IN PETER DOGGETT’s exemplary linernotes to these reissues, he quotes an interview Nico gave shortly before her death in 1988, aged 49, where she explains her desire to make “archaic music… music you ...

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Domino Recording Company has announced physical reissues of Nico’s second and third solo albums, 1968’s The Marble Index and 1970’s Desertshore. Both albums, long out of print, will be released on ...

One can only imagine what it was like hearing Nico’s sophomore album, The Marble Index, in 1968, given how different it was, and still is, from anything else in the “pop” music landscape. It also ...

UK label Domino is reissuing two of Nico’s best-loved early records, The Marble Index and Desertshore. Both albums have been newly remastered from their original tapes for a new CD and vinyl release ...

An out-of-tune harmonium, a collection of Wordsworth poems, a soupçon of heroin... and four days to make a masterpiece. Twenty-five years after Nico’s death, arranger John Cale, among others, recalls ...

Although most famous for fronting the first Velvet Underground album, Nico was actually central to every key cultural movement from the 1950s onwards. First she was an in-demand model, then in the ...

This 2xCD release combines 1968's The Marble Index and 1970's Desertshore, appending 18 alternate versions to the pair's original 16 songs. Save this story Save this story Four decades after its ...

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