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She tragically died in Ibiza, Spain after a bicycling accident and a misdiagnosis for a cerebral brain hemorrhage. Shop The Velvet Underground & Nico LP VINYL at Best Buy. She hated being a woman, because she figured all her beauty had brought her was grief.” After her star faded, she did budget tours for years with her small band and troubled son, who was also addicted to heroin. Christa Päffgen (16 October 1938 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, musician, model, and actress. Her longtime collaborator John Cale said, “She hated the idea of being blonde and beautiful.

Warhol abandoned her because, as her keyboard player James Young put, “Her beauty had faded, her celebrity marginalized, she’d lost her iconic value as an image of the ‘European Moon Goddess’ once so essential an acquisition to the great collector’s gallery of social archetypes.” John Cale, who produced it, said of its failure, “You can’t sell suicide.” But two genre mainstays, the bands Bauhaus and The Cult, would later cite The Marble Index as an inspiration.Īt this point, Nico began to detest her beautiful image, delving deeper into her addiction to heroin, and letting herself go. The model, singer and actress Nico is best known for her tenure with The Velvet Underground under the guidance of Andy Warhol. It commercially flopped but some observers have said that it gave birth to goth music. As the disc has been graded Vg or below, it will show signs of light wear. Country of Origin: EU (Germany) Year: 1996 (1976) Format: Compact Disc.

The film will be based on her life after, The Velvet. If Chelsea Girl romanticized an icy forlorn lady, The Marble Index laid bare her suicidal thoughts and difficulties. Artist: The Velvet Underground & Nico Label: Polydor Catalogue : 531 250 2. The world has not forgotten the German lead singer, Nico, and this November a biopic will start filming. The following year, Nico put out The Marble Index (1968). A few months later, right after the release of The Velvet Underground & Nico, the group would convene to record parts of Nicos Chelsea Girl, which is a fine baroque folk-pop album, but nothing.
