It’s strange that I did this for five minutes when I was 4 months old and it became this really iconic image. In a New York Post piece coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the album, he is quoted as saying, “I said to the photographer, ‘Let’s do it naked.’ But he thought that would be weird, so I wore my swim shorts. Why not? I think it would be fun.”Įlden has repeatedly re-created the image over the years (albeit in swim trunks), posing for shoots commemorating the album’s various anniversaries. Sooner or later, I want to create a print of a real-deal re-enactment shot, completely naked. In a 2015 interview with the Guardian, Elden said, “I might have one of the most famous penises in the music industry, but no one would ever know that to look at me. The suit also names former Nirvana drummer Chad Channing, who was replaced by Grohl before the album was recorded or the cover was shot.
Nude but non-sexualized images of children are not necessarily considered child pornography under the law: The Department of Justice defines child pornography as “any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor.” A common interpretation of the cover image concerns the band’s critique of capitalism.ĭefendants include surviving members of the band Dave Grohl (now of Foo Fighters) and Kurt Novoselic, as well as Courtney Love (Kurt Cobain’s widow and executor of his estate) and a number of record companies connected to the album, some of which are now defunct. “Defendants used child pornography depicting Spencer as an essential element of a record promotion scheme commonly utilized in the music industry to get attention, wherein album covers posed children in a sexually provocative manner to gain notoriety, drive sales, and garner media attention, and critical reviews.”
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