Whatever Happened to the Kid from Nirvana’s Nevermind Album Cover?
Leave it to Wikipedia to give us the scoop:
Spencer Elden (born on June 27, 1991) is the model who appeared on the cover of Nirvana’s album Nevermind. Nirvana considered using a stock photograph of a swimming baby, but when that proved too expensive, they hired photographer Kirk Weddle. Weddle’s friends, Renata and Rick Elden, allowed their son Spencer to be photographed for about $200. The hook, line, and dollar were superimposed later. After seeing the photo, Kurt Cobain (Nirvana’s lead singer) and his wife Courtney Love agreed that they would take Spencer out to dinner when he got older.
In 2001, Elden re-created the Nirvana album shot for Rolling Stone magazine, for Nevermind’s tenth-anniversary. Elden has since appeared on the cover of cEvin Key’s The Dragon Experience in 2003.
In a September 2006 interview with NME, Elden expressed his interest in meeting up with the remaining band members, and seems to be a fan of Nirvana, saying “Nevermind is fifteen years old now, but you still hear the singles being played on the radio and it just doesn’t sound dated. Most bands around today can’t even get near to what Nirvana did on that album, and I’ll always be happy to be a part of it.”
And leave it to Coudal to dig this story up.