Trivia / Nico

• Creator Breakdown: Nico wrote "You Forget to Answer" after she failed to reach ex-lover Jim Morrison by phone only to later find out that he had died.
• Deaf Creators: Despite her talent as a singer-songwriter/musician, Nico was deaf in one ear.
• Executive Meddling: Nico had little say in how Chelsea Girl was produced. This led her to dislike the album.
  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."
• Lying Creator: 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.
• Money, Dear Boy: Nico made Drama of Exile for drug money. It's still a pretty good album.
• Revival by Commercialization: "These Days" went through this after it was in both The Royal Tenenbaums and a Kmart commercial. Jackson Browne, 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.
• Schedule Slip: Only released The End (1974) between Desertshore (1970) and Drama of Exile (1981).

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