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Spencer Elden recreates Nevermind cover shot in 2008
Covershot from Nirvana's Nevermind

From Mail Online 26 September 2011

The unwitting star of Nirvana’s Nevermind album wasn’t old enough to be aware of his role in the birth of grunge music.

Fine Art student Spencer Elden, now 20, is still introduced as the ‘Nirvana baby’ two decades after the release of the album and has learned to cope with the extra attention his brush with fame generates. Read more

According to an earlier interview with MTV in his teens, being the Nirvana baby has had its perks “when trying to pick up ladies”, but also led to Elden being invited to swim in a wealthy woman’s pool for the mere fact that he was the Nirvana baby. Read more

 

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