Comments on: Euphoria #9

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:30:59 +0000

There are two excellent Nico books already. Nico: The Life and Lies of an Icon by Richard Witts (Virgon Books, 1993) and Songs They Don’t Play On the Radio (aka The End) by James Young (Bloomsbury Books, 1992). Witts tells the complete story in straightforward biographical fashion. Young’s book is his memoir of being Nico’s keyboard player and band leader for the last group she worked with sometimes known as The Faction.

I was in Nico’s presence (no one meets her) a handful of times. Twice in the 60’s (once at the Silver Factory, once at the Filmmaker’s Cinematheque) and once at her last L.A. gig in the late 80’s.

No one remotely like her before or since.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:18:29 +0000

Write that Nico book! I had no idea JB was only 15 when he wrote it…amazing.

By: dcairns

dcairns — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:14:59 +0000

Alex — will link to MANHATTAN shortly. I love that ending too.

David E, you should write that Nico book! Put me down for two copies.

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:59:09 +0000

Jackson Browne was 15 years odl when he wrote that song. Playing guitar for Nico was is first gig and she was his first girlfriend.

(I’ll allow you a few moments to pick yourselves off the floor over that one.)

I’m a raging Nicophile. She;s ripe for hagiographical overkill with a career stretching from La Dolce Vita to The Chelsea Girls, Imitation of Christ and La Cicatrice Interiuere. And that’s not to mention the son she had by Alain Delon, her affair with Jim Morrison (covered along with much else in the superb doc Nico/Icon) and her Bessie Smith-like demise.

Anderson’s use of “These Days” is the sine qua non of hipness.

By: Alex Andronov

Alex Andronov — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:55:10 +0000

A great candidate for me is the last 10 minutes of Woody Allen’s Manhattan.

I have it here: Manhattan (I also included the first 10 minutes for flavour).