Femme Fatale (The Velvet Underground song)

"Femme Fatale"
Single b/w "Sunday Morning"
Single by The Velvet Underground and Nico
from the album The Velvet Underground & Nico
A-side	"Sunday Morning"
Released	December 1966 (single) March 1967 (album)
Recorded	April 1966, Scepter Studios,[1] Manhattan
Genre	Pop[2]
Length	2:39
Label	Verve Records
Writer(s)	Lou Reed
Producer(s)	Andy Warhol
The Velvet Underground and Nico 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)
The Velvet Underground & Nico track listing "Sunday Morning" "I'm Waiting for the Man" "Femme Fatale" "Venus in Furs" "Run Run Run" "All Tomorrow's Parties" "Heroin" "There She Goes Again" "I'll Be Your Mirror" "The Black Angel's Death Song" "European Son"

"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.^[3] 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 previous, 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

Cover versions

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In concert or non-released tracks:

• Smashing Pumpkins side project Spirits in the Sky, on their 2009 tour.^[4]
• 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).

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