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Nico: Drama Of Exile (Aura)*****

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 4 July 1981

TANGLED UP in myth, perspective gets shot all to hell. Even the official biographical sheet accompanying this album repeats the old chestnut that John Cale ...

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Nico Leads Andrew's Off Beat Company...

Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 28 August 1965

PETER JONES REPORTS ...

The Velvet Underground, Nico, the Mothers of Invention: The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 30 May 1966

Gimmicky 'Explosion' ...

The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground and Nico (Verve — 32s 5½d)

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 18 November 1967

'Sunday Morning'; 'I'm Waiting For The Man'; 'Femme Fatale'; 'Venus In Furs'; 'Run, Run, Run'; 'All Tomorrow's Parties'; 'Heroin'; 'There She Goes Again'; 'I'll Be ...

Andy Warhol: A Mirror Of American Death

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, 13 June 1968

2012 note: Cometh the hour... Paul Barker, the second and last editor of the UK weekly journal New Society, was once asked to speak on ...

1968: The Shaken City Walls

Overview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 24 December 1968

"AN ELECTRIC caterwauling of power... burning it, flashing it, whirling it down some arc of consciousness, the sound screaming up to a climax of vibrations ...

Letter to a Mystified Man

Comment by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 28 January 1969

DEAR Mr Davey — You write a neat letter, and I smiled, too. Last week you wrote to the editor of the Guardian (January 20). "If you ...

Nico: Desertshore (Reprise)

Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 31 January 1970

IT'S FUNNY, isn't it: this time last year Nico arrived in London, played two quiet gigs at the Roundhouse, and a bare handful of people ...

Nico: I Always Become The Songs That I Sing

Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 7 March 1970

Author's note, 2018: I took Nico to Julie's in Portland Road in 1970. Its style was inspired by Biba. Magnetic people sat around on sofas ...

Nico, the Lonely Chanteuse

Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 21 March 1970

THE SLEEVE of the Velvet Underground's first album was dead right when it read "Nico: chanteuse." Not just "singer," because Nico is more than that, ...

Nico: The Marble Index

Review by Ben Edmonds, Fusion, 12 June 1970

THIS ALBUM was released well over a year ago, sold very few copies, and has been confined to the dungeons of neglect. ...

Nico, the cool enigma

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 30 January 1971

NICO USED to be a blonde; you can see it on the cover of the Velvet Underground's first album, on a photograph from which her ...

Shards of Velvet Afloat in London: Nico and John Cale

Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 18 February 1971

JOHN CALE REACHES too hard for the pay phone in the lobby of his hotel. Bang. It explodes into the soft corner of his forehead, ...

Nico: A Kind Of Frozen Purity

Profile by Lester Bangs, Fusion, 12 November 1971

NICO IS ONE of the true enigmas of our time. Austere, elusive, a tall ghostly woman with an aura of utter loneliness and distance so ...

Last Drongo In Paris

Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 4 May 1974

FRANCOIS MITTERAND… GUY CHABAN DELMAS… GISCARD D'ESTAING… YOU WILL BE AS RELIEVED AS US TO LEARN THAT NONE OF THESE TURGID FRENCH DEMAGOGUES APPEAR IN ...

Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico, Eno: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 8 June 1974

Ayers puts the A in ACNE ...

Nico: I Was a Hausfrau from Hanover — Until I Discovered Heroin...

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 24 August 1974

...the effect is shattering NICO confesses to NICK KENT ...

Kevin Ayers/John Cale/Eno/Nico: June 1, 1974 (Island)

Review by Ira Robbins, Zoo World, 10 October 1974

LIVE ALBUMS have become an abundant nuisance which bands seem to feel an obligation to produce every few years, often with no redeeming content. The ...

Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico & Eno: June 1,1974 (Island)

Review and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Creem, December 1974

Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico, Eno & the Soporifics: The Inmates Have Taken Over ...

Island Records: Treasure Island

Profile by Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, January 1975

GIVEN THE commercial restrictions of the business we call music, it is the rare record company that is willing to lay itself on the line ...

Nico/Mike Heron: Imperial College, London

Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 8 February 1975

NICO DOES RATHER have an ability to polarize her audiences, you know. ...

Eno: The Monkey Wrench Of Rock Creates Happy Accidents On Tiger Mt.

Profile and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, April 1975

One day Eno is going to formulate a theory that will make music melt out of the North Pole (maybe he'll do it with mirrors), ...

John Cale: Fear (Island); Nico: The End (Island)

Review by Mick Brown, Crawdaddy!, May 1975

ALONG WITH Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico were members of the first – and definitive – incarnation of the Velvet Underground. ...

Nico: The End (Island)

Review by Colman Andrews, Creem, May 1975

NICO'S LAST album, Desertshore — her strongest, most varied, most emotionally effective work, was released over four years ago. In the meantime, some of us have been ...

Nico: The Marble Index

Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 24 September 1977

"FROZEN WARNINGS close to mine, close to the frozen borderline......" ...

Nico

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 29 April 1978

THE INTERVIEW took place in a neat flat high on Hampstead Hill. Nico looked much as she always has, dressed in short crushed velvet jacket ...

Nico: Return Of The Pagan Exile

Interview by Maureen Paton, Melody Maker, 29 April 1978

Nico, in London for a one-off gig last Monday and to record an album, talks to Maureen Paton. ...

The Pop Group/LKJ/Nico/Cab Voltaire

Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 21 October 1978

Disorder by juxtaposition. Subversion by paradox. Nothing is as simple as we're told. New feelings. ...

The Pop Group/Nico/Linton Kwesi Johnson/Cabaret Voltaire: An Appraisal Of 'Next Year's Thing'

Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 21 October 1978

The Pop Group/Nico/Linton Kwesi Johnson/Cabaret Voltaire: Electric Ballroom, London ...

Strange Interlude With Nico

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Trouser Press, July 1979

SITTING IN the second floor cocktail lounge at Howard Johnson's, Nico drinks an afternoon breakfast of Bloody Marys and beer. It's a dreary overcast day ...

Nico: Bogart's, Cincinnati

Live Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1980

Be Real Kraut For Me, Baby! ...

In The Nico Time

Interview by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 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 ...

Nico: Do Or Die (Roir)

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 25 December 1982

GIVEN THE Warhol crowd's former wailing buddy's penchant for affixing (ahem!) her name to contracts wherever she finds them without regard to previous moves, 'tis ...

Nico: When The Peroxide Fades

Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 29 January 1983

Nico: The Venue, London ...

Nico/1919: Brixton Ace, London

Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 4 June 1983

ALL'S BEEN quiet on the Killing Joke front for quite a while now, and it was only a matter of time before someone else got ...

Nico: Shrink Rap

Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 27 July 1985

The column that straps the pop wallahs to the psychiatrist's couch. ...

Nico: "Watch Out, The World's Behind You"

Interview by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 3 August 1985

From the mists of time steps a pale, haggard figure with a handful of memories and a single like a photo of the '50s. NICO, ...

Nico: The Girl With The Faraway Eyes

Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 21 February 1986

THERE IS PERHAPS no world quite so cruel as rock and roll, where youth is everything, and with age comes not maturity but redundancy. Unless ...

Nico: A Baleful Dark Brown Voice

Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 23 July 1988

NICO, THE baleful Teutonic queen of sixties New York, has died in Ibiza after a cerebral haemorrhage suffered while cycling in intense mid-day heat. She ...

Nico: Last of the Bohemians

Obituary by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 30 July 1988

NICO, HIGH priestess of Teutonic angst, died in Ibiza last Monday night of a brain haemorrhage. She was found unconscious by the side of her ...

Name Game: Billy Name

Interview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 25 April 1997

At Andy Warhol's Factory everybody wanted to be a star. Everyone except Billy Name. He designed the Factory, curated it, soothed the egos of Warhol's ...

Nico and The Marble Index: A Conversation with Danny Fields

Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, 2002

WHEN THE MARBLE Index appeared in 1969 it seemed unplaceable, flying out of some timeless place, as if we were hearing from a possessed medieval ...

Nico: The Frozen Borderline 1968-1970

Review by Andy Gill, Uncut, March 2007

The Ice Queen Sets Sail: The Marble Index and Desertshore On Two CDs, Plus Demos And Out-Takes ...

Nico: From the Velvets to the void

Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, The Guardian, 16 March 2007

Nico was the original model/actor/singer. Unlike her successors she was absurdly talented, but she was also a violent racist, with an awful darkness at her ...

Chris & Cosey Talk Plans To Finish TG's Desertshore

Report and Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 19 April 2011

LATE LAST WEEK, observant souls on the internet had a look at Chris & Cosey's website and noticed that their Event Horizon page of planned ...

Chelsea Mädchen: The Funny Side of Nico

Review by Larry Jaffee, Rock's Backpages, 25 November 2011

NICO NEVER STRUCK me as funny. Some of her more morose material, such as her even more gothic take on the Doors' 'The End', or the ...

Nico Icon: Directed by Susanne Ofteringer

Film/DVD/TV Review by Archie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, December 2012

NICO DIED ALMOST 25 years ago yet the impact of her music lives on. Her work has influenced countless other people's music. The film Nico ...

All That Is My Own: Nico at Steve Paul's The Scene, October 1967

Book Excerpt by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, 'You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone' (Faber), July 2021

Excerpted from Jennifer Otter Bickerdike's You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico, published this month by Faber ...

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