Candyman (Siouxsie & the Banshees song)

Infobox Single
Name = Candyman

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Artist = Siouxsie & the Banshees
from Album = Tinderbox
B-side = "Lullaby", "Umbrella"
Released = February 28 1986
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded = 1986
Genre = Alternative rock
Length =
Label = Polydor
Writer = Siouxsie & the Banshees
Producer = Siouxsie & the Banshees
Mike Hedges
Chart position = * #34 (UK)
Last single = "Cities in Dust" (1985)
This single = "Candyman" (1986)
Next single = "This Wheel's on Fire" (1987)"Candyman" is a song written and produced by English rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees. It was released as the second single from Siouxsie & the Banshees' seventh studio album "Tinderbox".

The song is an aggressive guitar-based number with heavy Post-punk influences. Although its title suggests wholesome imagery à la "The Candy Man", Sioux's lyrics describe an altogether different kind of "Candyman" (à la Ronald Clark O'Bryan): "("...Sickly sweet, his poison seeks / For the young ones who don't understand / The danger in his hands / With a jaundiced wink see his cunning slink / Oh trust in me my pretty one / Come walk with me my helpless one...")".

"Candyman" became Siouxsie & the Banshees' thirteenth top-forty hit, peaking at number thirty-four in the UK singles chart.

ee also

*Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in songs