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�I�ve stopped my dreaming, I won�t do too much scheming these days��
From Andy Warhol’s muse to rock icon, Nico has certainly left her mark in the rock genre. With her influential 1967 album, Chelsea Girl being many �60s music lovers’ favourite from the era. The album featured songs written by some of the greats – Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and Tim Hardin.
Nico is well-known for featuring on The Velvet Underground’s debut album, her eerie yet soothing voice captivated listeners from around the world. John Cale described her as �like a rock. She didn�t move up there. It all came through the voice.�
My favourite song from Chelsea Girl is These Days. It is a hypnotic, poetic song that is equally soothing as it is unsettling. The melancholic lyrics like �please don’t confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them,� matched with her breathy voice tranquilises the listener into an uneasy and introspective state.
These Days was written by Jackson Browne, who was just a teenager at the time, and he plays the unique guitar parts of the song.
This song is timeless. It was featured in Wes Anderson�s Royal Tenenbaums film, which brought a modern twist to the song.
Nico lived a diverse life of success and failure. Learning about her life as a Berlin model in war-torn Germany, being a young mother at the age of 24 to a Parisian actor and an iconic face found in Warhol�s world in the 60s with taints of drug abuse and a young death at the age of 49. It makes her music come to life, and for the listener to understand her songs.
