I don't get Nico.

[Johnny Vodka]

Do you? Can someone explain where her talent was supposed to lie? I can appreciate weird voices, but she genuinely just sounds like she can't sing.

 

[Mr Moose]

Maybe the moment has gone. I'd let it go as a mystery that no longer needs to be solved.

 

[bimble]

I'll be your Mirror would be shit if she could actually sing, that's what makes it beautiful.

 

[gentlegreen]

I saw her (trying) to support Siouxsie and the Banshees in Bristol in 70-something - just her and a harmonium and a room full of beer-swilling "punks".


EDIT :-

17/10/78 apparently...

 

[butchersapron]

Do you? Can someone explain where her talent was supposed to lie? I can appreciate weird voices, but she genuinely just sounds like she can't sing.

She couldn't. Like it or not. It's not really relevant. She was a Briliant cycling racist.

 

[bimble]

Fucking hell, I had no clue. Next time I hear her frail little voice will be thinking of her smashing broken glass into someone's face saying she didn't like black people. jesus.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I was unaware of the racism too. Fucking hell - horrible - detailed in the article below.

From the Velvets to the void

She was quite fucked up, but it seems she didn't just save the hatred for herself.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I thought everyone knew she was a Nazi.

 

[Plumdaff]

Songs they never play on the radio by James Young is a good read, about being in Nico's band around the nadir of her fortunes. Brixton, Johns Cale and Cooper Clarke, plus much heroin and racism all feature.

 

[Sprocket.]

I never understood why they had a memorial service for her when she died at a church in Holmfirth. They also have an evening of remembrance for her at the Holmfirth Film Festival. But maybe it is apt for one of the last of the summer whiners.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Songs they never play on the radio by James Young is a good read, about being in Nico's band around the nadir of her fortunes. Brixton, Johns Cale and Cooper Clarke, plus much heroin and racism all feature.

Great book.

 

[phillm]

 

[pogofish]

I never understood why they had a memorial service for her when she died at a church in Holmfirth.

Am I right in remembering that she spent some of her last years in that part of the North of England?

 

[Sprocket.]

Am I right in remembering that she spent some of her last years in that part of the North of England?

She did and was quite busy on the gig scene around the West Riding and Greater Manchester allegedly.

 

[pogofish]

She did and was quite busy on the gig scene around the West Riding and Greater Manchester allegedly.

She made it up here in that period as well - I remember it as a challenging/uncomfortable/detached gig and many of the people there were showing more interest in the rising Manc musicians in her band - who were anything but her.

 

[malatesta32]

Songs they never play on the radio by James Young is a good read, about being in Nico's band around the nadir of her fortunes. Brixton, Johns Cale and Cooper Clarke, plus much heroin and racism all feature.

she existed in a sad, tedious and sordid world and the book gets it spot on.

 

[malatesta32]

Great book.

i would love to read a JCC autobiog but he's pretty lazy about writing he says.