Chords for Nico, Bowie, Iggy and Lou
Tempo:
112.25 bpm
Chords used:
B
F#
F
D
Fm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Well, Nico was a model in Europe.
She had a portfolio of all of the articles that she had modeled for, what have you.
And she also appeared, I think her introduction in America [A#m] was as this stunning blonde in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
[C] [B]
[F#] [D]
[B] [F#] [A#]
[Fm] [B] That movie was a big hit over here and everyone saw it and everyone saw Nico because she was so outstandingly, strikingly [N] beautiful.
She had quite a reputation and had made an impact.
And Gerard Malanga had met her in Europe and made friends with her.
And Gerard was working for Andy and he planned for her to come to the factory when she came to New York.
And so this is like 64, 65 and Nico was coming to New York and she was going to come to the factory.
I've subsequently read some of her interviews and she was thinking that she was going to the Andy Warhol studio, a big filmmaker.
And all of the suppositions you have about American filmmakers.
But it turned out that he was an artist filmmaker with a studio that was all silver.
And he was a phenomenon himself.
And so she came into this strange world.
She fit in very well because everybody else was unique and dynamic and wonderful like she was.
Paul Morrissey thought that she should be singing with the Velvet Underground.
That wasn't the intent originally.
She was just coming to see Andy and be in his movies.
Well, Paul's got this very crass way of thinking about things.
You know, it's very specific way.
And he was thinking that one of the reasons they weren't becoming popular immediately is that they needed a girl front singer because people wanted to see a beautiful girl, you know.
So he started touting her as the Chanteuse and telling Andy that she had to be in the group and sing with the group as the lead singer.
And of course, this incensed Lou, who was the lead singer and didn't want any girl taking over his place as the lead singer.
And they already had the first girl drummer in a rock and roll band, Maureen Tucker.
And Maureen was really a great drummer and she worked with her well.
But Paul kept insisting and Andy started believing him that it would really work better if Nico sang with the group at least half of the songs and Lou could sing some of them too.
And so Lou eventually came around and there was no animosity amongst them.
They all liked Nico and Nico liked all of them.
But just the idea for Lou of not being the lead singer was strained.
But he actually did remain as the lead singer and Nico shared the lead with him.
But they worked very well together because Nico's singing voice was extremely interesting.
It's sort of like a Marlena Dietrich type voice, which is very deep and resonant.
She had good people who wrote songs for her.
Sighs Dylan, there was Jackson Brown wrote some songs for her.
And her albums she made on her own in later years were very successful and they're really interesting.
So she added this new strange element to the Velvet Underground.
Nico was in the Velvets for their first album, was then eased out at the same time as Warhol left.
She was in London in 1969.
[F] She had a relationship with Brian Jones and when he died, she wrote a song for him called [D] Janitor of Lunacy.
[F#] And called up the Stones office [F] and said she wanted to perform it at the Hyde [Fm] Park concert.
So they said, yes, you have time to [N] do one song.
So she lugged her harmonium across the field full of hippies and it took her too [F] long.
She didn't get a chance to go on stage, but she was backstage and ran into David Bowie.
And he recognized her.
She didn't know him from [G#] Adam.
And he just sort of rushed over and was apparently just quizzing her about the Velvets.
And she told me that all she wanted to do was to go home to her current boyfriend [N] who was Iggy Pop.
Nico seemed to go with every guy for a period of time.
I don't think it was her intent to conquer everybody.
She just happened to drift that way.
She went with Luke for a while.
She went with John for a while.
She went with Eric Emerson for a while.
And Iggy Pop for a while.
She just was that lackadaisical icon who would go from beautiful person to beautiful person.
Because she couldn't really, I don't think, bear the mundanity of having relationships for very long.
She was very highly strung, cultured, where the mundane world didn't interest her at all.
And she easily became bored and she easily started to feel superior to things that
the order of relationships or the nature of relationships as they had to play out were uninteresting to her.
But she liked to love people.
She had a portfolio of all of the articles that she had modeled for, what have you.
And she also appeared, I think her introduction in America [A#m] was as this stunning blonde in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
[C] [B]
[F#] [D]
[B] [F#] [A#]
[Fm] [B] That movie was a big hit over here and everyone saw it and everyone saw Nico because she was so outstandingly, strikingly [N] beautiful.
She had quite a reputation and had made an impact.
And Gerard Malanga had met her in Europe and made friends with her.
And Gerard was working for Andy and he planned for her to come to the factory when she came to New York.
And so this is like 64, 65 and Nico was coming to New York and she was going to come to the factory.
I've subsequently read some of her interviews and she was thinking that she was going to the Andy Warhol studio, a big filmmaker.
And all of the suppositions you have about American filmmakers.
But it turned out that he was an artist filmmaker with a studio that was all silver.
And he was a phenomenon himself.
And so she came into this strange world.
She fit in very well because everybody else was unique and dynamic and wonderful like she was.
Paul Morrissey thought that she should be singing with the Velvet Underground.
That wasn't the intent originally.
She was just coming to see Andy and be in his movies.
Well, Paul's got this very crass way of thinking about things.
You know, it's very specific way.
And he was thinking that one of the reasons they weren't becoming popular immediately is that they needed a girl front singer because people wanted to see a beautiful girl, you know.
So he started touting her as the Chanteuse and telling Andy that she had to be in the group and sing with the group as the lead singer.
And of course, this incensed Lou, who was the lead singer and didn't want any girl taking over his place as the lead singer.
And they already had the first girl drummer in a rock and roll band, Maureen Tucker.
And Maureen was really a great drummer and she worked with her well.
But Paul kept insisting and Andy started believing him that it would really work better if Nico sang with the group at least half of the songs and Lou could sing some of them too.
And so Lou eventually came around and there was no animosity amongst them.
They all liked Nico and Nico liked all of them.
But just the idea for Lou of not being the lead singer was strained.
But he actually did remain as the lead singer and Nico shared the lead with him.
But they worked very well together because Nico's singing voice was extremely interesting.
It's sort of like a Marlena Dietrich type voice, which is very deep and resonant.
She had good people who wrote songs for her.
Sighs Dylan, there was Jackson Brown wrote some songs for her.
And her albums she made on her own in later years were very successful and they're really interesting.
So she added this new strange element to the Velvet Underground.
Nico was in the Velvets for their first album, was then eased out at the same time as Warhol left.
She was in London in 1969.
[F] She had a relationship with Brian Jones and when he died, she wrote a song for him called [D] Janitor of Lunacy.
[F#] And called up the Stones office [F] and said she wanted to perform it at the Hyde [Fm] Park concert.
So they said, yes, you have time to [N] do one song.
So she lugged her harmonium across the field full of hippies and it took her too [F] long.
She didn't get a chance to go on stage, but she was backstage and ran into David Bowie.
And he recognized her.
She didn't know him from [G#] Adam.
And he just sort of rushed over and was apparently just quizzing her about the Velvets.
And she told me that all she wanted to do was to go home to her current boyfriend [N] who was Iggy Pop.
Nico seemed to go with every guy for a period of time.
I don't think it was her intent to conquer everybody.
She just happened to drift that way.
She went with Luke for a while.
She went with John for a while.
She went with Eric Emerson for a while.
And Iggy Pop for a while.
She just was that lackadaisical icon who would go from beautiful person to beautiful person.
Because she couldn't really, I don't think, bear the mundanity of having relationships for very long.
She was very highly strung, cultured, where the mundane world didn't interest her at all.
And she easily became bored and she easily started to feel superior to things that
the order of relationships or the nature of relationships as they had to play out were uninteresting to her.
But she liked to love people.
Key:
B
F#
F
D
Fm
B
F#
F
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Well, Nico was a model in Europe.
She had a portfolio of all of the articles that she had modeled for, what have you.
And she also appeared, I think her introduction in America [A#m] was as this stunning blonde in _ Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
_ [C] _ [B] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [A#] _
_ [Fm] _ [B] That movie was a big hit over here _ and everyone saw it and everyone saw Nico because she was so outstandingly, strikingly [N] beautiful.
She had quite a reputation and had made an impact.
And Gerard Malanga had met her in Europe and made friends with her.
And Gerard was working for Andy and _ _ he planned for her to come to the factory when she came to New York.
And so this is like 64, 65 and Nico was coming to New York and she was going to come to the factory.
I've subsequently read some of her interviews and she was thinking that she was going to the Andy Warhol studio, a big filmmaker.
And all of the suppositions you have about American filmmakers.
But it turned out that he was an artist filmmaker _ with a studio that was all silver.
And he was a phenomenon himself. _
And so she came into this strange world.
She fit in very well because everybody else was unique and _ dynamic and wonderful like she was.
_ Paul Morrissey thought that she should be singing with the Velvet Underground.
_ That wasn't the intent originally.
She was just coming to see Andy and be in his movies.
Well, Paul's got this very crass way of thinking about things.
You know, it's very specific way.
And he was thinking that one of the reasons they weren't becoming popular immediately is that they needed a girl front singer because people wanted to see a beautiful girl, you know.
So he started touting her as the Chanteuse and telling Andy that she had to be in the group and sing with the group as the lead singer.
And of course, this incensed Lou, who was the lead singer and didn't want any girl taking over his place as the lead singer.
And they already had the first girl drummer in a rock and roll band, Maureen Tucker.
And Maureen was really a great drummer and she worked with her well.
But Paul kept insisting and Andy started believing him that it would really work better if Nico sang with the group at least half of the songs and Lou could sing some of them too. _
And so Lou eventually came around and there was no animosity amongst them.
They all liked Nico and Nico liked all of them.
But just the idea for Lou of not being the lead singer was strained.
But he actually did remain as the lead singer and Nico shared the lead with him.
But they worked very well together because Nico's singing voice was _ extremely interesting.
It's sort of like a Marlena Dietrich _ type voice, which is very deep and resonant.
She had good people who wrote songs for her.
Sighs Dylan, there was Jackson Brown wrote some songs for her.
And her albums she made on her own in later years were very successful and they're really interesting.
So she added this new strange element to the Velvet Underground.
Nico was in the Velvets for their first album, was then eased out at the same time as Warhol left.
She was in London in 1969.
_ [F] She had a relationship with Brian Jones and when he died, she wrote a song for him called [D] Janitor of Lunacy.
[F#] And called up the Stones office [F] and said she wanted to perform it at the Hyde [Fm] Park concert.
So they said, yes, you have time to [N] do one song.
So she lugged her harmonium across the field full of hippies and _ it took her too [F] long.
She didn't get a chance to go on stage, but she was backstage and ran into David Bowie.
_ And he recognized her.
She didn't know him from [G#] Adam.
And he just sort of rushed over and was apparently just quizzing her about the Velvets.
And she told me that all she wanted to do was to go home to her current boyfriend [N] who was Iggy Pop.
Nico _ seemed to _ go with every guy for a period of time.
I don't think it was her intent to conquer everybody.
She just happened to drift that way.
She went with Luke for a while.
She went with John for a while.
She went with Eric Emerson for a while.
And Iggy Pop for a while.
She just was that _ lackadaisical _ icon who would go from beautiful person to beautiful person.
Because she couldn't really, I don't think, bear the mundanity of having relationships for very long.
She was very highly _ strung, cultured, _ where the mundane world didn't interest her at all.
And she easily became bored and she easily started to feel superior to things that_
the order of relationships or the nature of relationships as they had to play out were _ uninteresting to her.
But she liked to love people. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Well, Nico was a model in Europe.
She had a portfolio of all of the articles that she had modeled for, what have you.
And she also appeared, I think her introduction in America [A#m] was as this stunning blonde in _ Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
_ [C] _ [B] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [A#] _
_ [Fm] _ [B] That movie was a big hit over here _ and everyone saw it and everyone saw Nico because she was so outstandingly, strikingly [N] beautiful.
She had quite a reputation and had made an impact.
And Gerard Malanga had met her in Europe and made friends with her.
And Gerard was working for Andy and _ _ he planned for her to come to the factory when she came to New York.
And so this is like 64, 65 and Nico was coming to New York and she was going to come to the factory.
I've subsequently read some of her interviews and she was thinking that she was going to the Andy Warhol studio, a big filmmaker.
And all of the suppositions you have about American filmmakers.
But it turned out that he was an artist filmmaker _ with a studio that was all silver.
And he was a phenomenon himself. _
And so she came into this strange world.
She fit in very well because everybody else was unique and _ dynamic and wonderful like she was.
_ Paul Morrissey thought that she should be singing with the Velvet Underground.
_ That wasn't the intent originally.
She was just coming to see Andy and be in his movies.
Well, Paul's got this very crass way of thinking about things.
You know, it's very specific way.
And he was thinking that one of the reasons they weren't becoming popular immediately is that they needed a girl front singer because people wanted to see a beautiful girl, you know.
So he started touting her as the Chanteuse and telling Andy that she had to be in the group and sing with the group as the lead singer.
And of course, this incensed Lou, who was the lead singer and didn't want any girl taking over his place as the lead singer.
And they already had the first girl drummer in a rock and roll band, Maureen Tucker.
And Maureen was really a great drummer and she worked with her well.
But Paul kept insisting and Andy started believing him that it would really work better if Nico sang with the group at least half of the songs and Lou could sing some of them too. _
And so Lou eventually came around and there was no animosity amongst them.
They all liked Nico and Nico liked all of them.
But just the idea for Lou of not being the lead singer was strained.
But he actually did remain as the lead singer and Nico shared the lead with him.
But they worked very well together because Nico's singing voice was _ extremely interesting.
It's sort of like a Marlena Dietrich _ type voice, which is very deep and resonant.
She had good people who wrote songs for her.
Sighs Dylan, there was Jackson Brown wrote some songs for her.
And her albums she made on her own in later years were very successful and they're really interesting.
So she added this new strange element to the Velvet Underground.
Nico was in the Velvets for their first album, was then eased out at the same time as Warhol left.
She was in London in 1969.
_ [F] She had a relationship with Brian Jones and when he died, she wrote a song for him called [D] Janitor of Lunacy.
[F#] And called up the Stones office [F] and said she wanted to perform it at the Hyde [Fm] Park concert.
So they said, yes, you have time to [N] do one song.
So she lugged her harmonium across the field full of hippies and _ it took her too [F] long.
She didn't get a chance to go on stage, but she was backstage and ran into David Bowie.
_ And he recognized her.
She didn't know him from [G#] Adam.
And he just sort of rushed over and was apparently just quizzing her about the Velvets.
And she told me that all she wanted to do was to go home to her current boyfriend [N] who was Iggy Pop.
Nico _ seemed to _ go with every guy for a period of time.
I don't think it was her intent to conquer everybody.
She just happened to drift that way.
She went with Luke for a while.
She went with John for a while.
She went with Eric Emerson for a while.
And Iggy Pop for a while.
She just was that _ lackadaisical _ icon who would go from beautiful person to beautiful person.
Because she couldn't really, I don't think, bear the mundanity of having relationships for very long.
She was very highly _ strung, cultured, _ where the mundane world didn't interest her at all.
And she easily became bored and she easily started to feel superior to things that_
the order of relationships or the nature of relationships as they had to play out were _ uninteresting to her.
But she liked to love people. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _