Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio - Brossura

Young, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0747544115 ISBN 13: 9780747544111

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1999

Riassunto

The story of Nico, former model, film actress, singer with the Velvet Underground and darling of Andy Warhol's factory.;In 1982 Nico was living in Manchester, alone and interested only in feeding her heroin habit. Local promoter Dr Demetrius saw an opportunity, hired musicians to back her, rented a decrepit van and set off with Nico and the band on a disastrous tour of Italy. Over the next six years, until her death in 1988, Nico toured the world with assorted thrown-together bands. They made next to no money, appalled many of their audiences and occasionally, on the rare nights when the music worked, pleased a few.;James Young played keyboards for Nico throughout those years. In this book, he records the never-ending antics of a picaresque circus of addicts, outsiders and misfits who travelled the world - East and Western Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan - encountering an equally bizarre and extraordinary mixture of people: poets, artists, gangsters, losers and drifters. John Cale, John Cooper Clarke, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso are among those who appear in this story of Nico, the last Bohemian.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0747544115
• ISBN 13: 9780747544111
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224