PALE BLUE EYES

Created on 07/01/2010
Latest update on 07/01/2023

Artist: Lou Reed
Author: Lou Reed
Label: Light In The Attic
Year: 1965

With John Cale and with lyrics concerning his then girlfriend Shelley Albin. Demo version (with just the first familiar stanza in place) on Scotch tape released by his widow Laurie Anderson for Lou Reed document Music & Words, May 1965. See also I'm Waiting For The Man.

Covers:

1969:

Velvet Underground [on the third album, when Cale had left the band]

1980:

Peter C. Johnson

1984:

Paul Quin & Edwin Collins

1987:

R.E.M.

1989:

Maureen Tucker [the best cover if you asked Lou Reed]

1991:

Mock Turtles

1994:

Marisa Monte

1994:

Alejandro Escovedo

1995:

Hole

1996:

Jackie Leven

1998:

Grant Lee Phillips

2003:

Joe Henry

2005:

Eric Andersen

2011:

Andrea Corr

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