{"id":1166,"date":"2018-06-06T19:01:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2018-06-07T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:09:56","slug":"nico-musa-agridulce-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/en\/urban-moon\/nico-musa-agridulce-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico, The Bittersweet Muse Of The Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No one yet knows what was hidden behind Nico&#8217;s hypnotic gaze. She was the muse of Warhol, of punk and the New Wave and a fashion and cinema icon. Her skepticism led her to self-destruction wrapped in existential emptiness, sex and drugs. She summarized her life in one sentence: <em>I have been in the highest and the lowest and both places are empty.<\/em> The spell of the German diva keeps its irresistible charm intact. We discover the lights and shadows of a mystery woman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZudHYTya-dQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is not a definitive birth date but it seems that she was born on October 16, 1938 in<strong> Cologne<\/strong>. Her family came from a beer lineage that still exists: the <strong>Paffgen<\/strong>. However, her father was a railwayman. Nazis forced him to enlist in the army at the beginning of<strong> World War II.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The girl moved with her mother and aunt, <strong>Helma Wolff<\/strong>, to a suburb of<strong> Berlin<\/strong> to escape the Allied bombing. Before finalizing the fight, Nazis interned her father in a psychiatric hospital after receiving a bullet straight to the head. He later died at that hospital. The allied offensive besieged\u00a0<strong>Berlin<\/strong> and the hardships of this event marked the life of little <strong>Nico,<\/strong> who was still known as <strong>Christa Paffgen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the American sector of <strong>Berlin<\/strong> survived a hard postwar. <strong>Christa&#8217;s<\/strong> mind folded inside her. <em>She did not have friends. She went everywhere by herself. She was walking through the center of<strong> Berlin<\/strong> looking at the shop windows without being able to enter<\/em>, recalled in an interview given by her aunt <strong>Helma<\/strong>, whom <strong>Christa<\/strong> considered a second mother. At that time, she was a seamstress after leaving school at the age of 13.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1587\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-en-Berl\u00edn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-en-Berl\u00edn.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-en-Berl\u00edn-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-en-Berl\u00edn-513x640.jpg 513w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-en-Berl\u00edn-821x1024.jpg 821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico at Berl\u00edn shot by Herbet Tobias<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She didn\u00b4t take long to change her job to work at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kadewe.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KaDeWe<\/a>, the German <strong>Harrods<\/strong>. After the counter at the lingerie section, she drew attention with her <em>beauty of glass and milk,<\/em> as defined by <strong>Helma<\/strong>. She became an icon of\u00a0<strong>Berlin<\/strong>\u00a0fashion thanks to <strong>Herbert Tobias<\/strong>. He worked as a photographer for <strong>Heinz Oestergaard<\/strong>, a couturier of the German capital.<\/p>\n<p>In that moment, she lived one of her worst experiences. During a temporary job at an American military base, a sergeant raped her when she was 15 years old. <strong>Christa<\/strong>\u00a0went as witness to the court martial created to judge the rape. This event left its mark. Something that will reflect on her songs.<\/p>\n<p>When she was 16 years old,\u00a0<strong>Herbert<\/strong> took her to <strong>Paris<\/strong>. There, she met\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coco_Chanel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coco Chanel.<\/a> who offered her a job as a model. By then, she was already known as<strong> Nico<\/strong>, renamed by <strong>Herbert Tobias,<\/strong> in honor of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikos_Papatakis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikos Papatakis<\/a>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Nico&#8217;s lover and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">husband of the\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Nouvelle Vague<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\"> muse, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 15px;\" href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anouk_Aim%C3%A9e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anouk Aim\u00e9e.<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She posed for magazines such as <strong>Vogue, Elle<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Tempo<\/strong>. Also, she became the face of <strong>Terry<\/strong> promoting the benefits of Spanish brandy. Despite her success, <strong>Nico<\/strong> got tired of the superficiality of fashion and sought new artistic horizons. She left\u00a0<strong>Chanel<\/strong> and <strong>Herbert<\/strong>. She travelled to NYC to study acting at the <strong>Lee Strasberg<\/strong> school, where she met\u00a0<strong>Marylin Monroe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1590\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Par\u00eds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Par\u00eds.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Par\u00eds-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Par\u00eds-605x640.jpg 605w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Par\u00eds-968x1024.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico at Par\u00eds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of the 50s, she participated in films like <strong>La Tempest\u00e1<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>For The First Time<\/strong> with <strong>Mario Lanza<\/strong>. In 1959, she is in <strong>Rome<\/strong> when some friends invited her to the set of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_dolce_vita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Dolce Vita<\/a>. <strong>Fellini <\/strong>was\u00a0fascinated by her and offered her a secondary role in the movie, just a cross of words with the great <strong>Marcello Mastroiani,<\/strong> playing herself, as that<strong> Nico<\/strong> who began to be a woman in search of her talent.<\/p>\n<p>She lived halfway between<strong> Paris<\/strong> and <strong>New York<\/strong>, when she signed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordmodels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ford Modeling Agency<\/a>. In Paris, Nico found the bohemia. In NYC, she enjoyed with the artistic inspiration and the most avant-garde tendencies. She was a part of the golden era of European and Italian cinema, performing in <strong>A Man named Rocca,<\/strong> starring <strong>Jean Paul Belmondo<\/strong>. She was still modelling but she chose cultural projects, such as the cover of jazzman <strong>Bill Evans<\/strong>\u00a0disc in 1962.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1611\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Model.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Model.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Model-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Model-509x640.jpg 509w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Model-814x1024.jpg 814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico the model<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1963 was a key year in her life become a vaudeville of parties and famous faces. Turned into the <strong>I<\/strong><strong>t-girl,<\/strong> the emptiness she experienced lead her towards music. She debuted as a soloist at the<strong> Blue Angel Club<\/strong> in <strong>New York,<\/strong> where she sang\u00a0<em>My Funny Valentine<\/em> before an audience, who loved alternative music.<\/p>\n<p>Back in <strong>Paris<\/strong>\u00a0Nico seduced\u00a0<strong>Gainsbourg<\/strong> and both composed the main theme of the film <strong>Strip-Tease<\/strong> by <strong>Jacques Poitrenaud<\/strong>\u00a0which is created and which she herself starred in. The version didn\u00b4t get release until 2001.<strong> Serge Gainsbourg<\/strong>\u00a0chose the interpretation of <strong>Juliette Greco<\/strong>, also his lover.<\/p>\n<p>In a passionate night with <strong>Alain Delon,<\/strong> she became pregnant. The pregnancy and birth of <strong>Ari Paffgen<\/strong>\u00a0coincided with a huge fight between<strong> Nico<\/strong> and <strong>Alain Delon<\/strong>, who strongly denied his paternity. To further ignite the dispute appeared a servant named <strong>Jean Marie Betancourt,<\/strong> who confessed to have tricked <strong>Nico,<\/strong>\u00a0due to his reasonable resemblance to the actor, claiming to be the father of the child.<\/p>\n<p>Delon&#8217;s mother, <strong>Edith Boulogne<\/strong>, decided to adopt the newborn. Nico continued with an incompatible with motherhood lifestyle. Although, she accused\u00a0<strong>Edith<\/strong> of<em> kidnapping children<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alain_Delon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alain Delon<\/a>\u00a0didn\u00b4t talk to his mother for the next 17 years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1591\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-con-Ari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-con-Ari.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-con-Ari-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-con-Ari-519x640.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-con-Ari-831x1024.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico with her son Ari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While <strong>Ari<\/strong> discovered life with his grandmother, <strong>Nico<\/strong> walked through <strong>London<\/strong> with <strong>Brian Jones<\/strong>, the creator of the <strong>Rolling Stones<\/strong>. With the musician she enjoyed sex, acid trips and good music. A round-trip relationship began in 1965. The liberal mind of both agreed with an era of free love and the most radical <strong>Carpe Diem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian<\/strong> introduced her to <strong>Andrew Long Oldham<\/strong>, producer and creator of<strong>\u00a0Inmediate Records<\/strong>. He saw great potential in the <strong>diva<\/strong> and invited her to<strong> New York<\/strong>. That summer she met\u00a0<strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong> through actor <strong>Ben Carruthers<\/strong>. They both flirted and he gave her <em>It Keeps It with Mine<\/em>, a song he had already composed for another of his conquests, <strong>Judy Collins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Inmediate, Jimmy Page<\/strong> worked as producer and studio musician who had already arranged songs by the <strong>Kinks, the Who, Them <\/strong>or<strong> Marianne Fatihfull<\/strong>. In the first EP by<strong>\u00a0Nico<\/strong> &#8211; with<em> I&#8217;m N<\/em><em>ot Saying<\/em> as a single and <strong>The Last Mile<\/strong> as side B &#8211; Jimmy played a six strings accompanying<strong> Brian Jones<\/strong> who played a twelve strings forming a demolishing tandem.<\/p>\n<p>Back in <strong>London<\/strong>, a party changed her life. It was one of those brief moments that justify an existence, make it turn and twist until it gives it an unexpected shape. <strong>Andy Warhol<\/strong>\u00a0was preparing a visit to<strong> London<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick<\/strong> and <strong>Chuck Wein<\/strong>\u00a0to assist in the opening of his exhibition at the <strong>Sonnabend Gallery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malanga<\/strong> got lost in the <strong>London<\/strong> night and met\u00a0<strong>Brian Jones<\/strong> and <strong>Nico <\/strong>by chance. The German captivated him at poet <strong>Allen Ginsberg\u00b4s<\/strong> party. There, he gave her the keys to the cultural paradise of the <strong>New York<\/strong> of the 60s: the phone number of the <strong>Factory. <\/strong>\u00a0In her next visit to the city of skyscrapers, she pressed the magic number.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1593\" style=\"width: 999px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Warhol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"999\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Warhol.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Warhol-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico &amp; Warhol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As <strong>Warhol<\/strong> used to say, the meeting was electrifying. <strong>Nico<\/strong> called him from a Mexican restaurant while she played with the fruits of a pitcher of <strong>sangria<\/strong>. Her first sentence captivated him: <em>I only like the food that floats in the wine<\/em>. They talked for hours. <strong>Warhol<\/strong>\u00a0was fascinated by princesses dethroned by their own capacity for self-destruction.<\/p>\n<p>He invited her to enter the universe of the<strong> Factory<\/strong> by unseating <strong>Edie Sedgwick<\/strong> as his favorite. Her European bearing and her cold disdain for the world made her queen of the place. The filmmaker <strong>Paul Morrissey<\/strong> convinced\u00a0<strong>Andy<\/strong> to have<strong> Nico<\/strong>\u00a0become one of the stars of his new films.<strong> Warhol<\/strong>\u00a0was excited about Nico&#8217;s experience at <strong>La Dolce Vita<\/strong> and introduced her to the <strong>Chelsea Girl<\/strong> cast. She starred in three films of the <strong>Factory.<\/strong>\u00a0When\u00a0<strong>Chelsea Girl<\/strong> arrived at<strong>\u00a0Cannes<\/strong>. on the screen, she was seen with her son and her interpretation didn\u00b4t go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1594\" style=\"width: 1001px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1594\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-y-Warhol-en-una-cena-de-gala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1001\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-y-Warhol-en-una-cena-de-gala.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-y-Warhol-en-una-cena-de-gala-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-y-Warhol-en-una-cena-de-gala-868x640.jpg 868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico and Warhol in a fancy dinne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Nico<\/strong> found a home in the middle of that creative mess. She started the consumption of hallucinogens and other official substances of the place. <strong>Andy<\/strong> usually got lost at <strong>Caf\u00e9 Bizarre<\/strong> in search of the city&#8217;s cutting edge sound. He was fascinated by a dark band, against the current, but with a unique poetry and a hypnotic sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warhol<\/strong> didn\u00b4t like <strong>Lou Reed<\/strong> as a singer but he was addicted to his sounds. Despite Lou&#8217;s reluctance, <strong>Andy<\/strong> became his manager and promised to publicize them around the city. In return, they were required to introduce Nico&#8217;s voice into their themes. <strong>Lou Reed<\/strong> detested the German&#8217;s metallic voice and tried to give her the silent treatment, but it didn\u00b4t matter.<\/p>\n<p>In January of 1966,<strong> Warhol<\/strong> recorded an essay of the band from the film <strong>The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound<\/strong>. Then, Warhol created a different way of understanding the scenery with the show <strong>The Exploding Plastic Heritage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1596\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-y-Lou-Reed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-y-Lou-Reed.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-y-Lou-Reed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-y-Lou-Reed-962x640.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico &amp; Lou, a volcanic relationship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Nico<\/strong> dropped by the<strong> New York Chelsea Hotel<\/strong>. Sometimes, with<strong>\u00a0Brian Jones<\/strong>, or sometimes to sleep with<strong> Dylan<\/strong> or <strong>Hendrix<\/strong> and always to break <strong>Leonard Cohen&#8217;s<\/strong> heart. The Canadian poet fell in love with an impossible love to which he recognized a certain influence in his music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warhol<\/strong> and<strong> Nico<\/strong> were inseparable. The artist publicize\u00a0<strong>Velvet Underground<\/strong>, in all kinds of events. However, the tensions between<strong> Lou<\/strong> and <strong>Nico<\/strong> intensified in and out of bed.<strong> Lou Reed<\/strong> didn\u00b4t bear her pre-concert ritual: She burned an aromatic candle and she relaxed with some unhealthy substance. <em>Yes, Nico looks great in high contrast black and white photos, but I&#8217;m tired of so much drama.<\/em> He told\u00a0<strong>Warhol<\/strong> after a concert at <strong>Ballon Farm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reed<\/strong> tried to ridicule her by imitating her voice and forcing <strong>Nico<\/strong> to record her voice on a demo of the band. From that discussion, <em>Sunday Morning<\/em> was born. This exasperation reached its climax when <strong>Nico<\/strong> said to\u00a0<strong>Lou Reed<\/strong> after a sensual night:<em> It&#8217;s over. I don\u00b4t want to fuck with Jews again.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1597\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1597\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Lou-and-Nico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Lou-and-Nico.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Lou-and-Nico-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Lou-and-Nico-964x640.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico and Lou, an unhappy passion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After recording the iconic <strong>Velvet<\/strong> album in 1967 the situation was tense. During a concert,\u00a0<strong>Nico<\/strong> and <strong>Warhol<\/strong> arrived late. Lou prevented her from going on stage. Once finished, <strong>Lou Reed<\/strong> and <strong>Andy Warhol<\/strong> argued. The poet, who was angry, took him by the shirt\u00b4s collar and asked for his resignation as manager. <strong>Warhol<\/strong> reluctantly accepted in exchange for 25% of the future royalties on the disc. He would never receive a penny of those royalties.<\/p>\n<p>The record changed the underground scene. In its first five years of life, it only sold 30,000 copies, but as<strong> Brian Eno<\/strong> would say: <em>Each one of those 30,000 guys start a band.<\/em>\u00a0Maybe, he was right, because the disc inspired artists like <strong>Patti Smith, Brian Eno<\/strong> himself<strong>, Morrissey, Siouxie and the Banshees<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0Ian Curtis<\/strong>, the legendary <strong>Joy Division<\/strong> singer. <strong>David Bowie<\/strong>\u00a0was a grouppie in different concerts of the band and there he could see the sound and the staging that he wanted to create.<\/p>\n<p>However, for<strong> Nico<\/strong>, life began after the <strong>Velvet.<\/strong>\u00a0She moved away from the factory environment and approached the <strong>Chelsea Hotel<\/strong>, under the protection of the <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong> clan. At that time he was facing the <strong>Factory<\/strong> and picked up all of Warhol&#8217;s renegades with open arms. <strong>Dylan, Tim Buckley, Jackson Brown<\/strong>\u00a0and even <strong>Lou Reed<\/strong> helped her on her first solo album,\u00a0<strong>Chelsea Girl,<\/strong>\u00a0in 1967. Although,\u00a0<strong>John Cale<\/strong>\u00a0was who got more involved, she wasn\u00b4t very happy with the flute arrangements that saturated her dark songs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1598\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1598\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Pose.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Pose.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Pose-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Pose-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Pose-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Pose-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico posing in 1968<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Nico<\/strong> began to play at the <strong>Sala Dom<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>New York<\/strong> before tiny audiences while her album didn\u00b4t reach a majority audience. Even though\u00a0<strong>John Cale<\/strong>\u00a0and Nico had a sexual relationship and shared music,\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Nico<\/strong> still had\u00a0<strong>Brian Jones<\/strong> in mind, with whom she shined at the legendary<strong> Monterrey festival<\/strong>. Both needed special support, especially for Brian\u00a0 after his traumatic break with <strong>Anita Pallemberg<\/strong>, who had broken up with him for his partner <strong>Keith Richards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the last time she saw him. A few months later, <strong>Brian<\/strong> expanded the tragic club of the 27 by drowning in his pool. <strong>Nico<\/strong> intended to participate at the concert tribute of the<strong> Stones<\/strong> held the day after his death in <strong>Hyde Park,<\/strong> but her plane didn\u00b4t arrive on time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1599\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Brian-Jones-Monterrey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Brian-Jones-Monterrey.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Brian-Jones-Monterrey-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Brian-Jones-Monterrey-901x640.jpg 901w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Brian Jones at Monterrey Festival in 68<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She returned to the <strong>United States<\/strong> where her friend<strong> Danny Fields<\/strong>, the publicist who helped her sign with<strong> Elektra<\/strong> and from which<strong> Netflix<\/strong> has released a very interesting documentary, took her to<strong> California<\/strong>. Both had met at the <strong>Factory<\/strong> and he adored her: <em>She was a definitive Nordic diva that led him to be physically, spiritually and intellectually superior.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In<strong>\u00a0Los Angeles,<\/strong> he introduced her to the leader of the key band of the moment.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>When\u00a0<strong>Jim Morrison<\/strong> <span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">met<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\u00a0<strong>Nico,\u00a0<\/strong>both\u00a0looked at the floor for hours.They didn\u00b4t say anything.\u00a0<strong>Danny<\/strong> broke the ice with huge amounts of marijuana and acid. He went to sleep and when he woke up, he found\u00a0<strong>Jim<\/strong> jumping naked on the roof and<strong> Nico<\/strong> in the garden, also naked, crying disconsolately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After not allowing him to drive,<strong> Jim<\/strong> accused him of kidnapping and warned\u00a0<strong>Elektra<\/strong> that he didn\u00b4t want to see him again. <strong>Nico<\/strong> stayed. She was captivated by the aura of Morrison&#8217;s cursed poet. They spent two months together. They travelled to the desert to consume peyote and to discuss about poetry, philosophy and drugs. Both cut their hand palms to mix their blood. Back in <strong>Los Angeles<\/strong>, she dyed her hair red to fit in the canon of Irish beauty that fascinated the singer of <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Doors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1600\" style=\"width: 1001px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1600 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Jim-Morrison-en-1968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1001\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Jim-Morrison-en-1968.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Jim-Morrison-en-1968-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Morrison in 1968<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She asked him for marriage but <strong>Jim<\/strong> fell from the chair in the middle of one of his anthological drunkeness. Discussions and drugs made up a destructive routine. She introduced him to <strong>Andy Warhol<\/strong> at the<strong> Factory<\/strong> in the middle of an acid journey very well portrayed in Oliver Stone&#8217;s film about the Californian band. <strong>Warhol<\/strong> offered him a golden telephone to talk to God.<\/p>\n<p>Back in <strong>California<\/strong>, in another of her peyote sessions in the desert, <strong>Jim<\/strong> convinced her to write poetry and create her songs. In that moment she became a singer-songwriter. Soon after,<strong>\u00a0Morrison<\/strong> decided to return with<strong> Pam Courson<\/strong>, his more or less official girlfriend whose arms he always ended up returning to from his love affairs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nico<\/strong> was devastated and promised not to give up her red hair until <strong>Jim<\/strong> dies. She returned to\u00a0<strong>John Cale<\/strong> and her next album that was released in 1969. In <strong>Marble Index<\/strong>, the harmonium appeared for the first time. It\u00b4s a piano very present in the Central European folk, that was Nico&#8217;s hallmark. She returned briefly to <strong>London<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At a party,<strong> John Cale<\/strong> introduced<strong>\u00a0David Bowie<\/strong> and another 21-year-old guy that everyone talked about. This was\u00a0<strong>Iggy Pop<\/strong>. His band, <strong>The Stooges<\/strong>, had recorded his first album in<strong> New York<\/strong> with<strong> John Cale<\/strong> as a producer. <strong>Nico<\/strong> and<strong> Iggy<\/strong> began a torrid relationship. The German taught him the secrets of oral sex, as<strong> Iggy<\/strong>\u00a0confessed decades later.<\/p>\n<p>Together they starred in the strange experimental film<strong> Evening of light<\/strong>, directed by<strong> Fran\u00e7oise De Meril,<\/strong> where the tension between <strong>Cale<\/strong> and<strong> Iggy Pop<\/strong> increased every day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1602\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1602\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-865x640.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico lonely<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She started the decade of the 70\u00b4s with one of her more remembered discs,<strong> Dessertshore. Nico<\/strong> moved to<strong> Paris<\/strong> on another scale of that nomadic passage that was her life. In the City of Lights, she received devastating news. Her beloved <strong>Jim Morrison<\/strong>\u00a0was found dead in the bathroom of his Parisian suite. She bought all the newspapers she found and locked herself up at home. She decided to dye her hair black as a sign of mourning, a color that will accompany her almost until her death.<\/p>\n<p>In Paris, Nico entered in the bohemian atmosphere of the city and fell in love with the filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippe_Garrel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philippe Garrel,<\/a> with whom she recorded seven films. He introduced her into the heroin. The French director created the genre<strong> Heroin Chic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Films such as <strong>The Cradel of Crystal,<\/strong> in which another diva of the underground like <strong>Anita Pallenberg<\/strong> injected herself a real heroin dose before the camera.. The filmmaker and Nico recorded imaginary scenes for hours on the rooftop of the <strong>Paris Opera<\/strong> under a blanket of stars and the scent of heroin.<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u00b4t abandon music. Accompanied by her inseparable Harmonium performed in<strong> Amsterdam<\/strong> and <strong>London<\/strong> as a support for <strong>Pink Floyd.<\/strong>\u00a0In the famous <strong>Batacl\u00e1n Hall<\/strong>\u00a0from<strong>\u00a0Paris,<\/strong>\u00a0she participated in a reunion with all her bandmates from the <strong>Velvet Undreground,<\/strong>\u00a0led by<strong> Lou Reed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1974, she released her best album, <strong>The End<\/strong>, where she explored the best of her sound and fascinating personal universe with <strong>Brian Eno, John Cale <\/strong>and<strong> Kevin Ayers<\/strong>. By 1975, her addictions took her away from creativity, she became more irascible and lonely in a descent into the hells of the drug. <strong>Island Records<\/strong> took all her records out of its catalog.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1604\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1604\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-on-stage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-on-stage.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-on-stage-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-on-stage-842x640.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico on stage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of the 70s, she perfrormed in a concert <span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">with\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal;\">Tangerine Dream\u00a0<\/strong>at<strong style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\u00a0Reims<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\u00a0C<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">athedral. T<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">hat show went down in the history of French music. The organizers sold more tickets than the capacity allowed. The crowded church didn\u00b4t have enough space for a dangerous crowd. There was fights, moshes and part of the public urinated inside the enclosure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite this controversy, Nico continued in the forefront of music for many members of the <strong>New Wave<\/strong>. With some of them she coincided in the\u00a0<strong>Canet Rock Festival,<\/strong> celebrated in 1978, in the beautiful<strong> Canet de Mar, Catalonia<\/strong>\u00a0in Spain.<strong> Blondie, Kevin Ayers<\/strong> and <strong>Ultravox<\/strong> were the headliners of that edition. The Barcelonan experimental rock band <strong>Neuronium<\/strong> also participated in the festival, with whom she traveled to <strong>Barcelona<\/strong> to support the recording of their disco <em>Vuelo Qu\u00edmico<\/em> that same year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nico<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">began t<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">he 80s\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">trying to recover her musical career. She had already achieved her purpose of abandoning her beauty, as James Young narrates in his book. He became her keyboardist and accompanied her on her tours with his band Fraction. <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 15px;\">She was proud that her teeth were rotting, her skin was consumed and her hair was gray. It was her way of being unattractive<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The photographer<strong> Antoine Giaconomi<\/strong> took pity on her after posing for him in a photo shoot.<strong> Antoine<\/strong> introduced her to bassist <strong>Philippe Quilichini<\/strong> who became the producer of\u00a0<strong>Drama of Exile<\/strong>, an album with oriental influences, mystery and exoticism.<\/p>\n<p>After recording <strong>Luul<\/strong> with the German musician,<strong> Lutz Ulbrich,<\/strong> who was a part of her artistic team, she toured<strong> Europe, Japan <\/strong>and<strong> Australia. Young<\/strong> recalls in her book: <em>She was the queen of bad girls. You do not know the smell in the van when she burned the heroin in a spoon.<\/em> In<strong> Calais, France,<\/strong> she threatened her manager with a knife. Her musicians defined her as a middle-aged junkie.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1605\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Darkness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Darkness.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Darkness-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Darkness-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Darkness-639x640.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Darkness-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico\u00b4s darkness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, her magnetism was still valid for those around her. <strong>Patti Smith<\/strong> bought her a Harmonium after a theft of material prior to a joint performance in<strong> Paris<\/strong>. Their friendship mutually influenced their music. Shortly after, Nico returned to<strong> New York<\/strong> with <strong>John Cole<\/strong> and <strong>Ulbrich<\/strong> to perform in a tribute to her carrer in the legendary <strong>CBGB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Lydon<\/strong>\u00a0from <strong>Sex Pistols, Siouxie, Dave Vanian<\/strong>, from <strong>The Dammed<\/strong>, or <strong>Bauhaus<\/strong> confessed their admiration for her. Then, she toured the <strong>United States<\/strong> with sold out shows in twelve cities. Performances like her live show at the <strong>Futurama Fest<\/strong>\u00a0\u00b482 emphasized her influence. This new scene made her a pioneer of <strong>goth sound.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1606\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1606 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Patti-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Patti-Smith.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Patti-Smith-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Patti-Smith-876x640.jpg 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico &amp; Patti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Nico&#8217;s life always had two sides. Her addiction led her to altered states of consciousness. She introduced her own son into heroin with dire consequences for both. After an overdose of <strong>Ari<\/strong>, she arrived at the ICU to visit him. Some people said she recorded the sound of the machines that kept him alive to use it in her new songs.<\/p>\n<p>At times, <strong>Ari<\/strong>\u00a0arrived home with a special gift for his mother. While she slept, he heated the spoon and prepared the syringe with the precise dose. He whispered: <em>Mom, mom. Follow me, I have a gift for you.<\/em> She smiled happily while she inserted the syringe into her misshapen ankle. <strong>There was no veins left anywhere else.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1607\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Ari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Ari.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Ari-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Ari-944x640.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico &amp; Ari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1986, <strong>Behind The Iron Curtain<\/strong> was recorded live in<strong> Eastern Europe.<\/strong> That same year, <strong>Nico<\/strong> began a methadone treatment and gradually left heroin. In the mid-80s she lived between <strong>Paris<\/strong> and <strong>Manchester<\/strong>, where an important musical scene evolved. She resided in the outskirts of the industrious city, in the district of <strong>Prestford<\/strong>. She also spent a few months with the punk poet <strong>John Cooper Clarke,<\/strong> in <strong>Brixton,<\/strong> but returned to Paris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nico<\/strong> had a tense relationship with<strong> Germany<\/strong>, her birth country. Her childhood memories of the fall of<strong> Berlin<\/strong> remorsed too much. Precisely in that city, she participated in a massive concert tribute to <strong>Andreas Baader<\/strong>, leader of the leftist movement<strong> Red Army Faction<\/strong>. In her performance,<strong> Nico<\/strong> intoned the German anthem emphasizing a verse omitted since 1945 for its nationalist implications. A scandal was formed and linked her with certain rightist currents. She never denied it firmly.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>France, Serge Gaingsbourg<\/strong> managed to unite<strong> Ari<\/strong> with <strong>Alain Delon<\/strong> for the first time. The actor was friendly with the boy, already very addicted to heroin. Delon told him: <em>We are friends. Friends, not family. We are nothing alike<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nico<\/strong> arrived in\u00a0<strong>Madrid<\/strong>\u00a0on April 8, 1987. Her appearance grieved but gave an intimate concert with a melancholy version of <em>The End<\/em>\u00a0as the highlight. S<span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">he confessed t<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">o\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 15px;\" href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/diario\/1988\/07\/23\/cultura\/585612008_850215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Pa\u00eds<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\u00a0newspaper that she wasn\u00b4t afraid of death. She claimed that she was<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 15px;\"> the Mongol leader Kubla Kan\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">in another life<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">.That year, her old mentor,\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Andy Warhol<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\"> died. Nico didn\u00b4t express any condolence messages nor words<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1608\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Piano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Piano.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Piano-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-Piano-867x640.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Piano. Nico and her lisergic shows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1988, she recorded <em>Your Kisses Burn<\/em> with <strong>Marc Almond<\/strong> without knowing that it would be her last studio recording. Her last live appearance was in the <strong>Berlin\u00b4s Pandemonium<\/strong> on June 6. Shortly after, <strong>Nico<\/strong>\u00a0traveled to the place where she felt most comfortable: <strong>Ibiza<\/strong>. That vacation she traveled without heroin and with her son Ari.<\/p>\n<p>In one of her last interviews that appeared in the press, she summarized her life and the true meaning of fame:<em> I have been in the highest and the lowest. The two sites are empty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One bright July morning, she decided to take a bicycle ride to get marijuana. On the way she fainted, or maybe had a heart attack. A kind taxi driver picked her up without recognizing Warhol&#8217;s old muse. When she arrived at the <strong>Cannes Nisto<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">hospital, she\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">had problems being attended.<strong> Spain<\/strong> in the 80s looked at the junkies in a negative way..<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After several hours of waiting, she was diagnosed with a simple sunstroke and came back home with<strong> Ari<\/strong>. During the night,\u00a0<strong>Nico<\/strong> suffered a stroke that ended her life. An existence lived on the edge, with no fear of\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Quicksand, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">her lifestyle&#8217;s<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\u00a0consequences. Her death was her last reverence to\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 15px;\">self-destruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1612\" style=\"width: 1001px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-End.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1001\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-End.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-End-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico. The End<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The news was confirmed by her agent in <strong>Paris, Alan Wise<\/strong>. The musical and cultural world was shocked. She was cremated and taken to be buried with her mother, <strong>Margaret Paffgen<\/strong>, to the <strong>Grunewald<\/strong> cemetery, in <strong>Berlin<\/strong>. There, her closest friends gathered. They played a cassette with her contralto voice on songs like <em>Mutterwald,<\/em> from her <strong>Dessertshore<\/strong> album. It wasn&#8217;t the last goodbye to the <strong>diva<\/strong>. Throughout the years, different tributes have taken place to remember her legacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ari<\/strong> continued with his life as a photographer but turned into a junkie. In 2001 he published a book about his life and his mother named <em>L &#8216;Amour N&#8217; Oublie Jamais<\/em>, written between his stays at psychiatric hospitals and rehabilitation clinics. He lives in <strong>Paris<\/strong>\u00a0and is trying to rebuild a life destroyed by the<strong> heroin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2016,<strong> Patti Smith<\/strong> and her daughter,\u00a0<strong>Jesse Paris,<\/strong> launched<em> Killer Road<\/em> for their <strong>South Walk Collective<\/strong>. In it they speak of the Ibizan afternoon in which<strong> Nico<\/strong> died. A year later, the director<strong> Susana Nichiarelli<\/strong> filmed<strong>\u00a0Nico. 1988<\/strong>, a biopic about the last years of the diva, with <strong>Tryne Dynholm<\/strong> as the protagonist. Musicians such as <strong>Shannon Hoon<\/strong>, icon of the 90s with his band <strong>Blind Melon<\/strong>, baptized their daughters as <strong>Nico<\/strong>. A tribute to the underground muse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nico<\/strong>\u00a0was an example of how beauty encloses bright minds in the clich\u00e9. Her own physical and mental destruction was part of her attack to the social conventions that did not allow her to explore her talent. However, it will always be an icon for lovers of the alternative, of the wild talent. Nico&#8217;s lights and shadows will never erase her face.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1609\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-en-el-espejo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-en-el-espejo.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-en-el-espejo-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-en-el-espejo-427x640.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.showmoonmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nico-la-musa-agridulce-del-underground-Nico-en-el-espejo-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico in the mirror<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>* To the memory of my father and our Nico.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one yet knows what was hidden behind Nico&#8217;s hypnotic gaze. She was the muse of Warhol, of punk and the New Wave and a fashion and cinema icon. Her skepticism led her to self-destruction wrapped in existential emptiness, sex and drugs. She summarized her life in one sentence: I have been in the highest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,144],"tags":[827,154,162,168,173,159,146,176,157,147,161,172,175,174,799,160,158,155,171,114,165,153,148,149,178,145,166,167,164,169,150,151,104,798,170,156,177,152],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moon-barefoot","category-urban-moon","tag-alain-delon","tag-andy-warhol","tag-ari-paffgen","tag-berlin","tag-bob-dylan","tag-brian-jones","tag-christa-paffgen","tag-cine","tag-coco-chanel","tag-cool","tag-david-bowie","tag-fellini","tag-heroin","tag-heroin-chic","tag-ibiza","tag-iggy-pop","tag-jim-morrison","tag-john-cale","tag-leonard-cohen","tag-lifestyle","tag-londres","tag-lou-reed","tag-moda","tag-musica","tag-new-wave","tag-nico","tag-nueva-york","tag-paris","tag-patti-smith","tag-philip-garrel","tag-pop","tag-punk","tag-rock","tag-self-destruction","tag-serge-gainsbourg","tag-tobias-herbert","tag-underground","tag-velvet-underground","clearfix","content-pad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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