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Love Is All Around by British band Wet Wet Wet was a hit 30 years ago.

I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes … it’s my first reminiscence bump

Adults over 40 have an enhanced recollection of events that happened during adolescence. Music superpowers what psychologists call the “reminiscence bump”.

  • Rachael Jacobs

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Nirvana band members Krist Novoselic, from left, Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain pose after receiving the award for best alternative video for In Bloom at the 10th annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1993.

Lawsuit over naked baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind album is revived

Spencer Elden was four months old when he was photographed in 1991 by a family friend for the photo that would grace the cover of the legendary Nirvana album.

  • Matt Stevens
A teenage Spencer Elden strikes a familiar pose recreating the album cover for Nirvana’s Nevermind.

Nirvana win dismissal of ‘Nevermind’ naked baby’s lawsuit

Nirvana have won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a man who claimed his depiction on the cover of the band’s seminal 1991 album was child pornography.

  • Jonathan Stempel
Robert Patterson’s Batman is morally exhausted and spiritually drained.

What hope do we have? Even Batman seems to have given up

Surely a culture must be in terminal strife when its fictional superheroes can barely see the point of going on.

  • David Free
Big Day Out - 30-year anniversary.

Thirty years of Big Day Out: the memories we’ll never forget

It wasn’t the first major music festival in Australia but for much of its 22 years Big Day Out was the most important.

  • David King, Michelle Griffin, Martin Boulton, Nick Miller, Daniella Miletic, Robert Moran, Karl Quinn and Sophia Phan
The cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind featuring Spencer Elden as an infant.

Judge dismisses lawsuit of man who was nude baby on Nevermind

The 30-year-old man alleged the image of him on the famous 1991 album cover was child pornography.

  • Andrew Dalton
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Kurt Cobain of Nirvana at the Big Day Out music festival in Sydney, January 25, 1992.

Nirvana’s Nevermind at 30: Tim Rogers on the album that changed music

The You Am I frontman recalls supporting Nirvana when they played in Australia after releasing the landmark album.

  • Tim Rogers
The cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind featuring a four-month-old Spencer Elden.

A naked baby helped Nirvana sell millions of records. Now 30, he’s suing the band for ‘child pornography’

Spencer Elden has filed a lawsuit over his depiction on one of the most famous album covers of all time.

  • Jonathan Edwards
Former Sydney Swan Brandon Jack has released a memoir of his turbulent time in football.

Raw and visceral, Brandon Jack’s memoir not the typical AFL story

Brandon Jack isn’t sure he ever wanted to play football. But he was the son and brother of football royalty and he didn’t opt out when he could have.

  • Andrew Stafford
Peter Freedman with Kurt Cobain's guitar purchased in 2020 and which will go on tour to highlight the plight of COVID-19 impacted artists and musicians.

Sydney Festival receives record philanthropic donation

The donor is a leading businessman who shot to public prominence when he purchased Kurt Cobain's MTV Unplugged guitar at auction for nearly $9 million.

  • Linda Morris

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