
“Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else’s Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico’s was real.”
- Peter Murphy, Bauhaus

“Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else’s Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico’s was real.”
- Peter Murphy, Bauhaus

Came up on some amazing inspiration courtesy of Totodo Books in Daikanyama. My new favorite bookshop.
Performance, masterminded by Donald Cammell and starring Mick Jagger, James Fox and Anita Pallenberg in a heady psychosexual brew of mixed identities, narcotics, sex, sadism, gangsters and reclusive rock stars. The film was infamous not just for its risque content, but for the intense psychic drama that the cast weathered. Some left the film with drug habits and psychological scars, while some, like Mick Jagger, emerged mostly unscathed. Marianne Faithfull: “In the same way that some actors get to keep their wardrobe, Mick came away from Performance with his character. This persona was so perfectly tailored to his needs that he’d never have to take it off again.”