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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 7 March 1970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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 24 September 1977
"FROZEN WARNINGS close to mine, close to the frozen borderline......" ...
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 ...
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 ...
Live Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1980
Be Real Kraut For Me, Baby! ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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