Sweet Jane

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Written by: Lou Reed
Produced by: The Velvet Underground, Shel Kagan, Geoffrey Haslam
Released: Aug. '70 on Cotillion
Charts: Non-single

Loaded was made as the band was falling apart, and, after Reed quit, a wistful coda was chopped out of this song. "How could anyone be that stupid?" Reed asked RS in 1987. "If I could have stood it, I would have stayed with them and showed them what to do." For years, the only available version of the coda was on the 1969 live LP, but the full "Jane" appears on recent reissues.

Appears on: Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition) (Rhino)

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