And, fortunately, I don’t have to do the paperwork.” He added: “I think that there’s much more to look forward to and much more to life than getting bogged down in those kinds of things. I’m sure we’ll come up with something good.”īut Grohl is trying not to pay too much attention to the legal row. He told The Sunday Times magazine: “I have many ideas of how we should alter that cover but we’ll see what happens. The iconic artwork features the then-four-month-old Spencer Elden naked in a swimming pool reaching out for a dollar bill but the subject recently took legal action, alleging the image is child pornography and insisting his parents didn’t sign a release authorising the use of his image on the cover.Īnd now, Dave Grohl has suggested the cover could be “altered” for future reissues, after Spencer requested his genitals be censored in any subsequent releases.

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.Dave Grohl has hinted the cover of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ may change. 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. 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 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.

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