“I was hired as a designer out of art school and I worked my way up to an art director position. But before Nevermind’s release, Nirvana were an unknown band and Fisher was an equally unknown graduate working at Geffen.

The cover now features in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection and is regarded as a design classic. Part of Nevermind’s success was almost certainly due to its incredible cover, created by Robert Fisher. The record went on to sell over 30 million copies and is widely considered to be one of the greatest albums of all time. It brought alternative rock to the mainstream and almost overnight made Nirvana the biggest band in the world. Elden and his lawyers claim the iconic cover 'intentionally commercially marketed Spencer’s child pornography' and that 'Cobain chose the image depicting Spencer - like a sex worker - grabbing for a dollar bill.' The legal team also demanded that UMe change the artwork for the upcoming Nevermind reissue.Įlden is currently seeking $150,000 each from Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic Courtney Love, who serves as the executor of Kurt Cobain’s estate both of the estate's managers Guy Oseary and Heather Parry photographer Kirk Weddle, who took the initial photo art director of Nevermind Robert Fisher original drummer Chad Channing, who was not a part of Nevermind and 'a number of existing or defunct record companies that released or distributed the album in the last three decades.When it was released in 1991, Nirvana’s Nevermind sent shockwaves through the music world. The potential change in artwork stems from a lawsuit filed by Spencer Elden, the (now 30-year-old) baby swimming to catch a dollar on the cover of Nevermind. I'm sure we'll come up with something good.' 'I have many ideas of how we should alter that cover, but we'll see what happens,' he said.

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