Sweet Jane

Lou Reed wrote it. On Loaded it is side one, track two, listed at 3:55 although it actually runs about 3:18, and it segues into "Who Loves the Sun" on original pressings. The album came out on Cotillion in November 1970, recorded April to August 1970 at Atlantic Studios in New York, with Geoff Haslam, Shel Kagan and the band producing and Adrian Barber engineering. Reed sings and plays guitar, Doug Yule plays bass, drums, guitar and sings, and Sterling Morrison plays guitar; Yule drummed because Maureen Tucker was pregnant and absent. Reed said a bridge was cut from the Loaded version, while Yule said Reed edited it himself to make a hit; Reed dropped the bridge live by 1973. The single came out on July 20, 1973 on Atlantic, backed with "Rock and Roll".

The late-1969 live version is slower, with a different structure and lyrics, and the 1970 version from Max's Kansas City has a bridge missing from Loaded. Reed's solo version is on Rock 'n' Roll Animal (February 1974), with Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. Mott the Hoople recorded it in 1972 with David Bowie producing, and Cowboy Junkies in 1988 on The Trinity Session, based on the slower 1969 version. Our upload is a live recording from the band's official channel; we could not match it to a specific release. Loaded and its singles did not chart.