Prisoner of Love (Tin Machine song)

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“Prisoner of Love”
“Prisoner of Love” cover
Single by Tin Machine
from the album Tin Machine
A-side Prisoner of Love
B-side Baby Can Dance (Live)
Released October 1989
Format 7"/12"/CD single
Recorded Montreux; Nassau, August 1988 - early 1989
Genre Rock
Length 4:09
Label EMI
MT 76
Producer Tin Machine, Tim Palmer
Tin Machine singles chronology
"Tin Machine"/
"Maggie's Farm"
1989		 "Prisoner of Love"
1989		 David Bowie: "Fame '90"
1990
Tin Machine:
"You Belong in Rock 'n' Roll"
1991

"Prisoner of Love" was a song by Tin Machine, taken from their self-titled debut album. It was issued as their third single in October 1989. Bowie claimed at the time he wrote the song for his then-partner Melissa Hurley. It reads as worldly advice from the singer, warning the subject off drugs among other things – Bowie’s social conscience is a recurring theme of Tin Machine.

Despite being backed by live tracks recorded at La Cigale, Paris on June 25 1989, and a novel heart-shaped 12" picture disc release, "Prisoner of Love" failed to chart in the UK or the US.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] 7" version

  1. "Prisoner of Love (Edit)" (Bowie, Gabrels, Sales, Sales) – 4:09
  2. "Baby Can Dance (Live)" (Bowie) – 6:16

[edit] 12"/CD version

  1. "Prisoner of Love (Edit)" (Bowie, Gabrels, Sales, Sales) – 4:09
  2. "Baby Can Dance (Live)" (Bowie) – 6:16
  3. "Crack City (Live)" (Bowie) – 5:13
  4. "Prisoner of Love (LP version)" (Bowie, Gabrels, Sales, Sales) – 4:15

[edit] Production credits

[edit] References

Pegg, Nicholas, The Complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000, ISBN 1-903111-14-5