La Dolce Vita and, for a while, formed part of the New York pop art experiment the Velvet Underground. With her baritone voice and angular “ice maiden” looks, she acquired the reputation of a gothic Garbo or punk Dietrich, by turns mysterious and aloof.
Her discomfiting 1968 solo album The Marble Index is revered for its doom-laden, Germanic atmospherics and dirge-like harmonium playing, which lends a low church intensity and sepulchral tone to her extraordinary voice.
Nico was only 49 when, in 1988, she died after a cerebral haemorrhage brought on by sunstroke caused her to fall off her pushbike.
Junked up on opioids for 15 years, it’s a wonder she ever made it to middle age. In this new biography, You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone,.
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