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{{quote| "And with [[Velvet Underground|The Velvets]] come the blonde, bland, beautiful Nico, another cooler [[Marlene Dietrich|Dietrich]] for another cooler generation. Art [...] will never be the same again."<br />▼
'''John Wilcock''' of ''The East Village Other'''s review of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable show, quoted in the liner notes of ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'' CD. }}▼
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Nico was a German singer, model, actress, and Warhol Superstar. Born in 1938, she started modeling when she was a teenager and later moved into acting, landing a minor blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in Fellini's ''[[La Dolce Vita]]''. Later still, she started working with [[Andy Warhol]] and Paul Morrissey on their experimental films, and it was Andy who inserted her into the [[The Velvet Underground]]'s lineup. The collaboration ended rather quickly because she and the band didn't really get along and the Velvets soon broke their ties with Warhol. Nevertheless, her work with the Velvets became legendary in the rock community, despite the fact that [[One-Scene Wonder|her involvement was limited: she only sang 3 songs and added backing vocals to another]] on ''The Velvet Underground & Nico''. Additionally, she received no writing credits and was credited as [[Gratuitous French|"chanteuse"]].▼
▲|'''John Wilcock''' of ''The East Village Other''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s review of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable show, quoted in the liner notes of ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'' CD.
▲[[Nico]] was a German singer, model, actress, and Warhol Superstar. Born in 1938, she started modeling when she was a teenager and later moved into acting, landing a minor blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in Fellini's ''[[La Dolce Vita]]''. Later still, she started working with [[Andy Warhol]] and Paul Morrissey on their experimental films, and it was Andy who inserted her into the [[The Velvet Underground]]'s lineup. The collaboration ended rather quickly because she and the band didn't really get along and the Velvets soon broke their ties with Warhol. Nevertheless, her work with the Velvets became legendary in the rock community, despite the fact that [[One-Scene Wonder|her involvement was limited: she only sang 3 songs and added backing vocals to another]] on ''The Velvet Underground & Nico''. Additionally, she received no writing credits and was credited as [[Gratuitous French|"chanteuse"]].
Nico soon embarked on a solo career, using the opportunity to demonstrate the full range of her musical talent. Her debut album, ''Chelsea Girl'', was met with praise, despite the fact that Nico wasn’t really involved in the production of the album and was dissatisfied with it. She started taking control of her music starting with her second album. Because of this, her sound evolved into something more experimental and harmonium-driven.
On July 18, 1988, Nico had a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle in Ibiza and hit her head as she fell. A passing taxi driver found her and had a hard time finding a hospital that would admit her. She was incorrectly diagnosed as suffering from heat-exposure instead of having a severe cerebral hemorrhage, and died as a result. Her legacy still lives on, as part of the Velvets and as a respected solo artist. Musicians influenced by her include Siouxsie and the Banshees, [[Bat for Lashes]], [[Patrick Wolf]], [[Bjork]], [[Bauhaus]], Coil, Elliott Smith, and [[Dead Can Dance]]. Also, despite their [[Creative Differences]], the Velvets liked her voice enough that whenever they performed "I'll Be Your Mirror" (a song where they fought with Nico to get the final result) live, they'd sing it in a German accent.
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* ''Chelsea Girl'' (1967)
* ''The Marble Index'' (1969)
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* ''Camera Obscura'' (1985)
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* [[Cover Version]] - "The End" by [[The Doors]] on the album of the same name, "I'm Not Saying" by Gordon Lightfoot as her first single, "I'm Waiting for the Man" by [[The Velvet Underground]] and "'Heroes'" by [[David Bowie]] on ''Drama of Exile'', and the pop standard "My Funny Valentine" on ''Camera Obscura''. In a variation, some of the songs for ''Chelsea Girl'' were written specifically for her by her collaborators.
* [[Creator Backlash]] – see [[Executive Meddling]].
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* [[Creepy Monotone]]
* [[Darker and Edgier]] – ''The Marble Index'' is a hell of a shift from ''Chelsea Girl''.
* [[Doing It for
* [[Dream Team]]/[[Hey, It's That Guy!]] - Nico was good at getting help from talented musicians on her albums. For starters, her first single "I'm Not Sayin'"/"The Last Mile" was produced and had guitar by [[Led Zeppelin|Jimmy Page]]. ''Chelsea Girls'' features her old VU mates Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison along with [[Jackson Browne]]. ''The Marble Index'' and ''Desertshore'' had instrumentation entirely by Nico and Cale, ''The End'' kept Cale and added [[Roxy Music]] alumni [[Brian Eno]] and Phil Manzanera, ''Drama of Exile'' featured [[Ian Dury and The Blockheads]] saxophonist Davey Payne and [[David Bowie]]'s keyboardist Andy Clark.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Her first single, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgdZFnZ6M0k&feature=related "I'm Not Saying"]/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5lGAeLEkkw "The Last Mile"], is an unusually sunny affair compared to the Gothic gloom of her later works.
* [[Epic Rocking]] - "It Was a Pleasure Then", the cover of "The End", "Fearfully in Danger".
* [[Executive Meddling]] – Nico had little say in how ''Chelsea Girl'' was produced. This lead to her to disliking the album.
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* [[Harmony]] - From ''The Marble Index'' onwards, Nico wrote and recorded her songs on an Indian harmonium, which is tuned to an entirely different scale than the Western instruments that make up the rest of the music. The effect can be...
* [[Kids Rock]] - "Le Petit Chevalier" from ''Desertshore'' is a 1 minute tune of Nico playing the harpsichord and her son Ari singing a few lines.
* [[Lighter and Softer]] - The more [[
* [[Magnum Opus]] – ''Chelsea Girl'', although ''The Marble Index'' was probably her most influential album.
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]] – Throughout Nico’s career, she has touched [[Baroque Pop]], proto-goth, [[Synth Pop]], folk, classical, rock, experimental, and [[
* [[New Sound Album]] – All of them!
* [[One-Scene Wonder]] - Her work on ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'': vocals on "Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror". She was supposed to sing "Sunday Morning" as well but Lou Reed decided to take over at the last minute; you can still hear her backing vocals in the last minute of the track if you turn up the volume and pay attention.
* [[Perishing Alt Rock Voice]] - Yeah, she and pretty much everybody else in VU. Except maybe Mo Tucker.
* [[The Rashomon]] - Try to get a straight story of why there are two versions of ''Drama of Exile''. [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Drama of Exile|has more details]].
* [[Revival
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]] - It's "You Forg''e''t To Answer", not "You Forg''o''t To Answer".
* [[Stage Names]] - Christa Päffgen was named "Nico" by Herbert Tobias, after his ex-boyfriend Nico Papatakis.
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