| "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 | |||||||
| Released | December 1966 (single) March 1967 (album) |
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| Recorded | April 1966, Scepter Studios, New York City | ||||||
| Genre | Psychedelic Pop, Protopunk, Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock, Avant-garde rock | ||||||
| Length | 2:39 | ||||||
| Label | Verve Records | ||||||
| Writer(s) | Lou Reed | ||||||
| Producer | Andy Warhol | ||||||
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"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.
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 and Reckoning (Deluxe version 2009) |
| 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 |
| Angel Corpus Christi | 2003 | Accordion Pop, Vol. 1 |
| Émilie Simon | 2003 | Émilie Simon |
| 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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