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Something wrong?She was the icy blonde who sang on the Velvet Underground's first album because Warhol insisted, then spent two decades carving a path so dark and singular that "Chelsea Girl" sounds like pop by comparison.
A life in dates
The End…Album1970
DesertshoreAlbum1968“Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman.”In their wordsIn 1968, as quoted in Life and Lies of an Icon (1995) by Richard Witts.
The Marble IndexAlbum, 19681967
Chelsea GirlAlbum
The Velvet Underground & NicoAlbum, 19671938Born16 October 1938Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 10
, Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman.
I would say the time has not yet come. I rebel against the present, whenever it is, because I have not seen any change, other than oppositions grow stronger.
I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
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SpotifyAlbums 9
TEThe End…
DEDesertshore
TIThe Marble Index
TNThe Velvet Underground & Nico
CGChelsea GirlIn their orbit
About this person
Christa Päffgen modeled and acted through the early sixties, appearing in Fellini's La Dolce Vita in 1960 and Warhol's Chelsea Girls six years later. Warhol pushed her into the Velvet Underground for three songs on their 1967 debut; she released her own Chelsea Girl the same year, built from other people's compositions. Jim Morrison suggested she write her own material, so she picked up a harmonium and began. John Cale produced The Marble Index in 1968, then Desertshore in 1970 and The End... in 1974 - albums that left rock behind for something colder and more severe. Through the eighties she toured hard across Europe, the U.S., Australia and Japan. After a Berlin show in June 1988 she went to Ibiza, had a bicycling accident, and died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 18 July.
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