Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio

Synopsis of Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio

«Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio» is the biography of Nico written by James Young (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback, 224 pages, in English).

James Young, Nico's keyboardist in her final years, portrays the singer, model and actress of The Velvet Underground eking out a living in Manchester and sunk in heroin. The book follows her chaotic tours across Europe, the United States and Japan with improvised bands, with encounters with John Cale, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, until her death in 1988.

The book was originally published in 1992 as «Nico: The End»; this Bloomsbury edition appeared in 1999.

It will appeal to followers of Nico's and The Velvet Underground's music and to readers of music biographies.