Femme Fatale (song)
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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 B-Side to Sunday Morning in December 1966.
The song has been covered by numerous artists, including:
- Big Star, on the 1978 album Third/Sister Lovers
- Dramarama, on the 1985 album Cinéma Vérité
- R.E.M., on the 1987 album Dead Letter Office
- Tom Tom Club, on the 1988 album Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
- Duran Duran, on the 1993 album Duran Duran
- Pansy Division, on the 1995 album Pile Up
- FourPlay String Quartet, on the 2000 album The Joy Of…
- Jazzhole, on the 2000 album Blackburst
- Ours, on the 2002 album Precious
- Elisa, on the 2003 album Lotus
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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