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This live LP, recorded in April 1986, just two years before her untimely death, is perhaps Nico’s last live recording ever. Many of Nico’s earlier performances feature her performing songs by other artists (Browne, Cale, Reed, Dylan, etc.) often written especially for her, but the first six items on this LP were written by Nico herself, including “Janitor of Lunacy”, which - she told lover, Iggy Pop - was her tribute to Brian Jones. “You Forget To Answer” is a song about another lover, Jim Morrison written soon after his death in Paris in 1971. She claims she saw Morrison pass her by in a car just before he died but he didn’t answer her greeting. In six of the tracks we also hear Nico playing an Indian harmonium. She bought one in the late Sixties in order to be self-sufficient on stage (and when she lost it, Patti Smith donated another). She declared that, “My harmonium is like my candles - it doesn’t need electricity”.
