Controversy Nirvana Nevermind Album Cover
Weddle took many photographs including underwater shots of the band members themselves.
Controversy nirvana nevermind album cover. If you see the cover of nevermind it s easy to see what people found so objectionable in the image but in this case the band didn t set out to start a controversy cobain and crew were originally inspired by water births and got photographer kirk weddle on the idea. One score and one year ago a rock trio from aberdeen washington released their first official album nevermind collection of 12 okay 13 songs that would come to be regarded as one of the greatest rock albums of all time the now iconic album cover featured a three month old infant the new son of the photographer s friend swimming. Nevermind is the second studio album by the american rock band nirvana released on september 24 1991 and their first release on dgc records despite low commercial expectations by the band and the label nevermind became a surprise success in late 1991 largely due to the popularity of its first single smells like teen spirit.
The story behind nirvana s nevermind cover shoot. 02 22 2013 09 00 am et updated dec 06 2017 some of the greatest album cover photos were not exactly products of careful planning.