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Nico. The darkish, morbid air of secrecy of the mysterious chanteuse alias Christa Päffgen has haunted enthusiasts and admirers for many years. during this publication one of many those that acquired with regards to her, relatively and actually as regards to her, stocks his thoughts of this fascinating being - up, shut and private. during this attention-grabbing memoir German musician Lutz Ulbrich (Lüül) - now Lutz Graf-Ulbrich - describes how he met and fell for Nico within the Seventies and the way this stumble upon ended in a rocky on- and off-love affair, an extended prolific inventive synergy and a lifelong friendship. Lutz performed in German „Krautrock“ bands like Agitation loose, Ash Ra Tempel/ Ashra. He may accompany Nico on guitar at lots of her next live shows in the course of the remainder of the last decade in Europe, united states and Canada. Lutz wrote the track „Reich der Träume“ for her, which she sang on his solo debut LP „Lüül“ released in 1981. With Ash Ra Tempel he contributed the ranking for the Nico motion picture "Le Berceau de Cristal" through Philippe Garrel. He additionally geared up her final live performance for the pageant „Fata Morgana - wasteland sounds on the Planetarium“ in Berlin 1988. whilst she died in basic terms months later he prepared her funeral and later produced the CD „Nico’s final concert“. He additionally took half within the Nico documentary „Nico-Icon“ and arranged the Nico Tribute competition „Nico 70/20“ in 2008 in Berlin. This very own tale includes a lot of photographs (some of them unpublished) and extremely infrequent inner most letters of Nico.