Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio Paperback / softback
by James Young
Paperback / softback
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The story of Nico, former model, film actress, singer with the Velvet Underground and darling of Andy Warhol's factory.;In 1982 Nico was living in Manchester, alone and interested only in feeding her heroin habit.
Local promoter Dr Demetrius saw an opportunity, hired musicians to back her, rented a decrepit van and set off with Nico and the band on a disastrous tour of Italy.
Over the next six years, until her death in 1988, Nico toured the world with assorted thrown-together bands.
They made next to no money, appalled many of their audiences and occasionally, on the rare nights when the music worked, pleased a few.;James Young played keyboards for Nico throughout those years.
In this book, he records the never-ending antics of a picaresque circus of addicts, outsiders and misfits who travelled the world - East and Western Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan - encountering an equally bizarre and extraordinary mixture of people: poets, artists, gangsters, losers and drifters.
John Cale, John Cooper Clarke, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso are among those who appear in this story of Nico, the last Bohemian.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, Music
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:27/07/1999
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- ISBN:9780747544111
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, Music
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:27/07/1999
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- ISBN:9780747544111