Hammer Horror (song)

Hammer Horror (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Hammer Horror


Artist = Kate Bush
from Album = Lionheart
B-side = "Coffee Homeground"
Released = 27 October 1978
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1978
Genre = Art rock
Length = 4:39
Label = EMI
Writer = Kate Bush
Producer = Andrew Powell
Certification =
Last single = "The Man with the Child in His Eyes"
(1978)
This single = "Hammer Horror"
(1978)
Next single = "Wow"
(1979)
Misc = "Hammer Horror" was Kate Bush's third single release and first single from her second album "Lionheart". It was released on October 27 1978 and made number 44 in the UK Singles Chart.

The song is a tribute to Hammer Films, a company specialising in horror movies. The story of the song concerns an actor who gets thrust into the lead role of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and ends up being haunted by the jealous original actor, a friend of the song's narrator until the re-casting.

The B-side of the song was "Coffee Homeground", which also featured on "Lionheart".

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