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Single:
Hong Kong Garden entered the Australian singles chart* on 23 July 1979 and peaked at #38.
Songwriters:
John McKay, Kenny Morris, Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin
Producers:
Nils Stevenson, Steve Lillywhite
Record label of Australian release:
Interfusion
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS VIDEO BELOW – Dear Prudence by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Songfacts – Hong Kong Garden:
If you think the title sounds like the name of a Chinese restaurant, you’re right. Said Siouxsie: “I’ll never forget, there was a Chinese restaurant in Chislehurst called ‘The Hong Kong Garden’. My friend and I used to go there and like, occasionally when the skinheads would turn up it would turn really ugly. These gits would just go in and terrorise the Chinese people who were working there. We’d try and say ‘leave them alone,’ you know. The song was a kind of tribute.” From Punk Top Ten interview, 6 August 2001.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/siouxsie-and-the-banshees/hong-kong-garden
Songfacts – Siouxsie and the Banshees:
Siouxsie and the Banshees were a UK punk group formed in London in 1976. Siouxsie Sioux (real name: Susan Dallion) was the lead singer. She and the Banshees’ initial line-up emerged from the Bromley Contingent, a notorious group of punks inspired by the Sex Pistols. In addition to bassist Steve Severin and guitarist Marco Pirroni, the band included drummer John Simon Ritchie, who assumed the name ‘Sid Vicious’. They disbanded after one gig, Vicious joining the Sex Pistols and Pirroni later joining Adam and The Ants. Sioux and Severin re-formed their band the next year with guitarist Peter Fenton and drummer Kenny Morris. By 1979 Fenton and Morris had left to be replaced by drummer Budgie (real name Peter Clark) and, for a short period, Robert Smith of The Cure. After a succession of other guitarists came and left the band finally split in 1996. Sioux and Budgie, who later married, also recorded as the Creatures.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/siouxsie-and-the-banshees/hong-kong-garden
Lyrics:
Harmful elements in the air
Symbols clashing everywhere
Reaps the fields of rice and reeds
While the population feeds
Junk floats on polluted water
An old custom to sell your daughter
Would you like number twenty three?
Leave your yens on the counter please
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Dear Prudence by Siouxsie and the Banshees entered the Australian singles chart on 28 November 1983 and peaked at #44.
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