It’s cool but weird to be part of something so important that I don’t even remember.”In 2008, Spencer’s father, Rick, recounted the 1991 shoot to NPR. It’s strange that I did this for five minutes when I was 4 months old and it became this really iconic image. A possibly new contention in the lawsuit is that Elden’s parents never even signed paperwork allowing any use of the image.“Neither Spencer nor his legal guardians ever signed a release authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him,” reads the suit.The filing references some famous, or infamous, moments in rock album art history: “The concept and creation of this image replicated previous controversial campaigns used to promote music with sexually explicit material depicting a child or outright child pornography, including the album covers for Scorpion’s ‘Virgin Killer,’ Blind Faith’s ‘Blind Faith’ and Van Halen’s ‘Balance.'”In 2016, the last time Spencer recreated the pose as an adult, he told the New York Post, “The anniversary means something to me. In previous interviews, he’s said he tried to get in touch with Grohl and Novoselic, on a friendly basis, but never got a reply.
Yet, he added in the 2016 story, “It’s hard not to get upset when you hear how much money was involved… I go to a baseball game and think about it: ‘Man, everybody at this baseball game has probably seen my little baby penis,’ I feel like I got part of my human rights revoked.”Among the past and present record companies named in the suit, besides the now-defunct DGC and Geffen imprints, are Warner Records (reflecting Warner Music Group’s long-expired distribution deal with Geffen in the early ’90s), MCA Music and the Universal Music Group (which currently has the Nirvana catalog via the Interscope Geffen A&M label). It’s pretty difficult — you feel like you’re famous for nothing, but you didn’t really do anything but their album.”He said then that he recognized the cover concept was “genius” — and, in fact, had the “Nevermind” emblem tattooed on this chest. I just woke up already being a part of this huge project. I didn’t get a call or email.
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