Photographer Weddle shot 18 frames and Spencer’s parents were paid $200 at the time. You hold him up really close to your face. 'You blow in the kid's face and it creates a gag reflex. Spencer’s dad Richard was actually a lifeguard, so he knew what he was doing: “There's tricks to it,” he told CNN in 2008 I was just born so they went down to the local pool and threw me in the drink.” His father Rick was a friend of photographer Kirk Weddle, who was setting up the shoot for the album cover.Įlden told Buzzfeed in 2011: “He called up my dad saying, ‘They’re paying me to take this picture of a baby underwater and I don’t have a baby’.

One of the most famous cover stars of all time, baby Spencer was captured in the Pasadena swimming pool after Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl were inspired after watching a TV show about water births. READ MORE: This fact about Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video may change how you feel about it.

Spencer Elden was four months old when he featured on Nirvana's Nevermind cover.

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