Saviour Machine (song)
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| “Saviour Machine” | |||||
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| Song by David Bowie | |||||
| Album | The Man Who Sold the World | ||||
| Released | November 4, 1970 (U.S.) April 1971 (UK) |
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| Recorded | Trident and Advision Studios, London 18 April - 22 May 1970 |
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| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 4:26 | ||||
| Label | Mercury Records | ||||
| Writer | David Bowie | ||||
| Producer | Tony Visconti | ||||
| The Man Who Sold the World track listing | |||||
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"Saviour Machine" is a song written by David Bowie in 1970 for the album The Man Who Sold the World. It is a hard rock song with constantly changing tempos about a machine that can stop wars and feed the people. The machine gets bored and threatens to kill everyone. Part of the song's melody is lifted from an earlier Bowie composition called Ching-A-Ling or The Ching-A-Ling Song.
[edit] Cover versions
- Data Bank A - single
- Redd Kross - Teen Babes from Monsanto (1984)
- Sheriff Scabs - .2 Contamination: A Tribute to David Bowie (2006)
- Vice Squad - The BBC Sessions (1998)
