#christa paffgen

[autopsy0fanicon]

Remembering Nico who tragically passed away 35 years ago today. 🖤

“I saw that the impression the rock press made on the public was dishonest. It seemed that an attempt had been made to erase her from history. She was a female composer who didn't fit the general categories of rock or folk; she sang her own creations not with feigned passion, but with clarity and eloquence. They only wrote about a drug addict who once fucked a bunch of stars. I've been a witness to abhorrent misogyny in the music business, classical, pop, jazz and experimental scenes for a long time, and I thought it would be useful to study her career in those terms.”

Nico: The Life and Lies of an Icon (1995)

#60s icons #sixties #1960s #Nico #christa paffgen #the velvet underground #musician #gothic #femme fatale

[secretceremonies]

Nico (Christa Paffgen) wearing a dress which was stenciled on by poet Gerard Malanga in the Abraham & Straus department store, New York, New York (November 9, 1966)

#nico #the velvet underground #christa paffgen #1960s #60s #60s vintage #old photos #andy warhol #models #60s models #1966 #photography #old photography #vintage photography #vintage #gerard malanga #she was such a beautiful gal.. thank god she is dead !

[hannahleah]

Young, 23-year-old Nico before becoming a 1960s icon and Andy Warhol's muse, photographed by Jerry Schatzberg

#nico #Jerry Schatzberg #christa päffgen #christa paffgen #photography #fashion photography #vintage #fashion magazine #fashion editorial #fashion #beauty #celebrity #the velvet underground #fashion icon #icons #andy warhol #muse #60s #60s icons #celebs

[gloombeauty]

#andy warhol #nico #christa paffgen #candy darling

[mauricedelafalaise]

Happy Birthday Nico

(October 16, 1938)

#nico #velvet underground #christa paffgen #christa päffgen #vintage #60s #music #fashion #nico and the velvet underground

[ellaexists]

Happy Birthday Nico!

#christa paffgen #nico #the velvet underground #goth #60s #70s #80s #andy warhol

[bitter69uk]

“She was extremely strong. It was like hanging out with a guy except she had girl’s parts; that was the only difference, otherwise it was like hanging out with a tough-minded, egotistical, artiste kind of guy.” / Iggy Pop recalling his love affair with Nico in the book Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996) /

Light a black candle! The late, great heroin-ravaged German chanteuse, actress and fashion model Nico (née Christa Päffgen, 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988) - the Marlene Dietrich of punk, Edith Piaf of The Blank Generation, Warhol Superstar, Moon Goddess, Exiled Countess of Gloom, “possessor of the most haunting wraith cheekbones of the twentieth century” and my all-time favourite singer - was born on this day 85 years ago. Here is the gloomily alluring and inscrutable Nico photographed onstage at Le Bataclan theatre in Paris in 1972.

#nico #christa paffgen #warhol superstar #moon goddess #the velvet underground #velvet underground and nico #wraith cheekbones #lobotomy room

[bluecote]

NICO

British Nylon Spinners Ltd, c.1960

#nico #christa paffgen #christa päffgen

[frozen-borderline]

Nico in Todd Haynes documentary The Velvet Underground (2021)

#nico #christa paffgen #the velvet underground #todd haynes

[missrayon]

#nico #christa päffgen #christa paffgen #the velvet underground

[pristine-impurity]

Nico's cameo in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita"

#nico #christa paffgen #federico fellini #la dolce vita #cinema #italian cinema

[autopsy0fanicon]

"Strawberry Fields Forever" 🍓

Christa Päffgen aka Nico Photographed by Mark Shaw, 1960.

#Nico #christa päffgen #christa paffgen #sixties #60s #mark shaw #vintage

[tempestades]

#nico #christa paffgen

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

“More revered than actually listened to, model / actress / Warhol superstar Nico (née Christa Paffgen) began her musical career as the hidden razor blade in the Velvet Underground’s Halloween apple. Her icy beauty and bloodless Teutonic “singing” cut through the group’s cacophony with a soporific poignancy on 1967’s The Velvet Underground and Nico, where she was simply billed as “chanteuse.” It’s as apt a description as any for her sibilant, enunciatory mono-drone – and her enduring appeal. Nico left the group amicably; half the songs on Chelsea Girl, her ’67 solo debut, were written by Velvets Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison. The other half include covers of Dylan’s “I’ll Keep It with Mine” and Tim Hardin’s “Eulogy to Lenny Bruce” and three songs written by her then-teenage accompanist (and roommate) Jackson Brown. In a merger of folk and neoclassical traditions, the LP’s artfully arranged guitars, strings and wind instruments provide both the rhythm (in lieu of bass and drums) and the melody. Nico’s bummed-but-not-unbowed vocals transform songs about small uncertainties and faint hopes into lush melancholia, the inspiration for many a rainy-day miserabilist. The title track, a seemingly blasé accounting of Chelsea Hotel residents who appear in Warhol’s film epic Chelsea Girls, is an exquisitely dreary time capsule, capturing the dark cloud inside Andy’s silver-lined Factory.”

/ David A Keeps in March 1995 issue of Details magazine /

56 years ago this month (October 1967), the late, great heroin-ravaged, wraith-cheekboned German diva, Velvet Underground chanteuse, actress, fashion model, Warhol Superstar, Moon Goddess and “Marlene Dietrich of Punk” Nico released her debut solo album Chelsea Girl. This sublimely gloomy glass-half-empty urban folk music makes for ideal autumnal listening. Is there any higher praise than "exquisitely dreary"?

#David A Keeps #Nico #Christa Paffgen

[gloombeauty]

#nico #christa paffgen #lou reed

[tgirldarkholme]

Nico and Andy Warhol posing as Batman and Robin, Esquire Magazine, August 1966

proclaiming the 60s as over in summer 1966... you are not ready for the following 3-4 years uh

#dc #batman #robin #bruce wayne #dick grayson #nico #christa paffgen #andy warhol #esquire #esquire magazine #ironically in hindsight one of the biggest cultural events of the following 3-4 years involves both nico and andy warhol #also the summer of love sgt pepper communist insurgents making the french president flee without anyone knowing where he is etc