Evil Woman (Electric Light Orchestra song)

"Evil Woman" is a song written by lead vocalist Jeff Lynne and recorded by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

First released on the band's fifth album, 1975's Face the Music. Released as a single in late-1975, the song became the band's first worldwide hit. According to Lynne this song was the quickest he had ever written, in thirty minutes, originally as 'filler' for the group's Face the Music album. The song placed in the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic in early-1976. The song became a hit again in the UK in 1978 when it featured on The ELO EP. The lyric "There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in" in the song is a tribute to The Beatles' song "Fixing a Hole".

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 * 1 Chart performance
 * 1.1 Weekly charts
 * 1.2 Year-end charts
 * 2 Jeff Lynne version
 * 3 Other uses
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links

Jeff Lynne version[edit]
Jeff Lynne re-recorded the song in his own home studio. It was released in a compilation album with other re-recorded ELO songs, under the ELO name.[18]

Other uses[edit]
In 1995, Michael Stipe imitated Jeff Lynne at an R.E.M. concert at Madison Square Garden on their Monster Tour, he wore a frizzy wig and sang "Evil Woman" before the show with Luscious Jacksonplaying the music.

In 2002, the song was used in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember during the jail scene with Dr. Evil receiving a visit from Mindy Sterling's character Frau Farbissina, the movie's soundtrack albumfeatured a version by Soul Hooligan and featuring Diana King.

In 2006, a part of the song was sampled in the Pussycat Dolls single "Beep".

The band moe. covered the song three times in 2005.

In 2008, singer/songwriter Mike Posner included a cover of the song on his mixtape, "A Matter of Time", and as a bonus track on selected editions of his first album "31 Minutes to Takeoff".

The song is being performed as part of the 2007 Broadway musical Xanadu.

The 1987 TV special DTV Monster Hits! also featured a short music video of the song, set to clips of all the female villains featured in Disney cartoons up to that point.

The song was also featured in a 2009 episode of the TV series Community.

The song appeared in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV on the fictional radio station Liberty Rock Radio 97.8

A cover version of the song was performed by Oh Mercy on Triple J's Like a Version segment in April 2011.

The song appeared in a TV commercial for Hyundai that aired during Fox's coverage of Super Bowl XLVIII on 2 February 2014.

The song appeared in a 2008 episode of the TV series My Name Is Earl.