Emma a.k.a. Emma, Emmaline is a song by Earl Brown and Tony Wilson released as a single by Hot Chocolate in 1974. It made No.3 in the UK charts. Hot Chocolate was a British band of the 1960s and 1970s formed by Errol Brown (a Briton born in Jamaica). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ...

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." Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ...

Later Use

This rather dark song (by Hot Chocolate's standards) saw the light of day again around 1985 when The Sisters Of Mercy started performing a live (and cosiderably "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. Hot Chocolate was a British band of the 1960s and 1970s formed by Errol Brown (a Briton born in Jamaica). ... This article is about the year. ... The Sisters of Mercy are a band that emerged out of the British post punk scene in 1980-1981. ... Gothic Music is a relatively confusing term, in that it is necessary to distinguish it as used to mean goth music, whilst also being used to completely expell this meaning. ... Andrew Eldritch (born Andrew William Harvey Taylor, May 15, 1959) is the frontman, singer, songwriter and the only remaining original member of The Sisters of Mercy, a band that emerged from the British post punk scene and, in later years, also flirted with pop and hard rock. ... Wayne Hussey (born Jerry Lovelock on 26 May 1958 in Bristol) is a British musician, best known as a member of The Mission and The Sisters of Mercy. ... Brithsh musician, bass guitarist and songwriter of: The Sisters of Mercy (1981-1985) Mission UK (1985-1992, 1999-2002) The Cult (1993-1995) Colorsound (1998-) Alarm (2003-) Categories: Stub | The Sisters of Mercy ...