Nico: The beautiful fall

There was a post about Nico from the Velvet Underground on The Impossible Cool, which was a coincidence since she had just been mentioned in the Peter Hook I was reading - The Hacienda: How not to run a club.

For such an icon of our times it's odd that she ended up as a heroin addict in Salford in the eighties. That's what happens when a wild child doesn't know when to stop I guess.

Peter Hook summed it up quite well when he said: "It's hardly surprising she was grumpy - she'd gone from Jim Morrison in LA to a bedsit in Prestwich."

But there were the glory days - probably around the time this picture was taken by Mark Shaw.

Nice room, too.

You can find more shots here.

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