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Conference marvin::uk_music

Title:The UK Music Conference
Notice:Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN.
Moderator:RDGENG::CROOK
Created:Mon Mar 28 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1381
Total number of notes:39269

1120.0. "Nico base note :-)" by BSS::STPALY::J_KUHN (Pigs on the wing) Tue Mar 02 1993 21:34

    'ello,
    
    Has anyone over there seen any Nico CD's besides Chelsea Girls?
    
    Nico is pretty obscure. She was in the Velvet Underground and later
    did some (strange) albums with John Cale and Brian Eno. Some of those
    titles are Desert Shore and The End. Jackson Browne played guitar
    on Chelsea Girls. 
    Any info appreciated!
    
    Jay Kuhn
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1120.1Also had a fine cameo in "La Dolce Vita"ESGWST::RDAVISBlarney RubbleTue Mar 02 1993 21:585
    Haven't seen CD versions, but the first Nico / Cale LP was "The Marble
    Index".  It's my favorite of their collaborations, although "The End"
    and "Deutschland Uber Alles" from "The End" are well worth laughing at.
    
    Ray
1120.2A live albumJURA::JURA::KEHILYIt's your realityWed Mar 03 1993 00:117
I've got an album called either "Berlin" or "Live in Berlin", something
like that. It's sort of hard to listen to ... I haven't survived the
whole way through since student days :-)

Cheers,

Graham.
1120.3JURA::JURA::KEHILYIt's your realityWed Mar 03 1993 00:1412
          <<< Note 1120.0 by BSS::STPALY::J_KUHN "Pigs on the wing" >>>
                            -< Nico base note :-) >-

>>    Any info appreciated!

The only other thing I know about her is that she died a few years ago;
after giving up drugs, etc., she moved to Greece (I think) and collpased 
while out cycling.

Which just goes to show that exercise is bad for you.

Graham.
1120.4think teutonic :-)BSS::STPALY::J_KUHNPigs on the wingWed Mar 03 1993 01:3418
>>>>Which just goes to show that exercise is bad for you.

    NOW HOLD ON THERE! IS THAT NICE TO SAY?????????  :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
    
    Actually, I think it was actually Spain. And I think she fell and hit
    her head and hemmoraged. (Some who heard her albums say she also must
    have hit it long ago.)
    
    re:2
    The End has some strange stuff on it. The music to Duechland Uber
    Alles is very STRANGE and "teutonic". Back after the album came out,
    Nico and Eno performed it in Berlin and Eno was making falling bomb
    sounds on his synth. Guess it didn't go over to well. :-) They kinda
    got pelted with stuff on stage.
    I've always wondered how she got a record contract and what kind of
    places she played.
    
    
1120.5FORTY2::BOYESMy karma ran over my dogma.Wed Mar 03 1993 15:137
> Any info appreciated!

There are two new biographies on her, according to January's 'Face'. 

Seems to have boinked her way through most of the 60's icons, male and female.

+Mark+
1120.6WELCLU::BROWNIThe Man who sold the WorldWed Mar 03 1993 21:141
    'Camera Obscura' is pretty good, apparantly......
1120.7ARRODS::DUTTONSFri Mar 05 1993 21:229
    There's a book about Nico just come out - pictures of her doing a 
    dishwasher ad, among other things.
    
    I saw her at the Trade Union Club in Sydney a few years back - the
    band looked almost New-Romantic/Euro-pretty-boy, but she was like a 
    death's head, with a spotlight facing the audience directly behind her.
    
    If you're really interested, there are a couple of "bootleg" recordings
    of Nico (talking as well as singing) from Velvet Underground days.
1120.8BSS::STPALY::J_KUHNPigs on the wingTue Mar 09 1993 03:156
    Re: last
    Yes, I guess she was a model before she started with the Velvet
    Underground. I hope the book is released in the USA.
    How big was the Trade Union Club where you saw her? Did she warm up
    for someone else?
    
1120.9A bit late but..MIACT::RANKINEFri Aug 13 1993 03:4322
    Re earlier.
    
    The Marble Index is available on CD, on Electra 7559-61098-2.
    
    tracks are :
    Prelude
    Lawns of dawn
    No one is there
    Ari's song
    Facing the wind
    Julius Caesar (memento hodie)
    Frozen warnings
    Evening of light
    Roses in the Snow *
    Nibelungen *
    
    * Previously unreleased
    
    Sleeve notes include a little of her life story, and a list of the
    albums she has released.
    
    Paul