Interesting. 1960s Icons such as Nico, Maryanne Faithfull, Grace Slick totally influenced riot grrl modern rockers: Kim Gordon/Sonic Youth, Johnette Napolitano/ Concrete Blonde, Exene Cervenka/ X and of course the great Siouxsie Sioux!
I really appreciate the crumby, grungy, almost amateurish guitar. It makes what was a very soft song much more powerful. It strips away the over ambundance of polish and glamour and merely focuses the audience on the basic melody and the prowess of Nico's voice and message.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. Its so reminescent of a time I never knew but her voice and the images gives this forced nostalgia. Shes got a magnificent voice. I kinda dig the gnarly guitar, paints a very different sound than the original song.
@TheNEWfilmfanatic99 Heroin didn't funny enough, it had rather frozen her beauty, when I knew her in 1987 she was a beautiful woman. Not looking for points here, just what to set the crooked camera straight. xx
it must be 60 year olds and up (who lived through the 60's) watching this mostly because watched by a younger audience I think the comments would be mostly negative (especially pertaining to drugs and her looks...or lack thereof).
i think she's in her 40's,and she still looks beautiful.she looked amazingly beautiful in the 60's in the Warhol factory and when she joined The Velvet Underground and also amazingly gorgeous on her 1st debut album Chelsea Girls.and now she still has those wonderful cheekbones and piercing,striking eyes.she has pure beauty.even now.she is a definite icon for me.i love her,her voice,her accent,her albums,and her one of a kind beauty.RIP my Chelsea Girl...you will never be forgotten...
thats brigid berlin(Polk) shooting herself up with methadrine or dexadrine and vitamin a & b12 in her ass.its like amphetimines times 10,000,00.thats the reason they don't mainline it cause they'll die.they have to shoot it in a fatty part .whats fatter than your ass?
All you people talking about musicality and ability are up your own asses, some of the most unskilled musicians have made the most skillful music. To me music should only affect you on one level, that is if you like and feel something from a said piece or song then great, if not, move on to something that does....
Remember seeing her on the Stratford Road in Brum "supporting" The Fall. Couldn't be arsed turning up on time so she appeared after they'd finished. Just her & the Harmonium. Half the audience just left, open-mouthed, the rest of us knew we were seeing a goddess! She was beyond wonderful! Saw her a few times after that (With the Blue Orchids & Invisible Girls I think) but nothing came close to this!
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old weird woman. her stupid singing makes no sense at all. all she does is drugs ans thats it. if you would see her on the street you would just feel bad for her because she´s just an old druggie.
@Faxendicke279 Right, because if you don't like her music, she's just a drug addict then. I guess someone who doesn't appreciate the Rolling Stones is also entitled to say they're just a bunch of pathetic elderly junkies? Believe it or not, some of us judge musicians by the music. Novel idea, I know!
die alte hat n rad ab, weil sie zuviele drogen nimmt. wenn man die auf der straße sehen würde, würde man sie nur bedauern. hat nix von tiefe und sinn. nur ne zugedröhnt alde schachtel
It does look like Sterling Morrison playing guitar on this one, but it's not him. It's a guy named Joe Bidewell who actually lived in the Chelsea Hotel at the time the documentary was being made (in 1981). Google "Joe Bidewell" + "Nico" for more information.
I love music and as I watch this I can't help but think to myself...What am I missing?? I've never understood the fascination with VU and especially Nico. It's like someone told Nico that her voice is amazing and then watch as they laugh at her. It's so sad.
I love music and as I watch this I can't help but think to myself...What am I missing?? I've never understood the fascination with VU and especially Nico.
Does anyone else see any physical similarities betweeen Nico, during this interview (not the movie), and Pete Burns (NOW, and NOT back when he was fronting Dead or Alive). I happen to like them both (Pete and Nico, that is), so maybe it's just a perception based on this one vid. Anyone else see it?
Nico is my absolute favorite. See the film documentary "Nico Icon". She was featured in Fellini's La Dolce Vita as simply "Nico.", Warhol's "replacement" of Edie Sedgwick, worked in conjunction with Warhol for and against Lou Reed in the Velvet Underground, the Queen of Ice, the addict of heroine, she was the big mystery for me and no one ever as beautiful. "Chelsea Girls" the movie stunned audiences in the sixties, banned in Boston LOL and was even in NYC had people leaving theaters in shock.
@arizonablues I think she ditched the blonde hair because she grew quite bitter over being regarded solely for her looks. A bandmate said she was proud of her rotting teeth, bad hair and skin, and needle marks.
That's not the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but a film of Warhol's (probably shot in the Chelsea Hotel).
this was a really neat little performance, and i for one think that she's a great singer. to all the naysayers, her accent makes her voice very distinctive, but she's never off key.
just cuz she was pretty, she is NOT a joy to listen to. nonononononono cannot stand her singing & I am not afraid to fu45ing say it like the resta yiz
This makes me wonder what it would have sounded like with a whole rock band. Nico hated the "Chelsea Girl" arrangement, she said "There should be a 'no flute' button on record players."
I love that deep, piercing stare Nico had, like someone possessed. What a shame we don't have a few more of these unique artists around these days rather than being subjected to the latest talentless and soulless cretin from X Factor and any other of these 'talent' shows.
@alotofcheese76 yes she looked great but she also wrote her stuff. Ok, not her first album, but she wrote or co-wrote the majorityty of her post "Chelsea" stuff. Even the stuff she didn't write, she gave her own unique stamp to.
in some way i think the aging on her face is beautiful. it shows where she's been in life. here she is telling a part of her story. nico wisdom. it's great.
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Still don't like her voice, never did. Just my opinion, don't want to get into a cosmic battle over it, just my opinion. But an interesting clip nonetheless.
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shes so creepy lookin in the end like amanda burner geez i hope that video gets turned into a still photo of lou reed some day... but anyway ENDLESSLY INSPIRING
traumatized? Maybe but I think she just took a little too much chemicals in her body and also one should not forget we all do not look prettier with age. She was hot in her teens and 20-ties but smoking, drinking and cocaine, heroine use just doesn't keep you fit very long. She just looks tired.
Hola estaba navegando por internet cuando me encontre con este video que me recomendo mi love .y quede impresionado realmente el que subio este video es un capo nico es espectacular pero lo unico me dio miedo el travesti nada xD pero salu2 a todos y que siga creciendo la comunidad youtube te amo mardy :)
Not wanting to start a fight, but the attitude of fans and critics who separate 60's NY from the rest of the world show a bit of snobbery.
Sure the NY sound was different, but the idea that it was a total rejection of Hippydom is a bit self serving.
Jackson Brown was Nico's lover when the original was recorded, and I'm pretty sure he played on the LP. Tell me Andy didn't look like Thom York auditioning for a spot in the Beach Boys circa '65 with his blond hair, windbreakers and striped shirts!
...and it was a hard day's night that got them started in the first place. They were fellowtravelers at least. But that doesn't mean they weren't great. It's just wonderfully naive intelligent popmusic. What goes on and pale blue eyes are my favourites.
I agree, and I'm lucky I didn't get into it with some of the above! It just pisses me off that most critics, and certain self-promoting artists separate and levitate the NY scene above all others, usually at the expense of the "lovey dovey" west coast hippies. As if the NY folk scene wasn't joined at the hip with the west.
Sure, out west you got Altamont, but frankly, I prefer it to Studio 54. I hated the smack, coke and speed scene where ever it takes hold.
And ofcourse California had the beloved Manson Family..Some people hate commercial pop, but they just love Karen Carpenter and if they like somehing they can't be seen with they call it `camp'.
Who started because of "A Hard Day`s Night"? I hope you don`t meant the VU!The songs you state aren`t the original VU sound, they`re celebrated for the rougher, droning sound from the first LP`s with Cale, which infuelced the whole alternative scene. Reed`s VU is also great but not the real VU. After Cale left, it was simply Lou`s backing band- he wanted to become more famous, so it`s got more poppish. But they never had anything to do with the Beatles, not even close.
John Cale said in a recent interview for a Belgian newspaper that he just wanted to do avant-garde, mostly violin stuff until `The Beatles exploded in 1964' .That's when he wanted to join a rockband instead, he'd known and liked rock 'n roll but he didn't take it seriously until then. As for Lou Reed, I don't really know. But he did do a tribute to Lennon. Yule was supposedly hired for his vocal kinship with McCartney when they needed the money. But that was indeed much later .
I didn`t knew about that interview, but it`s quite interesting. For me it always seemed, that Cale used VU as a vehicle to make his antimusic more popular to bigger audiences. At the time of VU and later he did simulanely this Dream Syndicate stuff, that`s why I thought he never had anything to do with Beatles music. Also Reed, I`ve read his biographie, and he never mentions the Beatles. But nonetheless, VU music has an other approach then Beatles music, so they`re for me not quite fellows.
I read it in a John Cale interview in a Belgian newspaper. Despite some notable differences I think the similarities are more dominant. Including Lou Reed's Gretsch Country Gentleman that he bought in 1964 and Epiphone guitars and Vox amps. They could have picked any haircuts but they adopted the new look introduced in the US in 1964 by...well you know. That doesn't make them Beatles-clones like The Monkees. I think they lasted because they chose to be a little different.
You probably were tired from all your googling, to remember that CHET ATKINS made the Chet Atkins famous. Essentially the beatles were a pop boy band, until the Byrds & Dylan school'd them. Trust me VU never aimed to be the happy go lucky boy band in HELP!. The Chet Atkins was a popular guitar, and tons of musicians played it, by the time VU did, same with long hair. It's like saying if you wear flannel, your trying to be Kurt Cobain. It's simplification in it's most extreme.
P.S. Please paste the link to your secret Belgian Information. Anyhow the beatles were the BEST at making happy pop music, and then they met Dylan and jumped on the band wagon and tried making deep meaningful songs, and it worked, because it was deep meaningful pop. And this is why they never could get the true edge and innovation that the VU brought, and the VU did it all without the studio tricks that the beatles so desperately needed. In the end your claims are elementary.
You are probably an alcoholic, around seven feet tall, fond of vegetables, wear leather shoes and a straw hat, and you probably voted for Kerry. That probably has something to do with something.
Freakin incredible!!! Whoever put this together is fantastically cool!!! And no, that is NOT Lou Reed playing on the bed. Probably Nico's guitarist at the time for her live shows. RIP Nico.
Isn't it funny that the people who hate someone so much take time to post on the internet some random insult? To wit: Drunk Skunk, you'll probably die while farting into a sofa cushion in a trailer park somewhere while slamming Schlitz after Schlitz!
That was an absolutely disgusting comment. I can't believe someone would say something like that about a woman who touched so many people, and whose influence is more than you can compare with. You should be ashamed of yourself.
*goosebumbs* I love Nico, Velvets or solo. I'm struck by her eyes, still beautiful, yet haunted. The closing shot of her brow furrowing--Whoa! If a picture is worth 1000 words, then this video is a novel. Thank you! Btw, who's the guitarist?
Heroin my friend. I met her in that period and I must say, a great artist but as a person a pain in the ass. And as she made her son a drugaddict too, well, I can't respect her very much anymore.
It's really difficult for me to watch this video--she had such power, but at this point she really looked different, and you can see the sadness in her eyes, and hear it in her voice, and it is different than it was before. I can feel her sadness radiating through, and that makes me sad--and I'm so sad we lost her--it happened too soon. She will be missed and loved forever.
I am sad she is dead. She died around the time I started liking the Velvet Underground. That was the year I graduated from high school. I didn't even know. I just thought I was cool though, because I liked the Velvet Underground, when most people I knew liked Metallica, and such nonsense (admittedly I did too for a short time till I realized it sucked ). I have never seen a video of her, I am so glad to see this.
Her smile, in the dying moments of this clip is both wry, and sad.......of course, she might just be thinking, 'who got this clunker of a guitar player to destroy my beautiful song.'
Interesting. 1960s Icons such as Nico, Maryanne Faithfull, Grace Slick totally influenced riot grrl modern rockers: Kim Gordon/Sonic Youth, Johnette Napolitano/ Concrete Blonde, Exene Cervenka/ X and of course the great Siouxsie Sioux!
Firebrand1967 2 weeks ago
I miss you Nico
DARKAKTIONER 2 weeks ago
She's fabulous
MrConcavoconvexo 3 weeks ago
Thanks for sharing, I've had a lot of criticism since 1968 for liking Nico, didn't bother me then, doesn't bother me now. She is a unique talent.
KillerBill1953 3 weeks ago
I really appreciate the crumby, grungy, almost amateurish guitar. It makes what was a very soft song much more powerful. It strips away the over ambundance of polish and glamour and merely focuses the audience on the basic melody and the prowess of Nico's voice and message.
IWearBones138 4 weeks ago
@selimaazouri aren't we all?
hackum1 2 months ago
Thank you so much for uploading this video. Its so reminescent of a time I never knew but her voice and the images gives this forced nostalgia. Shes got a magnificent voice. I kinda dig the gnarly guitar, paints a very different sound than the original song.
IWearBones138 11 months ago
je pense le son de guitare est rad
78vesta 11 months ago
Poor Nico, the drugs really took their toll on her beauty :(
TheNEWfilmfanatic99 11 months ago
@TheNEWfilmfanatic99 Heroin didn't funny enough, it had rather frozen her beauty, when I knew her in 1987 she was a beautiful woman. Not looking for points here, just what to set the crooked camera straight. xx
favoriteblueshirt 2 months ago
it must be 60 year olds and up (who lived through the 60's) watching this mostly because watched by a younger audience I think the comments would be mostly negative (especially pertaining to drugs and her looks...or lack thereof).
karma212 11 months ago
@karma212 Don't you think young people pay any regard to singing/songwiritng/lyrical talent?
MrBarreloflaughs 2 months ago
Fantastic. See my channel for Nico's discography review.
needledropdamagedone 1 year ago
I think Nico is a good enough singer. Very unique. I can hear her influence in some other highly-lauded vocalists since then.
theseether 1 year ago
nico is so cool
brayrrero 1 year ago
Where is this video from?
*Guitar sounds terrible, but Nico is amazing*
RockNimbie 1 year ago
i think she's in her 40's,and she still looks beautiful.she looked amazingly beautiful in the 60's in the Warhol factory and when she joined The Velvet Underground and also amazingly gorgeous on her 1st debut album Chelsea Girls.and now she still has those wonderful cheekbones and piercing,striking eyes.she has pure beauty.even now.she is a definite icon for me.i love her,her voice,her accent,her albums,and her one of a kind beauty.RIP my Chelsea Girl...you will never be forgotten...
sheshines4all 1 year ago 2
thats brigid berlin(Polk) shooting herself up with methadrine or dexadrine and vitamin a & b12 in her ass.its like amphetimines times 10,000,00.thats the reason they don't mainline it cause they'll die.they have to shoot it in a fatty part .whats fatter than your ass?
sheshines4all 1 year ago
thats my one of my favorite songs by NICO....i own and listen to that album...RIP CHELSEA GIRL....
sheshines4all 1 year ago
All you people talking about musicality and ability are up your own asses, some of the most unskilled musicians have made the most skillful music. To me music should only affect you on one level, that is if you like and feel something from a said piece or song then great, if not, move on to something that does....
HereticWarfare 1 year ago
Remember seeing her on the Stratford Road in Brum "supporting" The Fall. Couldn't be arsed turning up on time so she appeared after they'd finished. Just her & the Harmonium. Half the audience just left, open-mouthed, the rest of us knew we were seeing a goddess! She was beyond wonderful! Saw her a few times after that (With the Blue Orchids & Invisible Girls I think) but nothing came close to this!
vfegan1 1 year ago
Happy Birthday Nico!
mrs0rochester 1 year ago
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old weird woman. her stupid singing makes no sense at all. all she does is drugs ans thats it. if you would see her on the street you would just feel bad for her because she´s just an old druggie.
Faxendicke279 1 year ago
@Faxendicke279 how does it feel to be a douche? I'd just like to know hahaha
keshiafasho 1 year ago 2
@Faxendicke279 Right, because if you don't like her music, she's just a drug addict then. I guess someone who doesn't appreciate the Rolling Stones is also entitled to say they're just a bunch of pathetic elderly junkies? Believe it or not, some of us judge musicians by the music. Novel idea, I know!
xXPinkGoddessXx 1 year ago 10
@Faxendicke279 since you just dont get it, maybe you should keep your lousy opinion to yourself
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@Faxendicke279 Shouldn't you be at home wanking to Britney & Rhianna, you silly little kiddywink?
kimmois1 1 year ago
die alte hat n rad ab, weil sie zuviele drogen nimmt. wenn man die auf der straße sehen würde, würde man sie nur bedauern. hat nix von tiefe und sinn. nur ne zugedröhnt alde schachtel
Faxendicke279 1 year ago
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It does look like Sterling Morrison playing guitar on this one, but it's not him. It's a guy named Joe Bidewell who actually lived in the Chelsea Hotel at the time the documentary was being made (in 1981). Google "Joe Bidewell" + "Nico" for more information.
TullycastingStudios 1 year ago
nico is not bad, that guitarist is.
kztxrcvbnm 1 year ago
Nice post ... scorp!!
broken1394 1 year ago
I love music and as I watch this I can't help but think to myself...What am I missing?? I've never understood the fascination with VU and especially Nico. It's like someone told Nico that her voice is amazing and then watch as they laugh at her. It's so sad.
melrodas 1 year ago
@melrodas Nico's voice is great
relaxingmusic101 1 year ago
I love music and as I watch this I can't help but think to myself...What am I missing?? I've never understood the fascination with VU and especially Nico.
melrodas 1 year ago
who is the guitar player?
guitar part is simply horrible
oh my god
wwxoxww 1 year ago
Brilliant and totally in the spirit of the VU / factory times.
iangordoncraig 1 year ago 2
realley deep
ivansooty 1 year ago
It's so funny when she says "...in heaven...(giggles) or hell..." She had such a wonderful sense of humour. I like this version of the song too.
alfonsodavinti 1 year ago 7
Lol, that guy is as bad as me on guitar. If I was on film playing over Nico like that I'd probably kill myself. Chunky barre chords.....no, no, no.
mountainenergei1 1 year ago
Does anyone else see any physical similarities betweeen Nico, during this interview (not the movie), and Pete Burns (NOW, and NOT back when he was fronting Dead or Alive). I happen to like them both (Pete and Nico, that is), so maybe it's just a perception based on this one vid. Anyone else see it?
Merrida100 1 year ago
Mary Woronov was so natural in this. Very cool...
pugcharlie 1 year ago
Nico is my absolute favorite. See the film documentary "Nico Icon". She was featured in Fellini's La Dolce Vita as simply "Nico.", Warhol's "replacement" of Edie Sedgwick, worked in conjunction with Warhol for and against Lou Reed in the Velvet Underground, the Queen of Ice, the addict of heroine, she was the big mystery for me and no one ever as beautiful. "Chelsea Girls" the movie stunned audiences in the sixties, banned in Boston LOL and was even in NYC had people leaving theaters in shock.
pugcharlie 1 year ago
this guitar played is HIGH
dammit
he kills the song
Aerodupont 1 year ago
Nico's is so cool; the coolest female singer/songwriter ever!
beamerZ 1 year ago 2
love mary waranov
cbrahm 1 year ago
@cbrahm Woronov :)
MindSplat 1 year ago
@cbrahm me too. She was so mean then.
pugcharlie 1 year ago
It 's not about waching; it's not about judging; it's not about drugs; it's about your decision to take another path!
Cathayline 1 year ago
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thanks! i was curious bout those 'rocky' parts
arizonablues 1 year ago
I remember her well in that Chelsea hotel MANNN talkin' so brave and so swet
givin' me head on the unmade bed whilest the limo wait in the street!
who's this on FUZZ BOX??
peterchoyce 1 year ago
nico did age really badly, just saying. she used to be unbelieveably beautiful and she should have kept the blonde hair.
PS is that fucking 'rocky horror show' at 1:58 and then at 2:14 - 2:25?
arizonablues 1 year ago
@arizonablues I think she ditched the blonde hair because she grew quite bitter over being regarded solely for her looks. A bandmate said she was proud of her rotting teeth, bad hair and skin, and needle marks.
That's not the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but a film of Warhol's (probably shot in the Chelsea Hotel).
xXPinkGoddessXx 1 year ago
they dont make girls like these anymore these days
arizonablues 1 year ago
Hate that horrible guitar.
ceira7 1 year ago
That can't be Thurston Moore on guitar..... can it??
ideastospitat 1 year ago
excellent.
iangordoncraig 1 year ago
I love you nico I love you so much, youre the best!!!!!!!!!
kaworuxxx1 1 year ago
Is that Thurston Moore on guitar?
martymefurst 1 year ago
face is distorting, poor thing her makeup is running
majicray2112 1 year ago
Pity about the heavy-handed rock guitarist.
JekyllBoote 1 year ago
1985
fernandothamessanlee 1 year ago
she looks fucked up
mijjenta 1 year ago
filthy rock n roll....gorgeous pornographic priestess .... it's so terribly appealing, I find...
Scitzowicz 1 year ago
She has enough weight in her voice to drag it to the center of the earth.
choi4816 1 year ago
Nico looks better as a blonde
TheNEWfilmfanatic99 1 year ago
The guitar makes it really interesting! I love nico and the way makes the song so haunting even WITH the guitar... She's just awesome...
777FiLo 1 year ago
who's the guy playing guitar?
chicblossom 1 year ago
@chicblossom probably jackson browne.
leslenroberts 1 year ago
Wow. Damn.
radishface1 1 year ago
I love this song, Nico's voice is beautiful and very enchanting.
SamiraRana 1 year ago
drugs and puke. puke and can-openers.
kribbod 1 year ago
damn, drugs are bad....sometimes
bobbyp1214 1 year ago
Her eyes are so piercing... haunted and beautiful.
BlyssBliss 2 years ago
Nico is wonderful. I miss here.
Maikschoene67 2 years ago
Прикольное исполнение
Diarray 2 years ago
Really need the tab / chords for this. Tried some but it doesn't sound right. Any help appreciated.
dxguy 2 years ago
poor lamb, she looks wrecked, she has not aged well, and she looks so sad, but always respect to her, i enjoy her music
236091 2 years ago 4
That guy ruins this by getting one very important chord wrong! Nico's voice sounds great though.
sauciesedgwick 2 years ago
Oh, that is genius!
MowgliX 2 years ago
Not disrespecting at all but I believe Nico would've aged way better and would've kept her beauty much better if she hadn't done heroin.
ChumpJoe 2 years ago 4
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jubilaz 2 years ago
you dont say
killianjes 2 years ago
this was a really neat little performance, and i for one think that she's a great singer. to all the naysayers, her accent makes her voice very distinctive, but she's never off key.
lovebabyyyyy 2 years ago 24
I liked when she sang this song on her solo release 'Chelsea Girls'..
tomk773 2 years ago
I don't like Nico's voice as much as I love Maureen's.
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just cuz she was pretty, she is NOT a joy to listen to. nonononononono cannot stand her singing & I am not afraid to fu45ing say it like the resta yiz
everybodyhasone 2 years ago
Nico was unique. She was a godess!.
Intergalaxy 2 years ago 12
Rest in peace Nico. Is that Thurston Moore on guitar? It sure as hell looks like it, if so that would be even way cooler
Sunflower0122Z 2 years ago
che figata
simoamendola 2 years ago
Great Woman..a Great Soul
ironpoet4muse 2 years ago 2
"in heaven. Or in hell. Or not staying here." Nico was amazing.
BluesRob 2 years ago 4
This makes me wonder what it would have sounded like with a whole rock band. Nico hated the "Chelsea Girl" arrangement, she said "There should be a 'no flute' button on record players."
BluesRob 2 years ago 7
Agreed!!
radishface1 1 year ago
so sad
lgramosmx 2 years ago
the guy playing electric is a spotting image of beck.
nic2razy 2 years ago
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Weird with the guitar. And God she's ugly here.
YUMMYngbird 2 years ago
Ci sono tutti...all'inizio si vede "Candy darling"....o è Holly"
emporista 2 years ago
I am so entranced by this woman.
elusivecharm 2 years ago 6
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chipuraable 2 years ago
I love that deep, piercing stare Nico had, like someone possessed. What a shame we don't have a few more of these unique artists around these days rather than being subjected to the latest talentless and soulless cretin from X Factor and any other of these 'talent' shows.
maldarorisdead 2 years ago 46
@maldarorisdead she actually just looked good. lol she didnt write her songs
alotofcheese76 1 year ago
@alotofcheese76 yes she looked great but she also wrote her stuff. Ok, not her first album, but she wrote or co-wrote the majorityty of her post "Chelsea" stuff. Even the stuff she didn't write, she gave her own unique stamp to.
maldarorisdead 1 year ago
@maldarorisdead Well said.
gav76uk 1 year ago
@maldarorisdead Soap&Skin and Fever Ray are pretty unique + awesome.
redcommando1 1 year ago
@maldarorisdead you have to look to find the beauty life still offers.... they might not be top artists, but they are still around.
ourbearskins 1 year ago
in some way i think the aging on her face is beautiful. it shows where she's been in life. here she is telling a part of her story. nico wisdom. it's great.
chattychar 2 years ago 6
Very much like Janis...
gabe32194 2 years ago
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Still don't like her voice, never did. Just my opinion, don't want to get into a cosmic battle over it, just my opinion. But an interesting clip nonetheless.
elric69 2 years ago
Dude, you're entitled to an opinion. I don't see how you got so many thumbs down. Some people don't like some music.
Personally, I like Nico, but that's me.
Sputnikvi 2 years ago 3
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shes so creepy lookin in the end like amanda burner geez i hope that video gets turned into a still photo of lou reed some day... but anyway ENDLESSLY INSPIRING
mudoctave223 2 years ago
So sad. What a traumatized look. What heavy sadness.
vicerol 2 years ago
traumatized? Maybe but I think she just took a little too much chemicals in her body and also one should not forget we all do not look prettier with age. She was hot in her teens and 20-ties but smoking, drinking and cocaine, heroine use just doesn't keep you fit very long. She just looks tired.
edicccc 2 years ago 2
wow! love her!
infinitalocura 2 years ago
Hola estaba navegando por internet cuando me encontre con este video que me recomendo mi love .y quede impresionado realmente el que subio este video es un capo nico es espectacular pero lo unico me dio miedo el travesti nada xD pero salu2 a todos y que siga creciendo la comunidad youtube te amo mardy :)
memattatu0nda 2 years ago
I think she was a good performer. She really gave her heart out in this performance.
lukealpha 2 years ago 4
Yeah, even though that song wan't her favourite at all. Not her style, you wouldn't guess it!lol
22poopoo 2 years ago
i love the original, but i have to admit the guitar on this is awesome.
does anyone know where i can find the lyrics for this song? i've tried almost every lyrics website, they dont have them.
pointe122 2 years ago
Try Lyricsfreak*DOT*com. Do a search for Chelsea Girls, Choose the Velvet Underground one (should be first one that comes up)
elric69 2 years ago
My Dark Beauty
handymf 2 years ago 2
No she's mine ;)
22poopoo 2 years ago
Ruddy marvelous!
departments2006 2 years ago
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warhole and co. and all of their contemporaries...are utterly worthless
W2n1dowsx 2 years ago
Not wanting to start a fight, but the attitude of fans and critics who separate 60's NY from the rest of the world show a bit of snobbery.
Sure the NY sound was different, but the idea that it was a total rejection of Hippydom is a bit self serving.
Jackson Brown was Nico's lover when the original was recorded, and I'm pretty sure he played on the LP. Tell me Andy didn't look like Thom York auditioning for a spot in the Beach Boys circa '65 with his blond hair, windbreakers and striped shirts!
facelesshorseman 2 years ago
...and it was a hard day's night that got them started in the first place. They were fellowtravelers at least. But that doesn't mean they weren't great. It's just wonderfully naive intelligent popmusic. What goes on and pale blue eyes are my favourites.
xavierbaudet 2 years ago
I agree, and I'm lucky I didn't get into it with some of the above! It just pisses me off that most critics, and certain self-promoting artists separate and levitate the NY scene above all others, usually at the expense of the "lovey dovey" west coast hippies. As if the NY folk scene wasn't joined at the hip with the west.
Sure, out west you got Altamont, but frankly, I prefer it to Studio 54. I hated the smack, coke and speed scene where ever it takes hold.
facelesshorseman 2 years ago
And ofcourse California had the beloved Manson Family..Some people hate commercial pop, but they just love Karen Carpenter and if they like somehing they can't be seen with they call it `camp'.
xavierbaudet 2 years ago
Who started because of "A Hard Day`s Night"? I hope you don`t meant the VU!The songs you state aren`t the original VU sound, they`re celebrated for the rougher, droning sound from the first LP`s with Cale, which infuelced the whole alternative scene. Reed`s VU is also great but not the real VU. After Cale left, it was simply Lou`s backing band- he wanted to become more famous, so it`s got more poppish. But they never had anything to do with the Beatles, not even close.
MsGoogaMooga 2 years ago
John Cale said in a recent interview for a Belgian newspaper that he just wanted to do avant-garde, mostly violin stuff until `The Beatles exploded in 1964' .That's when he wanted to join a rockband instead, he'd known and liked rock 'n roll but he didn't take it seriously until then. As for Lou Reed, I don't really know. But he did do a tribute to Lennon. Yule was supposedly hired for his vocal kinship with McCartney when they needed the money. But that was indeed much later .
xavierbaudet 2 years ago
I didn`t knew about that interview, but it`s quite interesting. For me it always seemed, that Cale used VU as a vehicle to make his antimusic more popular to bigger audiences. At the time of VU and later he did simulanely this Dream Syndicate stuff, that`s why I thought he never had anything to do with Beatles music. Also Reed, I`ve read his biographie, and he never mentions the Beatles. But nonetheless, VU music has an other approach then Beatles music, so they`re for me not quite fellows.
MsGoogaMooga 2 years ago 3
Your dreaming! Your trying to make connection where it's very thin. "A Hard Day's Night" you must be joking.
markjhf 2 years ago
I read it in a John Cale interview in a Belgian newspaper. Despite some notable differences I think the similarities are more dominant. Including Lou Reed's Gretsch Country Gentleman that he bought in 1964 and Epiphone guitars and Vox amps. They could have picked any haircuts but they adopted the new look introduced in the US in 1964 by...well you know. That doesn't make them Beatles-clones like The Monkees. I think they lasted because they chose to be a little different.
xavierbaudet 2 years ago
You probably were tired from all your googling, to remember that CHET ATKINS made the Chet Atkins famous. Essentially the beatles were a pop boy band, until the Byrds & Dylan school'd them. Trust me VU never aimed to be the happy go lucky boy band in HELP!. The Chet Atkins was a popular guitar, and tons of musicians played it, by the time VU did, same with long hair. It's like saying if you wear flannel, your trying to be Kurt Cobain. It's simplification in it's most extreme.
markjhf 2 years ago
the byrds.....fuck off pal!
djboony 2 years ago
haha, ok you caught me, I was just joking with that one ;D It's just that sometimes Beatles fans act like they invented the wheel.
markjhf 2 years ago 3
P.S. Please paste the link to your secret Belgian Information. Anyhow the beatles were the BEST at making happy pop music, and then they met Dylan and jumped on the band wagon and tried making deep meaningful songs, and it worked, because it was deep meaningful pop. And this is why they never could get the true edge and innovation that the VU brought, and the VU did it all without the studio tricks that the beatles so desperately needed. In the end your claims are elementary.
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Huffer7 2 years ago
Nico will be forever the greatest chelsea gilr, ingrid superstar is more sexy tho.
mendex2006 2 years ago
people are beautiful.
imwiththepilots 2 years ago 5
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people are disgusting.
PokerStuffer 2 years ago
Obviously you don't know what the 60's/70's was about. You are probably this shitty twilight obsessed generation.
PlagueRiddenGoat 2 years ago 5
You are probably an alcoholic, around seven feet tall, fond of vegetables, wear leather shoes and a straw hat, and you probably voted for Kerry. That probably has something to do with something.
tjodolF2 2 years ago
lol hahaha
fond of vegtables haha nice
djboony 2 years ago
the guitar is siiiiick! in my opinion its what makes this version so good
imwiththepilots 2 years ago 5
hate the guitar :-/
GNRsakuL 2 years ago
Nico was an Artist in her own right. Lot's of visuals in her music.
joey1127 2 years ago
Freakin incredible!!! Whoever put this together is fantastically cool!!! And no, that is NOT Lou Reed playing on the bed. Probably Nico's guitarist at the time for her live shows. RIP Nico.
Ldale11 2 years ago
I love this song, I dont know why but I do...I love Nico!!!
aricka88 2 years ago
Isn't it funny that the people who hate someone so much take time to post on the internet some random insult? To wit: Drunk Skunk, you'll probably die while farting into a sofa cushion in a trailer park somewhere while slamming Schlitz after Schlitz!
LordDying666 2 years ago 5
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This heroin addicted skank should have died long before she did. She should have worn a helmet on that fateful bicycle ride.
drunkskunk005 2 years ago
This doesn't make any sense.
LittleBabyshamble 2 years ago
makes perfect sense
PianoSpider 2 years ago 3
That was an absolutely disgusting comment. I can't believe someone would say something like that about a woman who touched so many people, and whose influence is more than you can compare with. You should be ashamed of yourself.
alexd2010 2 years ago
I love Nico so much, and so proud to be named after her. it is more than a simple coincidence that she inspires me so much.xxxo
(o^,^o)v
IchiNohara 2 years ago 2
I meant on the BBC video. The guy that looks like Beck , sittin on the bed playin guitar.
scottdavis0801 2 years ago
what is this from?
jonukwho 2 years ago
God, that guitar sounds fuckin great. Whos playin?
scottdavis0801 2 years ago 3
guitar played by mr. lou reed
ghouluwant 2 years ago
*goosebumbs* I love Nico, Velvets or solo. I'm struck by her eyes, still beautiful, yet haunted. The closing shot of her brow furrowing--Whoa! If a picture is worth 1000 words, then this video is a novel. Thank you! Btw, who's the guitarist?
Doe99nyc 2 years ago 3
Is it me, or is her rhythm, accent, and hoarse voice reminiscent of late career Bette Davis? (And I agree, that guitarist is fuckin awful).
sandydidit 2 years ago
great song! but how come she looks so old here. it was only 1967 right?
teya18 2 years ago 2
Heroin my friend. I met her in that period and I must say, a great artist but as a person a pain in the ass. And as she made her son a drugaddict too, well, I can't respect her very much anymore.
MrCarlostheVag 2 years ago 2
No, it's from 1981 (BBC 4 broadcast).
nicohappysad 2 years ago 2
i never realized how similar the singer of stereolab sounds to nico
djcloudstrife 2 years ago
Oh... you can really see the drug use in her... :(
zeofart 2 years ago
She is the femme fatale...
ch0c0chia83 2 years ago
She got a lot of great albums like, desertshore, the marble index, or the end, not only chelsea girls.
lucesraras 2 years ago 2
It's really difficult for me to watch this video--she had such power, but at this point she really looked different, and you can see the sadness in her eyes, and hear it in her voice, and it is different than it was before. I can feel her sadness radiating through, and that makes me sad--and I'm so sad we lost her--it happened too soon. She will be missed and loved forever.
frttee6 2 years ago 2
Poor girl. The powers in the first songs in '70 had to do with the scéne and drugs.
She is one of the people that was not strong anough to escape from it.
FransPannekeet 2 years ago
I am sad she is dead. She died around the time I started liking the Velvet Underground. That was the year I graduated from high school. I didn't even know. I just thought I was cool though, because I liked the Velvet Underground, when most people I knew liked Metallica, and such nonsense (admittedly I did too for a short time till I realized it sucked ). I have never seen a video of her, I am so glad to see this.
God0Mighty 2 years ago
Her smile, in the dying moments of this clip is both wry, and sad.......of course, she might just be thinking, 'who got this clunker of a guitar player to destroy my beautiful song.'
clean3 2 years ago
it's sad to see nico getting so old before she died so young.
i wonder how her voice was still so pleasant with all the drugs she did.
merdufer 2 years ago 3
grrrrrrrreat guitar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SUPERPLYTNT 2 years ago
What's striking about her appearance in this video is her scarf...
is that similar to those scarves everyone's been sporting recently?
Heroine had really changed her face.
xobeeko 2 years ago
probably some version of the palestinian keffiyeh
gocanes93 2 years ago
hey, isn't that Sterling Morrison playing?
werebear41 2 years ago
frozen warnings close to mine
close to the frozen borderline
jackhillty1 2 years ago
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Someone shoot the guitar playeeeeer!!!
aleksoraven 2 years ago
the guitar player is the guy who wrote the song...thats Sterling Morrison
JRAJ5XXA 2 years ago 3