Nico - Heroes - (Live at the Warehouse, Preston, UK, 1982)
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An Underground Experience is a seedy documentation of one of the most important icons of subculture. She is caught on suitably grainy video footage doing what she did best, performing in an underground club. Shot in the early 80's with punk rock as an audience the film is hardly stunning, yet this somehow enhances its authenticity. Nico's presence is both powerful and at times moving especially during the interview section.
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Nico doing Heroes in this most vacuous, souless, echoic & frighteningly hopeless tonal poem...is beautiful & haunting! I mean this in the best possible way!
She looks scary as hell. Smacked out of her mind.
Maybe best cover ever made. Live!
She lived in Berlin... so yeah wow for her.
I just love you what ever .., from Denmark .
She seen the world Berlin fall,,she knows what the record is about..
End of the world.
I adore Bowie and Heroes and adore Nico, can't believe I only see this miracle now.
Why do adore her? She's (was) just a junky meat puppet.
I hope that audience appreciates just how lucky they have been.
leitros hi
So true! She just glows.
This show is my favorite recorded Nico live show Ive heard. HEr bad was not given enough credit but these show was tight. NIco was amazing.
Oh my, I was at this show. Totally amazing gig. Nico was out of it as can be seen here.
WISH I WAS THERE@@crapitoutjim
Amazing to think she lived in the twentieth century. Like an oracle, she seemed a conduit, as if her music and words came from an ancient, unseen source.
That's right ‼️🎶💃🏼🎶 Dreams out of another world❣️🙋🏽♀️🕉️
Et qu'elle est rencontrer delon??c'est hallucinant !!!!
Remembering Nico (born Christa Päffgen; 16 October 1938 - 18 July 1988). Nico is one of my very special ladies. RIP.
I was at this gig .... before seeing this video the only thing I remembered about the experience was her Coat - (it was usually boiling in the Warehouse). The other thing was that there was a lot of talk about her shooting up and eating chips upstairs (I seem to recall tables and chairs being upstairs) before the performance ... which judging from these frazzled images would seem, at least, to be partially true. You had to take your life in your hands when grooving on the copper dance floor at the warehouse in those days. I think I must have been stood near to the chains dangling from the ceiling at the rear of the dance floor as I don't recognise the back of any of the heads in the audience. Great Days!!...(daze)
"The other thing was that there was a lot of talk about her shooting up and eating chips upstairs (I seem to recall tables and chairs being upstairs) before the performance ... which judging from these frazzled images would seem, at least, to be partially true."
Yep, she's definitely been eating chips
@@ashburt5234 🤣🤣🤣
@@ashburt5234 soaked in lsd
@Cindy Mckee Indeed I was ... I would have been 21yrs at the time. The Warehouse was packed with Preston's alternative crowd. I did not see the Japan show though. I have however seen David Sylvian since
Hey Alex - That's awesome. My dad owned the warehouse, he's got plenty of tales... cannot confirm or deny the chips 🙂 He's turning 80 this year and I'd love to share some of your stories with him. If you have anymore please message me! Cheers, Kit
Nico looks so tormented here. Great rendition. One of my favorite songs. This is Beautiful. XX
Watch the Nico documentary. Nico was an amazing person.
The combination of a band giving its very blood and sweat, with Nico standing still barely moving, as if she couldn't care less about anything, her strangely seductive voice, and her EYES... my God... I'm lost for words, I can just FEEL it all.
No Botox making those eyes huge boys and girls. I read she actually tried to make herself look ugly. She wanted to be known for something else besides her looks.
Elle etait pleine de drogue; en clair elle fiche plus la peur que le spleen
Haunting cover. Her band is tight.
The drummer adds a beautiful accompaniment to Nico’s voice🥰.
This WHOLE BAND is epic
Really an amazing group!
Please tell me the name of the drummer, please. I admire his work…
@@stevemsk Toby Toman
Les musiciens sont juste excellent...ce riff de guitare saturé obsédant...enfin tout est magnifique...la voix de nico❤❤
“I drink ALL the time” I know she felt that in her soul as do I, one of the greatest performances, this is what I call music.
LA BELVET COMO ACABARON TODXS. LOU REED.TÜ LA MARSTE
Man, this chick is just filled with the joy of life.
Hahaha.
Never smiling, never laughing? Heroine?
@@Wuei108 She’s the heroine on heroin.....
She's deep man.
@@Wuei108 Yep, and lots of it too. Worst voice I've heard since Elmer Fudd.
To his immense credit, John Cale did help her out musically when everyone else from her past was long gone.
well said
that's because he is also a true artist
Such a good human being is Cale
Well done John
C ale!
Johnny guitar !
This is beautiful.those eyes.thanks for posting
Those eyes, that voice. A beautifully mesmerizing tragedy.
She was a blonde mermaid in the sixtys and her singing voice was really beautiful and powerful,but here she was aging badly....damned addiction
Luv her. I think she's opening her eyes like that so that she doesn't nod off.
Best heroes cover I heard.
It's a privilege to take a ride with this song.
The band sounds awesome too.
This song makes my eyes widen & the hair on my arms stand on end.
Me too!
In 1982 I was 5.
I think this is absolutely epic!!!
I met her in, of all places, the South Jersey Pine Barrens...she would not sign my copy of Chelsea Girl: 'That is the old Nico.' But she did accept my cop of Boccaccio's Questions of Love, written by an Italian poet of the fifteenth century.
Eyes that Pierced ...my SOUL... Awesome 💥💥💥👁️
The great Nico as she was live. Thank you for this great post!
NICO hat mich in meiner Musikwelt- und leben begleitet wie die ROLLING STONES, JIMI HENDRIX, DOORS, WHO, KINKS, THEM, PINK FLOYD, TEN YEARS AFTER, SANTANA, JETHRO TULL, JAMES BROWN, B. B. KING, JOHN LEE HOOKER und, und, und ... ... ... aber immer aus sehr, sehr, sehr weiter Ferne. Wie ein Phantom, ein Pseudonym, unnahbar, nicht greifbar. Sie zog mich mit ihrer Stimme und Aura in den tiefsten Abgrund der Melancholie und Traurigkeit. Dieser Sound gemeinsam mit VELVET UNDERGROUND war letzendlich der Kanaldeckel, der die Finsternis, Verlassenheit und Einsamkeit be- und versiegelte. Ich bin ihr dankbar, das ich sie erleben (sei's auch nur visuell und akustisch) durfte. Morgen werde ich sie an ihrem letzten, endgültigen Ort (Friedhof Grunewald / Forst an der Havelchaussee in Berlin) besuchen mit dem Song Hereos in meinem Ohr und Inne halten.
The Eyes have it , Nico showing the Eurovision Contest what real music sounds like , RIP beautiful lady ❤
I found this performance absolutely riveting and I love Nico and I love this song. How come noone in the audience is dancing? It is Preston, UK, I suppose. Like, when Joy Division played. Everyone just stood stock still, not quite sure whether to laugh or cry, if you know what I mean. Fanbloodytastic! ❤
Wow. Pretty scary eyes! Saw her at Mabuhay here in SF in 1977. We gave her a big round of applause (tiny club) and she said "I just peed my pants" and sat down to play her harmonium and give us all (100 people?) a great show. Classic performer with a sad ending... Miss 'ya!
Craig Love do u record the show?
@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 no. i don't remember any cameras. it was actually december 1977.
What a great memory your so lucky to have!! ( I just peed my pants!) Wow!!
@@chynadole1991 True story... Must have been a bit miserable sitting there at the harmonium...
I was at that show as well; drove up from Santa Cruz. Everyone was sitting. Dirk Dirkson gave her flowers at the end.
goosebumps...
I’m obsessed with her, recently discovered her work
Jesus Lopez me too
watch the documentary 'nico icon'. excellent
One of the coolest ever
Obsessed by the death of her son.
Likewise. Have been since I discovered her and the VU in the 70's. Nico Icon is a must watch. I've a copy but it's VHS. The whole Warhol Factory scene I find fascinating too..
This song never fails. I've never listened to this version before, but whooo, it explores interesting territory. What's going on behind those eyes? BEING NIco was not an easy enterprise, and doing that which is not easy while under the scrutiny of the public eye is pretty heroic. Cheers.
Michael McLoughlin
I@d never heard her do this song before. It's perfect
I remember coming upon this about the time that it was first uploaded to RUclips, and sort of unintentionally forgot about it in the time since then. Here early July 2022, I have come back to it and I'm listening/watching to it repeatedly... I'm at a point in my existence and with what's gone on the past 2+ years where I'm ready to say I'll have what Nico's having, and loads of it... At least she seems to have made the most of the moment.
THIS Band is masterful
She was 44 when this was filmed
Thank you Nico, this was great!
Best interpretation of Heroes. So powerful.
Lol
I miss you Nico! R.I.P.
Died too early
@LOVE TO ALL OF YOU AND KISSES AND ALL THE REST
she is a great charismatic person in art and life. without her andy warhol wouldn't had produced the first album of the velvet underground. it's not for nothing called "velvet underground and nico". she is a goddes.. r.i.p.
Frank Peter u mean without Gerald malanga. Warhol was only a cheerleader of the band. Plus it was Paul Morrissey who manages the velvets. Know your history
@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 Warhol funded the band. They wouldn't have existed without Andy. And Andy suggested Nico.
@@bradshrinkelstein904 without him they dont be There? When Andy found out about them, they had already acquired their canonical form, learn history, little asshole
Amaaaaaazing i love her
great, love it!
no one else like her...thank God..
excellent drumming... reminds me a bit of Steve Morris from Joy division/New Order
it sounds like the first version of love will tear us apart
@Ughra Yuvakov
...later of Primal Scream ( Screamadelica era)
I love how she makes "I wish you could swim" sound like a low-key scolding. "Like dolphins.. Dolphins can swim!"
**Why can't You?!.. Lover... too learn to swim?"
In the meanwhile, Nico shows Us what it means to swim and to drown at the same time. Whether or not the archetype "tragic hero" reduces lived and artistic complexity to a myth, Nico's emphasis on "Heroes" and what it represents really helps show the song as an existential manifesto. As if a life-grounded assurance that no matter how dark things get, sublimity can be mere musical moments away, "Heroes" serves as a real empowering lighthouse for many of us. And Nico brings the song into certain places where its author, Bowie, couldn't quite take it (or fully go) himself. That he couldn't is probably for the "best" (however rare and few such no-go places may have been for Bowie), at least for those of us who value his long and varied career.
Conversely, as an artist, Nico proved to carry forth (to model, to weave, write) a somewhat different story than Bowie. Neither greater nor lesser than him, mind you; not that those things can be reliably qualified anyhow. But merely Different. And rising to certain self-singular distinct forms of artistic (maybe even "historic") neccessity. Among its elements this video, this performance, currents Nico embodies how one can simultaneously defy pain and also surrender to pain, to embrace pain and also to transcend pain through art. Her story and her work intertwine to show us how these (and other) strange paradoxes become endemic to a profoundly unprecedented relation between individual and society, between life and art. Nico's image, words, story, music, and voice become a meshed surface refracting modern struggles as such, speaking of and to public celebrity cultures and their pitfalls, as well as to the challenges of private meaning-making. Elsewise, Nico represents a figure who channels beauty and defies beauty, but ultimately helps expand what beauty can even Mean, how it can resonate with and reflect us, diffusely refracting our own struggles. Through art and life, against the abyssal shapes and borders of fears, confusions, and struggles, through perseverence and brilliance, she does come through in so many ways.
And I know people can say all kinds of "could have, should have been/done" about her (and they do), but I think that by, in some sense, refusing to see the integral meaning (and on some level even conjoined neccessities) of the whole extreme-splicing and complex context of her work, the whole road of her life, passings over borders, deserts, indexes, and shores, such voices don't fully honor Nico and her legacy, as it continues to emerge in the decades following her passing. Nor do these reductive or wishful voices fully account for the rare type of artistic strength she exhibits. Granted, I don't want to fall into the trap of over-romanticizing junkie life. Such existence can be an anxious or soft horror, scraping by and preoccupied with mere day-to-days. And, maybe worst of all for some artists, this survival-focus can be a numbed maze of repetition, routines, an invisible sinking, like some bizzare inversion of middle-class lifestyle maintainance.
Why would someone put up with such life for long? Well, for some people it, oddly enough feels more grounding than the prescribed normative "rat race". Beyond that, any decent answer would be neccessarily more complex than what any comment, or even any book, could address. And I can't make definitive claims about Nico specifically. But, most summarily, I tend to think that for some sensitive or pain-ridden people, especially some artists, such forms of addiction can stem from "everything" becoming simply "too much" to cope, to remain productive to continue swimming forth (like dolphins), letting oneself love and create, in spite of every entropic weight and emotional/situational whirlpool. In some cases, opiate habits can be compared to desperately trying to "autotune" the whole context of life. In other cases, it can feel like the only way to keep down all the chaos, to focus on what's meaningful. Of course, the habit eventually starts eroding the very things one is trying to serve and guard with its aid.
And as a former junkie, recovered four years, I'm not talking through indirect conjectures or pulling on stereotypes, like many. Many of my artist/musician friends have gone through similar journeys. Some were lost irreversibly. Dead in their 20s. And not in some romantic/glorified way. Most of those lost were just starting out on their paths, and haven't yet done most of what they "could have" in this world.
So, I by no means want to downplay the danger, the challenge of navigating chemicals' despoting entrapment, of learning how to start swimming from under it. Nor the impactful loss of those drowned. The fact that Nico managed to do so much at various stages makes her the exception precisely through the strength of her perseverence and will and brilliance. Which may have been deepened by having to deal with so much struggle/pain. But it's only through moments of overcoming, of reaching and rising out of the abysses, not thanks to abysses themselves. So, be careful around drugs, kids. It's all so complex. Binary categories and moralizing judgements rarely help (as addiction fuels, bad faith/self-shame are second only to pain/overwhelm/PTSD).
I think opiate addiction is just an extreme form of a much deeper and more widespread general crisis of meaning and loss of faith in Future (and, as such, questioning even one's Identity. Imposter syndrome being increasingly prevalent now in 2019). Yet, those who are most challenges with this can also be the same people who are on the "frontlines" and in the "trenches", fighting towards some possible solution of a much more universal crisis and impasse. The "Avant-Garde" began as a military metaphor, refferring to the Heroic soldiers on the front lines. And confronting a very concentrated version of what many "regular" modern persons experience and struggle with.
RUclips comments sections highlight to me how some struggled artists often get talked about/related to more or less like Christian martyrs, as if absorbing some of our shared pain into her journey, and through her art giving it a place to "know", hear itself refracted. "I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are", the artist says unto the world, perhaps forlornly smiling, perhaps already recognizing that no mirror could authentically hold the world without eventually shattering.
So, please don't discredit those who've struggled or still struggle. And especially artists. To really put oneself face to face with the world while subverting its idealizing filters can be a heavy somber duty. I might even compare such an artist to that team of divers in Chernobyl who volunteered to go in and help diffuse an even bigger catastrophe, even while knowing the implication of what they would absorb into themselves. They too could swim. So, don't discredit struggled artists.
At the same time, please romanticize responsibly! Don't reduce the scopes of it all to some trite idea of surface glamour, whether heroic or decadent. Nico was not always "fun" or "inspiring" to be around, I'm certain But she would come through. And there's so much legacy for us to salvage and build from. So, in that spirit, may Nico help each and all of us find our own vision and strength to pursue it, in spite of anything. Art is in itself a faith. Dolphins communicate meanings through sonar vibrations, if I recall correctly. And dolphins Can swim. And dolphins can sing also. And it's so much more than just entertainment, more complex than either waste or success. And it's so important.
Read this wonderfully said comment front to back, and I appreciate it all. Thank you for this post
Good on yer' GUV'NOR! well said!!
That was such a cool understanding. I agree 🔥
Jesus
i have made comments almost as long as this one but they were more on historical bits ...
good on you... great bit of writing there
Nico was a Goddess. Bow down, motherfuckers!
Skeeter NYC hi
Damn right! Her band is killer, & she is on the wavelength. Just stay on the porch, children. What a jam!
Marianne Faithfull as well, dahling. xx
What he said
ITS ONLY A FREAKING JAM . AS A RESULT OF QUALITY BAD AZZ DRUMMING, &/R GUITAR. NOW PIC ALL .THOSE INSTRUMENTS BEHIND HER . PICTURE NONE OF THEM BUT HER VOICE. ADD IT UP & U GOT CRAP 💩💩💩🚽🚽🚽🚽
I love You Nico 💓!!! The Most Wonderful & Immortal Goddess 😍...
Great recordings!!
♡ die Heroin und der Held♡ R.i.P
She is so high. A great book is Nico The End by Andrew Young, her guitarist documenting their tours around this time.
this perfomance feels like when you're extremely drunk/high and you can't decide what's next. you just want to get rid of the feeling and are promising yourself that you won't do this ever again. one can only guess but this must have been a never-ending concert for her. this video is the greatest and the worst in the same time. unrepeatable 💫
Great song!
Nico was interviewed before this gig upstairs in the old booths where you could get a burger. It was filmed, must've been the people who recorded the gig. Would love to see that footage. Superb gig recording.
not only fine w this cover, i sorta think its marvelous in a totally unironic way. its fantastic
I agree! It's haunting...
Madame in ihrem Element. Love it 🖤
Melhor versão dessa música . Magnífica Nico
waow! never had the chance to see her live pfffff :(
FABULOUS !!!!!
Omg. I have that exact coat.well maybe I'll keep it now.
Thanks, Felini!
AMAZING
HAUNTED EYES..(BTW the bio. by James Young of her last tours is a fascinating read…if you can find a copy.
My fave tale from James's book is when they were on tour in America, I believe it was, and they found some guy outside some store in a mouse costume for promotional reasons, or whatever, and the mouse said "oh, Nico, I LOVE ALL YOUR MUSIC!" How improbable.
Awesome 👍😎
Beautiful Nico..... Love you
Fantastic........
Invented punk rock changed everything 🎉
His name is Toby Toman - he went on to play with Primal Scream.
I love her!!
She is incredible!
Great!
Larz Gustafsson
Larz Gustafsson
queen
Aquí ya estaba ✍️✍️✍️🙌❤️🖤❤️💥🌟💫🔥
Absolute master piece, she is in control of her Shí/ Djinn/ Geni, that's genius
Yes. There’s some sort of synchronization there. The band elevates her further
It's sad but beautiful. Sad that a superstar like Nico was playing in a grotty little venue in Preston.
Just had to revisit this x
This is so spooky. Reminds me of psychic TV and their early spookiness
her look in the eyes fucking scare me, love you Nico
Nico❤💖
she made it to the grave , very early ,unfortunately , if she would have made it to the 90s she probably would have become a music producer and an icon
She looked awful to be so young. If she'd made it to the 90s, I honestly think she'd have to'h've stopped smoking and drinking and whatever else she was taking.
She died not of drugs but of a stroke after a bicycle accident.
My deepest love on record is the best 👌 👍 😍 🥰 ☺️ 💖 always loved her version ❤️ must be something in the way she moves on
Absolutely fantastic !!
I like it , very much 😘
When everybody is in the same state of mind ... everybody is just having fun and dancing around. LOL
Great live performance by Nico on clarky cats and triple suds. Great singer, artist, and great band. Today, we are left with phony emoting snowflakes, in love with the man.
Gothic-erotic🖤😎legend in Eternity..Respect..Lady of Darkness
Tina Rider u t an idiot. Nico never liked people romanticizing her
Backing band: The Blue Orchids. They help Nico make this song all her own.
The backing band is bad ass..pretty tight
Cool!
Jesus, those staring, haunted eyes.
❤️
This is like German expressionism smashing into post-punk. It's kind of terrifying.
I find it rather comforting, like an aural equivalent to a weighted blanket. And as a moody post-punk fanatic with a background in Design, an affinity for Expressionism, and a paternal German ancestry, maybe that's why.
She didn't miss her singing cues despite the Heroin. Impressive.
That's just what I was thinking.
Was she on drugs here? If she was, incredible. She's awesome. Those eyes are scary, though. But in a good way.
But I prefer her 🎙 version about pic
It looked like Nico's eyes were channeling Klaus Kinski.
No, Nico wasn't "stoned all the time", as some weak-minded people here seem to think, just by looking at her eyes... Neither was Iggy Pop, nor Lou Reed, even if each of them had difficult periods with psychotropic drugs in their lives - just look at Lou Reed in concert live in 1973 at the Olympia, or Iggy Pop towards the end of the Stooges. ...I'm not a rocket scientist, but I was a junkie and drug dealer from 1973 to 1983, and I can tell you that those who are "high all the time" die quickly, very quickly, of an overdose, like most of my friends from that period... And all these artists had long and prolific careers, because they controlled their consumption(s), which was much more linked to their "creative ups and downs"...Read their interviews....I saw and got closer to Nico because I lived in Paris when he lived with Philippe Garrel.... and I can assure you that taking massive amounts of heroin is INCOMPATIBLE with a 2-hour concert, as she did at Reims Cathedral with Tangerine Dream, or at the Orange Festival in 1975....Similarly, when she "retreated" to her house in Ibiza, she took advantage of the opportunity to wean herself off the drug. I knew this from mutual Spanish friends, as I frequented the Balearics a lot, and even tried to go and see her there....
The reason why this myth of "excessive consumption" persists for these artists is, on the one hand, because they themselves sometimes self-destructively fed this myth, and, above all, because it was at the heart of their songs and lyrics (Lou and Iggy especially... ), and that they lived or had lived what they described, but in fact no more than many other artists who didn't "talk about it" (Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, Billie Hollyday, closer to us Christophe, Bashung, and even Johnny halliday, eh yeah...)...so, please, stop with this exploitation of clichés and prejudices. Go and see the magnificent film about Nico: "Nico Icon", which reminds us that she never knew her father, a Wermacht soldier who died before she was born, that she grew up in the ruins of post-war Germany, and that this kind of thing marks you for life, as many of her songs testify, if you take the trouble to listen to them and translate the lyrics. ...Nico is in fact in the tradition of those German singers with a deep, gravelly voice like Marlène Dietrich, Indrid caven, Ute lemper, and even Nina hagen.....
It's so much easier to dump clichés on an artist, all because she always had the courage to show herself as she was, sometimes crudely, sometimes stoned, yes, and often not, in fact, and even probably sometimes in need, because she wasn't rolling in dough.
In this respect, Nico was a pioneer, like "You may or may not like what I do, but I show myself as I am without "hiding" anything, and I don't give a damn about the way you look at me".
I believe the band here are: Spider Mike King (guitar), Toby Toman (drums), Rick Goldstraw (bass), James Young (keyboards). Not the Blue Orchids, though both Toman and Goldstraw were in the Orchids at some point..
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I have Young's book, he doesn't mention Preston but that doesn't mean anything, really.
Pretty sure it's not Bramah on guitar at least!
@@paidgovernmentshill_6950 Hi, Spider Mike had this video on his website (sorry, don't have a link). Toman and Young are easy to spot - Rick Goldstraw isn't, but i've deduced him from Young's book. I think this was one of the warm up gigs they played before going on tour in the US that same year. No exact science though!
@@mrthehistorian1288
Nice one. I was making a little joke about Bramah, what with him being left handed and all.
Young's book is an interesting and funny read. Especially the interactions between stll-nuts-on-drugs Cale and John Cooper Clarke...
@@paidgovernmentshill_6950 I loved that book. It's one of those that gets better with each new read. The Nico quotes are priceless...
N I C O : I C O N
I just visited her grave yesterday in Berlin
Love her! Wenn ich demnächst in Berlin bin, mein Sohn lebt da, dann mache ich das auch.
War öfter dort, als ich in Berlin gelebt habe. Ein besonderer Ort ..
@@elabee6131 na ja, Berlin ist so schön und underground, ich wohne hier seit fast 2 Jahre
I LUV YOU NICO!!!
Goddess!!!
the dark side of the spoon
Hehe..... ;-)
oof
Is there a bright one?
Lol truth
Fantástica!
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