Fifteen Minutes: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground was an album released by Imaginary Records in the UK in 1994. The album consisted of contemporary artists performing cover versions of songs by The Velvet Underground. All the tracks had previously appeared on the three-volume Heaven & Hell series of covers of Velvet Underground tracks.
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