And if I only could, I’d make a deal with God” Very Kate Bush, and fine with me, as long as we can swap back again soon after.Īt the end of this week I intend to check out her last album Aerial from 2005 which I confess I never discovered. I’ve always loved the idea within Running Up That Hill that to fully understand each other a man and woman should swap places for a while “Do you want to feel how it feels? Do you want to know that it doesn’t hurt me? Do you want to hear about the deal that I’m making? You, it’s you and me. Side Two, the more conceptual “The Ninth Wave” is for chilling and absorbing at home, and like every Kate Bush album it has its eccentric moments that you don’t necessarily get, and lyrics that need fathoming. For if I’m travelling Side One is the one, from that eerie opening to Running Up That Hill with the driving drums through to the powerful Cloudbusting with the beautiful string accompaniment. The Hounds of Love is definitely a game of two halves for me, not least because we had it originally as a tape and had to rewind at the end of Side One to play it again and again on journeys. Fortunately us chaps had the Wham! fashion icons in George and Andrew and our open neck white shirts and therefore didn’t feel intimidated of course. Scarves, leg warmers, large earrings, make-up…all turned purple or lilac. Just because somebody’s been in an ad on TV, so what? Who gives a toss?” from an interview in MOJO magazine (3 November 2005)įorget Prince, the reason why the 80s was the decade of the colours purple and lilac was the cover for this album – I’m sure every girl decided that purple accessories were the way forward following on from Kate. Even more so now where you’ve got this sort of truly silly preoccupation with celebrities. For me, that’s frightening. I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. Friends of mine in the business don’t know how dishwashers work. It’s so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. “For the last 12 years, I’ve felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. The girl from Kent takes pride in her normality – She has withdrawn from the public gaze for years at a time. Whereas you feel Madonna’s every living moment is crafted for attention, Kate Bush is fiercely private about her life, so much that it took the press 18 months to discover she’d become a mother. I look forward to finding out if the dancing is still as strange…Īlthough practically the same age as Madonna, that is as far as the similarity goes. Her eyes are still amazing, the hair is controlled but hints that it could get wild if given the chance. Totally by accident (honestly, I only realised half way through the week!) I’ve chosen the week before she releases her first single for years Deeper Understanding, and the week that this amazing photo above marks an upcoming compilation, The Director’s Cut. Through the 80s she brought us amazing and eccentric songs and albums, and this week I’m spending time with The Hounds of Love from 1985. We’d never seen or heard anything like it. In 1978, Kate Bush was only 19 when she was on Top of the Pops and performed Wuthering Heights in that white dress. And that magical song swirling all over the place, as mad as the dancing. Her eccentric mannerisms and often lurid stories – which included tales of prostitution, jailhouse lesbianism, and botched abortions – made her into a cult figure in the late 1970s and 1980s, with VHS tapes of her speaking engagements becoming collector's items.I know its rude to discuss someone’s age, but I’m just stunned that it’s so long ago since she first appeared in our living room with that wild voice, those wild eyes, the wild hair and the strangest dancing that we’d all ever seen. Florence Louise Fisher Bacolod (Septem– May 26, 1972) was an American motivational speaker in the 1960s and 1970s who traveled to high schools in the United States, telling stories about her past as a heroin addict and prostitute.yago:WikicatAmericanMotivationalSpeakers.dbc:American_people_of_Lithuanian-Jewish_descent.Her eccentric mannerisms and often lurid stories – which included tales of prostitution, jailhouse lesbianism, and botched abortions – made her into a cult figure in the late 1970s and 1980s, with VHS tapes of her speaking engagements becoming collector's items.
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