en.wikipedia.org om Nevermind, Nirvanas gjennombruddsalbum, utgitt 24. september 1991.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind
Et av verdens mest solgte album, over 30 millioner. Coveret ble bestemt av Kurt Cobain. Også det ble en stor suksess. Et av verdens mest kjente platecovere.
Så, det kommer an på hvor dårlig betalt SE og foreldrene hans fikk, i forhold til salgsinntektene fra albumet. Det var ingen som forventet salgssuksess da albumet ble utgitt.
Det skulle ikke forundre meg om Spencer Elden vil nå frem med et slikt søksmål. Forutsatt at han og hans foreldre fikk urimelig dårlig betalt for fotoet, i forhold til inntektene som Nevermind, med Baby Spencer Elden på coveret, genererte.
Siterer omtalen av coveret. Søksmålet er nevnt i wikipedia-artikkelen. Nederst.
"The album cover shows a naked baby boy, Spencer Elden,[40][41] swimming underwater with a U.S. dollar bill on a fishhook, in front of him, just out of his reach. According to Cobain, he conceived the idea while watching a television program on water births with Grohl. Cobain mentioned it to Geffen's art director Robert Fisher. Fisher found some stock footage of underwater births, but they were too graphic for the record company to use. Furthermore, the stock house that controlled the photo of a swimming baby that they chose wanted $7,500 a year for its use. Instead, Fisher sent a photographer, Kirk Weddle, to a pool for babies to take pictures. Five shots resulted and the band settled on the image of four-month-old Spencer Elden, the son of a friend of Weddle.[42] Geffen were concerned that the infant's penis, visible in the photo, would cause offense, and prepared an alternate cover without it; they relented when Cobain said the only compromise he would accept would be a sticker covering the penis reading: "If you're offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile."[43] The cover has since been recognized as one of the most famous album covers in popular music.[44] A few months after the original baby shot, Kirk Weddle also photographed the entire band underwater for a promotional poster.[45]
The back cover features a photograph of a rubber monkey in front of a collage created by Cobain. The collage features photos of raw beef from a supermarket advertisement, images from Dante's Inferno, and pictures of diseased vaginas from Cobain's collection of medical photos. Cobain noted, "If you look real close, there is a picture of Kiss in the back standing on a slab of beef."[46] The album's liner notes contain no complete lyrics; instead, the liner contains random song lyrics and unused lyrical fragments that Cobain arranged into a poem.[47]
For the album's 10th, 17th and 25th anniversaries, Elden recreated the front cover shot for photographers. He wanted to do the 25th anniversary shoot nude but the photographer preferred that he wore swim shorts.[48] In 2003 he appeared on the cover of cEvin Key's album The Dragon Experience.[49]
In August 2021,[50] Elden sued Cobain's estate and the surviving members of Nirvana, claiming that the use of his likeness on the album cover was done without his consent or that of his legal guardians, that it violated federal child pornography statutes,[51] and that it resulted in "lifelong damages".[52] Elden said that, by refusing to censor the artwork with a sticker, Nirvana had failed to protect him from child sexual exploitation.[53]
