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Picture taken on Jan/01/2011 at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany.
More pictures from the same session
Picture Chris Marquardt
A few more brake van pictures from a walk around Ashford Downside Yard on 9 January 1972.
Here we see ex LMS brake van DM730305 in the Engineers Sidings.
"Another story tells of three theological students, traveling on their way to study in Athens. A wicked innkeeper robbed and murdered them, hiding their remains in a large pickling tub. It so happened that Bishop Nicholas, traveling along the same route, stopped at this very inn. In the night he dreamed of the crime, got up, and summoned the innkeeper. As Nicholas prayed earnestly to God the three boys were restored to life and wholeness. In France the story is told of three small children, wandering in their play until lost, lured, and captured by an evil butcher. St. Nicholas appears and appeals to God to return them to life and to their families. And so St. Nicholas is the patron and protector of children."
- from the excellent St Nicholas Centre.
This beautiful relief sculpture of St Nicholas raising the three children is in the Van Cutsem chapel in Downside Abbey. It was installed by Sir Ninian Comper sometime in 1917-31. 6 December is St Nicholas' day.
You know, the downside of polishing a doll is that there's a lot of waiting involved when the primer needs to dry. Last week that gave me time to work on that first clip, but now I needed something else to do.
And so Lilith was born! This is going to be a new head for the Minie-body. She's already loving it, as you can see.
I think this is the singer with 'The Fiery Furnaces' - Eleanor Friedberger.
A fantastic concert - the music and performers were excellent - for me the downsides were they didn't actually mention anything about Nico nor did any of the performers introduce themselves. The set list was:
FROZEN WARNINGS - jc/nf/band + strings - JOHN CALE
MUTTERLEIN - jc/nf/band - PETER MURPHY
MY HEART IS EMPTY - GUILLEMOTS (drums,acous piano,vox, clarinet)
FALCONER - jc/nf/band - LISA GERRARD (JC on acoustic piano)
EVENING OF LIGHT - FIERY FURNACES 1vox + acoustic piano + drum
ARI'S SONG - LIZ GREEN dulcitone + vox
YOU FORGOT TO ANSWER - jc/nf/band + BV's - MARK LINKOUS
ROSES IN THE SNOW - jc/nf/band - MARK LANEGAN
JANITOR OF LUNACY - jc/nf/band - JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD
INTERVAL
NO ONE IS THERE - strings - LISA GERRARD
ABSCHIED - strings - PETER MURPHY
AFRAID - strings - MARK LINKOUS
MY ONLY CHILD - GUILLEMOTS (s/c)
SIXTY FORTY - jc/nf/band – JOHN CALE (all need vox mics)
WIN A FEW - jc/nf/band - MARK LANEGAN (JC on vox mic)
FEARFULLY IN DANGER - jc/nf/band - FIERY FURNACES (1 x vox, Matt x vox mic at Yamaha position + JC on vox)
FACING THE WIND - jc/nf/band + BV's - JOHN CALE
Encore;
ALL THAT IS MY OWN - jc/nf/band + strings – ALL GUESTS VOX, incl jc/nf/band on vox, Mark Linkous on guitar
From Wikipedia;
Christa Päffgen (October 16, 1938? – July 18, 1988) was a German singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, keyboard player and a Warhol Superstar, best known by her pseudonym Nico.
As a musician, she is remembered for both her time in The Velvet Underground and her solo work.
Nico made her early fame as a model. After leaving school at 13, she started selling lingerie and soon was spotted by fashion insiders. A year later, her mother found her work as a model in Berlin.
While on a modeling assignment in Ibiza, she met the photographer Herbert Tobias, who christened her "Nico" after his ex-boyfriend, filmmaker Nico Papatakis. She soon moved to Paris and worked for Vogue, Tempo, Vie Nuove, Mascotte Spettacolo, Camera, Elle, and other fashion magazines in the late 1950s.
She also claimed to have been briefly hired by Coco Chanel. Despite having dropped out of school at an early age, Nico eventually became fluent in English, Italian, Spanish, and French.
After appearing in several television commercials, Nico landed a small role in Alberto Lattuada's film La Tempesta (1958), and then appeared in Rudolph Maté's For the First Time with Mario Lanza later that year.
In 1959, she was invited to the set of Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and attracted the attention of the acclaimed director, who gave her a minor role in the film. By this time, she had moved to New York to take acting classes under the guidance of Lee Strasberg.
After splitting her time between New York and Paris, she landed the lead role in Jacques Poitrenaud's Strip-Tease (1963). She recorded the title track, which was produced by Serge Gainsbourg but not released until 2001, when it was included on CD as part of the French compilation Le Cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg.
During this period she gave birth to a son, Ari (born 1962), who was fathered by French actor Alain Delon. Although the child was raised mostly by Delon's parents, Delon always denied his paternity.
In 1965, Nico met The Rolling Stones' founder and guitarist, Brian Jones, and recorded her first single, "I'm Not Sayin'" for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label.
Actor Ben Carruthers introduced her to Bob Dylan in Paris that summer. It is said that Dylan wrote the song "I'll Keep It With Mine" for her shortly afterwards.
After being introduced by Bob Dylan, she began working with Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey on their experimental films, including Chelsea Girls, The Closet, Sunset, and Imitation of Christ.
While appearing in Warhol's films, Nico was introduced to The Velvet Underground, at that time the backup group for Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, a multimedia performance featuring film, music, lights and dancers. She soon began to work with the Velvet Underground, singing lead vocals on three songs ("Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror") and backing vocals on another ("Sunday Morning") on their debut LP, The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Released in 1967, the album became influential and lauded within rock music and art circles. Nico had a short-lived romantic relationship with the main singer and songwriter, Lou Reed. Around this era, she was also romantically involved with prominent musicians including John Cale (also from The Velvet Underground), Jim Morrison of The Doors, Jackson Browne, Brian Jones, Tim Buckley and Iggy Pop.
Shortly after the Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour drew to a close in early 1967, Nico and The Velvet Underground parted ways. The exact reasons for her departure have not been made public, though both Reed and former Velvet Underground bassist John Cale played significant parts in various aspects of her solo career.
Over the course of the next 20 years, she recorded a series of critically acclaimed albums, working with the likes of Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera. Cale was particularly involved in her music, producing four of her albums as well as arranging and playing various instruments on the recordings.
Solo career
The 1960s
For her debut album, 1967's Chelsea Girl, Nico recorded songs by, among others, Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Jackson Browne and Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison, co-writing one song, "It Was a Pleasure Then", with Reed and Cale, an eight-minute piece with guitar and violin solos.
Chelsea Girl is a traditional chamber-folk album that influenced the style of artists such as Leonard Cohen, with strings and flute arrangements superimposed by its producer. Nico was not satisfied with the finished album and had little say in production matters.
For her LP The Marble Index, released in 1969, Nico wrote the lyrics and the bare bones of the music, mainly consisting of see-sawing harmonium chords. The arrangements were written by John Cale, who fleshed out Nico's songs with an array of folk and classical instruments. Frazier Mohawk produced the album. Nico's harmonium became her signature instrument for the rest of her career. The album combines classical elements with a European folk sound.
The 1970s
Nico released two albums of her own in the 1970s: Desertshore (1970) and The End (1974), and contributed one track to a third, June 1, 1974. They were produced by John Cale (Desertshore was co-produced with Joe Boyd), who also played on each of the albums. On Desertshore, Cale plays most of the instruments. Nico wrote the music, sang, and played the harmonium. On The End, Cale plays a wide range of instruments including xylophone, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, and electric piano. That album featured Brian Eno, who played on the June 1, 1974 live album with Nico, Cale and Kevin Ayers (whose solo albums she contributed to).
On December 13, 1974, Nico was the support act at Tangerine Dream's infamous concert at Reims Cathedral in Reims, France. The promoter had so greatly oversold the capacity of the venue that members of the audience could not move or reach the outside, eventually resulting in some fans urinating inside the cathedral hall. The Roman Catholic Church denounced these actions, ordered the rededication of the cathedral and banned future gigs on church property.
The 1980s
Nico returned to New York in late 1979 where her comeback concert at CBGB in early 1980 was glowingly reviewed in the New York Times. She began playing regularly at the Mudd Club and other venues with Jim Tisdall accompanying her on harp and Gittler electric guitar, and they went on a sold-out tour of twelve cities in the East and Midwest. The Chicago appearance was voted best concert of the year by the alternative music press.
Nico recorded her next studio album, Drama of Exile, in 1981. It was a departure from her earlier work with John Cale and featured a mixture of rock and Middle Eastern arrangements. She recorded her final solo album, Camera Obscura, in 1985, with John Cale back as producer and The Faction (James Young and Graham Dids) an experimental collection that featured Nico's version of the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart song, "My Funny Valentine".
Nico lived in Salford, Greater Manchester, sharing a house with two college students (Steve Turley and Neil Henney and some chickens) from Sheffield, and later formed a 'domestic partnership' with John Cooper Clarke. She was a vegetarian.
A number of Nico's performances towards the end of her life were recorded and released, including 1982's Heroine, 1986's Behind the Iron Curtain, and her final concert, Fata Morgana, recorded on June 6, 1988.
Philippe Garrel films
Between 1970 and 1979, Nico made about seven films with French director Philippe Garrel. She met Garrel in 1969 and contributed the song "The Falconer" to his film, Le Lit de la Vierge. Soon after, she was living with Garrel and became a central figure in his cinematic and personal circles. Nico's first acting appearance with Garrel occurred in his 1972 film, La Cicatrice Intérieure. Nico also supplied the music for this film and collaborated closely with the director. She also appeared in the Garrel films Anathor (1972); the silent Jean Seberg biopic, Les Hautes Solitudes, released in 1974; Un ange passe (1975); Le Berceau de cristal (1976), starring Pierre Clementi, Nico and Anita Pallenberg; and Voyage au jardin des morts (1978). His 1991 film J'entends Plus la Guitare is dedicated to Nico.
For over fifteen years, Nico was a heroin addict. Biographer Richard Witts speculated that the habit was caused by her traumatic experiences of war and of being an illegitimate child.
In his book Songs They Never Play on the Radio, James Young, a member of her band in the 1980s, recalls many examples of Nico's fiendish behaviour due to the addiction. But just before her death, she had managed to kick the habit and had embarked on a regimen of exercise and healthy eating.
On July 18, 1988, while on holiday with her son in Ibiza, Spain, Nico had a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle, and hit her head as she fell. A passing taxi driver found her unconscious, and had difficulty getting her admitted to local hospitals. She was incorrectly diagnosed as suffering from exposure, and she died the next day. X-rays later revealed a severe cerebral hemorrhage as the cause of her death.
Nico was buried in her mother's plot in Grunewald Forest Cemetery in Berlin. A few friends played a tape of "Mütterlein", a song from Desertshore, at her funeral.
This is the encore. I think it is Peter Murphy taking the lead microphone.
A fantastic concert - the music and performers were excellent - for me the downsides were they didn't actually mention anything about Nico nor did any of the performers introduce themselves. The set list was:
FROZEN WARNINGS - jc/nf/band + strings - JOHN CALE
MUTTERLEIN - jc/nf/band - PETER MURPHY
MY HEART IS EMPTY - GUILLEMOTS (drums,acous piano,vox, clarinet)
FALCONER - jc/nf/band - LISA GERRARD (JC on acoustic piano)
EVENING OF LIGHT - FIERY FURNACES 1vox + acoustic piano + drum
ARI'S SONG - LIZ GREEN dulcitone + vox
YOU FORGOT TO ANSWER - jc/nf/band + BV's - MARK LINKOUS
ROSES IN THE SNOW - jc/nf/band - MARK LANEGAN
JANITOR OF LUNACY - jc/nf/band - JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD
INTERVAL
NO ONE IS THERE - strings - LISA GERRARD
ABSCHIED - strings - PETER MURPHY
AFRAID - strings - MARK LINKOUS
MY ONLY CHILD - GUILLEMOTS (s/c)
SIXTY FORTY - jc/nf/band – JOHN CALE (all need vox mics)
WIN A FEW - jc/nf/band - MARK LANEGAN (JC on vox mic)
FEARFULLY IN DANGER - jc/nf/band - FIERY FURNACES (1 x vox, Matt x vox mic at Yamaha position + JC on vox)
FACING THE WIND - jc/nf/band + BV's - JOHN CALE
Encore;
ALL THAT IS MY OWN - jc/nf/band + strings – ALL GUESTS VOX, incl jc/nf/band on vox, Mark Linkous on guitar
From Wikipedia;
Christa Päffgen (October 16, 1938? – July 18, 1988) was a German singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, keyboard player and a Warhol Superstar, best known by her pseudonym Nico.
As a musician, she is remembered for both her time in The Velvet Underground and her solo work.
Nico made her early fame as a model. After leaving school at 13, she started selling lingerie and soon was spotted by fashion insiders. A year later, her mother found her work as a model in Berlin.
While on a modeling assignment in Ibiza, she met the photographer Herbert Tobias, who christened her "Nico" after his ex-boyfriend, filmmaker Nico Papatakis. She soon moved to Paris and worked for Vogue, Tempo, Vie Nuove, Mascotte Spettacolo, Camera, Elle, and other fashion magazines in the late 1950s.
She also claimed to have been briefly hired by Coco Chanel. Despite having dropped out of school at an early age, Nico eventually became fluent in English, Italian, Spanish, and French.
After appearing in several television commercials, Nico landed a small role in Alberto Lattuada's film La Tempesta (1958), and then appeared in Rudolph Maté's For the First Time with Mario Lanza later that year.
In 1959, she was invited to the set of Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and attracted the attention of the acclaimed director, who gave her a minor role in the film. By this time, she had moved to New York to take acting classes under the guidance of Lee Strasberg.
After splitting her time between New York and Paris, she landed the lead role in Jacques Poitrenaud's Strip-Tease (1963). She recorded the title track, which was produced by Serge Gainsbourg but not released until 2001, when it was included on CD as part of the French compilation Le Cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg.
During this period she gave birth to a son, Ari (born 1962), who was fathered by French actor Alain Delon. Although the child was raised mostly by Delon's parents, Delon always denied his paternity.
In 1965, Nico met The Rolling Stones' founder and guitarist, Brian Jones, and recorded her first single, "I'm Not Sayin'" for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label.
Actor Ben Carruthers introduced her to Bob Dylan in Paris that summer. It is said that Dylan wrote the song "I'll Keep It With Mine" for her shortly afterwards.
After being introduced by Bob Dylan, she began working with Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey on their experimental films, including Chelsea Girls, The Closet, Sunset, and Imitation of Christ.
While appearing in Warhol's films, Nico was introduced to The Velvet Underground, at that time the backup group for Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, a multimedia performance featuring film, music, lights and dancers. She soon began to work with the Velvet Underground, singing lead vocals on three songs ("Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror") and backing vocals on another ("Sunday Morning") on their debut LP, The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Released in 1967, the album became influential and lauded within rock music and art circles. Nico had a short-lived romantic relationship with the main singer and songwriter, Lou Reed. Around this era, she was also romantically involved with prominent musicians including John Cale (also from The Velvet Underground), Jim Morrison of The Doors, Jackson Browne, Brian Jones, Tim Buckley and Iggy Pop.
Shortly after the Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour drew to a close in early 1967, Nico and The Velvet Underground parted ways. The exact reasons for her departure have not been made public, though both Reed and former Velvet Underground bassist John Cale played significant parts in various aspects of her solo career.
Over the course of the next 20 years, she recorded a series of critically acclaimed albums, working with the likes of Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera. Cale was particularly involved in her music, producing four of her albums as well as arranging and playing various instruments on the recordings.
Solo career
The 1960s
For her debut album, 1967's Chelsea Girl, Nico recorded songs by, among others, Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Jackson Browne and Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison, co-writing one song, "It Was a Pleasure Then", with Reed and Cale, an eight-minute piece with guitar and violin solos.
Chelsea Girl is a traditional chamber-folk album that influenced the style of artists such as Leonard Cohen, with strings and flute arrangements superimposed by its producer. Nico was not satisfied with the finished album and had little say in production matters.
For her LP The Marble Index, released in 1969, Nico wrote the lyrics and the bare bones of the music, mainly consisting of see-sawing harmonium chords. The arrangements were written by John Cale, who fleshed out Nico's songs with an array of folk and classical instruments. Frazier Mohawk produced the album. Nico's harmonium became her signature instrument for the rest of her career. The album combines classical elements with a European folk sound.
The 1970s
Nico released two albums of her own in the 1970s: Desertshore (1970) and The End (1974), and contributed one track to a third, June 1, 1974. They were produced by John Cale (Desertshore was co-produced with Joe Boyd), who also played on each of the albums. On Desertshore, Cale plays most of the instruments. Nico wrote the music, sang, and played the harmonium. On The End, Cale plays a wide range of instruments including xylophone, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, and electric piano. That album featured Brian Eno, who played on the June 1, 1974 live album with Nico, Cale and Kevin Ayers (whose solo albums she contributed to).
On December 13, 1974, Nico was the support act at Tangerine Dream's infamous concert at Reims Cathedral in Reims, France. The promoter had so greatly oversold the capacity of the venue that members of the audience could not move or reach the outside, eventually resulting in some fans urinating inside the cathedral hall. The Roman Catholic Church denounced these actions, ordered the rededication of the cathedral and banned future gigs on church property.
The 1980s
Nico returned to New York in late 1979 where her comeback concert at CBGB in early 1980 was glowingly reviewed in the New York Times. She began playing regularly at the Mudd Club and other venues with Jim Tisdall accompanying her on harp and Gittler electric guitar, and they went on a sold-out tour of twelve cities in the East and Midwest. The Chicago appearance was voted best concert of the year by the alternative music press.
Nico recorded her next studio album, Drama of Exile, in 1981. It was a departure from her earlier work with John Cale and featured a mixture of rock and Middle Eastern arrangements. She recorded her final solo album, Camera Obscura, in 1985, with John Cale back as producer and The Faction (James Young and Graham Dids) an experimental collection that featured Nico's version of the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart song, "My Funny Valentine".
Nico lived in Salford, Greater Manchester, sharing a house with two college students (Steve Turley and Neil Henney and some chickens) from Sheffield, and later formed a 'domestic partnership' with John Cooper Clarke. She was a vegetarian.
A number of Nico's performances towards the end of her life were recorded and released, including 1982's Heroine, 1986's Behind the Iron Curtain, and her final concert, Fata Morgana, recorded on June 6, 1988.
Philippe Garrel films
Between 1970 and 1979, Nico made about seven films with French director Philippe Garrel. She met Garrel in 1969 and contributed the song "The Falconer" to his film, Le Lit de la Vierge. Soon after, she was living with Garrel and became a central figure in his cinematic and personal circles. Nico's first acting appearance with Garrel occurred in his 1972 film, La Cicatrice Intérieure. Nico also supplied the music for this film and collaborated closely with the director. She also appeared in the Garrel films Anathor (1972); the silent Jean Seberg biopic, Les Hautes Solitudes, released in 1974; Un ange passe (1975); Le Berceau de cristal (1976), starring Pierre Clementi, Nico and Anita Pallenberg; and Voyage au jardin des morts (1978). His 1991 film J'entends Plus la Guitare is dedicated to Nico.
For over fifteen years, Nico was a heroin addict. Biographer Richard Witts speculated that the habit was caused by her traumatic experiences of war and of being an illegitimate child.
In his book Songs They Never Play on the Radio, James Young, a member of her band in the 1980s, recalls many examples of Nico's fiendish behaviour due to the addiction. But just before her death, she had managed to kick the habit and had embarked on a regimen of exercise and healthy eating.
On July 18, 1988, while on holiday with her son in Ibiza, Spain, Nico had a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle, and hit her head as she fell. A passing taxi driver found her unconscious, and had difficulty getting her admitted to local hospitals. She was incorrectly diagnosed as suffering from exposure, and she died the next day. X-rays later revealed a severe cerebral hemorrhage as the cause of her death.
Nico was buried in her mother's plot in Grunewald Forest Cemetery in Berlin. A few friends played a tape of "Mütterlein", a song from Desertshore, at her funeral.
I think this was James Dean Bradfield doing 'Janitor of Lunacy'.
A fantastic concert - the music and performers were excellent - for me the downsides were they didn't actually mention anything about Nico nor did any of the performers introduce themselves. The set list was:
FROZEN WARNINGS - jc/nf/band + strings - JOHN CALE
MUTTERLEIN - jc/nf/band - PETER MURPHY
MY HEART IS EMPTY - GUILLEMOTS (drums,acous piano,vox, clarinet)
FALCONER - jc/nf/band - LISA GERRARD (JC on acoustic piano)
EVENING OF LIGHT - FIERY FURNACES 1vox + acoustic piano + drum
ARI'S SONG - LIZ GREEN dulcitone + vox
YOU FORGOT TO ANSWER - jc/nf/band + BV's - MARK LINKOUS
ROSES IN THE SNOW - jc/nf/band - MARK LANEGAN
JANITOR OF LUNACY - jc/nf/band - JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD
INTERVAL
NO ONE IS THERE - strings - LISA GERRARD
ABSCHIED - strings - PETER MURPHY
AFRAID - strings - MARK LINKOUS
MY ONLY CHILD - GUILLEMOTS (s/c)
SIXTY FORTY - jc/nf/band – JOHN CALE (all need vox mics)
WIN A FEW - jc/nf/band - MARK LANEGAN (JC on vox mic)
FEARFULLY IN DANGER - jc/nf/band - FIERY FURNACES (1 x vox, Matt x vox mic at Yamaha position + JC on vox)
FACING THE WIND - jc/nf/band + BV's - JOHN CALE
Encore;
ALL THAT IS MY OWN - jc/nf/band + strings – ALL GUESTS VOX, incl jc/nf/band on vox, Mark Linkous on guitar
From Wikipedia;
Christa Päffgen (October 16, 1938? – July 18, 1988) was a German singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, keyboard player and a Warhol Superstar, best known by her pseudonym Nico.
As a musician, she is remembered for both her time in The Velvet Underground and her solo work.
Nico made her early fame as a model. After leaving school at 13, she started selling lingerie and soon was spotted by fashion insiders. A year later, her mother found her work as a model in Berlin.
While on a modeling assignment in Ibiza, she met the photographer Herbert Tobias, who christened her "Nico" after his ex-boyfriend, filmmaker Nico Papatakis. She soon moved to Paris and worked for Vogue, Tempo, Vie Nuove, Mascotte Spettacolo, Camera, Elle, and other fashion magazines in the late 1950s.
She also claimed to have been briefly hired by Coco Chanel. Despite having dropped out of school at an early age, Nico eventually became fluent in English, Italian, Spanish, and French.
After appearing in several television commercials, Nico landed a small role in Alberto Lattuada's film La Tempesta (1958), and then appeared in Rudolph Maté's For the First Time with Mario Lanza later that year.
In 1959, she was invited to the set of Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and attracted the attention of the acclaimed director, who gave her a minor role in the film. By this time, she had moved to New York to take acting classes under the guidance of Lee Strasberg.
After splitting her time between New York and Paris, she landed the lead role in Jacques Poitrenaud's Strip-Tease (1963). She recorded the title track, which was produced by Serge Gainsbourg but not released until 2001, when it was included on CD as part of the French compilation Le Cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg.
During this period she gave birth to a son, Ari (born 1962), who was fathered by French actor Alain Delon. Although the child was raised mostly by Delon's parents, Delon always denied his paternity.
In 1965, Nico met The Rolling Stones' founder and guitarist, Brian Jones, and recorded her first single, "I'm Not Sayin'" for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label.
Actor Ben Carruthers introduced her to Bob Dylan in Paris that summer. It is said that Dylan wrote the song "I'll Keep It With Mine" for her shortly afterwards.
After being introduced by Bob Dylan, she began working with Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey on their experimental films, including Chelsea Girls, The Closet, Sunset, and Imitation of Christ.
While appearing in Warhol's films, Nico was introduced to The Velvet Underground, at that time the backup group for Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, a multimedia performance featuring film, music, lights and dancers. She soon began to work with the Velvet Underground, singing lead vocals on three songs ("Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror") and backing vocals on another ("Sunday Morning") on their debut LP, The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Released in 1967, the album became influential and lauded within rock music and art circles. Nico had a short-lived romantic relationship with the main singer and songwriter, Lou Reed. Around this era, she was also romantically involved with prominent musicians including John Cale (also from The Velvet Underground), Jim Morrison of The Doors, Jackson Browne, Brian Jones, Tim Buckley and Iggy Pop.
Shortly after the Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour drew to a close in early 1967, Nico and The Velvet Underground parted ways. The exact reasons for her departure have not been made public, though both Reed and former Velvet Underground bassist John Cale played significant parts in various aspects of her solo career.
Over the course of the next 20 years, she recorded a series of critically acclaimed albums, working with the likes of Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera. Cale was particularly involved in her music, producing four of her albums as well as arranging and playing various instruments on the recordings.
Solo career
The 1960s
For her debut album, 1967's Chelsea Girl, Nico recorded songs by, among others, Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Jackson Browne and Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison, co-writing one song, "It Was a Pleasure Then", with Reed and Cale, an eight-minute piece with guitar and violin solos.
Chelsea Girl is a traditional chamber-folk album that influenced the style of artists such as Leonard Cohen, with strings and flute arrangements superimposed by its producer. Nico was not satisfied with the finished album and had little say in production matters.
For her LP The Marble Index, released in 1969, Nico wrote the lyrics and the bare bones of the music, mainly consisting of see-sawing harmonium chords. The arrangements were written by John Cale, who fleshed out Nico's songs with an array of folk and classical instruments. Frazier Mohawk produced the album. Nico's harmonium became her signature instrument for the rest of her career. The album combines classical elements with a European folk sound.
The 1970s
Nico released two albums of her own in the 1970s: Desertshore (1970) and The End (1974), and contributed one track to a third, June 1, 1974. They were produced by John Cale (Desertshore was co-produced with Joe Boyd), who also played on each of the albums. On Desertshore, Cale plays most of the instruments. Nico wrote the music, sang, and played the harmonium. On The End, Cale plays a wide range of instruments including xylophone, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, and electric piano. That album featured Brian Eno, who played on the June 1, 1974 live album with Nico, Cale and Kevin Ayers (whose solo albums she contributed to).
On December 13, 1974, Nico was the support act at Tangerine Dream's infamous concert at Reims Cathedral in Reims, France. The promoter had so greatly oversold the capacity of the venue that members of the audience could not move or reach the outside, eventually resulting in some fans urinating inside the cathedral hall. The Roman Catholic Church denounced these actions, ordered the rededication of the cathedral and banned future gigs on church property.
The 1980s
Nico returned to New York in late 1979 where her comeback concert at CBGB in early 1980 was glowingly reviewed in the New York Times. She began playing regularly at the Mudd Club and other venues with Jim Tisdall accompanying her on harp and Gittler electric guitar, and they went on a sold-out tour of twelve cities in the East and Midwest. The Chicago appearance was voted best concert of the year by the alternative music press.
Nico recorded her next studio album, Drama of Exile, in 1981. It was a departure from her earlier work with John Cale and featured a mixture of rock and Middle Eastern arrangements. She recorded her final solo album, Camera Obscura, in 1985, with John Cale back as producer and The Faction (James Young and Graham Dids) an experimental collection that featured Nico's version of the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart song, "My Funny Valentine".
Nico lived in Salford, Greater Manchester, sharing a house with two college students (Steve Turley and Neil Henney and some chickens) from Sheffield, and later formed a 'domestic partnership' with John Cooper Clarke. She was a vegetarian.
A number of Nico's performances towards the end of her life were recorded and released, including 1982's Heroine, 1986's Behind the Iron Curtain, and her final concert, Fata Morgana, recorded on June 6, 1988.
Philippe Garrel films
Between 1970 and 1979, Nico made about seven films with French director Philippe Garrel. She met Garrel in 1969 and contributed the song "The Falconer" to his film, Le Lit de la Vierge. Soon after, she was living with Garrel and became a central figure in his cinematic and personal circles. Nico's first acting appearance with Garrel occurred in his 1972 film, La Cicatrice Intérieure. Nico also supplied the music for this film and collaborated closely with the director. She also appeared in the Garrel films Anathor (1972); the silent Jean Seberg biopic, Les Hautes Solitudes, released in 1974; Un ange passe (1975); Le Berceau de cristal (1976), starring Pierre Clementi, Nico and Anita Pallenberg; and Voyage au jardin des morts (1978). His 1991 film J'entends Plus la Guitare is dedicated to Nico.
For over fifteen years, Nico was a heroin addict. Biographer Richard Witts speculated that the habit was caused by her traumatic experiences of war and of being an illegitimate child.
In his book Songs They Never Play on the Radio, James Young, a member of her band in the 1980s, recalls many examples of Nico's fiendish behaviour due to the addiction. But just before her death, she had managed to kick the habit and had embarked on a regimen of exercise and healthy eating.
On July 18, 1988, while on holiday with her son in Ibiza, Spain, Nico had a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle, and hit her head as she fell. A passing taxi driver found her unconscious, and had difficulty getting her admitted to local hospitals. She was incorrectly diagnosed as suffering from exposure, and she died the next day. X-rays later revealed a severe cerebral hemorrhage as the cause of her death.
Nico was buried in her mother's plot in Grunewald Forest Cemetery in Berlin. A few friends played a tape of "Mütterlein", a song from Desertshore, at her funeral.
One downside to these panties is that they are a little skimpy at a key place, which leads to some inadvertent wardrobe malfunctions if you're not careful. On the other hand, maybe you want that kind of thing.
John Cale on the organ
A fantastic concert - the music and performers were excellent - for me the downsides were they didn't actually mention anything about Nico nor did any of the performers introduce themselves. The set list was:
FROZEN WARNINGS - jc/nf/band + strings - JOHN CALE
MUTTERLEIN - jc/nf/band - PETER MURPHY
MY HEART IS EMPTY - GUILLEMOTS (drums,acous piano,vox, clarinet)
FALCONER - jc/nf/band - LISA GERRARD (JC on acoustic piano)
EVENING OF LIGHT - FIERY FURNACES 1vox + acoustic piano + drum
ARI'S SONG - LIZ GREEN dulcitone + vox
YOU FORGOT TO ANSWER - jc/nf/band + BV's - MARK LINKOUS
ROSES IN THE SNOW - jc/nf/band - MARK LANEGAN
JANITOR OF LUNACY - jc/nf/band - JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD
INTERVAL
NO ONE IS THERE - strings - LISA GERRARD
ABSCHIED - strings - PETER MURPHY
AFRAID - strings - MARK LINKOUS
MY ONLY CHILD - GUILLEMOTS (s/c)
SIXTY FORTY - jc/nf/band – JOHN CALE (all need vox mics)
WIN A FEW - jc/nf/band - MARK LANEGAN (JC on vox mic)
FEARFULLY IN DANGER - jc/nf/band - FIERY FURNACES (1 x vox, Matt x vox mic at Yamaha position + JC on vox)
FACING THE WIND - jc/nf/band + BV's - JOHN CALE
Encore;
ALL THAT IS MY OWN - jc/nf/band + strings – ALL GUESTS VOX, incl jc/nf/band on vox, Mark Linkous on guitar
From Wikipedia;
Christa Päffgen (October 16, 1938? – July 18, 1988) was a German singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, keyboard player and a Warhol Superstar, best known by her pseudonym Nico.
As a musician, she is remembered for both her time in The Velvet Underground and her solo work.
Nico made her early fame as a model. After leaving school at 13, she started selling lingerie and soon was spotted by fashion insiders. A year later, her mother found her work as a model in Berlin.
While on a modeling assignment in Ibiza, she met the photographer Herbert Tobias, who christened her "Nico" after his ex-boyfriend, filmmaker Nico Papatakis. She soon moved to Paris and worked for Vogue, Tempo, Vie Nuove, Mascotte Spettacolo, Camera, Elle, and other fashion magazines in the late 1950s.
She also claimed to have been briefly hired by Coco Chanel. Despite having dropped out of school at an early age, Nico eventually became fluent in English, Italian, Spanish, and French.
After appearing in several television commercials, Nico landed a small role in Alberto Lattuada's film La Tempesta (1958), and then appeared in Rudolph Maté's For the First Time with Mario Lanza later that year.
In 1959, she was invited to the set of Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and attracted the attention of the acclaimed director, who gave her a minor role in the film. By this time, she had moved to New York to take acting classes under the guidance of Lee Strasberg.
After splitting her time between New York and Paris, she landed the lead role in Jacques Poitrenaud's Strip-Tease (1963). She recorded the title track, which was produced by Serge Gainsbourg but not released until 2001, when it was included on CD as part of the French compilation Le Cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg.
During this period she gave birth to a son, Ari (born 1962), who was fathered by French actor Alain Delon. Although the child was raised mostly by Delon's parents, Delon always denied his paternity.
In 1965, Nico met The Rolling Stones' founder and guitarist, Brian Jones, and recorded her first single, "I'm Not Sayin'" for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label.
Actor Ben Carruthers introduced her to Bob Dylan in Paris that summer. It is said that Dylan wrote the song "I'll Keep It With Mine" for her shortly afterwards.
After being introduced by Bob Dylan, she began working with Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey on their experimental films, including Chelsea Girls, The Closet, Sunset, and Imitation of Christ.
While appearing in Warhol's films, Nico was introduced to The Velvet Underground, at that time the backup group for Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, a multimedia performance featuring film, music, lights and dancers. She soon began to work with the Velvet Underground, singing lead vocals on three songs ("Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror") and backing vocals on another ("Sunday Morning") on their debut LP, The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Released in 1967, the album became influential and lauded within rock music and art circles. Nico had a short-lived romantic relationship with the main singer and songwriter, Lou Reed. Around this era, she was also romantically involved with prominent musicians including John Cale (also from The Velvet Underground), Jim Morrison of The Doors, Jackson Browne, Brian Jones, Tim Buckley and Iggy Pop.
Shortly after the Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour drew to a close in early 1967, Nico and The Velvet Underground parted ways. The exact reasons for her departure have not been made public, though both Reed and former Velvet Underground bassist John Cale played significant parts in various aspects of her solo career.
Over the course of the next 20 years, she recorded a series of critically acclaimed albums, working with the likes of Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera. Cale was particularly involved in her music, producing four of her albums as well as arranging and playing various instruments on the recordings.
Solo career
The 1960s
For her debut album, 1967's Chelsea Girl, Nico recorded songs by, among others, Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Jackson Browne and Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison, co-writing one song, "It Was a Pleasure Then", with Reed and Cale, an eight-minute piece with guitar and violin solos.
Chelsea Girl is a traditional chamber-folk album that influenced the style of artists such as Leonard Cohen, with strings and flute arrangements superimposed by its producer. Nico was not satisfied with the finished album and had little say in production matters.
For her LP The Marble Index, released in 1969, Nico wrote the lyrics and the bare bones of the music, mainly consisting of see-sawing harmonium chords. The arrangements were written by John Cale, who fleshed out Nico's songs with an array of folk and classical instruments. Frazier Mohawk produced the album. Nico's harmonium became her signature instrument for the rest of her career. The album combines classical elements with a European folk sound.
The 1970s
Nico released two albums of her own in the 1970s: Desertshore (1970) and The End (1974), and contributed one track to a third, June 1, 1974. They were produced by John Cale (Desertshore was co-produced with Joe Boyd), who also played on each of the albums. On Desertshore, Cale plays most of the instruments. Nico wrote the music, sang, and played the harmonium. On The End, Cale plays a wide range of instruments including xylophone, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, and electric piano. That album featured Brian Eno, who played on the June 1, 1974 live album with Nico, Cale and Kevin Ayers (whose solo albums she contributed to).
On December 13, 1974, Nico was the support act at Tangerine Dream's infamous concert at Reims Cathedral in Reims, France. The promoter had so greatly oversold the capacity of the venue that members of the audience could not move or reach the outside, eventually resulting in some fans urinating inside the cathedral hall. The Roman Catholic Church denounced these actions, ordered the rededication of the cathedral and banned future gigs on church property.
The 1980s
Nico returned to New York in late 1979 where her comeback concert at CBGB in early 1980 was glowingly reviewed in the New York Times. She began playing regularly at the Mudd Club and other venues with Jim Tisdall accompanying her on harp and Gittler electric guitar, and they went on a sold-out tour of twelve cities in the East and Midwest. The Chicago appearance was voted best concert of the year by the alternative music press.
Nico recorded her next studio album, Drama of Exile, in 1981. It was a departure from her earlier work with John Cale and featured a mixture of rock and Middle Eastern arrangements. She recorded her final solo album, Camera Obscura, in 1985, with John Cale back as producer and The Faction (James Young and Graham Dids) an experimental collection that featured Nico's version of the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart song, "My Funny Valentine".
Nico lived in Salford, Greater Manchester, sharing a house with two college students (Steve Turley and Neil Henney and some chickens) from Sheffield, and later formed a 'domestic partnership' with John Cooper Clarke. She was a vegetarian.
A number of Nico's performances towards the end of her life were recorded and released, including 1982's Heroine, 1986's Behind the Iron Curtain, and her final concert, Fata Morgana, recorded on June 6, 1988.
Philippe Garrel films
Between 1970 and 1979, Nico made about seven films with French director Philippe Garrel. She met Garrel in 1969 and contributed the song "The Falconer" to his film, Le Lit de la Vierge. Soon after, she was living with Garrel and became a central figure in his cinematic and personal circles. Nico's first acting appearance with Garrel occurred in his 1972 film, La Cicatrice Intérieure. Nico also supplied the music for this film and collaborated closely with the director. She also appeared in the Garrel films Anathor (1972); the silent Jean Seberg biopic, Les Hautes Solitudes, released in 1974; Un ange passe (1975); Le Berceau de cristal (1976), starring Pierre Clementi, Nico and Anita Pallenberg; and Voyage au jardin des morts (1978). His 1991 film J'entends Plus la Guitare is dedicated to Nico.
For over fifteen years, Nico was a heroin addict. Biographer Richard Witts speculated that the habit was caused by her traumatic experiences of war and of being an illegitimate child.
In his book Songs They Never Play on the Radio, James Young, a member of her band in the 1980s, recalls many examples of Nico's fiendish behaviour due to the addiction. But just before her death, she had managed to kick the habit and had embarked on a regimen of exercise and healthy eating.
On July 18, 1988, while on holiday with her son in Ibiza, Spain, Nico had a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle, and hit her head as she fell. A passing taxi driver found her unconscious, and had difficulty getting her admitted to local hospitals. She was incorrectly diagnosed as suffering from exposure, and she died the next day. X-rays later revealed a severe cerebral hemorrhage as the cause of her death.
Nico was buried in her mother's plot in Grunewald Forest Cemetery in Berlin. A few friends played a tape of "Mütterlein", a song from Desertshore, at her funeral.
This photo is taken for Dogwood 52 week photography challenge for 2017 | Story: Frame Within a Frame.
CC welcomed.
"May you be magnified, O Lord, by the revered memory of your Saints Cosmas and Damian, for with providence beyond words you have conferred on them everlasting glory, and on us, your unfailing help. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."
26 September is the feast of SS Cosmas & Damian, who were brothers martyred for the faith in the 3rd century. They were said to be skilled in the healing arts, and are patrons of pharmacists.
This polychromed alabaster statuette from the St Sebastian chapel in Downside by Sir Ninian Comper.
A streaked xenops sits perched on a branch in dry forest. A passerine bird that you're as likely to find upside down under a branch or right-side up, it is easily identified by its bill which also appears to be the "wrong way up". It is an uncommon forest resident of Trinidad, and absent in Tobago.
This was 'Falconer' - Lisa Gerrard singing and John Cale on piano to her right.
A fantastic concert - the music and performers were excellent - for me the downsides were they didn't actually mention anything about Nico nor did any of the performers introduce themselves. The set list was:
FROZEN WARNINGS - jc/nf/band + strings - JOHN CALE
MUTTERLEIN - jc/nf/band - PETER MURPHY
MY HEART IS EMPTY - GUILLEMOTS (drums,acous piano,vox, clarinet)
FALCONER - jc/nf/band - LISA GERRARD (JC on acoustic piano)
EVENING OF LIGHT - FIERY FURNACES 1vox + acoustic piano + drum
ARI'S SONG - LIZ GREEN dulcitone + vox
YOU FORGOT TO ANSWER - jc/nf/band + BV's - MARK LINKOUS
ROSES IN THE SNOW - jc/nf/band - MARK LANEGAN
JANITOR OF LUNACY - jc/nf/band - JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD
INTERVAL
NO ONE IS THERE - strings - LISA GERRARD
ABSCHIED - strings - PETER MURPHY
AFRAID - strings - MARK LINKOUS
MY ONLY CHILD - GUILLEMOTS (s/c)
SIXTY FORTY - jc/nf/band – JOHN CALE (all need vox mics)
WIN A FEW - jc/nf/band - MARK LANEGAN (JC on vox mic)
FEARFULLY IN DANGER - jc/nf/band - FIERY FURNACES (1 x vox, Matt x vox mic at Yamaha position + JC on vox)
FACING THE WIND - jc/nf/band + BV's - JOHN CALE
Encore;
ALL THAT IS MY OWN - jc/nf/band + strings – ALL GUESTS VOX, incl jc/nf/band on vox, Mark Linkous on guitar
From Wikipedia;
Christa Päffgen (October 16, 1938? – July 18, 1988) was a German singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, keyboard player and a Warhol Superstar, best known by her pseudonym Nico.
As a musician, she is remembered for both her time in The Velvet Underground and her solo work.
Nico made her early fame as a model. After leaving school at 13, she started selling lingerie and soon was spotted by fashion insiders. A year later, her mother found her work as a model in Berlin.
While on a modeling assignment in Ibiza, she met the photographer Herbert Tobias, who christened her "Nico" after his ex-boyfriend, filmmaker Nico Papatakis. She soon moved to Paris and worked for Vogue, Tempo, Vie Nuove, Mascotte Spettacolo, Camera, Elle, and other fashion magazines in the late 1950s.
She also claimed to have been briefly hired by Coco Chanel. Despite having dropped out of school at an early age, Nico eventually became fluent in English, Italian, Spanish, and French.
After appearing in several television commercials, Nico landed a small role in Alberto Lattuada's film La Tempesta (1958), and then appeared in Rudolph Maté's For the First Time with Mario Lanza later that year.
In 1959, she was invited to the set of Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and attracted the attention of the acclaimed director, who gave her a minor role in the film. By this time, she had moved to New York to take acting classes under the guidance of Lee Strasberg.
After splitting her time between New York and Paris, she landed the lead role in Jacques Poitrenaud's Strip-Tease (1963). She recorded the title track, which was produced by Serge Gainsbourg but not released until 2001, when it was included on CD as part of the French compilation Le Cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg.
During this period she gave birth to a son, Ari (born 1962), who was fathered by French actor Alain Delon. Although the child was raised mostly by Delon's parents, Delon always denied his paternity.
In 1965, Nico met The Rolling Stones' founder and guitarist, Brian Jones, and recorded her first single, "I'm Not Sayin'" for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label.
Actor Ben Carruthers introduced her to Bob Dylan in Paris that summer. It is said that Dylan wrote the song "I'll Keep It With Mine" for her shortly afterwards.
After being introduced by Bob Dylan, she began working with Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey on their experimental films, including Chelsea Girls, The Closet, Sunset, and Imitation of Christ.
While appearing in Warhol's films, Nico was introduced to The Velvet Underground, at that time the backup group for Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, a multimedia performance featuring film, music, lights and dancers. She soon began to work with the Velvet Underground, singing lead vocals on three songs ("Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror") and backing vocals on another ("Sunday Morning") on their debut LP, The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Released in 1967, the album became influential and lauded within rock music and art circles. Nico had a short-lived romantic relationship with the main singer and songwriter, Lou Reed. Around this era, she was also romantically involved with prominent musicians including John Cale (also from The Velvet Underground), Jim Morrison of The Doors, Jackson Browne, Brian Jones, Tim Buckley and Iggy Pop.
Shortly after the Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour drew to a close in early 1967, Nico and The Velvet Underground parted ways. The exact reasons for her departure have not been made public, though both Reed and former Velvet Underground bassist John Cale played significant parts in various aspects of her solo career.
Over the course of the next 20 years, she recorded a series of critically acclaimed albums, working with the likes of Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera. Cale was particularly involved in her music, producing four of her albums as well as arranging and playing various instruments on the recordings.
Solo career
The 1960s
For her debut album, 1967's Chelsea Girl, Nico recorded songs by, among others, Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Jackson Browne and Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison, co-writing one song, "It Was a Pleasure Then", with Reed and Cale, an eight-minute piece with guitar and violin solos.
Chelsea Girl is a traditional chamber-folk album that influenced the style of artists such as Leonard Cohen, with strings and flute arrangements superimposed by its producer. Nico was not satisfied with the finished album and had little say in production matters.
For her LP The Marble Index, released in 1969, Nico wrote the lyrics and the bare bones of the music, mainly consisting of see-sawing harmonium chords. The arrangements were written by John Cale, who fleshed out Nico's songs with an array of folk and classical instruments. Frazier Mohawk produced the album. Nico's harmonium became her signature instrument for the rest of her career. The album combines classical elements with a European folk sound.
The 1970s
Nico released two albums of her own in the 1970s: Desertshore (1970) and The End (1974), and contributed one track to a third, June 1, 1974. They were produced by John Cale (Desertshore was co-produced with Joe Boyd), who also played on each of the albums. On Desertshore, Cale plays most of the instruments. Nico wrote the music, sang, and played the harmonium. On The End, Cale plays a wide range of instruments including xylophone, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, and electric piano. That album featured Brian Eno, who played on the June 1, 1974 live album with Nico, Cale and Kevin Ayers (whose solo albums she contributed to).
On December 13, 1974, Nico was the support act at Tangerine Dream's infamous concert at Reims Cathedral in Reims, France. The promoter had so greatly oversold the capacity of the venue that members of the audience could not move or reach the outside, eventually resulting in some fans urinating inside the cathedral hall. The Roman Catholic Church denounced these actions, ordered the rededication of the cathedral and banned future gigs on church property.
The 1980s
Nico returned to New York in late 1979 where her comeback concert at CBGB in early 1980 was glowingly reviewed in the New York Times. She began playing regularly at the Mudd Club and other venues with Jim Tisdall accompanying her on harp and Gittler electric guitar, and they went on a sold-out tour of twelve cities in the East and Midwest. The Chicago appearance was voted best concert of the year by the alternative music press.
Nico recorded her next studio album, Drama of Exile, in 1981. It was a departure from her earlier work with John Cale and featured a mixture of rock and Middle Eastern arrangements. She recorded her final solo album, Camera Obscura, in 1985, with John Cale back as producer and The Faction (James Young and Graham Dids) an experimental collection that featured Nico's version of the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart song, "My Funny Valentine".
Nico lived in Salford, Greater Manchester, sharing a house with two college students (Steve Turley and Neil Henney and some chickens) from Sheffield, and later formed a 'domestic partnership' with John Cooper Clarke. She was a vegetarian.
A number of Nico's performances towards the end of her life were recorded and released, including 1982's Heroine, 1986's Behind the Iron Curtain, and her final concert, Fata Morgana, recorded on June 6, 1988.
Philippe Garrel films
Between 1970 and 1979, Nico made about seven films with French director Philippe Garrel. She met Garrel in 1969 and contributed the song "The Falconer" to his film, Le Lit de la Vierge. Soon after, she was living with Garrel and became a central figure in his cinematic and personal circles. Nico's first acting appearance with Garrel occurred in his 1972 film, La Cicatrice Intérieure. Nico also supplied the music for this film and collaborated closely with the director. She also appeared in the Garrel films Anathor (1972); the silent Jean Seberg biopic, Les Hautes Solitudes, released in 1974; Un ange passe (1975); Le Berceau de cristal (1976), starring Pierre Clementi, Nico and Anita Pallenberg; and Voyage au jardin des morts (1978). His 1991 film J'entends Plus la Guitare is dedicated to Nico.
For over fifteen years, Nico was a heroin addict. Biographer Richard Witts speculated that the habit was caused by her traumatic experiences of war and of being an illegitimate child.
In his book Songs They Never Play on the Radio, James Young, a member of her band in the 1980s, recalls many examples of Nico's fiendish behaviour due to the addiction. But just before her death, she had managed to kick the habit and had embarked on a regimen of exercise and healthy eating.
On July 18, 1988, while on holiday with her son in Ibiza, Spain, Nico had a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle, and hit her head as she fell. A passing taxi driver found her unconscious, and had difficulty getting her admitted to local hospitals. She was incorrectly diagnosed as suffering from exposure, and she died the next day. X-rays later revealed a severe cerebral hemorrhage as the cause of her death.
Nico was buried in her mother's plot in Grunewald Forest Cemetery in Berlin. A few friends played a tape of "Mütterlein", a song from Desertshore, at her funeral.
Just for a laugh I thought I'd flip this guy the right way up , lol.
He's at the peak of a 360 degree flip , the freestylers where a real treat to watch , don't forget the racers who where equally spectacular.
In EWS livery, 66030 was entering Bescot Yard Downside with the 12.00 Appleford Sidings to Milford West Sidings (6E11) on May 4th 2022. An image recorded from the platform at Bescot Stadium station.
I assume this building has stood at this location on the west side of the Euston approach for very many years - looking online at those Urbex websites, the inside of this building had become a forest despite being electrified inside. It was seemingly [part] wired for 25kV operations but fell out of use in the 1990s.
The associated Up Empty Carriage line was abandoned in 1999/2000 but the tunnel entrances to this line can just be made out today. This area will become HS2 or at least the approaches to London Euston of HS2 from c.2026.
For all you ceiling fans! A snapshot of part of the vaulted ceiling in Downside Abbey, Somerset, England
The evening walk around Stratton-on-the-Fosse on our first day staying in the village.
Checking out Downside Abbey after closing time, and just before sunset.
The Abbey Church of St Gregory the Great.
Grade I Listed Building
Abbey Church of St Gregory the Great, Downside Abbey
Description
In the entry for:
STRATTON-ON-THE-FOSSE FOSSE WAY
ST 65 SE (west side)
13/187
Abbey Church of St
Gregory The Great,
Downside Abbey and
School
GV
I
The address shall be amended to read:
ST 65 SE FOSSE WAY
5/187 (west side)
Abbey Church of St
Gregory The Great,
Downside Abbey
- I
and the description shall be amended to read
Abbey church and north cloister. Commenced 1873 and as yet unfinished (west front
and two bays of nave are missing). Main building periods 1872-82, c.1890, 1901-5,
1911-12, c.1923-25, 1938. Architects in date order, A M Dunn and E J Hansom,
Thomas Garner, F.A.Walters, Sir G.G.Scott. Interior fittings and furnishings by
the principal architects and Sir J N Comper. Bath stone ashlar with red plain
tile roofs, the east end chapels roofed very conspicuously in copper sheeting.
Abbey church consists of nave with blind aisles and gallery chapels to south over
north cloisters, by Sir G G Scott 1922-25 incorporating temporary west front, in
simplified early Perpendicular style. Transepts with chapels opened 1882 and base
of tower 1884, by A Dunn and E Hansom in early English style; tower finished 1938
by Scott in Somerset Perpendicular. Choir 1902-05 by Thomas Garner in early
Decorated style; east end, ambulatory and radiating chapels with large projecting
Lady Chapel opened 1888 by Dunn and Hansom in a French C13 style. Of the earliest
work by Dunn and Hansom the 2 bays transepts have a rose window to the north,
south transept with tower on south side; tower with much emphasised doorway and
with gabled canopy with figures; with Scott's addition it rises to about 166 ft,
corner buttresses, pinnacles, 3 tiers of 2-light bell-chamber windows. Eight bay
nave with triforium and clerestorey, pierced parapet, 2-light windows, rich
tracery, west end (unfinished) with triple lancets. Chancel of 7 bays, with tall
transomed clerestory windows, pierced parapets, flying buttresses, massive end
pinnacles, 3-light east window. Chapels at east end with much emphasis on
facetted roofs. Interior rib-vaulted in C13 French style; nave with tall
Perpendicular arcades; triforium in Decorated style; richly fitted and furnished
with much high quality work including altars, carvings, tombs, paintings and
stained glass; canopied tomb of Cardinal Gasquet (d.1929) by Sir G G Scott, effigy
by E Carter Preston. The Lady Chapel was decorated, glazed, paved and screened by
Comper.
'The most splendid demonstration of the renaissance of Roman Catholicism in
England' (Pevsner) it was built for a community of Benedictine monks, founded at
St Gregory's monastery at Douai in Flanders in 1607, house re-established in
England 1795, present estate purchased 1813.
References: Pevsner. Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol 1958 and
for full description of church: James, Dom Augustine. The Story of Downside Abbey
Church 1961. Fitzgerald-Lombard, Dom C.A guide to the Church of St Gregory the
Great Downside Abbey, 1981.
------------------------------------
STRATTON-ON-THE-FOSSE CP FOSSE WAY (West side)
ST65SE
13/187 Abbey Church of St. Gregory The
Great, Downside Abbey and School
-
GV I
Abbey Church, and north cloister. Work commenced 1872 and as yet unfinished, viz. west end of Abbey Church. For
community of Benedictine monks, founded at St Gregory's Monastery at Douai in northern France, 1601; house
re-established in England 1795, present estate purchased 1814. Bath and Doulting stones, lias; tile and copper sheeting
roofs. Abbey Church consists of nave with blind aisles and gallery chapels to south over north cloister, by Sir G G
Scott c1923-25 incorporating temporary west front, in simplified French Perpendicular style. Transepts with chapels and
base of tower c1882, by A Dunn and C Hansom in rich Early English style; tower finished 1938 by Scott in Somerset
Perpendicular. Chancel c1901-05 by Thomas Garner in Early Perpendicular style; east end, ambulatory and radiating
chapels with large projecting Lady Chapel c1890 by Dunn and Hansom in French Perpendicular style. Of the earliest work
by Dunn and Hansom the 2 bay transepts have a rose window to the north, south transept with tower on south side; tower
with much emphasised door opening, gabled canopy with figures; with Scott's addition it rises to about 160 m, corner
buttresses, pinnacles, 3 tiers of 2-light bell-chamber windows. Eight bay nave with triforium and clerestory, pierced
parapet, 2-light windows, rich tracery, west end with triple lancets. Chancel of 7 bays, with tall transomed clerestory
windows, pierced parapets, flying buttresses, massive end pinnacles, 3-light east window. Chapels at east end with much
emphasis on facetted roofs. Interior rib-vaulted in C13 French style; nave with tall Perpendicular arcades; triforium
in Decorated style; richly fitted and furnished with much high quality work including carvings, tombs, paintings and
stained glass; tomb and recess by Sir Ninian Compter. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol, 1958;
Fitzgerald-Lombard Dom C, A Guide to the Church of St Gregory the Great Downside Abbey, 1981).
Listing NGR: ST6550550832
In Luke chapter 2, Christ is brought to the Temple by his parents where he is presented to the Lord. This feast, which is kept today, 2 February is often called Candlemas because on this day candles, which will be used in church for the rest of the year, are blessed. This custom is inspired by the Canticle of Simeon, in which he calls Christ "a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for the glory of Israel".
This window is in Downside Abbey church.
Downside Motors, Chilcompton, Somerset, BA3 4EX, was a small Vauxhall retail dealer for many decades, founded in 1982. It lost the franchise in, I think, 2018 0r 2019, as Vauxhall sought to close up to a third of it dealers. These photos were taken soon after this, as it began a short period as a used Vauxhall specialist, before the garage closed completely. The site is now empty.
A FB page remains:
www.facebook.com/TheDownsideMotorCoLtd/
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Downside Abbey.
The Abbey of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, is a Benedictine monastery in England and the senior community of the English Benedictine Congregation. One of its main apostolates is the Downside School, for the education of children aged eleven to eighteen. Alumni of the school are known as Old Gregorians.
Both the abbey and the school are located at Stratton-on-the-Fosse between Westfield and Shepton Mallet in Somerset, South West England.
Downside Abbey has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described the Abbey as "the most splendid demonstration of the renaissance of Roman Catholicism in England"
Foundation and development.
The community was founded in 1605 at Douai in Flanders, then part the Spanish Netherlands, under the patronage of St Gregory the Great, (who had sent the monk, St Augustine of Canterbury, as head of a mission to England in 597). The founder was St John Roberts, who became the first prior and established the new community with other English monks who had entered various monasteries within the Spanish Benedictine Congregation, notably the principal monastery at Valladolid. In 1611 Dom Philippe de Caverel, abbot of St. Vaast's Abbey at Arras, built and endowed a monastery for the community.
The Priory of St. Gregory was therefore the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the Reformation. For nearly 200 years the monastery trained monks for the English mission and six of these men were beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1929. Two of them, Saints John Roberts and Ambrose Barlow, were among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970.
French troops invaded Flanders during the French Revolution. The monastic community was expelled by them, after a period of imprisonment, and in March 1795 the community was permitted to proceed to England. They settled for some 20 years as guests of Sir Edward Smythe at Acton Burnell, Shropshire, before finally settling at Mount Pleasant, Downside, in Somerset, in 1814.
The monastery was completed in 1876 and the abbey church in 1925, being raised to the rank of a minor basilica in 1935 by Pope Pius XI.
The building of Downside abbey church was begun in the 19th century, and ended with completion of the nave after World War I. The church houses the relics of St. Oliver Plunkett, archbishop of Armagh, Irish martyr, executed at Tyburn in 1681, who entrusted the disposal of his body to the care of a Benedictine monk of the English Benedictine Congregation. The church is one of only three in the United Kingdom to be designated a minor basilica by the Roman Catholic Church, the others being St. Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham and Corpus Christi Priory, Manchester.
The church is built in the Gothic Revival style, and is designed to rival in size the medieval cathedrals of England that were lost to the Catholic Church through the Reformation. The earliest part is the decorated transepts by Archibald Matthias Dunn and Edward Joseph Hansom, dating from 1882.[10] The choir is the work of Thomas Garner (who is buried there), dedicated in 1905. The nave by Giles Gilbert Scott (c. 1923-25) remains unfinished, with its western wall in crude Lias stone standing bare and undecorated.
The Lady chapel is acknowledged as one of the most complete and successful schemes of Sir Ninian Comper, with a reredos and altar furnishings incorporating medieval fragments and a reliquary containing the skull of St Thomas de Cantilupe. The tower, completed in 1938, at 166 feet (55 m), is the second highest in Somerset. The choir stalls are modeled on the stalls in Chester Cathedral.
The Abbey Cemetery, primarily a burial ground for the community, also contains two war graves of World War II, a Lieutenant of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and a Sub-Lieutenant of the Royal New Zealand Navy.
Downside Abbey church in Somerset is a minor basilica, and one of the finest Catholic churches in the country. The earliest part is the richly decorated transepts by Archibald Matthias Dunn and Edward Joseph Hansom, dating from 1882.