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While her addition to the Velvet Underground would later be painted as bizarre owing to her unusual voice and partial deafness that made it hard for her to stay on key, her musical career was well underway before she met Andy Warhol. At 17 she was poised to become a muse to Coco Chanel who had noticed her, but decided to move to New York City instead. She travelled through Europe as a teenager, working for leading fashion publications, taking a small role in La Dolce Vita and absorbing several languages. While his fate is fuzzy, the most widely shared story is that he received serious head injuries and resulting brain damage that saw him spend the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital.Īt the end of the war, Nico and her mother - now alone - moved to Berlin where she worked as a seamstress and eventually a model. Born Christa Päffgen in Cologne in 1938, her childhood was shadowed by the Second World War that claimed her father. Each follow a slightly different path to the band recording in Manhattan's infamously decrepit Scepter Studios, stopping here and there to examine the their unquestionable legacy and the relationship between Lou Reed and John Cale -who formed the central core with Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker.īefore meeting Warhol and the rest of the Velvet Underground, Nico's life had been transient and traumatic.
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And anyone not intimately familiar with the 11 tracks has been given plenty of opportunities to acquaint themselves this month via the waves of articles that marked the anniversary. But this is by now well committed to music lore. In under 50 minutes the band manage to sew early elements of post-punk, glam-goth, shoegaze, art-rock, indie-pop, drone, new wave, noise and industrial. Across half a century the 1967 record has come to be seen as a benchmark in progressive, experimental pop and a testament to the influence that can swell when the line between art and music blurs. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the release of The Velvet Underground & Nico, one of the few albums that deserve the overused term seminal.
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