Saviour Machine (song)

"Saviour Machine"
Song by David Bowie from the album The Man Who Sold the World
Released	November 4, 1970 (U.S.) April 1971 (UK)
Recorded	Trident and Advision Studios, London 18 April - 22 May 1970
Genre	Hard rock
Length	4:26
Label	Mercury Records
Writer	David Bowie
Producer	Tony Visconti
The Man Who Sold the World track listing
"Running Gun Blues" (5) "Saviour Machine" (6) "She Shook Me Cold" (7)

"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 which uses a 'Saviour Machine' as a metaphor for the entity of Law which promises great things, but ultimately fails its people. Part of the song's melody is lifted from an earlier Bowie composition called Ching-A-Ling or The Ching-A-Ling Song.

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)