Wow (Kate Bush song)

Wow (Kate Bush song)

Infobox Single
Name = Wow


Artist = Kate Bush
from Album = Lionheart
B-side = "Fullhouse"
Released = 9 March 1979
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1978
Genre = Art rock
Length = 3:41 (Single edit) 4:00 (Album version)
Label = EMI
Writer = Kate Bush
Producer = Kate Bush
Andrew Powell
Last single = "Hammer Horror"
(1978)
This single = "Wow"
(1979)
Next single = "Symphony in Blue"
(1979)"Wow" was the second single to be released from Kate Bush's second album "Lionheart".

The single is an edited version of "Wow", although it is not labelled as such. On all European "Wow" singles, the first 12 seconds of synthesizer chords have been removed. Brazil and Canada used the full-length LP version.

The song was released on 9 March 1979 and peaked at number 14 in the UK Singles Chart. "Wow" was a target for comedian Faith Brown who parodied it on her show. The song also appears on Bush's compilation hits album "The Whole Story".

This song was featured in the 2002 Rockstar North videogame "" as part of the power ballads radio station Emotion 98.3.

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