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Nico: A Kind Of Frozen Purity

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 stark and total it's positively medieval, as if she belonged to this century only in having verbalized her sense of estrangement from it.

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