John Cale always seemed to give Nico a platform artistically when maybe many others had abandoned her. During her time in The Velvet Underground I’ve read that not many people appreciated her for her artistic abilities, and instead focused on her looks. But John Cale helped to produce her albums after she left and gave us Desertshore, The Marble Index, etc. I’m glad that they collaborated because otherwise we may not have had the opportunity to hear Nico’s solo writing.
Check out the Todd Haynes documentary. Cale talks about the challenges of writing for her because she... well monotone. So he fashioned a way to work her voice into the songs
I love John Cale; he always speaks well of his friend Nico and is humble. I love Nico too and wish she was still with us recording music or making movies.
I was lucky to be at this Brussels' concert with a double bill. John really at his top here! Nico forgot her lines on John's songs. It was a few months before she died on Ibiza.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I was at that concert and it will always be a wonderfull memory of a very special night. I am so lucky to have seen Nico perform live so short before her tragical death.
Where & when was the concert ,please. I John Cale (& Nico) in '85 & John was very overweight ( unusually it seems when taking coke it increased his appetite ) .... Is this a completely different backing group for Nico from 'the Faction' that did the 'Camera Obscura' lp & gigs ?
This video contains short extracts of the following songs: 0:13 Fearfully In Danger 1:12 A Child's Christmas In Wales 1:53 I'm Waiting For The Man 3:16 Darling I Need You 4:54 Heartbreak Hotel 6:11 Guts The first is a Nico song, and the remainder are John Cale's.
33 XVI people think methadone is a good thing but before the arrival of fentanyl, methadone killed more people than heroin including my brother who was in unbearable pain.
Excellent! I'd love to see the full concert, especially of Nico & Cale performing "A Child's Christmas In Wales". This version seems so well-done, whereas the versions I've heard from the late 70s are more uncertain.
this is a good joke, VU fans are probably too “cool” to appreciate it. I am VU fan, but I am also trying to be a better person. Have a nice day. Keep up the good work. Bye.
Songs broadcast Win A Few, A Child's Christmas In Wales, I'm Waiting For The Man, Darling I Need You, Heartbreak Hotel, Guts. It would be great to get it re-shown
We opened for John Cale back in another century in Athens, Georgia. I didn't realize how legendary he was at the time. In fact, I didn't know who he was at all. We were called "Poison" (we changed it to Dies Irae after that ridiculous hair band came out).
Does anyone have the full version of this particular concert? Nico's interpretation of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" with John Cale on piano is the best. Cale's interpretation of "Heartbreak Hotel" is also the best.
I had a dream about nico, in the dream she was the friend of my girlfriend and she was living a lone dieing from aids and I slept with her as her dieing wish. It was a very emotional dream. I woke up in 😢 tears. So powerful.
When Cale left the VU he was set free to engage in musical experimentation to whatever degree his heart desired, yet the solo albums I have heard from him do not realize this capacity any more exhaustively than did VU, and arguably even less so. (A deconstructed Elvis Presley song is hardly experimental.) Which recordings are where I can find Cale at his most experimental, outside of VU? Anybody?
From which Belgium television is this from? Maybe we can contact them (if they still exists) and ask them if the whole show was recorded? Which would be amazing.
I like the way you think! along with mister surrealist elsewhere here. This is a bit 'good news, bad news', Belgian tv in 88 would be like most places, 2 or 3 stations? Let's just hope someone from this production catches it and,....I'll light a candle (in hope).
Well he cut booze and drugs immediately from one day to the other in 1985, when his daughter Eden Cale was born. He didn't want to miss the best part of his life accompanying and watching her grow up.
Was this recorded around March '88 - when did Nico die ?? Hard to agree with John Cale that 'I heard her call my name' , 'sister ray' or 'lady Godivas operation" was 'bar music ...with a backbeat" !
Because they were breaking new ground, with Lou Reed's streetwise lyrics, addressing the darker sides of life such as sex and drugs and Rock&Roll. Sonically it was mainly John Cale's musicality by implementing classical and experimental elements into R&R. Together with Moe Tuckers tribal drumming and Sterling Morrison's interchangeable lead- and rhythm guitar with Lou Reed, the Velvets set the fundament for so many artists and bands to erect their own careers.
I like John Cale's realistic perspective of VU, probably the most overrated band in history. But that's not to say John Cale (who is still going strong at 80), Nico (who was not part of VU), and Lou aren't legends, but moreso for their solo work. This performance was 4 months prior to Christa Päffgen (Nico)'s death on Ibiza.
John Cale always seemed to give Nico a platform artistically when maybe many others had abandoned her. During her time in The Velvet Underground I’ve read that not many people appreciated her for her artistic abilities, and instead focused on her looks. But John Cale helped to produce her albums after she left and gave us Desertshore, The Marble Index, etc. I’m glad that they collaborated because otherwise we may not have had the opportunity to hear Nico’s solo writing.
Spot on, Nico with her songs and John Cale with his arrangements together laid the fundament for what was later to become Goth.
Check out the Todd Haynes documentary. Cale talks about the challenges of writing for her because she... well monotone. So he fashioned a way to work her voice into the songs
I love John Cale; he always speaks well of his friend Nico and is humble. I love Nico too and wish she was still with us recording music or making movies.
SWEET🐇🍓
I was lucky to be at this Brussels' concert with a double bill. John really at his top here! Nico forgot her lines on John's songs. It was a few months before she died on Ibiza.
She is still beautiful in this! And John Cale is still the man to this day! You can never have too much talent.
John was devoted to Nico. Bless both of them.
What an intelligent musician John is,a man of talent 👍🌈✌💖😘😎
Thank you so much for sharing this! I was at that concert and it will always be a wonderfull memory of a very special night. I am so lucky to have seen Nico perform live so short before her tragical death.
Where & when was the concert ,please.
I John Cale (& Nico) in '85 & John was very overweight ( unusually it seems when taking coke it increased his appetite ) ....
Is this a completely different backing group for Nico from 'the Faction' that did the 'Camera Obscura' lp & gigs ?
This video contains short extracts of the following songs:
0:13 Fearfully In Danger
1:12 A Child's Christmas In Wales
1:53 I'm Waiting For The Man
3:16 Darling I Need You
4:54 Heartbreak Hotel
6:11 Guts
The first is a Nico song, and the remainder are John Cale's.
I should have added that the second - although a Cale song - is here beautifully sung by Nico.
@@steveparsons6719 Also, Heartbreak Hotel is by Elvis Presley but it is beautifully re-imagined by John Cale.
Waiting for the man : Lou Reed, I believe
Une rareté, un grand merci.
I love NICO ♥
Nico singing from Cale’s Paris 1919! I wish we had more.
Agreed!!! We lost Nico far too soon. I think her and John could have gone on to do even more incredible work.
Nico era fantástica y John cale un gran musico
Glad to have seen John Cale in '86 I think it was..
Good.
Astonishing rare footage! Thank you. Nico looks and sounds great here.
She does look and sound good. I wonder if she was receiving methadone by this point, as she apparently was by the end of her life.
33 XVI people think methadone is a good thing but before the arrival of fentanyl, methadone killed more people than heroin including my brother who was in unbearable pain.
To think this was filmed 4 months before her death! ThanQ to whoever captured this extraordinary footage
Excellent! I'd love to see the full concert, especially of Nico & Cale performing "A Child's Christmas In Wales". This version seems so well-done, whereas the versions I've heard from the late 70s are more uncertain.
wonderful to see her look so good
Never, ever a more "German" rock singer than Nico. In a category of her own which she also created.
This is incredible! Thanks so much! Love it!
RIP Nico ...
The darkness is sometimes difficult to live ...
Queen of Darkness🖤🖤🖤
John Cale is so good they should call him John Cake
this is a good joke, VU fans are probably too “cool” to appreciate it. I am VU fan, but I am also trying to be a better person. Have a nice day. Keep up the good work. Bye.
Songs broadcast Win A Few, A Child's Christmas In Wales, I'm Waiting For The Man, Darling I Need You, Heartbreak Hotel, Guts. It would be great to get it re-shown
Thanks so much for sharing this rare footage!
We opened for John Cale back in another century in Athens, Georgia. I didn't realize how legendary he was at the time. In fact, I didn't know who he was at all. We were called "Poison" (we changed it to Dies Irae after that ridiculous hair band came out).
Love Nico and John. Cale is an incredible artist. 🍌 ❤
“All velvet underground was doing was breaking amplifiers” - too good
Does anyone have the full version of this particular concert? Nico's interpretation of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" with John Cale on piano is the best. Cale's interpretation of "Heartbreak Hotel" is also the best.
3 months later, Christa died on Ibiza
I had a dream about nico, in the dream she was the friend of my girlfriend and she was living a lone dieing from aids and I slept with her as her dieing wish. It was a very emotional dream. I woke up in 😢 tears. So powerful.
great Nico!!
Strange comment regarding 'White Light/White Heat.' One of the best albums ever....
When Cale left the VU he was set free to engage in musical experimentation to whatever degree his heart desired, yet the solo albums I have heard from him do not realize this capacity any more exhaustively than did VU, and arguably even less so. (A deconstructed Elvis Presley song is hardly experimental.) Which recordings are where I can find Cale at his most experimental, outside of VU? Anybody?
From which Belgium television is this from? Maybe we can contact them (if they still exists) and ask them if the whole show was recorded? Which would be amazing.
I like the way you think! along with mister surrealist elsewhere here. This is a bit 'good news, bad news', Belgian tv in 88 would be like most places, 2 or 3 stations? Let's just hope someone from this production catches it and,....I'll light a candle (in hope).
From which is it from?
its cargo de nuit rtbf bruxelles belguim
@@stevenbaker7696 its cargo de nuit rtbf brussels belguim
Great footage, but he was doing "solo" gigs well before this as it's all caught on tape, just this time he's clearly sober.
Well he cut booze and drugs immediately from one day to the other in 1985, when his daughter Eden Cale was born. He didn't want to miss the best part of his life accompanying and watching her grow up.
Was this recorded around March '88 - when did Nico die ??
Hard to agree with John Cale that 'I heard her call my name' , 'sister ray' or 'lady Godivas operation" was 'bar music ...with a backbeat" !
Man, Cale was harsh
@JM Cooper yes what does that even mean .
"Man"
Why is Velvet Underground so well regarded?
Because they were breaking new ground, with Lou Reed's streetwise lyrics, addressing the darker sides of life such as sex and drugs and Rock&Roll. Sonically it was mainly John Cale's musicality by implementing classical and experimental elements into R&R. Together with Moe Tuckers tribal drumming and Sterling Morrison's interchangeable lead- and rhythm guitar with Lou Reed, the Velvets set the fundament for so many artists and bands to erect their own careers.
Very drugs.
I like John Cale's realistic perspective of VU, probably the most overrated band in history. But that's not to say John Cale (who is still going strong at 80), Nico (who was not part of VU), and Lou aren't legends, but moreso for their solo work. This performance was 4 months prior to Christa Päffgen (Nico)'s death on Ibiza.