"Love Machine" is the seventh single of the J-pop idol group Morning Musume, released on September 9, 1999 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 1,646,630 copies making it a massive hit and also making it their highest selling single. In 2004, it was re-released as part of the Early Single Box and again in 2005 as a 12 cm CD. This single also marks the debut of the "Third Generation" member Maki Goto and the departure of Aya Ishiguro.
"Love Machine" was the sixth single by pop group Girls Aloud, and the second to be taken from their sophomore album What Will the Neighbours Say?. The single was released on 13 September, 2004. In December 2006, it was claimed by a Nokia report to be the second most 'exhilarating' song ever, after Song 2 by Blur.
"Love Machine" is a 1975 number-one single recorded by Motown group The Miracles, taken from their album City of Angels. This single was one of two Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits recorded by The Miracles with Billy Griffin as lead vocalist; the other is 1973's "Do It Baby". Griffin had replaced Miracles founder Smokey Robinson as lead singer in 1972.
Produced by Freddie Perren, a former member of The Corporation braintrust in charge of the early Jackson 5 hits, "Love Machine" was written by Billy Griffin and his bandmate Pete Moore, who wrote the rest of City of Angels as well. The song's lyrics, delivered over a [disco]] beat, compare a lover to an electronic device such as a computer or a robot.
"Love Machine" peaked at number-one on the Hot 100, and was the best-selling single of The Miracles' career. By 1979, the song saw its first cover, this time performed by Thelma Houston. Houston's version became became a popular song with club DJ's at the time in the United States, although it did not chart. In Asia, and especially in Japan, "Love Machine" became her most successful single, and topped the Japanese charts. The success prompted her the album Ride to the Rainbow to be reissued as Love Machine for the Japanese release.
Wham! performed a cover version of "Love Machine" on their 1983 album, Fantastic.
