Nico & Jim Morrison

Nico and Jim Morrison
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Nico and Jim Morrison dated from July, 1968 to August, 1967.

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German Actress Nico was born Christa Päffgen on 16th October, 1938 in Cologne, Germany and passed away on 18th Jul 1988 Ibiza, Spain aged 49. She is most remembered for Singer, model, actress, Andy Warhol superstar, cameo in "La Dolce Vita. Her zodiac sign is Libra.

American Vocalist Jim Morrison was born James Douglas Morrison on 8th December, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida, USA and passed away on 3rd Jul 1971 Paris, France aged 27. He is most remembered for The Doors. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius.

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Relationship Statistics

StatusDurationLength
DatingJul 1968 - Aug 1967 11 months, 5 days
Total Jul 1967 - Aug 1967 1 month, 1 day


DANNY FIELDS: "Jim and Nico got into this fight, with Jim pulling her hair all over the place - it was just this weird love-making, between the two most adorable monsters, each one trying to be more poetic than the other. Nico and Jim Morrison were both icy and mysterious and charismatic and poetic and deep and sensitive and wonderful... They were like two cats. They watched each other’s movements, followed each other around the house, but did not say one word at all."
PAUL RODCHILD: “I was in my room when I looked out of my window into the Spanish-style courtyard... Jim and Nico were standing there under the full moon in the middle of the fountain. Jim was pulling Nico’s hair and she was screaming. He never said anything. He just kept pulling her hair. Suddenly he ran into the house and Nico in her deep voice just stood there in the water sobbing. I had just recovered from that scene, when I glanced up, and there was Jim – stark naked – dancing along the edge of the parapet. I watched him until he hopped out of sight... he had to be the center of attention.”
Nico stated in 1985, "I like my relations to be physical and of the psyche. We hit each other because we were drunk and we enjoyed the sensation. We made love in a gentle way, do you know? I thought of Jim Morrison as my brother, so we would grow together. We still do, because he is my soul brother. We exchanged blood. I carry his blood inside me. When he died, and I told people that he wasn`t dead, this was my meaning. We had spiritual journeys together."
Nico and Jim Morrison cut their thumbs in the desert with a knife and let their blood mingle. Such a ritual form of devotion appealed to their shared sense of theatre, but Nico wanted even more. She wanted Jim Morrison to share not just her blood, but her son. One night Nico decided they should be married, she suggested to him that he might like to propose marriage to her. He laughed himself off his chair. She hit him, they fought, and when they got tired, they made up. That was the routine nature of their alliance, day after day - affection, argument, rancour, resolution. "I was in love with him, and that is how love goes, isn`t it? He was the first man I was in love with, because he was affectionate to my looks and my mind. But we took too much drink and too many drugs to make it, that was our difficulty. Everything was open to us, there were no rules. We had a too big appetite."
During their time together in California, between the months of July and August 1968, they often drove out of Los Angeles and into the desert. Morrison found the cactus buttons called peyote, which they picked off and ate. "Peyote was a spiritual drug. We were in the middle of the desert and everything was natural, in the open air, nature all around, not a hotel room or a bar. And the cactus was natural. You did not buy it from somebody on a street corner. We had visions in the desert. And Jim showed me that this is what a poet does. A poet sees visions and records them.
Jim Morrison recorded his psycho - chemical visions and dreams. His notes often comprised the raw material for his poems and songs. Nico just once offered an example of the peyote visions she endured with Morrison: "The light of the dawn was a very deep green and I believed I was upside down and the sky was the desert which had become a garden and then the ocean. I do not swim and I was frightened when it was water and more resolved when it was land. I felt embraced by the sky-garden." Soon after, she started to write a song lyric, possibly her first, titled Lawns of Dawn.
The cross-eyed, internal rhymes came directly from Jim Morrison. He showed her how he worked on his poems, and in doing so, offered her a model. She was reluctant to write anything down, however, it was a major step, to talk about words and then to write them (especially in a foreign language). "Jim gave me permission to be a writer," Nico claimed. "He said to me one day, `I give you permission to write your poems and compose your songs!` My soul brother believed I could do it. And why not? His song was the most popular song in America."
Nico told him that she did not know how to compose. She could not follow the mechanics of writing. He told her to write down her dreams, literally, write down the images she remembered. This would provide her raw material. He admitted to her that he started by imitating other writers, Celine and Blake, for instance, but then he realized that they were writing down their dreams, and so it would be more creative for him to do the same. The songs would be the recounting of her visions, and that was enough.
Their affair, a torrid mixture of drinks, drugs, fights and poetry, lasted little more than a month. They were tired of each other, little more than that; they were exhausted by each others titanic demands. Aside from the authority she had received to compose, and the slanted introduction to English poetry, she kept two prevailing souvenirs of their liaison: his blood in hers, and red hair. "He had a fetish for red-haired shanties, you know, Irish shanties. I was so much in love with him that I made my hair red after awhile. I wanted to please his taste. It was silly, wasn`t it? Like a teenager." She kept her hair tinted red until he died.
Nico was very sad when she heard that Jim had died. She bought all the Paris and London papers and wept as she read the stories... when the crying stopped, Nico went into the bathroom and began rinsing the red dye out of her hair. It took her several days to wash her long hair back to its natural blond color. Then she dyed it black, she kept this colour until she died. (From Nico - The Life and Times of an Icon by Richard Witts)

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July, 1968 - Hookup

Couple Comparison

Name
Nico
Jim Morrison
Nico
Jim Morrison
Age (at start of relationship)
28
23
Height
Female
5' 10" (178 cm)
Male
5' 11" (180 cm)
Zodiac
Libra
Sagittarius
Occupation
Actress
Vocalist
Hair Color
Blonde
Brown - Dark
Eye Color
Blue
Grey
Nationality
German
American

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danielleJan 18, 2011

Nico was 5'10"


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