Love Missile F1-11

"Love Missile F1-11"
Single by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
from the album Flaunt It
B-side"Hack Attack"
Released17 February 1986 (1986-02-17)[1]
GenreSynth-pop[2]
Length3:45
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Giorgio Moroder
Sigue Sigue Sputnik singles chronology
"Love Missile F1-11"
(1986) 		"21st Century Boy"
(1986)

"Love Missile F1-11" is the debut single by the British new wave band Sigue Sigue Sputnik, released in 1986 from their debut studio album Flaunt It. It was the band's biggest hit, reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart.[3] The track was produced by Giorgio Moroder, after Prince rejected a request to oversee production, complaining the track was "too violent."[4] The band approached Moroder due to his work on a number of Hollywood film scores, as well as his early Donna Summer records, with the latter inspiring the band's trademark repetitive, synthetic bass sound.[4]

In 1987 Pop Will Eat Itself released a cover of the song.[5] In the 2000s David Bowie released a cover of the song.[6]

  1. ^ "Lift Off" (PDF). Record Mirror. 15 February 1986. p. 4. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  2. ^ Jonathan Bernstein; Jay Stowe (April 1995). "Where Are They Now?". Spin. 11 (1): 139.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference UK was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b "A Journey Through Stock Aitken Waterman: Ep 39: Success to S.S. Paparazzi on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  6. ^ Buckley, David (2015). David Bowie: The Music and The Changes. Omnibus Press.