The famous Nirvana album cover for “Nevermind” the one with the naked baby in a swimming pool floating toward a fishing line with a dollar bill on it, is now 17 years old. Spencer Elden looks back at the famous Nirvana cover after 17 years and admits to find it embarrassing to find himself as a naked baby on an album cover that so many people all over the world has already seen.

The kid Spencer Elden is not living the rich and famous world, and not in any big career. He got his fame just for that one photo for the album cover. He is just a normal everyday person like all of us, living with family and still in high school. He also says being a kid now isn’t as great as being a kid in the 90’s.

How did Spencer get the job for getting dunked underwater for a photo for an album cover? Spencer’s father is a friend of a photographer who was shooting photos for the “Nevermind” album. “Nevermind” became the biggest selling album in the history of music and now the whole world knows what Spencer is like as a naked baby. “Nevermind” is still a very popular album to this day and forever will be.

Read this interesting article here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92833535&ps=bb1

I remember when I first bought the album when I was a teenager, I was like “wtf”? Why is there a naked baby on the album cover in a swimming pool? I’m sure everyone who bought the album thought the same thing and that’s the point. It was meant to be a controversial album cover to help create a buzz in the music business.

Kev