Tin Machine (song)

{{Infobox song

| name = Tin Machine/Maggie's Farm

| cover = TinMachine_TinMachine.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| released = 28 August 1989{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1989/MW-1989-08-26.pdf|title=New Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=50|date=26 August 1989|access-date=7 October 2024}}

| recorded = August 1988 – early 1989;
studio material recorded at
Mountain Studios, Montreux Switzerland,
and Compass Point Studios, Nassau
live recording
25th of June 1989;
at La Cigale, Paris

| studio =

| venue =

| B-side = "Maggie's Farm" (live)

| genre = Rock

| length = 3:34/4:29

| label = EMI
MT 73

| writer = Bowie, Gabrels, Sales, Sales

| producer = {{Flatlist|

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| prev_title = Under the God

| prev_year = 1989

| title = Tin Machine

| title2 = Maggie's Farm

| next_title = Prisoner of Love

| next_year = 1989

}}

"Tin Machine" is a song by Anglo-American hard rock band Tin Machine, and the song from which they took their name,{{Citation| last=Levy | first=Joe| title=I'm with the Band | journal=Spin Magazine | volume=5 | issue=4 |date=July 1989 | pages=35–36}} a track from their debut album, also of the same name. It was released as a single in September 1989, as a double A-side with a live cover of Bob Dylan’s “Maggie's Farm”.{{cite book | title="The Complete David Bowie New Edition: Expanded and Updated" | last=Pegg | first=Nicholas | date=October 2016 | publisher=Titan Books}}{{cite book | title=Ashes to Ashes The Songs of David Bowie 1976–2016 | first=Chris | last=O'Leary | publisher=Repeater Books | year=2019 | isbn=9781912248308}}

Song development and live performances

According to guitarist Reeves Gabrels, naming the band after the song was the idea of the Sales brothers, who reasoned "It’s like having your own theme tune".

"Maggie’s Farm" and the other live tracks were recorded at the band’s gig at La Cigale, Paris on 25 June 1989. Both songs had videos – "Tin Machine" featured in an excerpt from Julien Temple’s promotional film as a mock performance where the fans stormed the stage,{{cite web | url=https://www.ilikeyouroldstuff.com/news/david-bowie-and-i-socks-sax-sex-shops-interview-reeves-gabrels |title=David Bowie & I: Socks, Sax & Sex Shops | date=3 June 2019 | access-date=6 June 2019 | last=McLennan |first=Scott}} leaving lead vocalist David Bowie with a nosebleed; and "Maggie’s Farm" was recorded live. Despite this, the double-A side entered the chart at its UK No. 48 peak.

The live version of "Bus Stop" (also released as the Country version, or Live Country version) would later appear as a bonus track on 1995 Virgin Records reissue of Tin Machine.