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Title: Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio
Condition: New
EAN: 9780747544111
ISBN: 9780747544111
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 27/07/1999
Item Height: 129mm
Item Length: 198mm
Item Width: 12mm
Item Weight: 245g
Author: James Young
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0747544115
Description: 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.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Topic: Biography
Release Year: 1999

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