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1* CreatorBreakdown: Nico wrote "You Forget to Answer" after she failed to reach ex-lover [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] by phone only to later find out that he had died.
2* DeafCreators: Despite her talent as a singer-songwriter/musician, Nico was deaf in one ear.
3* ExecutiveMeddling: Nico had little say in how ''Chelsea Girl'' was produced. This led her to dislike the album.
4--> Nico: ''"I still cannot listen to it, because everything I wanted for that record, they took it away. I asked for drums, they said no. I asked for more guitars, they said no. And I asked for simplicity, and they covered it in flutes! [...] They added strings and – I didn't like them, but I could live with them. But the flute! The first time I heard the album, I cried and it was all because of the flute."''
5* LyingCreator: The live album ''Behind The Iron Curtain'' claims to have been recorded in Prague, Budapest and Warsaw, but was really recorded at one concert in Rotterdam. Available sources do not show whether Nico or her record company were the primary liar.
6* MoneyDearBoy: Nico made ''Drama of Exile'' for drug money. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools It's still a pretty good album]].
7* RevivalByCommercialization: "These Days" went through this after it was in both ''Film/TheRoyalTenenbaums'' and a UsefulNotes/{{Kmart}} commercial. Music/JacksonBrowne, the song's writer and guitarist, actually had to re-learn it before he could start playing it live again when people started requesting to hear it.
8* ScheduleSlip: Only released ''The End'' (1974) between ''Desertshore'' (1970) and ''Drama of Exile'' (1981).

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