Английская Википедия:Emma (Hot Chocolate song)

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Шаблон:About Шаблон:Infobox song "Emma" is a 1974 song by the British soul band Hot Chocolate. Written by band members Errol Brown (vocals) and Tony Wilson (music), the song address themes of suicide, early death and lost childhood. Brown's lyrics celebrate his recently deceased mother. Their rawness was developed after the producer Mickie Most asked him for further "depth and darkness".

Emma reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart and number 8 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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The song details the love of the (nameless) singer and a girl called Emmalene from the age of five, through a wedding at 17 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 because "I just can't keep on living on dreams no more."

Chart history

Weekly charts

Chart (1974–75)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)	6
Belgium	2
Canada RPM Top Singles	5
Germany	19
Шаблон:Single chart
Netherlands	2
New Zealand (Listener)	2
UK	3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	8
U.S. Billboard R&B
U.S. Cash Box Top 100	6

Year-end charts

Chart (1974)	Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)	45
Chart (1975)	Rank
Canada	45
UK	44
U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)	93
U.S. Cash Box	87

Cover versions

• Earth Quake recorded a cover version for their 1977 album, Leveled.
• The Sisters of Mercy started performing the song live in 1983. The studio version was released on the b-side of the 12" version of their 1988 single, "Dominion", and on the 2006 re-release of the album, Floodland. A much-bootlegged alternate version from a 1984 John Peel radio session was officially released in 2021 on the "BBC Sessions 1982–1984" compilation.
• Urge Overkill recorded a version for 1990 Touch and Go Records release, The Supersonic Storybook.

External links

• The Sisters of Mercy: Emma (Peel Session)