The two young girls on the cover of The Smashing Pumpkins are called Ali Laenger and Lysandra Roberts.
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The Smashing Pumpkins – 'Siamese Dream' (1993) But, yeah, I thought it was a very nice cover." It made everything else look big." Livingstone told the magazine: "When I saw the cover, I thought it was quite interesting, but I thought, 'Well, that could be anybody,' so it's not like I got any kind of ego buzz out of it. I wanted someone petite because it just gave the landscape a bit more grandeur. She was quite petite, very, very cooperative. Sourced from a London model agency, McMillan remembered: "She was a fantastic model. Of course, central to the eerie 'Black Sabbath' sleeve is the ghostly, enigmatic woman in black, who is seemingly referenced in the opening lines of the title track and opening song on the record: "What is this that stands before me? / Figure in black which points at me." For decades there's been an air of mystery around the woman on the sleeve, however in a February 2020 interview with Rolling Stone, McMillan revealed it was a woman called Louisa Livingstone who was around 18/19 at the time of the shoot.
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The timeless and highly eerie cover for Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album in 1970 was shot by photographer Keith McMillan at the 15th Century Mapledurham Watermill, located on the banks of the River Thames in Oxfordshire. He previously recreated the ‘Nevermind’ album cover when he was 17 in 2008, and again aged 25 in 2016. Spencer Elden was four months old in 1991 when he was photographed submerged in a swimming pool for the ‘Nevermind’ artwork.
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The suit also alleges the defendants 'used child pornography depicting Spencer as an essential element of a record promotion scheme commonly utilized in the music industry to get attention, wherein album covers posed children in a sexually provocative manner to gain notoriety, drive sales, and garner media attention, and critical reviews.'Įlden is seeking damages of either $150,000 (around £109,000) from each of the 17 defendants or unspecified damages to be determined at trial.Įlden is also seeking attorney fees, an injunction to prohibit all parties "from continuing to engage in the unlawful acts and practices described herein" and a trial by jury. The lawsuit states: ‘The permanent harm he has proximately suffered includes but is not limited to extreme and permanent emotional distress with physical manifestations, interference with his normal development and educational progress, lifelong loss of income earning capacity, loss of past and future wages, past and future expenses for medical and psychological treatment, loss of enjoyment of life, and other losses to be described and proven at trial of this matter.’
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The album has been featured on several “best of” lists, including being named as the best album of the 1990s by Rolling Stone, Associated Press, and Spin magazine.Elden is also suing for distribution of private sexually explicit materials, negligence, and what’s described as a 'sex trafficking venture' where Elden 'was forced to engage in commercial sexual acts while under the age of 18 years old.' This helped propel bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day from the underground to global superstardom. The surprise success of Nevermind, with over 24 million copies sold worldwide, also brought a spotlight to both Seattle-home of other grunge bands such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains-and alternative rock as a whole. Nirvana’s second album, Nevermind, was the impetus for rock music to resurge on the charts, then dominated by pop stars it replaced Michael Jackson’s Dangerous for the top spot on the Billboard 200 in January of 1992, four months after its release.įeaturing new drummer Dave Grohl and production by Butch Vig-who became highly requested and formed his own band afterward, called Garbage-the project contained much more well-developed material than June 1989’s Bleach, while conveying a level of angst that every Generation X-er could identify with.