| "I'll Be Your Mirror" | ||||
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 Promotional picture sleeve | ||||
| Single by the Velvet Underground and Nico | ||||
| from the album The Velvet Underground & Nico | ||||
| B-side | "All Tomorrow's Parties" | |||
| Released | July 1966 | |||
| Recorded | April 1966 | |||
| Studio | Scepter, New York City[citation needed] | |||
| Genre | Pop[1] | |||
| Length | 2:16 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Lou Reed | |||
| Producer(s) | Andy Warhol | |||
| The Velvet Underground and Nico singles chronology | ||||
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"I'll Be Your Mirror" is a song by the Velvet Underground and Nico. It appeared on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It also surfaced as a single a year earlier with "All Tomorrow's Parties" in 1966.
Lou Reed wrote the song for Nico, who provides lead vocals. According to biographer Victor Bockris, inspiration for the song came about after Nico approached Reed after a show in 1965 saying, "Oh Lou, I'll be your mirror."[2] The song was a favorite of Reed's and The Velvet Underground & Nico engineer, Norman Dolph.[3]
Mark Deming of AllMusic described "I'll Be Your Mirror" as an "understated love song."[4]
- ^ Bill Smith; Dan Lander; Daniel Kernohan (2010). Music Is Rapid Transportation: --From the Beatles to Xenakis. Charivari Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-895166-04-0.
- ^ Bockris, Victor (1994). Transformer: The Lou Reed Story. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 106. ISBN 0-306-80752-1.
- ^ Harvard, Joe (2007) [2004]. The Velvet Underground & Nico. 33⅓. New York, NY: Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 128–129. ISBN 978-0-8264-1550-9.
- ^ "The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground". Allmusic.