Nico Before The Velvet Underground | Relationship with Brian Jones
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2021
- Mini-documentary about Nico's relationship with Brian Jones. Nico moved to London in 1965, where she met the Stones and recorded a single for Immediate Records, which was Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Oldham's record label. Both Brian Jones and Jimmy Page played guitar on the single. It featured the song "I'm Not Saying" on the A-side and "The Last Mile" on the B-side. Nico's love affair with Brian lasted three months but they remained friends after it ended. Brian Jones took Nico to Andy Warhol's Factory in 1965 and their last public appearance together was at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
P.S. It's not Nico's real voice in the video but they're all real quotes from Nico. Things she said in interviews, etc...
Hope you dig it!
It’s always nice to hear new things about Brian Jones, Rockstar Legend
Read Brian Jones the Making of the Rolling Stones by Paul Trynka
Nice? Nico describes him as a dark and disturbed individual.
@@ROOKTABULA weren't they all??
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Nico was the real crazed psycho ! She took her son Ari to parties in New York where drugs lay absentmindedly on tables. Ari was eventually raised by Delon's mother, but when he returned to Nico at age 19, she introduced him to heroin, even sharing syringes with him. Nico's friend Danny Fields, the American journalist who helped her sign to Elektra Records, described her as "Nazi-esque", saying: "Every once in a while there'd be something about Jews and I'd be, 'But Nico, I'm Jewish,' and she was like 'Yes, yes, I don't mean you. According to Fields, in the early 1970s, Nico attacked a mixed-race woman at the Chelsea Hotel with a smashed wine glass, sticking it in her eye while saying, "I hate black people . Brian Jones seemed an Angel compared to Nico ! Now who is really disturbed ?
@@ROOKTABULALike herself, I suppose......... Fact is, Jones wasn't the misunderstood guy, as whom he often is described. He used to beat women, stole money, whereever he could, was totally confused by his uncontrolled drug consumption and nothing but a sonofabitch. True is his enormous talent as a musician, and he doubtlessly was the real founder of the Stones. But nothing else.
Nico is legend. Meeting Brian thats a mind bender. Both out there.
i played with Nico on tour the 2 years before she died, the voice over is horrible , Nico had an amazing speaking voice, definitely not this German cliche
i agree. The fake Nico voice is embarrassing.
I think that is her actual voice, as interviewed.
Were you portrayed in the recent Nico 1988 movie?
Back in the day, when young people were creative, rebelious, interesting and smart. Today, they're just young.
Young and irretrievably hypnotized by smartphones with creative urges close to zilch.
Poor Nico. I don't think she ever really found her place in the Industry. Seem like she was pretty strung out in the last part of her life.
ironically she was pretty straight for most of the 60s, i think she got into dope in the early 70s
Nico’s re-invention of herself from the Marble Index on was one of the most extraordinary creations of the era. There was never anyone on earth to compare her with musically and as a personality. Her sense of style was purely her singular invention and her utterly unique music and singing and choice of the harmonium as her instrument remains legendary. I had the good fortune to see her perform at a tiny bar in Chicago called Gaspars. Around 1980 or ‘81. She was kind of supporting the Drama of Exile album. Don’t think it was out yet and in the end it got rocked up with the harmonium almost completely pushed aside. For this show she played only with a guitar player who played a strange, modern art style guitar called a Gittlar or something close to that. The show was the strangest I’ve ever seen. At a certain point there was the strangest voice somehow coming through the guitarist’s amp via radio waves and it was really throwing Nico’s concentration. It kept coming on like some Martian addressing Earthlings and it was preventing her from being able to launch into the next song. They finally figured out it was coming from the guitarist’s amp so they turned it off and Nico finished the show solo. That solo performance with just her voice and harmonium was extraordinarily powerful. The songs from Drama of Exile were so much better played this way than on the upcoming album. Especially Henry Hudson and Purple Lips. She played the best version of The End I’ve ever heard. Also Deutschland Uber Alles. It was a night to remember. Gaspars was small and the performance room was tiny. It had a beautiful intimacy unlike a larger venue. At one point there was a lull in the action and a conversation began with Nico and some people in the audience who had seen an obscure film of hers and wanted to ask a few questions about it. I don’t remember the title but Nico was amazed that anyone had seen it. She was real nice in this interlude and it was yet another unique moment in this unforgettable concert.
Great story, thanks for sharing. Nico was definitely one of the most unique and interesting women of the 60s.
The music on The Marble Index, Desertshore and The End were all arranged by John Cale which means that apart from Nico's harmonium he composed and played all other instruments on the former two lps. These recordings were actually a collaboration between Nico and John Cale.
Nico was something, at least in a small way, like a female Klaus Kinski (Or vise/versa.) I think the war affected both of them. Nico was a small child, Klaus was actually conscripted. "I know the Devil, and the Devil is German". Ouch. It must have been a strange time as a young German during the sixties. The guilt and ptsd many of them had. This a wonderful channel. Please keep it up.
@@lotharroberts5978 Thank you very much.
@@lotharroberts5978 Dee Dee Ramone felt weird being German too he was born shortly after ww2
Always thought Nico and Francoise Hardy were the two most fascinating - and of course most beautiful - women of the 1960s. They transcend their era in all aspects.
Nico and Brian looked so good together. It's a shame they couldn't keep it together. Well, then again, Brian was an incendiary when it came to the pretties (lucky guy). Brilliant artists are often a "difficult" lot. Drugs didn't help either. Love to Nico and Brian.
with the strength of the LSD at that time - compared to now - it amazes me that that any of the musicians of that era even made it into the 1970s
@@julianciahaconsulting8663 no prob, man. Orange Sunshine had 250 microgram, just the best. Clean acid did not make a horror trip, you just had to eat some chocolate with it.
That picture of Dennis Hopper beside Nico is really iconic..
Yeah, it doesn't get more iconic than that. Three icons of the 60s together in one picture.
Agree ,it's always handy though to indicate the timeline at 9:54 ...... some might've blinked.
Where?
My friend frm college, Victoria, was married to Dennis. His last wife before he passed.
She had a German accent, but this voice-over is over the top.
I saw nico with harmonium in Hyde park,summer ‘74.mesmerising.
When Brian Jones visited the factory the velvet’s were reported to have had discussion about what to say to him.
It went along line “you’re with Vox,have you tried their keyboard guitar?’
‘Yes’ ‘does it work?’ ‘No’.
I used to see Nico with the Velvet Underground at an old semi abandoned hotel near Sag Harbor, NY around 1969-70. She looked good at night but I never saw her in the day. She was probably sleeping.
Velvets were one of the greatest. Nico was part of it.
No not one of the Greatest. The Greatest direct behind the Beatles and maybe eye to eye with Kraftwerk.
i like her songs the best all tomorrow s parties, femme fatale, i'll be your mirror and the song i like most with lou reed singing is sunday morning
Nico, with the great John Cale as her producer, was fantastic. Some great dark albums. Wasn't her song Janitor Of Lunacy about Brian Jones? And what a collection of footage this has been! Good stuff.
yep, it was about brian. haunting
Its impossible not to notice nico...sad she left us so soon
in the background of a pic of brian and nico at the monterey pop festival you can see a bearded dennis hopper
Absolutely fabulous footage and stills of Nico!...Wonderful!
Loving the Nico accent 😂
Pretty close to the real thing. She got around. She even went to Iggys commune in Ann Arbor during her fling with the Igg-master. Not to mention half of the Velvet Underground.
A lot of work went into sourcing photos & video for this. Well researched!
Great vid; many thanks. The story of two troubled but talented bombshells.
Aftewards she had a thing with Jim Morrison. Amazing how she was able to meet up with some of the biggest celebrities and artists of the 60s: Fellini, the Stones, Dylan, the Velvet Underground, Jim Morrison, Andy Warhol and later she also had Iggy Pop in a video from her The Marble Index album. Nevertheless she clearly had more to her than good looks and an amazing capacity of meeting famous people. She sang in one of the most influential rock albums of all time (the Velvet Underground and Nico) and with the Marble Index she more or less invented goth music in the middle of psychedelia in 1968. In it she incorporated what she learned both with VU and with Jim Morrison into something really innovative artistically but of course too ahead of its time to be widely recognized
And Jimmy Page!
Alain Delon.
The “thing” with Jim Morrison never happened.
He was on acid and freaked her out and made her cry. See Danny Fields doc
@@Squirt69 I saw the Danny Field ( great doc) actually that was an episode. They spent a whole month together in the West Coast and met again later in NY when the Doors played there at Steve Paul’s Scene
Her lp trilogy was produced and arranged by John Cale, who would write and play all other instruments apart from Nico's harmonium. Together they paved the way for bands such as Siouxsie And The Banshees, Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Birthday Party, Swans, Dead Can Dance etc.
It is amazing that there have always been these creative "scenes" where some new art appears, and no one person is responsible. French Impressionists, Bloomsbury, San Francisco Sixties, Seattle Grunge, Motown, Muscle Shoals, NYC jazz etc, etc.
Notice they don't exist anymore??? 😔
@@randalclarke5487 I wonder why? Could it be...?
Nice summary of various movements. For those claiming these don't exist anymore, a lot of times we don't know about some of these enclaves of creativity until years later. The London new jazz scene of the last 6 years or so I would argue is one of these as well.
The London jazz scene? Fill me in please....
Another one was the NYC Punk/New Wave scene.
By their very nature these scenes need to stay semi-underground. As soon as they're identified and labeled they seem to fade quickly.
Videos like this are almost better than reading a music biography! 👍
Great piece! One of your best.
Thanks!
Nico had something in her voice that i just love, something that i feel in my depths. i am no expert on her but i have always heard she had been through some very bad things in her early life, and sadly she never escaped her demons. i completely understand why The Velvet Underground were always bitter towards her as they did not want her and she was not part of their band, but her presence brought so much to that first album and it is an all time classic. sadly she is sort of the perfect example of the old concept that money cant buy happiness or something similar to that. she lived a life through that period that many would envy, meeting and mingling with all these names and icons but she never truly seemed content.
Great doc. Thank you.
Great video..very well done!
Interesting mash-up of "Venus In Furs" and "Playing With Fire"
Good morning thank you for sharing 💕 great video 😊❤️
Really good video, lots I didn't know!
And I'm digging the faux Venus In Furs with mellotron!
This is really interesting and entertaining. The incessant background music sound a little too 50s-ish but there are some great pictures of Brian Jones and the VU. Loved it!
This was a great video. Your selection of imagery was top notch. So many great pics and film clips I had never seen before. I also loved your Bee Gees 1st video. That album was a major fave of mine at the time and still is. Just discovered your channel tonight and subscribed. 🌚
Thank you very much, soaromor! Glad you enjoy the videos and thanks for subscribing.
Wow this stuff is revalatory! I love it!
8:20 String arrangement of the Stones' Play With Fire in the background.
Brilliant stuff!
"Very blonde and pretty.
I HATED HER!!!"
🤣🤣🤣
when she got old she got fat, and had rotten teeth.
2:16 ZouZou actually did a modelling photoshoot with Anita Pallenberg and Keith Richards. Also, Anita Pallenberg and Nico both didn't get along as they would argue about who arrived in New York first.
Interesting. I didn't know that. I actually just searched Google looking for some pics from that photoshoot you mention and I came across two very cool pics from that session. There are also some pics out there of Anita Pallenberg with Warhol and his entourage from around 1966/67. ZouZou recorded some very fine songs in the 60s. They're worth checking out. This is one of my favourites: ua-cam.com/video/SGy5axTNCrI/v-deo.html
@@YesterdaysPapers these pictures of Keith, Zouzou and Anita (if these are the ones I’m thinking of) were taken by Jean-Marie Périer, a famous French photographer from the 60s. He was hanging out with a lot of rock stars and has an interesting history of his own: his biological father was Henri Salvador but he only learned about it in his teens: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Périer. Sorry for rambling, great video!
@@OnBleeckerStreet Yeah, I think you're right. Jean-Marie Périer was the photographer.
Everybody's hustlin' just to have a little scene...talk about petty hipster nitpicking, who arrived in NYC first.
i don't know who was tougher Nico or Anita? lol
An interesting mini-doc on Nico, although there's no mention of Jackson Browne. They had a thing for a while, and Browne contributed songs and acoustic guitar to Nico's debut album "Chelsea Girl", including "These Days".
Brian passed in July !969, not June.
I saw Nico at the Neptune Theatre in Liverpool in 1985 or 6 she was in the bill with John Cooper Clarke who she was staying with in Manchester it was a good gig and she played her harmonium and sang her songs from the velvet underground and Nico and her solo albums Chelsea girls and the marble index, at the end she told story of how she started dying her hair dark and wearing black clothes on hearing of the death of her true love ..Jim Morrison ,check out her haunting version of the Doors classic 😎
Excellent video 👍
Thanks!
Brian introduced Nico to Andy Warhol
Warhol was a dangerous man to meet, Ed Sedgwick, J.M Basquiat, Nico... and certainly few others.
@@MethildeI think you mean “Edie Sedgwick,” who was another person Andy Warhol used and abused.
Yes, exactly :)
Great stuff. All of these mini-docus are fascinating and contain all sorts of odd and interesting facts I never knew about.
Nico was gorgeous. What a Cool chic. I didn't know she was with Brian. I knew she loved her alcohol & eventually dug The Doors ...Having a affair with Jim Morrison.
She reminds me of Anita Pallenberg ( not surprised with that,all the drugs ,witchy things going on)
Some of The Velvet Underground stuff was pretty cool)RIP Brian Jones 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🔮
Brian Jones stares at you and you’re probably pregnant by the end of the hour.
Hahaha!
Even you're a man!
So ya think your sneaky- playing " Play With Fire" around 9 minute mark? There is alot of info in here for 11 minutes. Great mini documentary!
The Velvet Underground is only a small part of Nico’s story, she got around a lot in Europe with her modeling and film work before her first single was released. And then after “Chelsea Girls” - the film and the album - she made 3 outstanding albums of her own unique songs. John Cale always supported her in her work right to the end and afterwards has always promoted her work. Only now, over 30 years after her death is she being seen for what she was - an artist. There is a new book out that has got great reviews about Nico’s life and career, can’t wait to read it.
Great video by the way.
*Underground
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Thank you
Jackson Browne, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Dylan, Iggy Pop.... she knew how to pick em, eh?
Great. That fills in some gaps for me
Amazing how everyone was intertwined back then
Great video, fascinating. What is the background music?? The track at 8.19 sounds like a version of Venus in Furs?
Me too ,was lucky enouugh to see her in London alternating between harmonium and a 3 piece band from one sing to the next. Twas fun and interesting too.
Fascinating, I had no idea of her history?
Both Judy Collins & Joan Baez each claim that Dylan wrote “ I’ll keep it with mine” for each of them. He worked that song didn’t he!
Fantastic.
Thank you.
love this channel but this episode was like a gossip paper, I just dig music.
Wow, surprise, I just saw myself in this video (at 8:23) the colour shot.with me & Nico, Trafalgar Square.
Wow, that's cool! Were you a friend of Nico?
@@YesterdaysPapers not at all, just a modelling job through my agent, for New Yorker Magazine, spent the whole day together at different locales.
@@emmetthennessy9962 Cool. How was she personally? Are there any interesting stories you remember about that day?
@@YesterdaysPapers sad to report she was very sour and unfriendly, hardly spoke and when she there was a hint of sarcasm, the picture is a nice memento though for me to keep.
Nico was all over the place. Never knew Brian almost fathered yet another child. Did he really play guitar on her single with Jimmy Page. I’ve read conflicting stories. Brian had all the best looking women in the 60’s.
He definitely had good taste. Zouzou was also stunning and very talented. She recorded some fine records in the 60s.
Iggy pop said he was with Nico also, I don't know if I always believe Iggy or Anthony Kiedis for that matter they always claim to be with every pretty woman in music that you can think of lol
@@leahflower9924 no oil painting either....
@@leahflower9924 Iggy was a peacock when in character, of course. He's real grounded and real when in private and with fans. I had a chance to meet him after a show touring 'Post Pop Depression'. We were introduced by my mom's maintenance guy who somehow still kept in touch after his high school band opened for him during Zombie Birdhouse-era (1982-83ish). We bonded over philosophy and art (people like Duchamp, Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Tzara, Schwitters, and Ball) and exchanged recommendations of bands. Met him again in 2018 while on vacation in Miami & promptly picked up where we left off. An honest, intelligent person in his old age. Truly a Renaissance man.
Kiedis however is Iggy's alter ego but if that alter ego was all to his personality.
...if Nico would had that baby of Brian Jones. It must had been a beautiful child.
Uh, his name is Gerard Malanga. Not Gerald.
Who does the background music? Really enjoy your channel!
Technically I'm Not Sayin is not NICO's debut. She contributed to a 1963 soundtrack and Bobby Graham played on an unreleased EP for Barclay Records. One song was a Joan Baez number. Source: CD booklet BOBBY GRAHAM Crazy Drums/Crazy Drummer as told to Kieron Tyler. It was all in French and recorded in London. Thanx!!! I was unaware Brian Jones was on the Immediate single. Which song????
Nico got pregnant by Brian Jones - I never heard that before. He had children to 5 different women. The only woman he is reported to have actually loved was Anita Pallenberg who left him for Keith Richards.
He stayed in the band after she left him for Keith so it’s hard to think he was really in love with her. It hurt his ego more then anything. According to all reports he wasn’t a good person
From what I've only read written on Brian Jones is that he got a lot of foolish girls pregnant. I'm sure many also got abortions too. Brain certainly exploited girls and young women. Becoming an alcoholic and drug addict didn't help. It was the times.
Lots of statutory rape in the 60s and 70s. Too much "free love" and no boundaries.
Nico had a son Ari with French actor Alain Delon.
Nico had an affair with French actor Alain Delon and, on 11 August 1962,
gave birth to their son, Christian Aaron Boulogne, whom she called Ari.
Yes and her child Robert Psn
@@GOLDENFLYWARRIOR Honey Brian John only love with Olivia New tonjohn. But often make up face Becouse Brian Jonh as dr. Sugrical . Thanks'lot.
Decadence and substance abuse aside, I gotta admit those two together looked like the height of 60s cool.
What is that 'Play With Fire' instrumental playing in the background?
that 'playing with fire' in the background...hypnotic... is it yours?
Yep.
@@YesterdaysPapers subtle, unobtrusive, and very good.
@@sleethmitchell Thank you very much! Glad you liked it.
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Congrats.
Is it available anywhere?
Thx
We get the picture not of a major talent but of a person with attractive looks who knew how to take advantage of opportunities.
Philistine :(
Bullshit... she was a complete bohemian artist and people came to HER, to record, promote, etc. She was offered a major label deals with Elektra, Reprise and Island, with each label knowing they'd eat the costs.
So is Jones and Page on both sides of the single?? Happy New Year everybody. ( good job " Play With Fire")ps actually Nico and Jones were seen in public at Monterey Pop Festival June 1967. It's on film
Really Interesting
I knew the Stones had to be cool when my parents banned their music from being played in the house.
Then they relented and said I could play the Stones as long as I didn't play Black Sabbath. Then they said Black Sabbath was alright as long as I didn't experiment with marijuana. I'm just smoking it. I'm not doing any experiments.
Nico was a huge personality, indeed. Being a magnificent model girl at the same time, she maybe didn’t fully get all the attention she would deserve.
Or more than.Looks can get you away with murder
Learn something new ! Nico and Brian Jones were at Monterey with Brian introducing Jimmy Hendrix ! WOW!
learn something new on U Tube , and I'm 64 years young !
Notice Dennis Hopper in the background next to Judy Collins at 9:54.
Wow. Epic.
Who's doing the cover of Play With Fire in this clip? Sounds like Velvet Underground but I have searched/shazamed with no result. I would love to get my hands on it so if anyone knows please reply to my comment!
its the video maker himself I think
Very interesting documentary, nevertheless: Brian died on 3rd of july 1969, not in june.
Interesting info . Brian Jones , this iconic character with the world at his feet. His prescription drugs (downers) intake only worsened his situation.
Although it's understandable he sought refuge in them ,the way he was hounded by corrupt London police ,starting '67.
Ironically "the summer of love" when his disintegration started. Is this actually Nico's voice here telling her story ?
It's not Nico's real voice but they're all real quotes from Nico. Things she said in interviews, etc...
@@YesterdaysPapers It does sound like her!
@@sciflyernineteensixtynine6950 nope.
Everyone took Owsley's Monterey Purple at Monterey Pop ...
and later Orange Sunshine from the Eternal Brotherhood of Love.
Wow so so interesting
She was a great singer...pretty cool lady
What is the version of Play with fire in the video?
Love Brian,. Just don't like the stories of him laying into women
they laid into him
@@aryalogo6624 please xplain,first c I heard this.he could be sweet or a drunk alcohol ic
when they went to that festival he looked fancier than nico lol
It wasn’t and isn’t uncommon. Brian Jones was only one of many and his former friends has used it against him to dishonor him greatly.
@@skummelkatt I just learned that the Stooges and GG Allin looked up to Stones and Brian specifically lol
She got Brian's striped suit on...what great interesting info
She was gorgeous.
Always curious how these people got the funds to jet here and there. I understand the Stones were on a tear, but was Nico independently wealthy, or sucking off of Brian.
Erratum: 6:15-6:20 Clapton and Page in Yardbirds, not the Stones.
I think you misunderstood what is said in the video. It said that "The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page attended the party" not that "The Rolling Stones' Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page attended the party".
What's the music in the second half? Sounds like a cover of Play with fire.
Seems to me a mix of Play with Fire and Venus in fu
I mean Venus in fur from the VU.
@@elliottferris5929 That's exactly what it is. I recorded the background music for the video and that was my intention: A song that sounded like a mix between Play With Fire and Venus in Furs. I thought it'd be quite fitting for the video.
@@YesterdaysPapers wow. You should make a music video just for the track.
Brian died July 3, 1969.
Morrison died two years later on the same day.Brian is buried a mile from where I live,his grave seems too small somehow..
One can see how Jagger and Richards especially were jealous of Jones even though they were already set up to get most of the money though none of their songs were that good without Brian and also Stus magic worked on them.
9:54 Frank from Blue Velvet stares at you from the past
Yessss!
great video but I'm sorry to say the loop of the Sunday Morning fragment is really annoying.
There's always someone around you who will call. It's nothing at all
🙃This is very inresting must of had a thousand stories to tell in her life mixing with music biggest stars🎙🎹👱♀️NICO One of the most important solo female MUSICIAN artist of the sixties seventies and her stand alone albums speak for them selves .
With quite a bit of help from John Cale.
How cool and beautiful were those people? My God..
Would love some of those square shades
"There was no Brian Jones on the Nico cut. He was a presence in her life, not in the studio." - Andrew Loog Oldham.
Brian went for those stern looking women. Nico and Anita.
that's the one thing i respect about him lol
Advanced types for their age that knew how to hook a rocker.
Anita will always be the best looking woman i’ve ever seen
You can put subtitles in spanish? pleaseeee❤🎶
Amazing woman
I knew the devil, and the devil was German...Nico.
He was so.beaitiful