Friends about Nico: Wonderful, maddening, beautiful, a monster, incredibly gifted, phenomenally lazy

"She moved into people’s houses because they liked the idea of having Nico in the spare room, but then they would say the kids were scared of her, so she got a flat" - Phil Jones tells the Guardian about Nico, model and a singer, who spent the 1980s in Manchester, where a new show about her, The Nico Project, comes to the Manchester international festival. The London paper spoke to some of the people who found themselves working and hanging out with a cultural icon. “Spider” Mike King (guitarist) remembers her as "a true bohemian. Her whole world was in a holdall: a change of underwear and a blouse".