In The Nico Time
Chris Bohn, NME, Spring 1981
HEY-HO, is it really that time of the decade already? Once again Nico has surreptitiously floated into the public consciousness just when she was about to be written off and into the footnotes of the Velvet Underground legend, too. Whereas before she'd drift right back out of it unnoticed, she's intent on leaving a more permanent impression this trip.
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