Kate Bush Interview, 1985
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2011
- From my archives: Here's an interview with Kate Bush from 1985 in New York City on WNBC's Live at Five with Sue Simmons. This interview features classic Sue Simmons mistakes.
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lmao racing up that hill from the album dogs of love is my favorite song by kate shrub
excellent
Ben Preston i snoRTED
"be racing down that street, be racing up that hill, be racing up that skyscraper without problems
Funny!
LOL.LOL.LOL.LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
I love that
"Hounds of.. Hounds of?"
Kate: Love!
Love!"
I’m amazed at Kate’s professionalism and class... I want to be like that when having to deal with dumbasses/fake idiots. What a queen.
that was embarrassing lol.
@@jamesdavidkmoss yet the interviewer was still too ignorant and arrogant to care.
She seemed annoyed having to interview an "unknown" power femme
She’s quite a striking artist. Very refined and gracious woman.
Today's American interviewers seem much the same. It seems to be reflected in the US politics.....and yes Kate is adorable under the duress of ignorant arrogant interviewers.
Wow watabitch
God I love her. You can see how much she hates the promotional side of music but she thinly veils it with a gracious smile in such a perfectly British way
É verdade! Kate Bush é rápida nas respostas também. Se eu fosse entrevistada por uma "militar" igual a essa que a entrevistou (e no início nem soube falar o nome completo da canção) , eu jamais me sentiria à vontade. Kate foi incrivelmente amável.
Lol let me guess, you're not English
@@HorkPorkler born and raised in London
@profplum5 yeah that's what he said, you're not English.
@@Darrenski what on earth are you talking about you pillock
That interviewer clearly didn't do her research. Racing up that Hill...
i know right? i just rolled my eyes.
OMG couldn't stop laughing. .what a dumbo !!!
Well it was racing up the charts in 2022
This interviewer has the warmth of a block of ice.
This interviewer only needed one question: "Kate, what is it that makes you such a beautiful and brilliant spirit, someone who understands that popular music can, at its best, be pure poetry?"
To be fair, there were a lot of interviewers who really weren’t at the races in the 70/80s… it was like watching your pop heroes being interviewed by your parents.
Racing Up That Hill off The Hounds Of Um
Racing up that hill is my favorite Kate Bush record. I love how she played the Fairchild in it.
Inyourlap
" i don't even know what your talking about "
What about Sundusting?
Bit of a late response from the future, but yeah, she's a demon on that Fairchild!
"The man with a child on his lap" is my favourite.
You guys are great. I'm rolling on the floor laughing.😂😂😂
5 minutes before the interview started :- "Who's this we've got in?" .. "Kate, who?" .. "Ah right and she's got a single, right?" .. "Racing did you say? OK no problem. Be a dear and write it down on a piece of paper for me" .. "Is she touring?" .. "You think so, oh OK, I'll assume she is" .. "Look, I'll just bluff my way through it. Say I've read some 9 page article. You know, that sort of stuff" .. "It'll work as anyone viewing will be eating their dinner and half listening anyway" .... 5 minutes after the end :- "Well, I thought that went well. She was very charming .. Be a honey tomorrow though, eh and get me Kenny Loggins will yer. Much more my scene and I've heard of one of his songs, too!"
I'm always impressed at how collected and charming Kate comes across in interviews, especially in this one which is a little laughable.
She has more patience than most artists would in this situation. Goes to show how much of a class act she is.
She is British
When Kate says 'Love' right after the host botches 'Running (racing) up that Hill' I get chills all over my body and my hair stands up. What a magical creature. I also love her cute cheek dimple under her eye :D
'Racing Up That Hill', 'Walking The Witch'. You have to love an interviewer who doesn't do her research.
You mean a 'journalist'. Yeah, lack of research is essential. You can only use opinion to back up an agenda or bias, especially if it pays well.
She was so collected, such a pro. Her soft kindness that came through beat easily the bad manners of the reporter.
Racing up that hill! Hounds of what? .... some presenter! Love you Kate and CONGRATULATIONS on the success of Running up that Hill yet again xxx
Well, I know Americans are super late, but I'm glad that she's finally getting the recognition here that she rightfully deserves. Being an amazing artist and an inspiration for many!!! 🙏💞
Good grief, this is excruciating. Kate Bush will be remembered forever as a creative genius on the scale of Bowie.
she's like an angel
Running up the Hill just hit number one in June 2022! Since being played on Stranger Things recently it become a hit again . It only took 37 years .
Kate Bush was way to exceptional for pop stardom. She is a true artist.
The interviewer did not have a clue to how great the legend in front of her was to become.
i wouldn't say to become, since she, you know, wrote wuthering heights at 17, but i agree.
RACING UP THAT HILL? That's just bad journalism.
Well, Kate must have been in a hurry that day. ;)
Yeah and she didn’t even know the name of the albums either
WOW that was uncomfortable. The interviewer was more like a judge in court grilling the person on the stand. You could see Kate's extreme discomfort after answering some of the questions, but she maintained her grace.
Zero appreciation for art. Kate was booked for ratings and nothing more. The fact that they couldn't be bothered to do an ounce of research shows how little they respect Kate and their own profession as "journalists".
presstitut
Alas, not much has changed in "journalism" in 35 years.
All about the business and promotion from the yank interviewer. Completely misses the mark. Difference between the USA and England to a large extent and most certainly back then.
@@speak_your_truth. To be fair, that's the only reason she'd be interviewing Kate.
@@chrisparkes2179 lol
BEGINS by asking about Kate's live shows which hadn't happened in over 5 years at that point and would not happen again until 2014 - very painful
the only thing I really rescue from this lame interview is...how well put together and polite Kate Bush is - the interviewer was extremely rude from the start, painful to watch
"By a David Gilmore of Pink Floyd..." The disrespect in the tone of this presenter is beyond the roof...
You mean you wasn't aware of all the other Dave Gilmours? Where have you been man? Little house on the prairie? And come on, there's like how many Pink Floyds? One was even a minor bit part player in the 'industry', for a short time. You can see how this 'great' landed her job in 'journalism'. Today however she wouldn't get a job on the free, 6 page local paper they push through the door every week to make the most of the scummy housework jobs you've got to deal with. What we call a 'pro'.
Great album. One would expect no less. The woman is a perfectionist performance genius.
Interesting clip for comparrison between posture and gesture and behaviour between a European and an American woman...
Such an unpleasant woman, shame Kate had to put up with that.
I didn't like that woman interviewing, something a little rude and hostile about her...:/ Poor sweet Kate.
She so beautiful, sweet and humble. I'm glad that her music is getting renewed attention and appreciation.
this is almost as cringe as the night flight interview
god bless Kate
she is so gracious and kind
Looking at the clothes Kate is wearing, it seems she did those on the same day.
@@TheGreatIndoors1979 that's one rough day
@@TheGreatIndoors1979 - You beat me to it! ;-) And yes, that would've been a very rough day indeed.
Kate is so charming when being interviewed, even like this!
Its obvious the interviewer did the minimum amount of research. kate looks really peed off!
Couldn't help but lmao listening to this debacle and reading all of the comments below. Kate was definitely calm and patient with this interviewer. But, there is a reason for this - she's had lots of practice - with English interviewers. This is well before her visit to the US. There are some really cringe-worthy interviews with men asking the questions. But, this one is definitely the icing on the cake. Uh, make that icing splattered on the top of the cake after it falls ass-over-tea-kettle onto a rain-drenched road. Loved the way Kate said 'Love', in a way only she can say it.
English interviewers such as who? Provide a few names please. Cause I remember her from the beginning and I doubt there was one interviewer in England that was totally unaware of who she is and what she's done. Just provide a few names cause I've seen most of her tv interviews and don't remember one 'male English' interviewer ever showing such a complete lack of interest of asking such robotic scripted questions or who treated her like some silly pop star. But I'll take a guess you're not English and if you are then you wasn't in the late 70s, and if you were, then like I said, feel free to qualify your claim with a few examples.
Her's Kim Bush with her latest single Racing Up That Hill...what a dolt! Of course Kate has nothing but class and style and does her usual great interview.
Racing Up That Hill played on the Fairchild - my favourite.
OH MY! What would have happened if she’d had proper exposure and actually decent interviews in America? I’m an American but discovered her kind of on my own! But, what if.....
37 years later we found out.
Right?
Kate Bush enters the chat
*firestorm 🔥🔥🔥
Love the SHOWTIME opener in the beginning of this!
Done with listening to Racing through the Mill, Father stands for comfort, the Evening Fog, Walking the Witch, Goodbye Earth, Jig of Death, and the Big Spy. Now I'm going to listen to 50 Words for Slow.
Beaming intelligence and charme.
She's very very intelligent!
Fast forward to 2022.
This interview was better than the Nightflight interview. The host may not have been well researched on Kate's work (if the comment about being a last minute booking is true). At least she corrected herself and seemed impressed with Kate as an artist.
i disagree with everything except that this is better than the Nightflight. this is a bad interview. her research is almost none and she doesn't even listens to Kate (Kate says twice that her only tour was in 1979 and she kept using the word "tour"😆). I love Kate's gesture at around 5:00 like she is hating the interviewer and doesn't want to be there at all.
But the Nightflight one is a fuckin mess. Its painful to watch. I was never able to watch it all in one sit; I've always watched in on clips. It should be shown on journalism schools for teaching everything you are NOT supposed to do on an interview.
They’re racing up that hill towards a Fairchild (whatever that is) hoping it doesn’t have mechanical problems.
LMAO what a horrible interviewer!
I was half expecting her to correct it to "SKIING UP THAT HILL on the album THE HOUNDS OF LUST."
😵💫 Racing up that hill
She's a lady . An English rose 🌹
"Oh England my Lionheart" penned by someone who loves her country.
"Fairchild"? - Jeez, its Fairlight...
Sue Simmons was one of my favourite Black American newscaster. Prince was a fan of Kate Bush. Her song This Woman's Work. Today we forget the worth of recording studios.
Racing Up That Hill sounds like an interesting song. Hasn't been released yet.
It has, just that it's played on 78RPM and not 45. 😔
God, I lived in NYC during this time. Sue Simmons was known for some of her explosive freakouts.
This interview is so cringe. It's too bad that these interviewers didn't seem to realize that they were essentially getting an opportunity to interview Howard Hughes and these interviews would be watched in the future by many, many fans of this reclusive genius.
There are so many questions I'd love to hear Kate Bush answer, and we only get this ill-prepared, surface tripe.
She is just too deep for American audiences. American's like music and that is short in length and easily accessible. Music that is complex takes repeated listens to get and American's (for the most part) don't have patience for that. I mean, come on - Peter Gabriel era Genesis was so complex and they were a "cult band" in America and much bigger in Europe, Invisible Touch on the other hand was huge in the good old USA. Oh and I am an American, so I have seen this first hand.
this American get kate and and huge fancy .. i get Kate and her music ,.. wishing that America did play her more her music ..
Don’t include this American… I love Kate.
But I know what you mean…
nationalistic cuckoldry.
Yes. I remember a lot of artists in the 80's using the Fairchild. Like Peter Garbriel, Bryan Neo and Thomas Dobly. I think Sue Simmons would be right in saying that you could fart into it and it sounded like a 50 piece orchestra. Is that right?
- Today our guest is Kate... Kate...
- Bush!
- Bush!
I remember when I first heard Wuthering Heights in 1978? 1977? It stopped me dead in my tracks. That has never happened to me before or since. I was mesmerized. She is truly unique. Keeping Your Head Up by Birdy is similar to Kate Bush. Another brilliant song in its own right.
I'll listen to it again but I've always thought she sounds like a cat on that song... I like some of her other work though...
@@joemartines3545 lol I can see where you might hear it that way. I never did but yah, it is very unique and we all hear music differently, I'm sure.
@@andyandcallie the McGarrigle sisters always wondered why they didn't have a bigger following so their producer brought a few of their songs to his office staff for an unbiased opinion. They said they sounded like cats. Wuthering Heights reminds me of this story...
@@joemartines3545 lol There are singers who rub me the wrong way, so I know. Madonna is one, Meatloaf is another and that girl from the Cranberries--that yodeling--I can't even listen to her at all. Kate Bush, though, odd as she is, sounds lovely to me.
@@andyandcallie I actually like Wuthering Heights, the song and the book... I studied the book in university and really enjoyed it. It's just her voice is a bit high... I will admit she's a unique artist. Do you like Regina Spektor? I've seen her perform and consider her a musical genius...
I'm going down a Kate Bush interview rabbit hole
I go through them once a year or so
Very professional and sweet voice. Wuthering heights sond and video clip is exciting and thrilling!
The interviewer was clearly not a fan, and because of her lack of research, she tried to expose Kate's vulnerabilities and assumed attitudes towards the American people to fill the void of this embarrassing interview. Kate was a class act who outclassed the interviewer.
The interviewer seemed jealous of her
I can see why Kate dislikes doing the media stuff, that has got to be the worst prepared interviewer of all time got both the single & the album names wrong, what a muppet, that ladies in the wrong job🤪
Watch the Nightflight interview, that one gives this one a run for it’s money in awfulness 😳
@@cloudbusting.heights just watched it poor Kate that was really painful I think that was much more crappie, even though it made me cringe thanks for the tip off
@@alistairmcdougall9625 Yeah, this interviewer came across more as one who had someone in her ear counting down to the end of the show and trying to still focus on Kate. I quite liked her comment that Kate would have still got the breaks, it at least made it look like she recognised her talent. The nightflight thing was just dire even though it wasn't going out live and should have been more relaxed.
@monochrome I've grown up throughout Kates whole career & she is by far the best Female Artist to come out of the UK & I'm 52 now she an Incredible Woman & so grounded & modest
@monochrome So glad you enjoy her music it's timeless, you have a fantastic journey to look forward to exploring Kates music, which part of the former country known as Yugoslavia do you come from
‘I don’t even know what you were talking about’ with that almost accusatory tone was very strange
Kate Bush is everything!!!
Una grand artista
As a young boy not yet in my teens it was either Kate Bush or Lynda Carter I think it's the big eyes they had and still have that captivated me.
I’m sort of amazed at all the shade being thrown at Sue Simmons in these comments!! I was never a fan, although I’ve known of her presence for her entire career on television back in those days. She never pretended to know more than she did - who knows how much earlier than the actual interview she got to do the research. I was expecting to see some really cringe-worthy disrespect from Simmons to the Divine Kate Bush - but that was not it at all. She didn’t know Kate’s work - she admitted it. Maybe she was a tad brusque, especially in the presence of such a great artist - but she knew nothing about her really, and said so right up front. She corrected her misnaming of “Running Up That Hill” - she wished Kate the best of luck in her career. I guess it was the comments that made me brace myself for something much worse. Jeez - it was a 5-minute interview. I don’t know - like I said, I was never a Sue Simmons fan, and she was just a newscaster, whereas Kate Bush I’ve adored since well before this interview took place - she had me at her performance of “Them Heavy People” on Saturday Night Live in 1979, and ever since - so I’m a huge fan. I don’t feel Simmons was in the least bit disrespectful, dopey, rude or mean. She did her best. She made a couple of mistakes, because of her lack of knowledge of the subject - she admitted them where she saw them, and tried to clear them up. And she even said, obviously impressed, that she had read a 9-page article on Kate’s musicianship. Sounds like everyone is expecting Sue Simmons to be a totally prepared Dick Cavett hour with Kate Bush. Strange to me the contempt shown by so many here.
I see what you mean. I too was like the others thinking that Kate she disrespected, but you threw a much clearer perspective on my original position. As an Australian, Sue Simmons was/ is unknown to me, but Kate Bush was massive in this country and my memories of her remain indelible.
It was also a live broadcast and Simmons probably had some looney in the control box yapping in her ear, counting down the seconds and saying "Don't forget to say... Don't forget to ask..."
I liked the way she threw away the script and chipped in "They'd have come" when Kate said the how grateful she was to Dave for helping her get the breaks.
You said everything I wanted to say. Thank you.
Wow the interviewer when she said Kate just sent a video over to America instead of doing a live tour lol.
I Believe This Was A Video Clip Of WNBC-TV's News 4 Live At 5's Entertainment News Report On Interview With Kate Bush On Monday Evening, November 18, 1985.
Thank you, Don Pardo.
Ah yes, I remember "Racing Up That Hill" By Catherine Tree, Released in 1975 on the album "Dogs Of Romance".
2:36 The 70s and the 80s were my first decades of discovering music and especially the 80s (including this song) affected my taste in music fundamentally.
But in retrospect:
how SHIT things were back then!
"You were discovered..."
Back then creators/artists were _discovered_ by labels, and typically managed local to one country at first.
Now everyone (literally a thousand times more creators compared to then) can easily create, perform, produce, release and market music and even videos completely on their own on no-cost worldwide platforms, being available to billions of people.
Imagine the luck that we all had that Kate Bush actually were discovered back then, and not yet another mainstream music broiler.
And imagine how many creative talents that weren't...
Today I discover several new amazing creators ecery week, from lots of countries.
In the 80s, you typically had to spend lots of time and effort to find the interesting stuff: traveling to the next city, slightly larger that had record shops with (imported) alternative music, spy-reading rock magazines (also next city), staying up late night listening to more obscure radio channels/programs that played all the good stuff that weren't on the charts. It was also a misogynistic industry - so hard to find interesting female artists that didn't compromise on their artistic integrity. Virtually all record label bosses, all managers, all journalists and all magazine editors were men.
Today, yt recommendations do all of that for me for free, way more efficient and also better than any chart or Spotify selection/collection.
I loved the 80s and all the new genres and non-mainstream music from then, but all things together, music (the art form, the industry) is so much better now!
[Thank you if you read all the way through my too long rant]
The reporter is Sue "The Fuck you doing" Simmons.
And Sarah Bushwell's debut album walking down that footpath is her last album in North America.
Hands down, one of the best interviewers ever. She asked really interesting questions that hinted at things we've always wondered about. Kate's fear of traveling over water, her recognizing that her music wasn't intended for American pop radio, and that the sudden interest in her in the US was because we were eager for genuine voices. Good on Kate for a great interview....but, Sue Simmons did her job.
That felt like a job interview between two people who didn't want to be there...especially Simmons, who couldn't be bothered by getting the name of the song and album down correctly.
You seem to have set the bar quite low for people in the interviewing trade.
Quiet a pleasant interview
HOUNDS OF... what?
AUHUHAUHAHUAHUA
Kate had to say it poor Kate :(
Chihuahuas of love
@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 hahahaha
@@3lisa She was so sweet
Yes, that well-known Kate classic, "Racing Up That Hill".....
omg im only just at racing up that hill and im on the floor laughing lol
This interviewer was better than the one from nightflush or whatever it was.
I don't think she was ill prepared as much as rushing to get the interview done in the few minutes remaining on the show. She corrected her mistake over the title. Ok she got the name of a synthesiser wrong but it was a nice touch to say that the breaks would have come for Kate.
I am laughing so hard at all these clever comments!! I hope Kate sees them🤣
I've always sang "Running Up That Hill" oops
Oh ok, they made a mistake after I'd posted that hehe. I love Kate, I did a Parody of Wuthering Heights on my channel and I don't think ANYBODY can come close to her voice haha. Love her! xxxx
Now Ms Kate Bush is a big super star all over again ✨
0:38 :O IT'S RUNNING UP THAT HILL NOT RACING UP THAT HILL!
Rolling down that road by kat boosh.
Urgh. No wonder she doesn’t like doing promotion. This interview alone would put you off for life.
I'm surprised Kate didn't correct her on the "Fairchild", I would have. But then again, it's not a Sue Simmons interview if she doesn't fuck up at least a few times!
Jeez this interviewer is dreadful-put Kate completely on the back foot and doesn't know her AT ALL.
She is always quick with her answers in her interviews but I don't think she likes interviews because of the stupid questions she is asked,I'm sure sometimes it's hard for Kate not to laugh.I have seen many of her interviews and a lot of the questions are nearly always the same.She is very patient,humble and polite.
I think the interviewer was very respectful, she corrected herself and was very supporting and polite in her wording.
Yes, it is well known in NYC circles
By the seemingly infinite grace of Kate
Indeed! And with such an enchanting smile.
Hearing Kate Bush talk is relaxing.
Not many artists of that era were quite so astute re the music business.
running up that hill looked almost like aikido and/or jui jitsu.
What a lovely woman. Pretension is a word that will never ccome near her.
"THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!!?" - Sue Simmons
and now....we pan over to the fabulous kate bush, looking perfectly serial-killer-esque...if we may....and planning to not waiver from that for the whole program....if we also may.....kate, great to have you with us....still doing that....
I don't know... but... I love her!