Emma (Hot Chocolate 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.

Their rawness was developed after the producer Mickie Most asked him for further "depth and darkness".

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 she "just can't keep on living on dreams no more."