“The first time I heard the album, I cried. They had destroyed it.”
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Nico
Christa Päffgen, known professionally as Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress and model.
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entertainment · German singer and actress (1938–1988) · actor · model · singer · composer · film actor · experimental musician · musician · also Nico, Christa Päffgen, Christa Nico, Nico Otzak, Nico Päffgen
Born 16 October 1938 · Died 18 July 1988 · Q44634
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He taught me to write songs. I never thought that I could, because when you come out of the fashion business ... I mean, I did a flimsy sort of writing ... He really inspired me a lot. It was like looking in a mirror then.
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2026· 4 entries
“He taught me to write songs. I never thought that I could, because when you come out of the fashion business ... I mean, I did a flimsy sort of writing ... He really inspired me a lot. It was like looking in a mirror then.”
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“s. According to Nico and Edith Boulogne, Alain Delon”
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Public attention spiked: 9,003 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.7× the usual 1,163, with 1 article edits.
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2024· 1 entry
Released album “NICO ALIVE”.
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2023· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “A real vintage advertisement for “Nico-Time Cigarettes” shows a pregnant woman smoking and features the caption, “The smooth taste expectant mothers crave.”” Miscaptioned.
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And until the end, he fought to be legally recognized by Alain Delon
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike review – the biography of Nico
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The Guardian: You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone review – Nico as the gothic Garbo
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2019· 3 entries
The Guardian: Nico in Manchester: 'She loved the architecture – and the heroin'
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Nigel Bagley, Nico's co-manager and promoter in Manchester, said he never saw Nico express racist views and said she lived in a multicultural city and was friendly with their American-Jamaican doorman
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Manchester International Festival put on a production called The Nico Project
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2018· 3 entries
The Guardian: From Nico to Tonya Harding, women’s true stories are being told on film at last
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The Guardian: Nico 1988: the film about the Velvet Underground's doomed singer
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Released album “1974‐05‐10: Berlin Nationalgalerie”.
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2015· 1 entry
Lutz Graf-Ulbrich, Nico's former partner and accompanist in the late 1970s, published Nico: In the Shadow of the Moon Goddess, an account of his time with Nico
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Songs from the Velvet Underground”.
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2012· 3 entries
Released album “Reims Cathedral - December 13th, 1974”.
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Released album “Nico v Brně”.
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X-TG (featuring members of industrial band Throbbing Gristle) released a re-interpretation of the Desertshore album
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2011· 1 entry
With her one-woman show Nico: Chelsea Mädchen, in which she impersonated the singer and delivered spoken material based on an interview Nico gave in the mid-Eighties, during an Australian tour
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “My Funny Valentine”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “All Tomorrow's Parties”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “The Frozen Borderline”.
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Released album “All Tomorrow’s Parties: Live”.
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2005· 1 entry
Alternative rock band Anberlin released their second studio album, Never Take Friendship Personal, which includes the song "Dance, Dance Christa Päffgen", inspired by Nico, whose given name was Christa Päffgen
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Femme Fatale: The Aura Anthology”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Innocent & Vain”.
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Faust Records released two collections of obscure Nico tracks, Reich der Träume (Realm of Dreams) and Walpurgis-Nacht (Walpurgis Night)
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Released album “Femme Fatale”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “An Underground Experience + Heroine”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “The Classic Years”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “1972‐01‐29: Le Bataclan, Paris, France”.
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1996· 4 entries
Released album “Icon (Rare & Unreleased)”.
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Released album “Janitor of Lunacy”.
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Released album “Le Bataclan ’72”.
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Released album “June 1, 1974 Outtakes”.
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1994· 5 entries
Released album “Heroine”.
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Released album “Live in Pécs 1985”.
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Released album “Chelsea Girl Live”.
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Released album “Nico’s Last Concert “Fata Morgana””.
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Released album “Minnesang”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “In Europe: Do or Die, Diary 1982”.
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Nico: The Life and Lies of an Icon by musicologist Richard Witts covered Nico's entire life and career
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Released album “Abschied”.
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1992· 1 entry
Was Songs They Never Play on the Radio, a book by James Young that draws on his association with Nico in her last years
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “The Bedroom Tape”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Hanging Gardens”.
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1988· 3 entries
Died 1988-07-18.
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Released ep “The Peel Sessions”.
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“I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.”
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1986· 3 entries
Released album “Behind the Iron Curtain”.
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Released album “Nico in Tokyo”.
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Released album “Live Heroes”.
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1985· 3 entries
Released album “Camera Obscura”.
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Released album “The Blue Angel”.
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With the Faction (James Young and Graham "Dids" Dowdall)
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1983· 3 entries
Released album “The Drama of Exile”.
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Released album “Live in Denmark”.
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Released album “En personne en Europe”.
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1982· 3 entries
Released album “En Concert À L’Enfer”.
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Joined Bauhaus for a performance of "I'm Waiting for the Man"
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With post-punk band Blue Orchids as her backing band
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1981· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy.
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Released album “Drama of Exile”.
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Nico released the Philippe Quilichini-produced single "Saeta"/"Vegas" on Flicknife Records
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Texas punk band Really Red released an original song in tribute to Nico
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1979· 1 entry
Where her comeback concert at CBGB (accompanied by John Cale and Lutz Ulbrich) was reviewed positively in The New York Times
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1978· 1 entry
By Michel Huygen, Carlos Guirao and Albert Gimenez
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “The End…”.
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Released album “June 1, 1974”.
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “Andy Warhol’s Velvet Underground featuring Nico”.
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Released album “Pop History”.
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Desertshore”.
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1969· 1 entry
And contributed the song "The Falconer" to his film Le Lit de la Vierge
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1968· 3 entries
Released album “The Marble Index”.
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Nico wrote the lyrics and music
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“s harmonium anchored the accompaniment, and harmonium became her signature instrument for the rest of her career. John Cale arranged the album, adding an array of folk and classical instruments. The album has a European “classical”
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1967· 3 entries
Released album “Chelsea Girl”.
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Released album “The Velvet Underground & Nico”.
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Nico recorded his song "I'll Keep It with Mine" for her first album, Chelsea Girl
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1965· 2 entries
Nico became pregnant during a three-month affair with Brian Jones and had an abortion
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Nico met the Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones and recorded her first single, "I'm Not Sayin'", with the B-side "The Last Mile", produced by Jimmy Page for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.
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1959· 2 entries
Nico was supposed to play the lead female role in the French movie Purple Noon
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Had an uncredited speaking part in Mario Lanza's last film For the First Time
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1946· 1 entry
Nico and her mother relocated to Berlin, where Grete worked as a seamstress
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1942· 1 entry
After having been shot in the head by a French sniper
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-10-16.
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1928· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his work on typhus.
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