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A true bohemian: the story of Nico’s rise and fall

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

You are Beautiful and You are Alone: The Biography of Nico Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

Faber, pp.320, 20

It is well established that artists are not always the nicest people. On the surface, the life of the model, actress and singer Christa Päffgen, aka Nico, would appear to bear this out. Being Nico didn’t mean being nice.

The story of Nico’s rise and fall usually goes like this. She grew up in the rubble of post-war Berlin, emerging from adolescence as both stunningly beautiful and remorselessly ambitious.

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