“ Nevermind was a special record,” the album’s producer Butch Vig recently fondly recollected to Far Out. Cobain did eventually agree to not show Elden’s penis on the cover on the record but only on the condition that there would be a sticker covering the genitalia reading: “If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet paedophile.” Geffen didn’t want to show Elden’s penis on the cover and tried their hardest to get Nirvana to agree on an alternative cover but getting the band to budge would be easier said than done. Photographer Kirk Weddle was sent out by Fisher to a local pool to shoot the cover art after recruiting his friends baby to take part, for a fee of just $200.
They then came to a compromise and went for the swimming baby option but the label was unwilling to shell out $7,500 on a stock image of a swimming baby so, instead, they created their own. The singer then brought this up next time he saw Geffen’s art director Robert Fisher who discovered some stock footage of underwater births which was immediately ruled out by the label bosses. You can change these settings by clicking “Ad Choices / Do not sell my info” in the footer at any time.Cobain was the mastermind behind the operation and the initial idea came to the late frontman when he was watching a programme about water births. Please note that you will still see advertising, but it will not be personalised to you. You can choose not to receive personalised ads by clicking “Reject data collection and continue” below. Read more about how we personalise ads in the BBC and our advertising partners. When you consent to data collection on AMP pages you are consenting to allow us to display personalised ads that are relevant to you when you are outside of the UK. We use local storage to store your consent preferences on your device. Read more about the essential information we store on your device to make our web pages work. To make our web pages work, we store some limited information on your device without your consent. The lightweight mobile page you have visited has been built using Google AMP technology. You may be asked to set these preferences again when you visit non-AMP BBC pages.
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