you can take your driver’s licence and go into Wal-Mart and buy an AK47, but they wouldn’t take an album cover with a baby’s penis on it.

‘And we were like, ‘Who cares?’ We weren’t going to make a different cover. “But then the record blew up quickly and it was like: ‘Well, Wal-Mart won’t take this. Showing Editorial results for nirvana nevermind. “Nobody paid any heed to the cover at our company,” recalls A&R man Gary Gersh. Browse 71 nirvana nevermind stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Several major US record chains refused to stock Nevermind and Cobain only agreed to the artwork being censored if the sticker read: ‘If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet paedophile’. That didn’t wash with the puritans of America, however, who upon the album’s release in 1991 flooded the airwaves with accusations of paedophilia. Capitalism was the focal point – not the genitals of a new-born baby. It was a satirical statement, but essentially an innocent one. 30 to respond to the motion, but his legal team missed the deadline and so the case was dismissed.Nirvana’s label DGC label didn’t force any problems with the Nevermind cover. The defendants in the case - which included former band members, as well as Kurt Cobain's estate, photographer Kirk Weddle, Universal Music, Geffen Records, Warner Records and MCA Music - filed a motion to dismiss the case last month.Įlden had until Dec. Now 30, he was seeking $150,000 in damages. Elden was just 4 months old when he was photographed for the cover. Spencer Elden sued former members of the band in August 2021 for child exploitation and pornography, saying the band knowingly distributed a naked photo of him as a baby on the 1991 album cover and profited from it. Nirvana artifacts and exhibits are seen at the opening of 'In Bloom: The Nirvana Exhibition,' marking the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's Nevermind album, in 2011 at the Loading Bay Gallery in London.Ī judge in California has dismissed a lawsuit filed against former band members of Nirvana over their iconic Nevermind album cover.

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