Nico/Christa Päffgen

[odelay]

Was Nico naturally blonde or did she have dark hair? In her childhood photos, it looks like she has really light hair (although I suppose it could have gotten darker as she got older) and all throughout her pe-music modeling career it was both at different times.

I found James Young's book in the library, but it was the Harold Washington in Chicago (which I hear is the biggest in the US, outside of the LOC.) Libraries never fail to surprise me, though, I've found really racy books in small libraries in conservative cities.

 

[babydoll1125]

I found James Young's book at my library, too and i was really suprised!

I think she was born with blonde hair and by the time she was a teenager it was dark. I know she dyed it blonde when she started modeling. I think the brown color she had when she got older was her natural color.

 

[nicovelvet]

 

[nicovelvet]

Credit: MSN Cultish Celebs & Icons (Scan by François Boucher)

 

[babydoll1125]

Thanks nicovelvet! I love pictures of her playing her harmonium!

 

[IcePrincess]

I don't know if you read about this yesterday, but just in case you didn't...

Velvet Underground rarity sells on eBay
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer Sun Dec 10, 2:06 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061210/ap_en_mu/vintage_velvet



NEW YORK - Forty years after it was made, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financial hit — in cyberspace. Bought for 75 cents four years ago at a Manhattan flea market, the rare recording of music that ended up on the influential New York band's first album, "The Velvet Underground & Nico," sold on eBay for a closing bid of $155,401.

The buyer is a mystery, only identified by the eBay screen name: "mechadaddy."

But a greater mystery endures: How did the 12-inch, acetate LP end up buried in a box of records at a flea market?

Warren Hill, a collector from Montreal, bought the record in September 2002 at the flea market, according to an article written by his friend, Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records in Portland, Ore. in the current issue of Goldmine Magazine

Isaacson helped Hill decipher the nature of the lucky find.
"We cued it up and were stunned — the first song was not 'Sunday Morning' as on the 'Velvet Underground & Nico' Verve LP, but rather it was 'European Son' — the song that is last on that LP, and it was a version neither of us had ever heard before!" Isaacson wrote.

The recording turned out to be an in-studio acetate made during Velvet Underground's first recording over four days in April 1966 at New York's Scepter Studios. The record reportedly is only one of two in existence; the other is privately owned, with rumors circulating about the owner's identity. Columbia Records rejected the album.

"I immediately took the needle off the record, and realized that we had something special," Isaacson wrote. Hill and Isaacson photographed the album, made a digital backup copy of the music, and decided to put it up for auction. The first bids, which began Nov. 28, rose $20,000.
Velvet Underground left its musical stamp on hundreds of other bands.

Here is a link to the ebay auction



http://cgi.ebay.com/VELVET-UNDERGROUND-NICO-1966-Acetate-LP-ANDY-WARHOL_W0QQitemZ300054910309QQihZ020QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[babydoll1125]

Haha. I saw that when it was on ebay and i sent it to my mom and told her to get it when it was at like $20,000! I wish i was rich so that i could have that!

 

[danabnormal]

^ I'd have kept it.
thx for sharing that info!

 

[odelay]

That bid turned out to be a hoax. Here's a blurb about it: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061211.wxunderground11/BNStory/Entertainment/home

I don't think you can really trust the internet enough to sell something like that on ebay. They'd do better at a legitimate auction house, like Christie's, or by selling directly to a record company.

 

[IcePrincess]

That bid turned out to be a hoax. Here's a blurb about it: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061211.wxunderground11/BNStory/Entertainment/home

I don't think you can really trust the internet enough to sell something like that on ebay. They'd do better at a legitimate auction house, like Christie's, or by selling directly to a record company.

You're right. A joke bid, I don't think I would be amused if one of my friends did that to me

 

[nicovelvet]

Yes I did read something about it in the local paper and saw a bit of info in the local TV news. The guy who bought the record is from Montréal so it was a popular story here. Thank you for sharing the details.

 

[odelay]

You're right. A joke bid, I don't think I would be amused if one of my friends did that to me

haha, seriously. If one of my friends did that to me, I'd make them pay the $155,000 and give the acetate to me as an apology!

 

[NicoleNYC]

I had a feeling someone would pull something like that. Oh well, I think it should be in a museum or at least sold in a private auction anyway.

 

[babydoll1125]

About Nico's grave
http://community.livejournal.com/nico_fans/16555.html

 

[babydoll1125]

(ebay)

(corbis)

 

[nicovelvet]

Babydoll, thank you. Very interesting posts & photos.

 

[IcePrincess]

Thanks BabyDoll1125
You always find the best Nico memorabilia

 

[odelay]

thank you babydoll! as always, you rock

I love that poster.

 

[babydoll1125]

(corbis)

 

[nicovelvet]