Wow

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"Wow"
Single by Kate Bush
from the 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(s)	Kate Bush
Producer	Kate Bush Andrew Powell
Kate Bush singles chronology
"Hammer Horror" (1978) "Wow" (1979) "Symphony in Blue" (1979) Music sample "Wow"

"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 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as part of the power ballads radio station Emotion 98.3.

Jazz singer Liza Lee covered the song on her 2009 album Anima. Lee who is a stroke victim is donating proceeds of the album to The Society For Women's Health Research.^[1]

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