Nico/Christa Päffgen

[nicovelvet]

^^Yeah, definitly. Please do!

 

[babydoll1125]

Beautiful postcard, a 1966 photograph of Dutch painter Jan Cremer and chanteuse Nico.
They both lived at the Chelsea Hotel at the time.

Looks like it's from the same set as this one. I didn't know who the guy was before.

 

[nicovelvet]

^^I always wondered who he was! Thanks!

 

[pipoca]

I hope these are not reposts!

ph Mark Shaw | 1960

svenskamobler.com

 

[nicovelvet]

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the untimely passing of model/songstress/Warhol cohort Nico, which means it's as good a time as any for a handful of musician friends and fans to come together and commemorate the life and work of the beloved singer and Velvet Underground collaborator.
Velvet Underground's John Cale has assembled a gathering of Nico's friend and admirers for "Life Along the Borderline: A Tribute to Nico", which hits London's Royal Festival Hall on Saturday, Oct. 11. The Fiery Furnaces, Mark Lanegan (The Gutter Twins, Screaming Trees), Peter Murphy (Bauhaus), James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers), Cale collaborator Nick Franglen (Lemon Jelly), and other as-yet-unannounced guests will join Cale in "re-imagining Nico's songs" for the special performance.

 

[nicovelvet]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico

Nico was born October 16th, 1938 and passed away July 18th, 1988. 20 years already.

 

[babydoll1125]

It doesn't seem that weird for me because i'm only 19 but i wish she was still alive

I hope there are a lot of photos and videos from this because it sounds interesting. I wish i was in London right now!

 

[nicovelvet]

^I can understand that. As for me, I remember so well the day I read the news of her death in NME (New Musical Express) - a UK music weekly. I was shocked! Same feeling when I read about John Lennon shooting in NY. Well, I am 46. I also remember about Elvis death. Althought I was only 14 then, I remember it very well.

 

[babydoll1125]

Another postcard Nico sent to Danny Fields!

And a HQ of this picture

all from ebay

 

[nicovelvet]

The sad thing is that her death could have been avoidable. She did not get proper treatment when the taxi driver brought her to the hospital in Ibiza (many hours after her fall from her bike). It was nighttime, there was no doctors. Thinking she had a sunstroke, they let her sleep in an hospital bed waiting for the doctor to check on her in the morning. She died during the night from a brain hemoragia. This is the really shocking/tragic thing. And yes, she had cleaned-up her by then.

 

[babydoll1125]

I know if only someone had seen her sooner and the doctors weren't such assholes. They didn't care because they thought she was just some junkie. What does it say in the Richard Witt's book? "If there's one thing to learn from Nico's death it's to never get sick in Spain" something like that.

 

[nicovelvet]

^^Yes, this is what he wrote. I think it is in that book that he stresses the fact that as an immigrant/alien in Spain, it did complicate matters for admittance in hospitals, or something similar... have to re-read that part of the book.

 

[babydoll1125]

Article about the tribute

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/14/popandrock1

 

[babydoll1125]

John Cale interview about the tribute.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7663000/7663046.stm

 

[babydoll1125]

Mark Lanegan - Roses In The Snow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I7flB6Shes

A short BBC documentary about Nico and the Nico Icon play
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Kr9wjTUmc

I love the look of her home in Manchester! I want to live in a tall Gothic tower! So Ari has a daughter now, too?

 

[babydoll1125]

They're releasing a dvd of Andy's screen tests and here's the trailer! Nico is at 0:49.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzOtZg_Zrow

 

[-lucyinthesky-]

^ The trailer looks really great! It's a pity the dvd will probably arrive much later here in Europe than in the US.

 

[babydoll1125]

Nico and John Cale at the Castle.

1969 - Nico pictured by Leopoldo Pomés wearing an Yves Saint-Laurent tracksuit

1964 - Nico pictured in London by Philip Townsend

Nico in 1978

1987 - November - Belgium - Jungle of Joy

1988 - March 24th - Brussels - Paleis voor schone kunsten

All from this site
http://xbreak-on-throughx.piczo.com/nico?cr=5
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[haute femme]

anyone going (or have in past tense) as Nico for halloween? I'm thinking of even cutting bangs for this..

 

[babydoll1125]

I never have and probably never will. I don't like going as real people. I have more fun making something up. Did you end up going as her?