In the Tenderloin here in S.F., across the street from one of the numerous
porn emporiums, someone in giant letters painted, "Auf wiedersein, Nico!"
Have Dennis, Doug, or other VU & Nico fans read the book, "Nico, The End, "
by James Young? Supposed to be wickedly funny.
www.bn.com (Though if y'all order online, www.powells.com
they are unionized, ILWU. )
>From Robert Potts - The Times Literary Supplement
{This account} is highly entertaining; a trail of mismanagement and chaos,
punctuated by grotesque cameos and alarming squalor. To this extent, Young's
memoir is a healthy corrective to many books on rock music with their stock
formula of Bildungsroman and meteoric rise to stardom. Nico was peripheral
to the scene, . . . and Young never fails to emphasize that he and his
fellow musicians were peripheral to her. Nico remains an icon for some. . .
. But Young portrays a woman whose only concern was her next fix, who rarely
washed, ate only chocolate and who slowly ran out of veins. The memoir is
not unsympathetic, though. . . . Nico had retained some talent; idleness
prevented her from capitalizing on it. Instead, she surrounded herself with
a supporting cast which guarantees the book's humour, together with
appearances by the performance poet John Cooper Clarke, Allen Ginsberg and
the singer John Cale.
BTW, that book on Eisenhower is by Blanche Weisen Cook, "The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy of Peace & Int'l. Warfare." Here is a URL for a RHR symposium with a contribution by Cook. http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/reilly.htm Michael Pugliese