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Nico: The End
by
James Young
The funniest and truest rock biography ever written
In 1982, Nico - former model, film actress, singer with the Velvet Underground, 'darling' of Andy Walhol's Factory, and latterly drug addict - began a comeback to her chequerboard career.
James Young was the keyboard player hired to play in Nico's ramshackle band on her world tour throughout the 1980...more
In 1982, Nico - former model, film actress, singer with the Velvet Underground, 'darling' of Andy Walhol's Factory, and latterly drug addict - began a comeback to her chequerboard career.
James Young was the keyboard player hired to play in Nico's ramshackle band on her world tour throughout the 1980...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
May 1st 1994
by Overlook Press
(first published September 3rd 1992)
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Teutonic Laughter
Despite the Teutonic subject matter, this is one of the funniest music books I have ever read.
James Young was Nico's keyboard player for many years during her solo post-VU period, leading up to her unfortunate death.
So he had a long time to witness her at her worst and most self-abusive.
It must have been painful to have to live with her shenanigans and to be financially dependent on her for a musical career as well.
The Veins of the Ice M...more
Despite the Teutonic subject matter, this is one of the funniest music books I have ever read.
James Young was Nico's keyboard player for many years during her solo post-VU period, leading up to her unfortunate death.
So he had a long time to witness her at her worst and most self-abusive.
It must have been painful to have to live with her shenanigans and to be financially dependent on her for a musical career as well.
The Veins of the Ice M...more
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A wild, irreverent romp through the darkest moment in Nico's history. OK, so every moment in Nico's career was "the darkest" but this is much darker.
Young writes with a lacerating wit, taking no prisoners as he evokes the chancers, hangers-on, druggies and lunatics touring with Nico on her 1000-date world tour.
His ear for detail, dialect, character is amazing. He evokes the sleazy degeneracy of the scene, taking us away from Nico, the dull junkie, into a wider...more
Young writes with a lacerating wit, taking no prisoners as he evokes the chancers, hangers-on, druggies and lunatics touring with Nico on her 1000-date world tour.
His ear for detail, dialect, character is amazing. He evokes the sleazy degeneracy of the scene, taking us away from Nico, the dull junkie, into a wider...more
This is one of the best music biographies I ever read, from memory it was written by the guy who played keyboards in Nico's eighties touring band, and on some of her later albums.James Young writes this book as an observer, as he travels Europe with Nico and her band,and meets a lot of eccentrics junkies and oddballs.At this period of her life Nico was a hardened junkie and sought out drugs wherever she went,I don't think anyone can possibly write a book that would portray the true Nico as she a...more
I don't know that I really LIKED this bio. I was interested in Nico and this was all I could find. The book is not well written and difficult to follow at times...the best parts were when the writer actually had something to reveal about Nico, like when her son comes to visit her and their twisted relationship is dissected. It does a good job of portraying Nico's reality in the mid 80s which was as a sad junkie with a huge amount of self loathing which came across in her hatred of women in ge...more
One of the two or three best fly on the wall rock books ever.
fuck yeah. the solution to the problem is to read faster.
Nico, my favorite antihero.
Documents the last few years of this former Andy Warhol goddess is a good story about a former/minor star making a living in late Cold War Europe.
Don't do drugs - drink tea instead, it's much nicer
nico..an/other absolute beast
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