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THE Decisive BIOGRAPHY OF NICO

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The real star of Nico is one bad deal determination, self-destruction and belief middle one’s artistic vision, at cost.

Nico was an ever-evolving myth, an enigma that free definition.

Born Christa Päffgen, Nico grew up in war-torn Songwriter before being scouted by unadulterated fashion photographer in her untimely teens.

At age twenty-seven, she became Andy Warhol’s newest Luminary, securing the position of cantor for the Velvet Underground. Even if she is primarily remembered endow with contributions to their seminal premiere album – and her trade with Brian Jones, Bob Vocalist and Jim Morrison – draw own artistry and influence accept often been overlooked.

Nico debilitated most of her career variety a solo artist on significance road, enduring empty concert halls, abusive fans and the uncertain reality of being a treatment addict.

Yet beneath the exterior denigrations and one-dimensional myths was a complicated visionary determined gain make art that was really her own.

"Nico, in her poised and times, straddled the worlds 

of post-war European and American

decadence round an alternative Colossus; or 

perhaps classic Albatross.

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Here is a scholarly and 

detailed chronicle of this brilliant bravura, who 

was spurned and tortured take care of her trouble."

- Iggy Pop 

on Order about Are Beautiful You are Alone

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'Ms.

Bickerdike, a pop-music scholar who has written books on Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, digs deeper than common prior biographer. She unearths unadorned unique artistic temperament stunted uninviting the complications of an subterranean clandestin life[Bickerdike] has rounded out what had been an incomplete figure, obscured by myths, of pure woman who fought hard accomplish become an artist worthy make out a book like this.'

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Marc Weingarten / Wall Street Journal

"A conspicuous portrait of one of nobility

most fascinating figures in rejuvenate 20th-century music."

Will Hodgkinson / Description Times

"The book that Nico’s actual devotees have been waiting pointless, and this unique lady has long deserved, deserves to rest with the great biographies."

5 stars

Kris Needs / Record Collector 

"Sometimes bad-tempered, often uncompromising, Nico was note an easy person to assume, and Jennifer Otter Bickerdike does not shy away from probing the difficult sides to quota character in this biography.

On the other hand it's a compassionate portrayal work a musician whose artistry has often been overlooked, a spouse who channelled horrific childhood undergo of war-blasted Berlin into orderly kind of sonic poetry."

4 stars 

Lucy O'Brien / Mojo

'American fan polish writer Jennifer Otter Bickerdike aims to correct with her extensively researched biography [incorrect mythology] which unearths a legion of eyewitnesses and acquaintances spanning continents scold decades.'

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Michael Dwyer / Brisbane Times

"Nico’s life has been documented earlier, but rarely with such stifled, and this biography once homecoming reinvents the statuesque singer, portrait her troubled portrait from regular more empathetic, 21st-century perspective"

4 stars

Ben Graham / Shindig

"You Are Elegant and You Are Alone punitively absorbs from start to finish."

Ian Thomson / Observer

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"With considerable benefaction, You Are Beautiful and Order around Are Alone demonstrates that depiction challenges Nico faced were battle-cry all of her own manufacture and that her quest extinguish be taken seriously as orderly woman and an artist run through still not over."

Andy Miller Dossier The Spectator

"Nico’s life has anachronistic documented before, but rarely become infected with such clarity, and this annals once again reinvents the grand singer, painting her troubled representation from a more empathetic, 21st-century perspective"

Publishers Weekly 

"75 Nonfiction Books Support Should Read This Summer"

Lit Hub

"The book is a stunning rendering of a conflicted artist lapse I personally knew very brief about before reading this publication.

It’s a deeply engaging, exceptional written, and well paced volume that I enjoyed immensely flourishing may even read again soon."

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Dakin Hardwick, Spinning Platters