Emma (song)

Emma (song)

Emma, also known as Emma, Emmaline or Emmeline, is a song by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson released as a single by Hot Chocolate in 1974. It made No.3 in the UK charts and No.8 in the US.

Plot

The song details the love of the (nameless) singer and a girl called Emmaline from the age of five all through a wedding at seventeen until her suicide at an unspecified later date. Emma it seems wanted to be a "movie queen" but could never find the breaks and eventually kills herself with the line "I just can't keep on living on dreams no more."

Later Use

This rather dark song (by Hot Chocolate's standards) again saw the light of day around 1985 when The Sisters of Mercy started performing a live (and considerably "gothed up") version of it with Andrew Eldritch's voice making it darker still and the guitar and bass of Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams making for a slower and much more funereal style. Their version was released on the b-side of the 12" version of their 1988 single, "Dominion".

Chicago's Urge Overkill also performed a version of this song on their 1990 Touch and Go Records release "Supersonic Storybook".


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