Nico by Richard Witts

Author:Richard Witts
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780753548486
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

The Detroit Free Press was there too, commenting in an equal tone of sniggering irony, that ‘Warhol’s “superstar” Nico sang a bizarre and totally unintelligible song accompanied by the electronic tones of The Velvet Underground, a rock’n’roll band. Nico, a tall, lanky girl with straight blonde hair, began to sing just as the microphones went haywire. As a result, she sounded like a Bedouin woman singing a funeral dirge in Arabic while accompanied by an off-key air raid siren.’ Nico, always game for exotic status, would have loved to have been considered a Bedouin, especially in a lavender pantsuit.

It was all very well being a Superstar, she thought, but it was like treading water. ‘She was very ambitious, but she was also independent and did not want to live in a conventional way. It was always a problem for her to move on to something else,’ suggested the ever-observant Aunt Helma. As 1966 came to a close, Nico notched up her year’s achievements. She had once again played in a notorious film, she had joined a rock band and made an album that would soon be released, she had her son back in her care, and her image was once more in the arts and society pages of the world’s press. But at all times she was a romantic ornament to Andy Warhol; she could easily be discarded, as Edie had been, and lose everything through severance. She decided she must promote her independence as a singer and cultivate new relations beyond the Factory.

The gushingly jolly Christmas issue of Hullabaloo pop magazine printed two photos of Nico, dressed in ‘super-mod outfits by New York’s flipped out Paraphernalia!!’ The slobbering copy reveals how swiftly the facts of Nico’s life could be transformed by the gullible press: ‘Nico was already a famous name in London. Nico appeared numerous times in England’s super Ready, Steady, Go! TV show, and cut a hit “I’m Not Sayin’ ” … The jacket is double-breasted with big bold buttons and the pants are neither tapered nor bells, but cut straight to complete this elegant outfit. The blazer is blue with brassy buttons and beautifully tailored to look fab at any time.’ After all she had been through to revolutionise her career, Nico ended 1966 as she had ended 1956, modelling clothes. The next year, finally, everything would change for ever.

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