For other uses, see Loving the Alien (disambiguation).
"Loving the Alien"
Single by David Bowie
from the album Tonight
B-side
"Don't Look Down"
Released
May 1985
Recorded
May 1984
Studio
Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada
Length
7:11 (album version) 4:43 (single remix)
Label
EMI America – EA195
Songwriter(s)
David Bowie
Producer(s)
David Bowie
Derek Bramble
Hugh Padgham
David Bowie singles chronology
"This Is Not America" (1985)
"Loving the Alien" (1985)
"Dancing in the Street" (1985)
Music video
"Loving the Alien" on YouTube
"Loving the Alien" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie. It was the opening track to his sixteenth studio album Tonight. One of two tracks on the album written solely by Bowie, an edited version of the song was released as a single in May 1985, nine months after the release of lead single "Blue Jean" and eight months after the release of the album. "Loving the Alien" peaked at No. 19 in the UK Singles Chart. "Loving the Alien" inspired the title of Christopher Sandford's 1997 biography of Bowie and the 2018 Bowie box set release, Loving the Alien (1983–1988).
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