Trine Dyrholm as Christa Päffgen in "Nico, 1988." (Courtesy Magnolia Pictures) “I only did three songs with them,” sighs an exasperated Christa Päffgen during one of the many frustrating radio ...

It’s not easy negotiating life when the public prefers your stage persona over your true self. But it was particularly frustrating for Christa Päffgen. Right up until her untimely death 30 years ago ...

Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Nico 1988, a biopic about Velvet Underground lead singer Christa Paffgen, better known as Nico, is set to open the Venice Film Festival’s Horizon section. The ...

She didn’t like her name. Herbert Tobias, the photographer who discovered her, agreed. “Christa Paffgen” was guttural, inelegant, a moniker certainly not befitting the sharp beauty of the woman before ...

When Andy Warhol said that everyone would have their own 15 minutes of fame, he may have been looking at Christa Paffgen, his muse, model and sometime Velvet Underground singer who went by the name ...

“Please don’t confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them,” sings German model-actress-musician Nico on 1967’s Jackson Browne-penned “These Days,” one of her signature post-Velvet ...

Chris Knight: Nico was the stage name of Christa Päffgen, who gained fame and notoriety as part of Andy Warhol’s posse in the 1960s You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in ...

Chicago singer-songwriter Chris Connelly regularly releases an album of new material on his November birthday. For his latest record, Eulogy to Christa: A Tribute to the Music and Mystique of Nico, he ...

The woman you see in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s extraordinary Nico, 1988 is not the Nico you know — the icy Teutonic chanteuse who blessed Velvet Underground tunes like “All Tomorrow’s Parties” with her ...

Christa Päffgen, the woman better known as Nico, had a fascinating life and career. She starred in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, fell in with Andy Warhol’s Factory crew, played a vital role in the first ...