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| Title: | Nico Život A Lži Jedné Legendy |
| Author: | Richard Witts |
| Czech Translator: | Zuzana Zámečničková |
| ISBN: | 80-85619-80-6 |
| Format: | Hardback, First Edition |
| Pages: | 397 |
| Publisher: | Votobia, Lezecká 70a, 772 00 Olomouc, Praha, Czechoslovakia |
| Publishing Date: | 1994-00-00 |
| Liner Notes: | As the cover girl of the fifties, the Siren of the sixties, the Moon Goddess of the seventies and the
eighties' High Priestress of Punk, Nico drifted through society like a phantom. All her life she fought against
the idolatry of men to assert her independence as a performer, first with The Velvet Underground and then
in her own right, and as a composer of dissident songs. Her Garboesque veneer disguised a lonely woman
attempting to stand autonomous in a fast-changing world and to cope with her tormented mother and her troubled
son, his existence denied by his film star father. This extraordinary biography, which Nico asked Richard Witts to write shortly before her death, uncovers the reasons for her subterfuge. Exclusive contributions from David Bailey, Jackson Browne, John Cale, Fellini, Iggy Pop, Siouxsie Sioux, Viva and others — friends, relatives and enemies — make this definitive account of a woman whose influence on popular music and style is only now acknowledged. |
| Original English Edition: | The Life & Lies of an Icon |
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