Baby From Nirvana’s Album Cover Recreates Iconic Photograph 25 Years Later
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Whether you’re a fan of Nirvana or not, chances are that you’re familiar with the cover of their Nevermind album. It’s the one with a naked baby chasing a dollar in a swimming pool, and a reader’s poll for Rolling Stone magazine rated it as the third most iconic cover of all time.
Well believe it or not, that little baby – named Spencer Elden – is now 25 years old, and in homage to the album’s quarter century anniversary, he recently decided to recreate the pose that made him famous. He wanted to do it “au naturel” in order to stay true to the original, but the photographer John Chapple fortunately talked him out of it and convinced him to wear shorts for the shoot. Chapple paid him $200, which is exactly what Elden’s parents were paid for Spencer’s involvement in the Nevermind cover, but it’s not so much about the money as it is about honoring what is arguably the defining album of the grunge movement.
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First of all, he needs to lose the pants. Secondly, where's the dollar bill?
I agree. I don't care about the dollar bill though :-)
I like the way you think Helen :D
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I wanna suck your dick, ha.
I also thought so...keeping the pants looks like political correctness. Which is rather strange considering that the band probably would not have been considered politically correct.
Nah. It's just censorship. Give David his pants.
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I'm sure he's as tiny as he was when he was a baby so he's a shy coward about it... it could have been shot in a way so that his Vienna Sausage wasn't visible.
Exactly. Where the true re-creation?
That is EXACTLY what I came here to say! LOL
Vickie Chan, I was thinking the same thing!!
Off the pants, agree. And the dollar Bill... well... times are hard, Vickie :(
not an accurate recreation
Yep! There's no dollar. ♥
Right!
Who cares? It's still cool & accurate enough.
hahaha , I agree!!!
The dollar was the point too!!!
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First of all, he needs to lose the pants. Secondly, where's the dollar bill?
I agree. I don't care about the dollar bill though :-)
I like the way you think Helen :D
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I wanna suck your dick, ha.
I also thought so...keeping the pants looks like political correctness. Which is rather strange considering that the band probably would not have been considered politically correct.
Nah. It's just censorship. Give David his pants.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I'm sure he's as tiny as he was when he was a baby so he's a shy coward about it... it could have been shot in a way so that his Vienna Sausage wasn't visible.
Exactly. Where the true re-creation?
That is EXACTLY what I came here to say! LOL
Vickie Chan, I was thinking the same thing!!
Off the pants, agree. And the dollar Bill... well... times are hard, Vickie :(
not an accurate recreation
Yep! There's no dollar. ♥
Right!
Who cares? It's still cool & accurate enough.
hahaha , I agree!!!
The dollar was the point too!!!
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