Monday, December 15, 2014

Nico Sings Lightfoot

Before she joined the Velvet Underground, Nico was hanging with Rolling Stone Brian Jones who introduced her to Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham.  He  signed her to his record label, where a young Jimmy Page was employed as house producer, session musician and A&R scout.

Page produced and played on Nico’s 1965 single for Immediate, a cover of Canadian folkie Gordon Lightfoot’s “I’m Not Sayin’ ” which was backed by “The Last Mile,” a song composed by Page and Oldham. Jimmy Page plays a six-string in the song, while Brian Jones plays a twelve-string guitar. A promotional film for “I’m Not Sayin’” was shot at the site of London’s West India Docks (now Canary Wharf) by Peter Whitehead.


2 comments:

  1. Frogsmoker10:58 pm

    Half a century on and I still remember this one. Nico was wonderful. Chelsea girl is one of my all-time favorite albums. It's on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot5Zy2FWFn8

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  2. The Nag6:01 pm

    Nico was wonderful. So sad that she died so young.

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