“Weddle took a series of sexually graphic nude photographs of Spencer. RELATED: James Blake Performs Soulful Cover Of Nirvana’s ‘Come As You Are’ Elden is seeking $150,000 from each of the defendants.Īlso named is original Nirvana drummer Chad Channing, despite the fact that he had been replaced by Grohl in 1990, prior to recording the album and the creation of the cover. Named as defendants in the suit are surviving band members Dave Grohl and Kristen Novoselic Courtney Love, the executor of Kurt Cobain’s estate Guy Oseary and Heather Parry, managers of Cobain’s estate photographer Kirk Weddle art director Robert Fisher as well as a number of existing or defunct record companies involved in the release and distribution of the album over the years. “Defendants used child pornography depicting Spencer as an essential element of a record promotion scheme commonly utilized in the music industry to get attention, wherein album covers posed children in a sexually provocative manner to gain notoriety, drive sales, and garner media attention, and critical reviews.” “Defendants intentionally commercially marketed Spencer’s child pornography and leveraged the shocking nature of his image to promote themselves and their music at his expense,” the suit alleges. District Court’s central district of California alleging the image on the album cover constitutes child pornography. RELATED: Dave Grohl Stuns Pharrell By Revealing ‘Disco’ Inspiration Behind Drums On Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ AlbumĪccording to Variety, Elden, now age 30, filed suit in the U.S. I’m sure we’ll come up with something good.” “I have many ideas of how we should alter that cover, but we’ll see what happens,” he told The Times. In 1991, Elden appeared as a fourth-month-old baby in the nude, swimming in a pool, on the now-iconic cover of Nirvana’s acclaimed album Nevermind, but now he is suing.īecause of the lawsuit, Dave Grohl has said that future reissues could have different artwork. Nirvana’s most famous album cover could be changing.

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