I feel pretty normal about it because growing up, I've always known I was the Nirvana baby. He is one of the few people to have a platinum record of Nevermind hanging on his bedroom wall and has even confessed, in youthful moments of hormonal agitation, to using the chat up line "You want to see my penis. Little did they know at the time that the picture would feature in millions of record collections all over the world.īut Elden, now a 17 year-old High School pupil in Eagle Rock, California, who works part time in a juice shop, surfs, snowboards and dreams of becoming an airline pilot, has had some recompense for his unsolicited fame.
I feel like I'm the world's biggest porn star," Spencer Elden, who was three months old when the picture was taken, told MTV News.Įlden's parents were paid just $200 for allowing their infant son to be photographed by their friend, photographer Kirk Weddle. "It's kind of creepy that that many people have seen me naked. The star of the cover of the band's second studio album, Nevermind, has rather more complicated feelings towards the image. To millions of music fans, the underwater photograph of a naked baby, a dollar note floating before his face, will forever mean Nirvana.
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