| “Femme Fatale” | ||
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Single b/w "Sunday Morning"
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| Single by The Velvet Underground and Nico from the album The Velvet Underground & Nico |
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| Released | December 1966 (single) March 1967 (album) |
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| Recorded | April 1966, Scepter Studios, New York City | |
| Genre | Rock, pop rock, art rock | |
| Length | 2:39 | |
| Label | Verve Records | |
| Writer(s) | Lou Reed | |
| Producer | Andy Warhol | |
| The Velvet Underground singles chronology | ||
| "All Tomorrow's Parties / I'll Be Your Mirror" (1966) |
"Sunday Morning / Femme Fatale" (1966) |
"White Light/White Heat / Here She Comes Now" (1968) |
"Femme Fatale" is a song by The Velvet Underground from their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. At producer Andy Warhol's request, band frontman Lou Reed wrote the song about Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick.[1] The song was released as a single in December 1966.
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Alternate versions
1966 acetate mix
An early acetate disc pressing of the album contains a slightly different mix of the song with louder drums and alternate falsetto backing vocals.
Cover versions
Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico have performed solo versions of the song. In addition, the following artists have recorded it.
| Artist | Year | Album |
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| Geneviève Waïte | 1973 | Romance is on the Rise |
| Big Star | 1978 | Third/Sister Lovers |
| Tracey Thorn | 1982 | A Distant Shore |
| Propaganda | 1984 | B-side to the "Dr. Mabuse" single, in 2002 released on Outside World compilation album |
| Dramarama | 1985 | Cinéma Vérité |
| R.E.M. | 1987 | Dead Letter Office |
| Tom Tom Club | 1988 | Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom |
| Beef | 1991 | Heaven & Hell - A Tribute to The Velvet Underground (Volume Two) |
| Duran Duran | 1993 | Duran Duran |
| Greg Kihn | 1994 | Mutiny |
| Pansy Division | 1995 | Pile Up |
| Teenage Fanclub | 1997 | Ain't That Enough |
| FourPlay Electric String Quartet | 2000 | The Joy Of... |
| Ours | 2002 | Precious |
| Émilie Simon | 2003 | Émilie Simon (bonus disc) |
| Angel Corpus Christi | 2003 | Accordion Pop, Vol. 1 |
| Elisa | 2004 | Lotus |
| Hecate's Angels | 2004 | Saints and Scoundrels |
| Owen | 2006 | At Home With Owen |
| The Feeling | 2008 | Turn It Up |
| Elvis Costello | 2009 | Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Bonus Track) |
Notes
- ^ Bockris, Victor (1994). Transformer: The Lou Reed Story. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 107. ISBN 0684803666. "Andy said I should write a song about Edie Sedgwick. I said 'Like what?' and he said 'Oh, don't you think she's a femme fatale, Lou?' So I wrote 'Femme Fatale' and we gave it to Nico. (Lou Reed)"
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