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Jenny Marielle Pettersson (born 5 November 1975, Helsingborg, Sweden), professionally known as Velvet, is a Swedish dance-pop singer. She has released two albums since her 2005 debut in the music industry and her first eight singles have all achieved a top-twenty peak on the Swedish Singles Chart .
Thirty Years After Her Death, Nico Finally Comes Into Focus. A new biopic covering her later years, Nico, 1988, is part of an ongoing reconsideration of her art and life following the Velvet...
Aug 7, 2018 · Email. Nico, 1988 tells the story of the Velvet Underground singer who left for a solo career — one weighed down by her addiction to heroin — and depicts the last, tumultuous year of her life.
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- Rick Karr
Timeline. Discography. See also. References. External links. The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964. It originally comprised singer and guitarist Lou Reed, Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise.
- Coyote
- I’m Sticking with You
- Foggy Notion
- Here She Comes Now
- We’Re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together
- Candy Says
- What Goes on
- Femme Fatale
- All Tomorrow’S Parties
- New Age
In 1993 the original quartet staged a reunion tour that imploded before it ever got to the US, but their double-live album Live MCMXCIIIgave a fascinating glimpse of what might have been. There are two particular moments when the magic kicks in: “Hey Mr Rain,” an old outtake stretched to 16 minutes, and “Coyote,” the one new song of the reunion – a...
The only time Lou Reed would write something this simple and sweet was when he did something for Maureen Tucker to sing. One of only two leads she did with the group, “I’m Sticking With You” is a romantic duet that takes some surprise musical turns, but never loses its sweetness. Originally recorded but not used for Loaded (to give her a track on a...
With Doug Yule taking John Cale’s bass slot, The Velvet Underground spent most of 1969 working on an unfinished album that moved toward straight-ahead, melodic territory; they also moved part-time to Yule’s homebase in Boston. A swaggering garage rocker, “Foggy Notion” was a highlight of their live sets at the time, though it didn’t see release unt...
The outlier on the White Light/White Heatalbum, this is a brief, beautiful song with a mantra-like quality – the only notable Eastern influence among the many Velvet Underground songs. Reed broke another taboo by playing on the meanings of “come” in the lyric. No coincidence that The Cars, who covered this tune in their early days, would later have...
Also originating from the aborted 1969 sessions is this joyful rocker with its can’t-miss “na-na-na” chorus. It’s essentially one of their more good-natured Velvet Underground songs, though Reed darkened it considerably when he remade it on Street Hassle. “We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together” was also a favorite concert-opener for Patti Smit...
Inspired by an encounter with the transsexual actress Candy Darling, this was Reed writing about gender dysphoria before there was a name for it. Doug Yule gets the opening vocal on his first album with the band, giving it an innocence (and a falsetto) that Reed might not have managed.
“What Goes On” is the closest thing to a straight-ahead pop song among all The Velvet Underground’s songs, featuring wall-to-wall hooks with the Yule-era band doing a friendlier version of the Cale-era line-up’s sound (with Tucker’s primal groove and the Vox Continental organ). Maybe not the deepest Velvets song, but arguably the single catchiest o...
Andy Warhol’s greatest contribution to The Velvet Underground may have been his suggestion that Reed write a song about Edie Sedgwick and call it “Femme Fatale.” Reed responded with a song that perfectly combined two of his obsessions: sexual jealousy and New York doo-wop. Nico sang it as if she knew nothing about the latter and everything about th...
Lou Reed was resistant to Andy Warhol’s efforts to install model/actress Nico as part-time lead singer for the band’s debut album. But it’s hard to imagine this song, effectively a dramatic monologue about the allure and emptiness of Warhol-era party culture, without her. It’s even more evocative than Reed’s later, more famous song about that demim...
The Loadedalbum was designed to be loaded with hits, but there was still room for one of Reed’s darker musings. Delivered almost as a doo-wop ballad, “New Age” tells of an encounter between a fading actress and a besotted fan; as usual, Reed makes the story more compelling by virtue of what he leaves out. “New Age” is the perfect vehicle for Doug Y...
- Brett Milano
- 18 min
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Oct 16, 2023 · From her time in the Velvet Underground to her solo career, the best Nico songs showcase one of avant-rock's most essential voices.
Formerly of. The Velvet Underground. Christa Päffgen ( [ˈkʁɪsta ˈpɛfɡən]; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), [1] [2] [3] known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress, and model. She had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini 's La Dolce Vita (1960) and Andy Warhol 's Chelsea Girls (1966).
