"Loving the Alien" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie.

One of two tracks on the album written solely by Bowie, as a demo the song was simply called "1".

[7] Bowie's biographer David Buckley called it "the only track on the album with the gravitas of much of his earlier work".

On the A Reality Tour in 2003 and 2004, he again performed the song, but this time as a stripped-down version with only Bowie on vocals and Gerry Leonard on guitar.

The original album version, most of its remixes and b-sides all appear on the 2018 box set Loving the Alien (1983–1988).

The Scumfrog version of "Loving the Alien" reached #41 in the UK that year.

[12] Steve Strange covered this song with his band Visage for the posthumous album Demons to Diamonds in 2015.