Right after the question at 7:12 (Who is the director of this film), watch as Nico immediately responds that "he is a French director" and then totally space out.
@siverene Nico was NOT French, and art is art whether the artist is crazy ( like so many famous painters were) or on drugs, like so many musicians were/are, it's very judgemental and narrow-minded to say that to like Nico is glorifying drugs, you don't have to like her art (music) but it is ignorant to not acknowdege her art due to drugs.
Nico was very European. Her music is northern, Teutonic, Eastern sounding. It's like folk music. People click on this link and expect to hear "Femme Fatale". I think her music is to do with where she came from, her voice, her accent, the fact that she's a German singing in English. She lived a very full, varied and unorthodox life at a very young age. Her music like herself is uncompromising and unapologetic, it is what it is. She delivers it honestly, it's up to the listener how to take it.
It's fun to watch this interview now in comparison to watching it about 6 months ago...after attending a few months of french courses, I have no problem understanding what either of the two are saying. She speaks real slow, utilizing a quite simplified vocabulary.
C'est une femme de grande pureté , fragile et sensible a la fois, cet interview date 1972 , et 1972 est le debut d'une grande descente .... aux enfers pour elle
elle devait etre contente d'avoir rencontré Jim Morrison pasque normalement sa carrière musical ... n'était pas si bien et surement elle était integrée dans velvet grace à son physique (elle était mannequin...).!!!
Did anyone notice that when she plays "Janitor of Luncay" she's standing in front of the poster for the film "Judgment at Nuremberg"? I wonder if she chose it. I doubt she requested Elizabeth Taylor in "Suddenly Last Summer" on her left.
omg she worked with Philippe Garrel whom I assume is the father of Louis Garrel from "the dreamers" and "ma mere"...so cool. Her French BTW, is better than her English.
Really? French is not one of the languages I've studied, so I am curious about this. Is it her vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, or something else? She certainly seems proficient with the French.
Her English, I love- it cracks me up. But during English interviews she tends to stop a lot, & perhaps struggle with her wording, but it is still very good.
Also, I like your description on your page, hehe. A woman after my own heart.
Her French is not perfect but she doesn't mess up with grammar. She has an accent but it's clear and you understand all she says. It's obvious that she learned it before she learned English. Besides it's easier for Germans to speak French than English because of phonetics. The same way it's easier for French people to speak German than English.
It so does, Björk opened some of her concerts with 'Le Petit Chevaliers' and once she decided to sing it, and Björk is the Antithesis of shit, I bet if Nico would have lived long enough she would have been interested in collaborating with Björk
kind of shit is no way to talk about Bjork specially if you've not taken the time to listen! She's a wonderful singer though I agree, I don't see how nico could have inspired her really
Considering the way she chose to sing most songs, I'm surprised by the high, sweet, flirty-girliness of her speaking voice. It really makes one appreciate the stage persona.
Yes it is a robert johnson tune.Cant remember which stones album its on however....but its during the Mick Taylor/Jimmy Miller era.They didnt credit to him on the original album.
hypnotic! so wonderful to hear her sing these two songs 'back in the day' before it all got too dark. she seems to speak quicker in french than she did in english... so was that whole thing that the velvets etc complained about (the long pauses and non-sequiters in her conversation, i mean.) just because she hadn't the same command of english as german/french etc?
it goes by many names. a "foot pump reed organ" is basically what it is. search youtube for "artis wodehouse" to see some very fine reed organ playing.
yeah, you know, i figured this out later. i had been trying to figure out what it was for some time, and only recently did i find that harmoniums were produced in the west with a foot pump. the question is really, "where can i get one!?!?"
flaws? how? because she is off key? well so are bob dylan and the who but you seem to enjoy them anyhow. You might like her or not but saying her voice is "nothing but flaws" is preposterous.
yeah, actually.. not only that you´re so RIGHT, but you also have guts to say something like that... you know, being a woman always gets more prejudice.. woman artist is still a forbidden formula somehow.. anyway, was it her that said "i only regret not having been born as a man"?---well.. there you have.
Quelle interview! It's so different of about just anything seen over the last 30 years. If you except Klaus Nomi, Nina Hagen, Bowie '76-'80, Brian Eno and some others, this kind of artists reaching to your deepest soul, able to make you doubt everything till life itself, she's completely unique. God, how I miss artists from this level of involvement ...
Yes.... got a bit overboard.... Christina has a great voice.
But her album goes #1every fucking time. Great females singer-songwriters get not commercial success, because they are not like Britney , Christina and all.. they are like ...y'know ..:sitting ,singing and strumming the guitar/playing piano.
Kate Bush is one of the only great ones that has gotten a lot of commercial success. You may not enjoy Kate, but one can't deny that she's a true artist!
It's amazing how polarizing Nico's music still is. People either get it and love her, or they don't. I can't tell you how many friends I tried to play "The Marble Index" for, only to have them look at me like I was crazy.
Iggy once said (I'm paraphrasing here) that someday when people have the ears to hear it, they'll realize and appreciate what an incredible artist Nico was. I couldn't agree more.
yeah same thing. Her music, especially the marbel index, it's like... it's freezinf your soul. she touches the depths of the loneliness, the suffering, the nightmare. She was so talented.
Nico wrote the songs and plays harmonium on the Marble Index, all the other instruments (viola, piano, percussion etc.) were composed and played by John Cale.
Read Nico´s biography; Songs They Never Play On The Radio, Nico - The Last Bohemian by James Young.
Cale is the real Genius behind the Marble Index and also Desert Shore.
i wouldn't say that. cale produced her albums. the song writing was her own. and to be honest, a room with nico and a harmonium is mesmerizing enough without a studio or other instrumentation.
The best biography of Nico is "Nico: The Life and Lies of an Icon" by Richard Witts [Virgin 1993] Witts is a professional music journalist and his 334 page book researches Nico's entire life not just the train wreck her performing life became before she retired. Most libraries should be able to get Witt's book on interlibrary loan.
Since when do great artists have to be good people?
I don't care how bad a mother she was, or if she took smack all day. I doubt if her music would have either the power or the haunting quality it does without the painful experiences she went through.
Ian Curtis voted Tory and forced his wife to do the same, but that won't stop me listening to Joy Division either.
She is a great permormer no matter what her life story is...Well,I have a strong feeling that she had no reason to lie about her life...She sounds pretty sincere in her looks nd her commentst of all...
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Amazing?
She was a pathetic junkie who abandoned her son to her mother while Nico, aging rock star, hung around Ibiza bumming smack off her groupies.
When her son grew up looking like Alain Delon's identical twin [Delon always denied he was the father], Nico took a fancy to him, and taught him to shoot up heroin. He become a severe heroin addict as well.
Apart from the last statement you are half right. Worth reading James Young's "Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio", an excellent memoir of his time in her band: junkie - yes, but she had cleaned up before her death - which is an ironic twist. Her son even tried to sell her methodone after she had died. Pathetic? Yes, but not just negative, but also in the positive meaning of the word - with pathos - that her story evokes sorrow.
Don't you dare speak this way of Nico. Her personal faults are not the point or anybody's business, she stands up exscusively as an artist, & she was a unique Artist & much more. You read a few things in books & dare slagging off this woman who had family, friends & lovers (like everyone else) who have feelings. You want something pathetic? Look at yourself in the mirror & grow up. & while you're at it FUCK YOU.
I apologize to those I offended. First, know that I idolized Nico for years as a goddess, adored her voice and unique songs.
Then I met her, to do an interview for a music paper, and was sorely disappointed! She was nothing like I'd imagined! She was not too nice, bumming money for drugs, food, etc. from fans. Brown teeth, strung out, condescending and surly. She mocked her fans. She was a tragic figure, struggling with regrets, because she knew she could have done so more with her life.
She was a troubled individual who balanced creative genius with vile personal habits. If only she had been able to sustain creativity in all her life! I truly wonder how her work wouldve change- I suspect she was at least a little better before she died. It's HORRIBLE some of the things she did like giving her child heroin.
I still love her and her music, but I can't listen to it too often anymore or I get very confused, as that music relates to a very sad and weak period of my life.
not condoning what she did... but... that was another time (even though that was not so long ago)... and she was not really mainstream, experiencing and living by different rules, different knowledge...
also, we should not forget where heroin firstly came to the hands of youngsters at that time, nor should we forget why... ;)
pardon, por quoi non un entreviste avec jean seberg pour parlez avec unne belle femme
she actually sook looking bad and disastrous because she didn't find looking beautiful a challenge. she had a lot of fun playing in manchester and threatening her band and manager with a knife.
Well said, thanks. Taste is taste, if all of us thought alike it would be a very boring world. Reed, Cale, Nico & the others all had talent, & put together they were one of the best RnR bands ever, in fact they transcended RnR, they created real works of art. Cale must be one of the most amazing rock musicians ever.
Love in Vain!!!!!!!
HighwayStarRevisited 1 month ago
Right after the question at 7:12 (Who is the director of this film), watch as Nico immediately responds that "he is a French director" and then totally space out.
skeletonkey6 4 months ago
she is a goddess. always will be.
fartananda 7 months ago
@fartananda yes :)
stiggyh 7 months ago
I quite like her music, but Id also love to tell her to shut up when she's singing
TheHaiiiJuan 9 months ago
insuperable mix of stunning art and stunning beauty.
(and jimmy dean on the wall!)
KTPSLD2ABTFE 10 months ago
@MsPsychophil you are right...so what...
meschulach 10 months ago
@MsPsychophil you are right...so what....
meschulach 10 months ago
you are right...so what..
meschulach 10 months ago
@MsPsychophil
you are right....so what...
meschulach 10 months ago
@MsPsychophil
Kinski was born in Danzig, so he actually was polish, even though it was german that time...
meschulach 10 months ago
I did not know she spoke French her accent is...captivating
RockCherie 10 months ago
Nico was french. And very much drugged out. It is what it was. Don't glorify it. Don't demean it.
siverene 11 months ago
@siverene Get your facts right baby you ain'nt kidding anybody least yourself.
gabrieldix64 11 months ago
@siverene Nico was NOT French, and art is art whether the artist is crazy ( like so many famous painters were) or on drugs, like so many musicians were/are, it's very judgemental and narrow-minded to say that to like Nico is glorifying drugs, you don't have to like her art (music) but it is ignorant to not acknowdege her art due to drugs.
jarileigh 11 months ago
@siverene Do you also believe that whatever language a person is speaking at the moment makes that their nationality?
jarileigh 11 months ago
@siverene
NICO was NOT french. She was GERMAN. She was born in GERMANY!! She spoke four languages: German, Italian, English...And...FRENCH!
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"Bonjour c'est Pop deux" j'adore!
PiinkRock 1 year ago
"Bonjour c'est Pop deux" j'adore!
PiinkRock 1 year ago
The interviewer is morbid
TheAna1234 1 year ago
@TheAna1234 n'importe quoi! il est juste lent.
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needledropdamagedone 1 year ago
james dean!
MozLuv59 1 year ago
I'm not eternal
assholepopf 1 year ago
we are all eternal
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A 6:00 elle ne comprend même pas la question.. c'est pas sur sa musique qu'on la questionne..
'une femme de grande pureté , fragile et sensible a la fois' lol - qui a introduit son propre fils à l'héroïne, la pauvre
accentaveyronnais 1 year ago
Nico was very European. Her music is northern, Teutonic, Eastern sounding. It's like folk music. People click on this link and expect to hear "Femme Fatale". I think her music is to do with where she came from, her voice, her accent, the fact that she's a German singing in English. She lived a very full, varied and unorthodox life at a very young age. Her music like herself is uncompromising and unapologetic, it is what it is. She delivers it honestly, it's up to the listener how to take it.
cottageorgan 1 year ago 39
@cottageorgan Well put
Court74 8 months ago
@Court74 Thanks. Anthony
cottageorgan 6 months ago
She was so creative and productive in the 70's: movies, records, composing incredible songs, concerts; i wonder where she got the drive to do this.
Most addicted people do little to nothing, she must have incredible force!
beamerZ 1 year ago 3
@beamerZ dont say that to SRV
jonno63 1 year ago
@beamerZ
jonno63 1 year ago
un document exceptionnel.
sergio39046 1 year ago
wow, I didnt know she was so good as a musician
theforbiddenplanet 1 year ago 2
It's fun to watch this interview now in comparison to watching it about 6 months ago...after attending a few months of french courses, I have no problem understanding what either of the two are saying. She speaks real slow, utilizing a quite simplified vocabulary.
cassylvira 1 year ago
She still owns my soul. And I still love her as much as ever...maybe more.
Tigermoon1950 1 year ago 10
she is indeed eternal
davmod 1 year ago
C'est une femme de grande pureté , fragile et sensible a la fois, cet interview date 1972 , et 1972 est le debut d'une grande descente .... aux enfers pour elle
( drogues,.. )
PiinkRock 1 year ago
Intimidante et fragile a la fois...J'adore!
Isarenas1968 1 year ago
Every single word she says is an orgasm for me...although I don't understand french very much...
puresmokey9 1 year ago
I think she liked Ivor Cuttler
Amanigreer 1 year ago
Waoo, quelle femme : belle, sensuelle, éthérée, évaporée, artiste , parfaite. RIP Nico !
baboxe 1 year ago
Waoo, quelle femme ! Belle, sensuelle, éthérée, évaporée, artiste : parfaite. Morte à Ibiza, la légende continue. RIP, Nico !
baboxe 1 year ago
love this Stones tune
tedGEGI 2 years ago
someon add english subs or translation
Lucifer986 2 years ago
I love when she speaks French
abacazabaca 2 years ago
elle devait etre contente d'avoir rencontré Jim Morrison pasque normalement sa carrière musical ... n'était pas si bien et surement elle était integrée dans velvet grace à son physique (elle était mannequin...).!!!
morrisonien1 2 years ago
Absolutely extraordinary. Thanks.
rhessex 2 years ago
Did anyone notice that when she plays "Janitor of Luncay" she's standing in front of the poster for the film "Judgment at Nuremberg"? I wonder if she chose it. I doubt she requested Elizabeth Taylor in "Suddenly Last Summer" on her left.
BluesRob 2 years ago
in the beginning i see a poster with alain delon on it ? she has a child with Alain
bakabana1967 2 years ago
oh no it's this guy from rebelwithacause
bakabana1967 2 years ago
AMAZING.
iheartjimothy 2 years ago
great stones song
FuzztoneProductions 2 years ago
omg she worked with Philippe Garrel whom I assume is the father of Louis Garrel from "the dreamers" and "ma mere"...so cool. Her French BTW, is better than her English.
Annbeauj 2 years ago
Really? French is not one of the languages I've studied, so I am curious about this. Is it her vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, or something else? She certainly seems proficient with the French.
Her English, I love- it cracks me up. But during English interviews she tends to stop a lot, & perhaps struggle with her wording, but it is still very good.
Also, I like your description on your page, hehe. A woman after my own heart.
ReelMusicProductions 2 years ago
Her French is not perfect but she doesn't mess up with grammar. She has an accent but it's clear and you understand all she says. It's obvious that she learned it before she learned English. Besides it's easier for Germans to speak French than English because of phonetics. The same way it's easier for French people to speak German than English.
Annbeauj 2 years ago
Thank You for answering my question. :)
ReelMusicProductions 2 years ago
Why the hell would someone thumbs-down my question, LOL?. It's not like I said anything mean. Perhaps because I am currently situated in America. XD
ReelMusicProductions 2 years ago
She must have been one of Bjork's influences. Such a powerful and emotionally dominating voice.
specialized73 2 years ago 2
bjork is kind of shit. she can be inspired by whoever she likes, but if Nico's one of her inspirations, it doesn't show.
inabeautifulplace 2 years ago
I'm not sure how you can listen to Nico and Bjork and not see the similarities. I guess we will have to agree to disagree.
specialized73 2 years ago
It so does, Björk opened some of her concerts with 'Le Petit Chevaliers' and once she decided to sing it, and Björk is the Antithesis of shit, I bet if Nico would have lived long enough she would have been interested in collaborating with Björk
corteo 2 years ago
well I'll never know about that.
she's alright, I guess. she's been lying around my iTunes for a while but I've never really gotten into her
inabeautifulplace 2 years ago
kind of shit is no way to talk about Bjork specially if you've not taken the time to listen! She's a wonderful singer though I agree, I don't see how nico could have inspired her really
ofdarknessandlight 2 years ago
@specialized73 She was a big influence on Patti Smith and Siouxsie.
SkeeterNYC 6 months ago
Considering the way she chose to sing most songs, I'm surprised by the high, sweet, flirty-girliness of her speaking voice. It really makes one appreciate the stage persona.
nauort23 2 years ago
is this a robert johnson number?
djboony 2 years ago
Yes it is a robert johnson tune.Cant remember which stones album its on however....but its during the Mick Taylor/Jimmy Miller era.They didnt credit to him on the original album.
GardenLakesShark 2 years ago
It was on Let it Bleed......
GardenLakesShark 2 years ago
She is darling in this video.
mrtamberineman123 2 years ago
Shit, I've never heard that Stones song before, but it's awesome..
aboutime9 2 years ago
Amazing she looks really well here, the
60s and 70s were great years for her,
But unfortunately the 80s were pretty bad, because by that time all of the heroine and drugs cought up with her, ad effected her badly.
mrtamberineman123 2 years ago
Shes amazing her music is just so different and experimental and very atmospheric.
It just transports your mind to a different place.
mrtamberineman123 2 years ago 2
Wonderful video. RIP Christa.
Ldale11 2 years ago 2
Love the mystery face that she makes when she says she have danced the dance of Marquês de Sade
radio17 2 years ago
I don't understand a word she says but she's wonderful anyway!
almodovien 2 years ago
hypnotic! so wonderful to hear her sing these two songs 'back in the day' before it all got too dark. she seems to speak quicker in french than she did in english... so was that whole thing that the velvets etc complained about (the long pauses and non-sequiters in her conversation, i mean.) just because she hadn't the same command of english as german/french etc?
or maybe the gear was good...
pipeandslippersman 2 years ago 2
you bet her gear was good.
WeedVulva 2 years ago
Whether or not you like Nico is of no concern to anyone.
She is eternal.
DarkEyesOfLondon 2 years ago 46
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how do you say vomit in german
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BluesRob 2 years ago
Goddess !
Phazz07 2 years ago 2
That sound...what is the instrument she's playing....anyone??
ambientgreg 2 years ago
it goes by many names. a "foot pump reed organ" is basically what it is. search youtube for "artis wodehouse" to see some very fine reed organ playing.
7upIsLove 2 years ago
actually,it's a harmonium.
07504201963 2 years ago
yeah, you know, i figured this out later. i had been trying to figure out what it was for some time, and only recently did i find that harmoniums were produced in the west with a foot pump. the question is really, "where can i get one!?!?"
7upIsLove 2 years ago
i saw one go for pretty cheap on ebay a few weeks ago
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BluesRob 2 years ago
real name is christa päffgen and come from cologne,germany
päffgen beer !
its true i live in cologne and the päffgen beer house is still here.
and nicos family are the päffgens from cologne
sokomokomo 2 years ago
Nico was one of a kind, brilliantly idiosyncratic and beautiful :)
oogie11 2 years ago 4
yeah, everyday. you cant imagine in my country! but anywhere...
women artists accepted are the ones that look good, fashionable, trendy, mainstream, funny, nomal.. i dunno, katy perry.
the true artistic woman expressing herself and-or questioning reality is still very,very unaccepted.
this is the awfuil truth
anitasseo 3 years ago
real name is christa päffgen and come from cologne,germany
päffgen beer
sokomokomo 3 years ago
she said germany?
did she work with lou reed after this 1972 show?
limunan 3 years ago
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She was a filthy pig who passed the clap around like salt at the dinner table... Just ask Iggy.
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Speedeater707 wrote: "She was a filthy pig who passed the clap around like salt at the dinner table... Just ask Iggy."
And did she force these people to have sex with her? Don't make me laugh,you moron.
chizulch4 3 years ago 11
je suis la bicycletee dams ma mamam unpeut de bonjour
I likey da fronch
angrysamoan666 3 years ago
Her French is actually nearly flawless. I wish there was some footage of those parties "a la Marquis de Sade".
johnjohnb1 3 years ago
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To bad her voice is nothing but flaws. It hurts my mind to even hear her sing. If you can call it that. PEACE...
jilenebrowne 3 years ago
flaws? how? because she is off key? well so are bob dylan and the who but you seem to enjoy them anyhow. You might like her or not but saying her voice is "nothing but flaws" is preposterous.
johnjohnb1 3 years ago 2
yeah, actually.. not only that you´re so RIGHT, but you also have guts to say something like that... you know, being a woman always gets more prejudice.. woman artist is still a forbidden formula somehow.. anyway, was it her that said "i only regret not having been born as a man"?---well.. there you have.
anitasseo 3 years ago
so sexy to hear nico parlet vous en francais
bisoux nico *_*
dubbedcrazy 3 years ago 2
she's an Angel...
alecny69 3 years ago 4
whats the instrument and the model name anyone?
carlosnix 3 years ago
The instrument is called a harmonium. Not sure what the model number is
dudleyp 3 years ago
love that james dean poster :)
franziiii 3 years ago
who does the song at the beginning it is sweet
Timus2shoes 3 years ago
Rolling Stones, "Love In Vain," Let It Bleed album
cheechcaballero 3 years ago
Quelle interview! It's so different of about just anything seen over the last 30 years. If you except Klaus Nomi, Nina Hagen, Bowie '76-'80, Brian Eno and some others, this kind of artists reaching to your deepest soul, able to make you doubt everything till life itself, she's completely unique. God, how I miss artists from this level of involvement ...
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"La danse du Marquis de Sade? Il est très prévertée? Une musique très visuelle?" Quoi? What's she talking about?
the harmonicca really suits well to her voice but the song is too Jefferson Airplane for my taste. Too trippy.
333vasco 3 years ago
Beautiful and interview
Psychedalien 3 years ago
1:45
goggor 3 years ago 3
what does she say about the marque de sade?
arained 3 years ago
Sublime Nico
ESTETTE 3 years ago
Just watching this video makes me stoned - and I haven't tripped for 30 years!
robotics1x 3 years ago 4
she's beautiful is the handsome woman i ever see
ktulu125 3 years ago 3
Nico is the greatest woman in rock....
SHE IS NOT LIKE THE STUPID BITCHES WHO DONT KNOW HOW TO PLAY A MUSIC INSTRUMENT NOR COMPOSED ANY SONG IN THEIR LIFETIME
Stupid bitches of yesterday and today are not even fit to suck my ass:
Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Britney, Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton...
naveengta 3 years ago 7
why pick on aretha franklin?
MissDroplette 3 years ago
Aretha Franklin is a respected woman...
Yes, I Know but she is the one that started this "pop diva" thing....
So she is reason these untalented girls like Aguilera, B.Spears exist in music industry tooday
naveengta 3 years ago
Aguilera is not that untalented.
robertovelozperalta 3 years ago
Yes.... got a bit overboard.... Christina has a great voice.
But her album goes #1every fucking time. Great females singer-songwriters get not commercial success, because they are not like Britney , Christina and all.. they are like ...y'know ..:sitting ,singing and strumming the guitar/playing piano.
naveengta 3 years ago
Kate Bush is one of the only great ones that has gotten a lot of commercial success. You may not enjoy Kate, but one can't deny that she's a true artist!
alexd2010 2 years ago
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definetly agree!Aguilera is one of the best singers ever!her voice is gorgeous & she wrote great songs!
beatsofsoultrain 2 years ago
We Love you¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬=]
PAULLONDEN 3 years ago
exactly 20 years ago today she died.
ledzeppelinzoso92 3 years ago
thx for posting this--
shes so great!!!
JohnnyTrotz 3 years ago 3
The song at the beginning is 'Love in Vain' performed by the Rolling Stones. It was written by Robert Johnson, I think.
nicbournat 3 years ago
what's the song playing in the beginning, i really like it?
miralyse 3 years ago
sounds like Mick Jagger maybe?
CycolacFan 3 years ago
Rolling Stones - Love In Vain
TeenageWildlife 3 years ago
i love nico..she was beautiful, talented, smart and a once in a life time artist.
grungecro 3 years ago 6
Nico was such a babe. I was born out of my time. I need my Nico, and Jim, and Jimi.
SloanBlaylock 3 years ago 2
It's amazing how polarizing Nico's music still is. People either get it and love her, or they don't. I can't tell you how many friends I tried to play "The Marble Index" for, only to have them look at me like I was crazy.
Iggy once said (I'm paraphrasing here) that someday when people have the ears to hear it, they'll realize and appreciate what an incredible artist Nico was. I couldn't agree more.
SERIALGOTHNYC 3 years ago 5
yeah same thing. Her music, especially the marbel index, it's like... it's freezinf your soul. she touches the depths of the loneliness, the suffering, the nightmare. She was so talented.
KalikaInLeather 3 years ago 2
Nico wrote the songs and plays harmonium on the Marble Index, all the other instruments (viola, piano, percussion etc.) were composed and played by John Cale.
Read Nico´s biography; Songs They Never Play On The Radio, Nico - The Last Bohemian by James Young.
Cale is the real Genius behind the Marble Index and also Desert Shore.
ForARide 3 years ago 2
i wouldn't say that. cale produced her albums. the song writing was her own. and to be honest, a room with nico and a harmonium is mesmerizing enough without a studio or other instrumentation.
xboom 3 years ago 7
indeed. for instance, her 'janitor of lunacy' demo (just nico & her harmonium) really blows me away...
unclevernon 3 years ago
I completely agree!
alexd2010 2 years ago
The best biography of Nico is "Nico: The Life and Lies of an Icon" by Richard Witts [Virgin 1993] Witts is a professional music journalist and his 334 page book researches Nico's entire life not just the train wreck her performing life became before she retired. Most libraries should be able to get Witt's book on interlibrary loan.
tobalwin 2 years ago
Incredible footage of her playing during this great period after the Velvets.
Sad that the film ends very abruptly during the wonderful You Forget to Answer.
What happened ?
Is that where it ended ?
gammahydra4 3 years ago
Simple Amazing, I love the music of Nico ... (NICO - Diva)
GianlucaSpace 3 years ago
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peekster63 3 years ago
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Man, that's not exactly the best singing I've encountered in a while. The lugubrious and monotonous instrumental doesn't help either.
tantzer 4 years ago
nico. i love her
nowonmedication900 4 years ago
great what she does on the 'organ'
does anyone what song this is please?
unclevernon 4 years ago
sorry, i should have read the 'about this video' section first!
she plays Janitor Of Lunacy first and You Forgot To Answer at the end.
unclevernon 4 years ago
such a powerful and striking woman.
JuxtapozInkicetea 4 years ago 5
thanks for posting this
she was such a unique piece of Gods artwork :o)
ciaobuddha 4 years ago 4
bless her soul, she was one of a kind, such an idiosyncratic voice, powerful too....
oogie11 4 years ago 3
Since when do great artists have to be good people?
I don't care how bad a mother she was, or if she took smack all day. I doubt if her music would have either the power or the haunting quality it does without the painful experiences she went through.
Ian Curtis voted Tory and forced his wife to do the same, but that won't stop me listening to Joy Division either.
Ballardian 4 years ago 5
She is a great permormer no matter what her life story is...Well,I have a strong feeling that she had no reason to lie about her life...She sounds pretty sincere in her looks nd her commentst of all...
filizsher 4 years ago 3
such a shame she realy was amazing. do you think she'd have been so fantastic was she not such a mess
aclockworkkelly 4 years ago
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she sounds like a man no offence ppl
tooboredforwords 4 years ago
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Amazing?
She was a pathetic junkie who abandoned her son to her mother while Nico, aging rock star, hung around Ibiza bumming smack off her groupies.
When her son grew up looking like Alain Delon's identical twin [Delon always denied he was the father], Nico took a fancy to him, and taught him to shoot up heroin. He become a severe heroin addict as well.
F*** her in 6 languages.
esquibelle 4 years ago
It has nothing to do with the fact she was an unique singer. Probably not a singer for tabloid-freaks like you.
Soulzodiac 4 years ago 4
Apart from the last statement you are half right. Worth reading James Young's "Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio", an excellent memoir of his time in her band: junkie - yes, but she had cleaned up before her death - which is an ironic twist. Her son even tried to sell her methodone after she had died. Pathetic? Yes, but not just negative, but also in the positive meaning of the word - with pathos - that her story evokes sorrow.
sbor2020 4 years ago 3
Thanks for replying to this esquibelle non-entity. You could have spared us YOUR first comment as he could have spared us the whole of his.
kidcalabria 4 years ago
word....you're right on....but she was a great singer
ebertmatt 4 years ago
Don't you dare speak this way of Nico. Her personal faults are not the point or anybody's business, she stands up exscusively as an artist, & she was a unique Artist & much more. You read a few things in books & dare slagging off this woman who had family, friends & lovers (like everyone else) who have feelings. You want something pathetic? Look at yourself in the mirror & grow up. & while you're at it FUCK YOU.
kidcalabria 4 years ago 3
I apologize to those I offended. First, know that I idolized Nico for years as a goddess, adored her voice and unique songs.
Then I met her, to do an interview for a music paper, and was sorely disappointed! She was nothing like I'd imagined! She was not too nice, bumming money for drugs, food, etc. from fans. Brown teeth, strung out, condescending and surly. She mocked her fans. She was a tragic figure, struggling with regrets, because she knew she could have done so more with her life.
esquibelle 3 years ago 3
She was a troubled individual who balanced creative genius with vile personal habits. If only she had been able to sustain creativity in all her life! I truly wonder how her work wouldve change- I suspect she was at least a little better before she died. It's HORRIBLE some of the things she did like giving her child heroin.
I still love her and her music, but I can't listen to it too often anymore or I get very confused, as that music relates to a very sad and weak period of my life.
morrowindz 3 years ago
not condoning what she did... but... that was another time (even though that was not so long ago)... and she was not really mainstream, experiencing and living by different rules, different knowledge...
also, we should not forget where heroin firstly came to the hands of youngsters at that time, nor should we forget why... ;)
claroquita 3 years ago
pardon, por quoi non un entreviste avec jean seberg pour parlez avec unne belle femme
she actually sook looking bad and disastrous because she didn't find looking beautiful a challenge. she had a lot of fun playing in manchester and threatening her band and manager with a knife.
ThomasJeromeNewton 3 years ago
after listening to her solo works, nico clearly was the most talented part of the velvets.
tantargirl 4 years ago
Lou was the most talented, she is 2nd
Beefgog 4 years ago
It does not really matter...let those speak of talent who have it...For only they can feel eachothers soul speak.
jotrena 4 years ago 4
Ok, ya got a point there.
Beefgog 4 years ago
Well said, thanks. Taste is taste, if all of us thought alike it would be a very boring world. Reed, Cale, Nico & the others all had talent, & put together they were one of the best RnR bands ever, in fact they transcended RnR, they created real works of art. Cale must be one of the most amazing rock musicians ever.
kidcalabria 4 years ago 2
i did´'t understand a word!!!
and is sad because i like nico...
anyway
somebody can give me the translation ?
polyisrocking 4 years ago
view the oldest comments, someone has translated it.
mareeay 4 years ago
Nico = Amazing
vaincathy 4 years ago