The night John Waters met Nico: “Where can I get some heroin?”
The conversation was as strange as you’d expect.
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When The Velvet Underground survived a week of shows without Lou Reed and Nico in 1966
The Velvet Underground played Chicago in June 1966 without Reed or Nico.
‘Your Kisses Burn’: The haunting final duet between Marc Almond and Nico
A saddening moment in history.
A long, rambling blog post about my Nico obsession (+ some astonishing, seldom seen TV performances)
“I’m very interested in murder.” –Nico, 1970 Via an intense David Bowie fandom, and also from being an avid reader of CREEM magazine, I discovered the…
A pre-Velvet Underground Nico’s first single with a young Jimmy Page and Brian Jones
Before she became the Teutonic ice queen chanteuse of the Velvet Underground, Nico, via her then boyfriend Rolling Stone Brian Jones, was introduced to Stones…
Andy Warhol and Nico dressed up as Batman and Robin, 1966
Seriously, the wealth of batty–pun intended–images from the 1960s never ceases to amaze me. Here we have the foremost pop artist of the era and…
Nico sings Serge Gainsbourg, bares all in ‘Strip-Tease’
Between appearing in La Dolce Vita and cutting a single with Jimmy Page and Andrew Loog Oldham, Nico beat out Ursula Andress for the lead…
’Sãeta’: Nico live in Europe, 1983
Few albums have been, completely by accident, so aptly titled as Nico’s The Drama of Exile. Its recording and release history is convoluted and rife…
‘Sunday Morning’ animation celebrates ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico,’ released 50 years ago today
When illustrator James Eads saw the morphing gifs Chris McDaniel (aka TheGlitch.og) made from his work, he described the result as not “moving so as…