File this under "where the hell did the time go?": the baby on the cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album turns 16 next month. Spencer Elden, who was born July 9th, 1991, was 4 months old when the cover was shot. Not sure why, but a bunch of sites got the math wrong and say he's turning 17. Dang, I remember playing the hell out of that cassette when I was in high school. Yes junior, we had cassette tapes back then, and played them on "walkmans".
The story behind that cover:
The story behind that cover:
Nevermind, Nirvana (1991): The image of a baby underwater reaching for a dollar bill was the idea of Kurt Cobain. "One day, Dave and I were watching a documentary on babies being born underwater and I thought 'Let's put that on the album cover'," said Cobain.
The band used photographer Kirk Weddle. The shoot was held at a swimming school and parents brought along their babies. They took turns passing them back and forth in the water in front of the photographer. The shot of 4-month-old Spencer Elden was used in the end. The photo was shot on 35mm film with a camera locked in an underwater housing unit. The fishhook and dollar bill, Cobain's ideas, were superimposed later.
From Blowing Their Cover by Julia Stuart
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