"She was almost proud of the fact that her teeth were rotten, that her hair was grey...her skin was bad, she had needle tracks all over. She liked that. That was her aesthetic."
The above quote, attributed to James Young - Nico's keyboard player from 1981-86 - summarizes the often harrowing watch that is filmmaker Susanne Ofteringer's 1995 documentary, Nico Icon. It was Young who penned the fascinating on-the road-with-Nico . . .
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