At a tribute to Nico two years ago, Patti Smith sang “I Will Be Seven,” one of the last songs that the Velvet Underground associate wrote. The performance, streaming below, also featured Smith’s ...
In the spring of 1978, my friend, the writer Kurt Loder, and I saw a then-rare New York club show by Nico, the arctic chanteuse of the Velvet Underground, at the club Reno Sweeney’s. She was not the ...