I saw Nico in 1977 or 1978 in London at the Marquee Club. She was awesome, I loved her performance, although people who came that night for a rock concert were disappointed and voiced their displeasure. She responded with some version of "Go f yourself!" in German, and the crowd rallied to her, which spurred to a very spirited performance of cool gothic trance music like these and The End, sprinkled with some Velvet numbers as well as a few from her first solo album. For me, an experience i will always remember, because her music and voice somehow resonate with the soul.
@Philip Groves wow, well that's what happens when those on the edge or just being themselves that has is a new lane though others are on that lane also, most people fear differences?? This may not be something I would want to listen to a whole cd or albumn, still I love and am drawn to an experience that takes me out of my lane. Your last line is the most important, guess that's what happens to me enough I wouldn't reject the expression of another who is being authentic. Cool experience you had all in all ~ love light peace
That strange keyboard Nico's playing is a pedal harmonium. Regular harmoniums are mostly played with one hand because the other hand has to pump the air in the back. But with the pedal doing the air-pumping, you can use 2 hands. Very cool instrument. King Crimson's "Islands" also features a pedal harmomium, played by Robert Fripp.
It's indian. I even know her brand, "Bina", i sent them lots of pics of Nico playing and they told me that they don't manufacture her model (the pedal harmonium) since 60s/early 70s, it seems. Only the portable model now.
[28 March 2022] People say such horrible things about Nico...that she was an ego-mad diva, a psycho(!), a Nazi(!!!)...but somehow I don't care. I love her. "Secret Side" and "Valley Of The Kings" (indeed, all of Nico's songs) are peerless examples of *ANTI-POP* music: archaic and mythic, and Germanically detached; totally out of step with '70's-era pop-song conventions, and irresistibly suggestive of ancient crumbing Gothic castles and sinister Black Forests and mystical Romantic things like that.
Those "bad" things that people say of her simply fail at grasping her profound sorrow. She survived the destruction of Berlin, her father killed in the war,
@@user-qn6dn1ht4j Some of it may be profound sorrow, but many of her failings were due to her addiction. So much of her creativity and ability to finish things were taken from her by a needle. Drama of Exile will forever be nothing more than 2 half completed works. I've spent over 30 years marveling at how much she achieved despite the drugs; I will always miss could have and should have been. It feels disrespectful to romanticize it as some do.
Her music sounded so ancient and modern at the same time. It’s theatrical well suited for some scary haunting movie. Her beauty is overwhelming and you just need to look at her I. A performance where it’s hard to not look. I Now looking back at this time if you saw her live it must have been quite the experience. I listen to her often a sit and think of strangeness and contemplate what was going on in her life to write such music. It’s a beautiful tragedy.
Can you imagine industrial, avant-garde, goth, or classical music without the influence of Nico? Genre be damned! Nico could do it all at the same time.
@@michaelchudanski8126 I included Nico here because of the experimental aspect of her art that has undoubtedly influenced some of today's artists that have incorporated classical structure to various degrees in such diverse music as ambient, noise, world, etc. To compare Nico's work with that of say, Mozart or even the divine Madame Callas would be redundant.
La música y la voz de nico tienen un extraño misterio que nos conmueve Ella se anticipó a muchos movimientos musicales posteriores ( dark music, música gotica) . Era mucho más que una bella mujer. Lástima que hubiera emprendido una senda ❤alento musical
Daybreak. Having freshly brewed coffee in my rocking chair on my front porch, Nico's voice filling the air. Her aloneness comes through her songs unafraid to show itself now. Now that comfort, peace, oneness, and relief are realized and accepted with love.
What...you mean old Whispering Bob Harris as we used to call him? Yes, a poster boy for the soothing 70s (I wish I could take you all back there to feel it, it was rather good) and Nico was just fantastic. Rare treat.
Ari, que cet au delà vous soit lumière et paix .Vous ressemblier à un ange tant votre beauté irradié.J'ai découvert Nico votre maman adorée .Quelle voix , quelle beauté et si mystique .Deux êtres réunis .❤
I can’t believe people Paned Her I had the opportunity to see her 78 or 79 it still haunts me to this day literally had tears in my eyes at certain parts of her show
I was listening to this and my son said, "This makes me want to slit my wrists." I said, "Well, you need to listen and get beyond all that." Thank you, Nico, for helping us work on our shadow selves.
Wisdom is the gift of age, a young one hasn't seen enough of the way the world really works....never had to count sorrows. Just put It on his youth. As Mojo said, "smug in the woolly cotton brains of infancy"
His music and his voice strongly remind me of the sacred music of Hidegar von Bingen. It is also a forerunner of the Dead Can Dance sound for me. All this happened somewhere in the west at the end of the twentieth century
IMO Nico was the only former member of the Velvet Underground who had a consistently great solo career. Reed and Cale had their ups and down but Nico was always up.
Nico is forever the artist peripherally connected to “rock” music (pop? gothic?) who “can’t sing,” is always “out of tune.” WHY? Why did this start. She’s the artist who COULD sing. Her pitch was uncannily accurate. She sustained and supported the voice, she had legato, and expression. Truth, she sang and wrote) like the better classical musicians.
Those were VU members who ridiculed her for being out of pitch/key and for poor rhythm feeling during her early days as the singer with the band. But the true reason was her musical and performance-wise incompetence at the time and also Nico's partial deafness issue, not the lack of actual talent and abilities. She certainly was a truly talented chanteuse and songwriter. One can hear and see here that she COULD sing as hell. And this exceptional voice...
Seems like nico was thought of as a pretty face and having star qualities in the velvet underground but not taken as seriously as she should have been. Her solo works are arguably more important than Lou reeds.
I don't think there's any doubt that Nico - and John Cale- were much more interesting musicians than Lou Reed. He was too keen on being a rock star. They were true originals.
@@matthewscreech7058 yeah that’s kind of his cross to bear. Being a pop artist, or being artistically impactful. But that’s a lot of artists’ decision they often feel they have to make.
She wasnt as successful but i doubt nico wasnt taken seriously , cale colaborated in her more important albums , reed colaborated in her first album and he loved her version of ill be your mirror , and the record label owner knew he would lost money with nico albums as they were hard to sell but he produced it anyway because of the artistic value , i think she wasnt as popular as reed or cale only becauae even her new wave albums arent pop music. What i find funny is that nico sounds more cale than the cale solo albums
I was first exposed to Nico's work through a solo album (I believe) from the 70's. It had exactly the feel of the songs in this video, but I don't think they were included in it. It had a strange beauty and originality about it. That album must be pretty rare by now, and I doubt that it will ever appear on YT.
@@mickeythompson9537 Thanks, Mickey. Well, after I realized that this very good album you posted was not the one I was referring to in my comment, I finally took the effort to do a search on CZcams. It's the 1968 release The Marble Index", which I'd bought in the early 70's. I guess one should never underestimate YT's treasure trove of stuff, including the rarities.
How could I have missed this video before? Nico in full flight, opening the door to her bleak, seductive underworld. As a homeless kid back in 1969, I carried her Marble Index among my few indispensible possessions.
I saw her in NY in the summer with Joe Bidewell on keyboards the indoor temperature upper 90’s without AC. Nico was wrapped up in many layers with shawls and heavy boots, she stood against the wall staring no one approached to speak to her
Это холодная красота. Она такая утончённая и воздушная и легкая. Её называли Ледяной Королевой, и кстати если заметить её черты лица с возрастом будто тают от героина.
I like Desertshore better. "The End" I love You Forget to Answer and It Has Not Taken Long. Actually from that harmonium trilogy, I would say 1. Desertshore, 2. The Marble Index 3. The End, but the record that made me love her: Drama of Exile.
@@SuperMarioJamesSMJ She didn't like the album at all. I like the album except the over the top synth of "Innocent and Vain". That's a wonderful song, but destroyed with that synth effects.
Skeeter NYC she was using heroin very regularly at this point, or at least methadone. This is well after Marble index and that album was made under The direct influence of smack, Imo
Skeeter NYC sorry if I came across like an asshole, but Ive read things to that made me come to this conclusion. Btw, love The pic of Lou and Nico for your thumbnail. Im a very big Lou fan. Peace
To quell any speculation about if/when Nico was strung out, I can confidently say from firsthand knowledge that pre Lou, she was already a casual user...of needles. There is a great story in Lou Reeds book about her shooting him up for the first time. "MY feelings for her and the opiate bliss are deeply entangled" Her heroin habit was in full effect before these recordings. These songs SOUND like heroin music. Um.. if you have an ear for that sort of thing. Anyway, Her and Lou fueled each other's addiction issues to the point of...well..death. Nico is overlooked and underrated.
Nico’s music is ancient, futuristic and timeless all at once, a true visionary.
Nico knew about hell.
We need such artists.
As I get older the more I understand and appreciate Nico, the voice of 'a ruined age'.
The most haunting voice.I love how genuine it is,its not putting on a front.
I saw Nico in 1977 or 1978 in London at the Marquee Club. She was awesome, I loved her performance, although people who came that night for a rock concert were disappointed and voiced their displeasure. She responded with some version of "Go f yourself!" in German, and the crowd rallied to her, which spurred to a very spirited performance of cool gothic trance music like these and The End, sprinkled with some Velvet numbers as well as a few from her first solo album. For me, an experience i will always remember, because her music and voice somehow resonate with the soul.
@Philip Groves wow, well that's what happens when those on the edge or just being themselves that has is a new lane though others are on that lane also, most people fear differences?? This may not be something I would want to listen to a whole cd or albumn, still I love and am drawn to an experience that takes me out of my lane. Your last line is the most important, guess that's what happens to me enough I wouldn't reject the expression of another who is being authentic. Cool experience you had all in all ~ love light peace
I was there too! Always been a huge fan. All her recordings.
Incredible. Goes straight to the heart or lower, it makes the whole body vibrate, the whole body.
What a voice! What poetry! What music! Nico was the best!
Wow. This is my first time listening to her. She's otherworldly and fascinating.
Nico and her harmonium live forever. 💜
Amazing to think that she was initially ridiculed by the blinkered critics for her solo work. An important artist who influenced so many others.
Impossible not to adore this woman.
No, it's possible. I have done it, and I will continue doing it, for I am opentrunks.
@@opentrunk no one could care less
Channel fog ,she was a stunning looking girl with many talents,but she wasn't a goddess
Timeless and still intreaging nearly 50 years later .
she was so unique , on a hidden ledge all her own
Nico was the original punk. Braver than any gang.
Hope everyone noticed that little smile between the songs, Nico could be perfect when she wanted to be...fabulous footage.
That"s true,but she doesn't want to be perfect. To be just perfect is so boring ; )
That strange keyboard Nico's playing is a pedal harmonium. Regular harmoniums are mostly played with one hand because the other hand has to pump the air in the back. But with the pedal doing the air-pumping, you can use 2 hands. Very cool instrument. King Crimson's "Islands" also features a pedal harmomium, played by Robert Fripp.
It's indian. I even know her brand, "Bina", i sent them lots of pics of Nico playing and they told me that they don't manufacture her model (the pedal harmonium) since 60s/early 70s, it seems. Only the portable model now.
@@vagabondways2 Great finding, thanks!
She doesn't even need that instrument to sing. The instrument sounds like shit.
true mother of goth
[28 March 2022] People say such horrible things about Nico...that she was an ego-mad diva, a psycho(!), a Nazi(!!!)...but somehow I don't care. I love her. "Secret Side" and "Valley Of The Kings" (indeed, all of Nico's songs) are peerless examples of *ANTI-POP* music: archaic and mythic, and Germanically detached; totally out of step with '70's-era pop-song conventions, and irresistibly suggestive of ancient crumbing Gothic castles and sinister Black Forests and mystical Romantic things like that.
Those "bad" things that people say of her simply fail at grasping her profound sorrow. She survived the destruction of Berlin, her father killed in the war,
@@user-qn6dn1ht4j Some of it may be profound sorrow, but many of her failings were due to her addiction. So much of her creativity and ability to finish things were taken from her by a needle. Drama of Exile will forever be nothing more than 2 half completed works. I've spent over 30 years marveling at how much she achieved despite the drugs; I will always miss could have and should have been. It feels disrespectful to romanticize it as some do.
@@troumer are you a yank?
I've seen her perform this back in 1976 in The Hague, the concert made a lasting impression on me. Nico is unique.
This is a treasure. Two of her best songs.
Her music sounded so ancient and modern at the same time. It’s theatrical well suited for some scary haunting movie. Her beauty is overwhelming and you just need to look at her I. A performance where it’s hard to not look. I
Now looking back at this time if you saw her live it must have been quite the experience. I listen to her often a sit and think of strangeness and contemplate what was going on in her life to write such music. It’s a beautiful tragedy.
Can you imagine industrial, avant-garde, goth, or classical music without the influence of Nico? Genre be damned! Nico could do it all at the same time.
I can certainly imagine classical music without the influence of Nico...
@@michaelchudanski8126 I included Nico here because of the experimental aspect of her art that has undoubtedly influenced some of today's artists that have incorporated classical structure to various degrees in such diverse music as ambient, noise, world, etc.
To compare Nico's work with that of say, Mozart or even the divine Madame Callas would be redundant.
La música y la voz de nico tienen un extraño misterio que nos conmueve Ella se anticipó a muchos movimientos musicales posteriores ( dark music, música gotica) . Era mucho más que una bella mujer. Lástima que hubiera emprendido una senda ❤alento musical
Remembering Nico on her anniversary. (16 October 1938 - 18 July 1988)
There is something so pure to her sound...so true...
she was a very beautiful and very class act......
Absolutely beautiful,one woman and a harmonium creating something that goes straight to my soul.
Thank you so much for uploading.
Amazing music. And the host's voice... not to sound weird, but isn't it the most soothing voice you've ever heard?
Daybreak. Having freshly brewed coffee in my rocking chair on my front porch, Nico's voice filling the air. Her aloneness comes through her songs unafraid to show itself now. Now that comfort, peace, oneness, and relief are realized and accepted with love.
What...you mean old Whispering Bob Harris as we used to call him? Yes, a poster boy for the soothing 70s (I wish I could take you all back there to feel it, it was rather good) and Nico was just fantastic. Rare treat.
Just listened twice and now in the third she is no less enchanting and soul stirring.
oh what an icon
A pure goddess....!
Ari, que cet au delà vous soit lumière et paix .Vous ressemblier à un ange tant votre beauté irradié.J'ai découvert Nico votre maman adorée .Quelle voix , quelle beauté et si mystique .Deux êtres réunis .❤
🖤
Brilliant- she had such desire- forced her way into talent and succeeded completely
Bob Harris was a great presenter. Nice calming voice.
She was ahead of her times
She scares me, I like it.
Brilliant artist.
What a treasure. Thank you for preserving this.
Amazing voice
Ahh, esta musica te transporta, me transporta, te entristece , me entristece, me lleva lejos, quizas donde está ella ahora
nothing can be darker than this!
Fucking amazing.
Testify my vanity
Mortalize my memory
Deceive the devil's deed
I can’t believe people Paned Her I had the opportunity to see her 78 or 79 it still haunts me to this day literally had tears in my eyes at certain parts of her show
❤️
Love this! Wish I'd seen her when I had the chance.
Nico Nico what a eri voice 👏 she sounds fantastic never listened two these songs before, outstanding
And beautiful looks ❤
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I was listening to this and my son said, "This makes me want to slit my wrists." I said, "Well, you need to listen and get beyond all that." Thank you, Nico, for helping us work on our shadow selves.
She sings from the very bottom of her soul,
@@johnhulsker1453 indeed.
A great mom's reply
Wisdom is the gift of age, a young one hasn't seen enough of the way the world really works....never had to count sorrows. Just put It on his youth. As Mojo said, "smug in the woolly cotton brains of infancy"
Careful. Her own son killed himself. Your son is right. Choose life.
So gothic! Amazing! 🖤
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this incredible footage!
Sublime et bouleversant...un parfum de fin du monde
Un grand merci pour ce document
Speechless.
His music and his voice strongly remind me of the sacred music of Hidegar von Bingen. It is also a forerunner of the Dead Can Dance sound for me. All this happened somewhere in the west at the end of the twentieth century
ela era belíssima
Beautiful.
I named my cat after Nico
Nice but dont feed her(cat) with heroine 😋🙋🏻♂️
Soo Special soo touching
IMO Nico was the only former member of the Velvet Underground who had a consistently great solo career. Reed and Cale had their ups and down but Nico was always up.
Nico is forever the artist peripherally connected to “rock” music (pop? gothic?) who “can’t sing,” is always “out of tune.”
WHY? Why did this start. She’s the artist who COULD sing. Her pitch was uncannily accurate. She sustained and supported the voice, she had legato, and expression. Truth, she sang and wrote) like the better classical musicians.
THIS! she´s extremely gifted as a singer and a songwriter. i honestly think this reputation is just misoginy.
Those were VU members who ridiculed her for being out of pitch/key and for poor rhythm feeling during her early days as the singer with the band. But the true reason was her musical and performance-wise incompetence at the time and also Nico's partial deafness issue, not the lack of actual talent and abilities. She certainly was a truly talented chanteuse and songwriter. One can hear and see here that she COULD sing as hell. And this exceptional voice...
Beautiful!
Absolutely brilliant.
She was even better singing live
She hated the studio.
She was alive .........duh
But I prefer her singing voice when she worked with good velletri underground
the look she gives right before the opening harmonium riff is priceless...
Such power in that otherworldly resonating voice - Nico was utterly unique
NICO---LOVE YOU! lm
La maman de Ari Boulogne qu'elle a eu avec Alain Delon et qu'il n'a jamais reconnu. Une vraie artiste d'une époque révolue.
great stuff!
met her once-never forget that cup of tea
N I C O : I C O N
Magnifica!
Excellent performance by Nico. Think whispering Bob was a bit nonplussed at the end!
Haunting
Would love to see her performance on OGWTs "predecessor" Disco 2 in 1972
Seems like nico was thought of as a pretty face and having star qualities in the velvet underground but not taken as seriously as she should have been. Her solo works are arguably more important than Lou reeds.
agree! I come back to this video once a while and every time mesmerized as it's the first one.
I don't think there's any doubt that Nico - and John Cale- were much more interesting musicians than Lou Reed. He was too keen on being a rock star. They were true originals.
Definitely agree. Nico was a star in her own right. Queen of the goth before goth bloomed.
@@matthewscreech7058 yeah that’s kind of his cross to bear. Being a pop artist, or being artistically impactful. But that’s a lot of artists’ decision they often feel they have to make.
She wasnt as successful but i doubt nico wasnt taken seriously , cale colaborated in her more important albums , reed colaborated in her first album and he loved her version of ill be your mirror , and the record label owner knew he would lost money with nico albums as they were hard to sell but he produced it anyway because of the artistic value , i think she wasnt as popular as reed or cale only becauae even her new wave albums arent pop music. What i find funny is that nico sounds more cale than the cale solo albums
Neil Halstead’s (Slowdive) relative from ‘70s - introducing Nico
This is a new song called 'Bleed'...
Lol
Doomed Goodess : The Doors to another world
Unbelievably great!! I wish it were in color (it was filmed that way) but I guess we're lucky it was found at all.
I was first exposed to Nico's work through a solo album (I believe) from the 70's. It had exactly the feel of the songs in this video, but I don't think they were included in it. It had a strange beauty and originality about it. That album must be pretty rare by now, and I doubt that it will ever appear on YT.
czcams.com/video/fgG3EaOCh_c/video.html
@@mickeythompson9537 Thanks, Mickey. Well, after I realized that this very good album you posted was not the one I was referring to in my comment, I finally took the effort to do a search on CZcams. It's the 1968 release The Marble Index", which I'd bought in the early 70's. I guess one should never underestimate YT's treasure trove of stuff, including the rarities.
shes singing her soul out
Valley of the Kings in egypt are tombs!
How could I have missed this video before? Nico in full flight, opening the door to her bleak, seductive underworld. As a homeless kid back in 1969, I carried her Marble Index among my few indispensible possessions.
This was almost liturgical.
unica.ci manchi tantissimo
Bellissima e bravissima
Wow!!!
I saw her in NY in the summer with Joe Bidewell on keyboards the indoor temperature upper 90’s without AC. Nico was wrapped up in many layers with shawls and heavy boots, she stood against the wall staring no one approached to speak to her
wowow! Thank you so much vagabondways for sharing this. It's a treasure. :o)
Nico es uno de esos amores que son para toda la vida.
MITICA UNICA NICO
Si Danilo. Ma che nessuno entri nella sua anima. Io l'ho fatto senza scegliere di farlo e...non avvicinatevi a Nico...
Красивая женщина, Ари больше на неё похож. На заставке- одно лицо у матери и сына.
Это холодная красота. Она такая утончённая и воздушная и легкая. Её называли Ледяной Королевой, и кстати если заметить её черты лица с возрастом будто тают от героина.
Is this black & white intentionally? ( For mood?)I saw older footage of this show, this is the only clip I've seen not in color
in my top 20 fav albums...what a great find!
I like Desertshore better. "The End" I love You Forget to Answer and It Has Not Taken Long. Actually from that harmonium trilogy, I would say 1. Desertshore, 2. The Marble Index 3. The End, but the record that made me love her: Drama of Exile.
@@vagabondways2 always thought the end was more focused than the earlier efforts...
@@SuperMarioJamesSMJ She didn't like the album at all. I like the album except the over the top synth of "Innocent and Vain". That's a wonderful song, but destroyed with that synth effects.
@@vagabondways2 I love all three!
Side one of The End is one of my favourite records. I try not to dwell on the Doors cover.
Valkyrie
7:23 thrilling
Thank you
creepy intro 😳 ...and then Nico tops it....creepy but amazing.
absolutely spellbounding performance from the enigmatic nico and how christina weaves her spell on us all! peter from southport
Christa
Nico still had her beauty going on. Right before she started use heroine regularly.
Skeeter NYC she was using heroin very regularly at this point, or at least methadone. This is well after Marble index and that album was made under The direct influence of smack, Imo
@@baileyfurio2327 I read a book call 'The Life And Lies Of An Icon' which says differently. That's how I understood it anyway.
Skeeter NYC sorry if I came across like an asshole, but Ive read things to that made me come to this conclusion. Btw, love The pic of Lou and Nico for your thumbnail. Im a very big Lou fan. Peace
Skeeter NYC I have to finish reading that book. I got it a while ago and cost me quite a bit since it’s out of print.
To quell any speculation about if/when Nico was strung out, I can confidently say from firsthand knowledge that pre Lou, she was already a casual user...of needles. There is a great story in Lou Reeds book about her shooting him up for the first time. "MY feelings for her and the opiate bliss are deeply entangled" Her heroin habit was in full effect before these recordings. These songs SOUND like heroin music. Um.. if you have an ear for that sort of thing. Anyway, Her and Lou fueled each other's addiction issues to the point of...well..death. Nico is overlooked and underrated.
De otra dimension
Que mujer!!!
🖤
NIC🖤
Bob is wrong. Her Disco 2 appearance was 1971 ... This BBC OGWT is is circa 1974 (or 1975 the repeat from)