Nico
John Cale: Mercy review – the titan of cool misses a trick
The 80-year-old’s latest album features some inspired younger guests but cries out for less dated beats and a visionary producer
Kitty Empire
21, Jan, 2023 @2:00 PM
The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!
As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions
Guardian music
06, Oct, 2022 @12:12 PM
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike review – the biography of Nico
A not always flattering portrait of the enigmatic Velvet Underground singer’s troubled life and legacy
Fiona Sturges
10, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone review – Nico as the gothic Garbo
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike’s biography is absorbing and informative but paints a flattering portrait of the enigmatic model turned singer
Ian Thomson
20, Jun, 2021 @8:00 AM
Poem of the week: Winterpause by Naomi Foyle
This homage to the melancholy singer Nico makes striking connections with German history
Carol Rumens
02, Mar, 2020 @11:00 AM
The Nico Project; The Fountainhead – review
Maxine Peake is a woman possessed in The Nico Project, while Ivo van Hove adapts Ayn Rand’s controversial novel
Claire Armitstead
21, Jul, 2019 @7:00 AM
The Nico Project review – Maxine Peake digs deep into a nightmare
With fascinating – and frustrating – results, the actor plays a woman seemingly possessed by the ghost of the late Velvet Underground singer
Mark Fisher
14, Jul, 2019 @11:33 AM
Nico in Manchester: 'She loved the architecture – and the heroin'
She had been a top model, then sang with the Velvet Underground, and in 1981 Nico moved to Manchester. Her friends there share their touching, alarming memories of ‘a true bohemian’
Dave Simpson
05, Jul, 2019 @5:01 AM
Maxine Peake: 'The truth seems slippery with Nico'
The Nico Project, debuting at Manchester international festival, investigates the truth and lies surrounding the singer and actor
Anna Codrea-Rado
14, Jun, 2019 @9:00 AM
From Nico to Tonya Harding, women’s true stories are being told on film at last
‘I wasn’t happy when I was beautiful’: the movie Nico, 1988 shows singer’s resilience in later life, signalling a change in how biopics treat their subjects
Wendy Ide
05, Aug, 2018 @8:30 AM
Nico 1988: the film about the Velvet Underground's doomed singer
The director and star of a drama about the latter years of the cult singer talk about her unusual life and how she battled against her beauty
Jim Farber
25, Apr, 2018 @3:10 PM
Why The Velvet Underground’s landmark debut album still resonates after 50 years
The Velvet Underground & Nico comes home this week, as John Cale and guests prepare to play it in its entirety in New York
Ed Vulliamy
12, Nov, 2017 @12:05 AM
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