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Femme Fatale (The Velvet Underground song)

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A-side
  
"Sunday Morning"

Length
  
2:39

Genre
  
Pop

Label
  
Verve Records

Released
  
December 1966 (single) March 1967 (album)

Recorded
  
April 1966, Scepter Studios, Manhattan

"Femme Fatale" is a song by The Velvet Underground from their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico, with lead vocals by Nico. At producer Andy Warhol's request, band frontman Lou Reed wrote the song about Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick. The song was released as a B-Side to "Sunday Morning" in December 1966. It is one of the gentler songs of the album, coming as a direct contrast to the preceding, abrasive song, "I'm Waiting for the Man".

Personnel

  • Nico – lead vocals
  • Lou Reed – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • John Cale – piano, bass
  • Sterling Morrison – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Maureen Tucker – snare drum, tambourine

    • In concert or non-released tracks:

  • Smashing Pumpkins side project Spirits in the Sky, on their 2009 tour.
  • Samuel Windmill of The Percolaters, in an unreleased solo cover from the same session as the band's 2012 debut EP.
  • Concrete Blonde, while opening for Wall of Voodoo on their "Happy Planet" tour in Melbourne, Australia played the song in honor of Lou Reed's birthday (March 2, 1988).

    • References

    Femme Fatale (The Velvet Underground song) Wikipedia
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