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Baby from Nirvana‘s ’Nevermind’ Album Cover Grows Up

Baby From Nirvana Nevermind Cover 20 Years Later

Spencer Elden 20 years later (Photo by British photographer John Chapple)

Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the release of Nevermind, the iconic grunge-band Nirvana’s breakout record. With hit singles such as “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come As You Are,” Nevermind is credited with bringing alternative rock to the mainstream. As famous as the album’s lead singles is Nevermind’s cover, a naked baby chasing a dollar underwater.

Baby From Nirvana Nevermind Cover 20 Years Later

The baby is now 20-year-old art student Spencer Elden. Elden spoke with CNN recently to discuss the story behind photo, and what life has been like as the “Nevermind baby:”

The self-described Nirvana fan has never met the band members despite his iconic image‘s place in Nirvana’s history. The band’s lead singer and guitarist died in April, 1994, at age 27.

The album spent 253 weeks on the Billboard Top 200, and 30 Million copies of Nevermind have been sold worldwide.

(H/T: Daily Mail)

Comments (21)

  • NewAmericanist
    Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:09am

    Great record. Cool pic. Too bad the kid didn’t get to meet the band members that lived. Oh well, so what, who cares, oh nevermind.

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  • mullikrk
    Posted on September 27, 2011 at 3:28am

    Hi, I don’t like this album because it promotes the homosexual agenda. Just look at it.

    The only albums I like are ones done by Perry Cuomo. I like to listen to it in front of my life-sized poster of Lee Majors in his star-spangled motorcycle helmet.

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  • Cosmos102
    Posted on September 27, 2011 at 1:46am

    E-gads… Next story please. NEXT.

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  • The_Sum_Total_Of_Progressivism_Is_Epic_Failure
    Posted on September 27, 2011 at 12:39am

    Cool Cover, Historic Album

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  • moodtd01
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:43pm

    Oh, I watched the video after I commented. So it was an idiot hippy story after all. Does anyone else think this album cover may be considered child pornography?
    I‘m Just Sayin’.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 12:20am

      I think so…I know I wouldn’t like it with my son…even 20 years ago, what was that mom thinking…apparently dollar signs.

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    • ObserverMI
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 4:57am

      Child Pornography? Really? Your joking right?
      Where is your mind at to even ‘Think’ of that?

      I saw that album cover when it first came out and seen it hundreds of times since.
      And not ‘Once’ did any such thought let alone an inkling of a thought like that come to mind.

      I see a baby underwater, in a pool, eying a dollar bill.
      And you see…..
      Geez.

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    • Tusker
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 11:33am

      Nope, I don’t think so. I think it being an album cover and musicians are artists, I’d consider it art. (not really my cup of tea) but art just the same.

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  • aquablue
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:41pm

    Dang! I rememeber when my 14 year old son had to go to a Nirvana concert. Where does time go?
    I always liked Nirvana.
    Anyhow, this is kinda like revisitng Mikey, the Life Cereal kid. Hey Mikey! lol

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  • motherof18
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:41pm

    Hopefully his peepee has grown up also.

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  • moodtd01
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:37pm

    Why is this story on The Blaze? It makes not difference, has no relevance, The World Is Coming Apart! I expect to see stupid crap like this just about anywhere except here. Aren’t there any Druggedup Anarchist Socialist Stinky Dirty Liberal Indoctrinated Hippy type stories to post?
    I‘m Just Sayin’.

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    • aquablue
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:45pm

      Come on….lighten up!! Breaks like this are a nice distraction from the ugliness of politics. The Blaze is my hme page now!

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    • ObserverMI
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 5:04am

      I thought it was a good story that helps break up the norm.

      Plus I thought it neat to see what the kid grew up to look like. It‘s not ’ground breaking’ yet it was a cool little piece that brought back some memories and a grin to the face.

      Was relevant in a nostalgia kinda way. Nice little break from the constant deepening foundational cracks to our financial and social systems. Even the Lord broke some bread and had a laugh in between saving the world.

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  • Jackie Rogers, Jr.
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:34pm

    I thought my, “nude lying on a rug”, baby pictures were enbarassing, but only a few people have ever seen those. I can’t imagine how traumatized I would be knowing 30 million people had nude photos of me.

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  • Wringeaux
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:21pm

    Shouldn’t he be looking at the dollar rather than the camera ?

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:27pm

      I was gonna say this story smells (like teen spirit), but Nevermind.

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    • ObserverMI
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 5:05am

      Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:27pm

      I was gonna say this story smells (like teen spirit), but Nevermind.

      ‘Very’ Good Wool-Free Vision, Very Good indeed.

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