This was the encore from her 1979 tour. She managed that vocal performance at the END of a 2 hour concert! It's simply amazing. This was the first use of a wireless headset mic during a concert. It was designed specifically for this tour so she could dance as she sang. She was a trailblazer in so many ways. In my opinion, she could never be appreciated enough.
That its a headset mic is in itself not that impressive even for the times, mic technology was very very well developed even before this, its that it is wireless and that it also sounds very good in spite of it being wireless. The overall sound in this recording is also very good.
Thankyou dear,,i would have been teen😅,, my dad would always crank that one up, in the brain forever❤yes brilliant, and i realized more so as I got older,vocally👌
And she could genuinely sing and dance at the same time--unlike most of the modern performers who generally mime to a recorded vocal track if they are dancing.
I'm now 74, and I still recall how amazed I was to hear Kate performing a song based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. I mean, who does that? She was magnetic, captivating in a way I'm still hard pressed to adequately describe. I became a lifelong fan. Kate has no equal.
No equal for sure.... I will forever be in love with Kate. If you haven't my friend...Do check out Chinchilla...especially "Fingers Live For Hunger TV" (ruclips.net/video/KK56SwMFzdc/видео.html) and/or "1:5" (ruclips.net/video/wvh-iW803bY/видео.html). While there will never be another Kate Bush.... this young lady (Daisy Bertenshaw) is most certainly vying to wear her crown ... AND don't miss her and Ren's live busking version of "Sexual Healing" (she's pushing Janis as well)✌
I went to one of the Palladium shows in Kate Bush's 1979 tour with my mother and sisters. I was only 13 and more into punk at the time and only went along because my mother didn't trust leaving me in the house alone. I remember being absolutely stunned by Kate's performance, not just by her vocals but the atmosphere and emotion she created with each song that seemed to pull you in. As we were walking out I asked my mother if we could see her again. We couldn't - the next show was in another city and besides the tickets had all sold out weeks before. It remains the only time I have seen Kate Bush live but 46 years later I can still feel that atmosphere and emotion like it was just yesterday.
I will never grow tired of saying this, but very, very few people in the music business are really, truly deserving of the term 'genius'..... Kate Bush is a genius. I know that you will be inundated daily with requests to react to this or that performer, but I have never heard any voice coach react to the extraordinary Kate Bush vocal on the album recording of "Violin" - the song that includes her highest recorded note. I would be great to hear your take on what she does with her voice on that track. Thanks for a really cool reaction vid.
I was at school in the UK when this song came out, aged 15. The boys at school liked a mixture of music - some were into pop, others rock and hard rock, some into punk, some into classical. But when this song came out, EVERYONE in the school loved it, and loved Kate Bush too. And not just because we all fell in love/had crushes on her. Her talent and uniqueness stood out. Saying an artist is a one off is overused these days, but it really does apply to Kate.
great memories! I met her music when I was studying my career in 2016, almost a decade ago . I remember I was into Bjork and a friend of mine told me : Listen to Kate bush , she is goat!. So I listened to her first album and I was mesmerized! , such delicacy and artistry , very beautiful. The song "Moving" is one of my favourites.
Kate Bush is from another dimension....totally memorizing..... with a voice that covers virtually every register. She performs and sings seemingly without effort; a reminder for all of us that talent like this is reserved for the few chosen ones who never stop improving their craft. Magnificent and thank you for covering!!
When you said "like she was playing a role" you nailed it. She was playing a role. She once once explained that she was the ghost of Kathleen with the high thin voice to define the character. Brilliant, and truly an artist.
Thank Dave Gilmour for Kate Bush. He discovered her, and put her on the map. Her monumental talent took it from there of course, and she became a legend.
I love her . I got The Kick Inside for my 16th birthday . I just spent so much time in my bedroom listening to this . Everyone said I looked liked her . Maybe . I will just adore her forever . This woman is our National treasure . I think she learnt to dance under Lindsay Kemp . And she was shy at first . He coaxed her amazing talent out . ☺👍
I have never been as captivated by a woman's voice as Kate was during my adolescence. The Kick Inside is in the top ten of the albums of my life. Beautiful memory. Bethany, Thank you!
Kate is amazing! I was exclusively a metalhead back in my younger days.....until I saw/heard Kate Bush who made me realize there are amazing and talented people in other genres......she's absolutely awesome, as is the wonderful Tori Amos, who I also adore!! 🎶🙏❤️
I saw her 5 times on this tour. Edinburgh, Paris and all 3 nights at the Hammersmith Odeon, where this was filmed. I was lucky to meet her in Paris & then backstage at the Odeon. Genuinely a lovely lady.. 😍
I saw her at London Palladium? You sure she played Hammersmith Odeon on her first (and only) tour? She played what was Hammersmith Odeon when she did that series of shows 10 years ago.
@and2rew 100% She did 3 nights. I was at all 3. It was originally supposed to be 2 but at the start of her tour one of her crew died in an accident, Bill Duffield, so she did an extra show as a benefit for him. She was joined onstage that night by Steve Harley & Peter Gabriel. As a side note.. Not only did I get to meet Kate at the Odeon, but I hung out with her & Simon Drake, her magician/mime artist, & Liz & Glynnis (her backing singers). We were preparing the "intestines" needed during the gigs for when she sung "James & The Cold Gun". Preparing was basically sitting in the sun behind the Odeon, using scissors to cut red towels into thin strips so it looked like guts when the bad guys got shot.. 😎 😏
@@and2rew He did indeed play at the Hammersmith Odeon. In fact this video is from the VHS "Kate Bush Live at the Hammersmith Odeon" (I have it) from her first tour in 1979
A female artist is yet to be born and be able to topple this legend from her pedestal. We all owe a great debt to David Gilmour for discovering Kate and bring her to the spotlight.
Interesting too is that many of the musicians on her early albums were from The Alan Parsons Project - I can remember (decades ago) reaching for the album sleeve notes to find out the name of her guitarist because his sound felt so familiar (it was the late Iain Bairnson) and that's when I recognised the names of some of the others and had a bit of an 'aha' moment.
I'm so pleased you reacted to this live version! Was a kid when this was first played on the radio, and to me, it was like lightning from a clear blue sky. Incredible. Thank you 🙏
Kate is so talented and so utterly fearless. I've been in awe of her ever since discovering her work. Thanks for bringing her onto the channel! If you ever want to look at more of her work, I'm here for it!
My introduction to Kate Bush came via her 1978 appearance on Saturday Night Live and I was transfixed. I bought the album (The Kick Inside) on Sunday at the local (only) record store in the small town where I was stationed with the USAF. I remain a fan to this day.
I fell completely in love with Kate Bush when she first appeared on TV here in the UK, on a show called Top of the Pops, when she released this single, in 1978, and I was 9 years old. Everything about it and her was absolutely mesmerising in a way I've never been able to quite explain to this day. I'm 54 now, and her voice still just melts my heart.
I actually saw her first tour and the whole concert was mind blowing. Her first album is one of the greatest debuts of all and we have to realise she was only 20 when it was released. Everyone should have this album. Let’s also not forget that it was Dave Gilmour who helped her get recognized.
Kate Bush was other worldly. To have inhabited the same time line will have been an honor. I had the pleasure of discovering her and many other amazing artists doing college radio in the early eighties.
I saw her on this tour, Sunderland Empire 12th of April 1979. We had never seen anything like it before, singing AND dancing at the SAME time! That radio head mic was invented by her sound engineer using a coat hanger just so she could do that. When sadly we had to leave the magical world Kate had taken us to I left the theater vowing to see her on her next tour. And 35 years later, I did, at this very venue (Hammersmith Odeon, London) in 2014, and it was just as magical. I've seen all the greats, except the Beatles, but those two Kate Bush concerts were the best I've ever seen.
Like you I am one of the fortunates in seeing Kate in 1979 and 2014. Whenever I walk past Starbucks in London from where I booked my tix online I mutter thankyou as I know many many were not as lucky as you and me.
WOW! I've been looking for this footage for years! I remember this from 1979 and it was very innovative in the use of a wireless/hands-free microphone. Everyone talked about it. Every time she sings "oh it dark, it gets lonely, on the other side from you" and the keyboard does that creepy little five note motif it send chills down my spine. I never get tired of this song!
Such a groundbreaking tour from one of the all time great female artists. Totally unique. Here at the age of 20 she had already written hundreds of songs, taught herself to play the piano , learned dance and mime, released two albums, had the balls to turn down an invitation to support Fleetwood Mac on their ‘Rumours’ tour, inspired production of the first head mic hastily fashioned out of a wire coat hanger with a radio mic taped onto the end so that she could dance while singing. A genius!
❤She was signed to EMI Records after David Gilmour of Pink Floyd helped produce a demo tape. In 1978, at the age of 19, she topped the UK singles chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a fully self-written song.(*)
I heard when she came into the studio, she brought 200 self-written songs with her. Must have been a new problem for the crew, not how do we find enough songs to fill the record, but how do we pick out the 12 best songs out of this avalanche.
If I understand correctly, she’s also both the youngest *and* the oldest artist to have a #1 single in the UK, with ‘Wuthering Heights” back then and “Running Up That Hill” (which didn’t make #1 when it was first released in the 80s) a couple years ago.
I was so very much in love with Kate Bush as, a teenage boy, she was only a few years older than me. Beautiful lady with such a lovely voice. Watch her singing Babooushka - why girls of my my age hated/ loved her.
Glad you enjoyed this! Kate at that time in her career a true innovator at a time when women were not generally recognised. A true talent, a lovely lady who did not sell her soul for money .
Kate Bush is amazing! I loved this song when I was a child. I was born in 1971 so I really didn't understand it but I fell in love with the unusual sounds the song brought me. It's interesting you talked about how lucky she was to find an audience; that she came at the right time. Famously, in England anyway, a BBC Radio 1 DJ played this for the first time on his show and thought the song was a joke. Nobody in England knew Kate Bush or the song at that point. He kinda trashed it, promised never to play it again and I think he actually broke the disc live on air. I think it was Mike Reid, but nobody outside England is expected to know that name so don't worry lol. Anyway, radio was really big back then and DJs were very influential. This was Kate's first big entry into the UK market and that DJ could have crushed her UK career chances right there and then, but luckily, as you said, the time was right and the audience found the song and Kate was embraced by the UK, at least for a while. It was lucky, though. A couple of years earlier and she might not have made it. It always amazes me how many talented people there are out there who just never find their audience, even with the internet in recent years. Being an artist is a tough life.
When this track hit the airwaves a lot of people put Kate Bush down as a 'novelty' act. A bit like an upmarket Toni Basil. A couple of years later they realised she was more than that. A few years after that and suddenly people knew there was a real genius out there. 30 years later and people are still 'discovering' her.
I remember as a young teenager living in England at the time when this song was hitting the the top of the charts. I'm now just a few months from turning 60. Time flies, but some things are timeless.
Beautiful voice. Her movements and voice seem theatrical and dramatic. It's like what you would hear in a Disney film. It's lovely, hypnotic and alluring. It's hard to comprehend that this is from 1979 this beautiful woman is far beyond her time. A masterful performance. ❤
To hear her now makes me cry - I have all the records, but there is nothing like the magic of the first time hearing her on my tiny transistor radio late at night - what a feeling!. She is a treasure now and always!!
I've been listening to her music since I was a kid in the mid 80's, I was a metal head from my young teens, but she's always been my guilty pleasure. I don't know why, but I always get shivers along my neck and back every time I hear her sing "I hated you, I loved you too" 🥰 She wrote all the 13 songs on her first album (The Kick Inside). To do that in your late teens, amazing! She was 19 (almost 20) when the album was released.
The debut album "The Kick Inside" reached number 3 in the UK chart and sold over a million copies. It was a top 8 or better in 10 other countries and indeed reached number 1 in the Dutch and Portuguese album charts.
She is/was such a unique performer, and this song is extremely special, both because of originality and because it really just encapsulates so much magic, fantasy and romanticism. Been one of my favourites since I first heard it in around 1978, and I never get bored of it. She was definitely very much loved for what she gave.
Was on a school trip to London in 1978 when this song came on the radio on the coach we were travelling on & it blew our teenage minds! I thought Debbie Harry & Blondie was something but this took me to literally another place. Loved her music ever since & love her for being so enigmatic & private in this world of ‘celebrity 365’. Thank you for the analysis- spot on! 🙏🙌🏼
I just turned 62. I bought The Kick Inside within days of first hearing Wuthering Heights on the radio in early 1978, aged 15. There haven't been many other songs that have done that to me. "Crucify" was another, 15 years later.
First of all, this video is a gem (and I hadn't seen it!). Second it was a great choice, the titles are alright, they don't matter. And finally I like your review a bit more everyday. Thanks a lot Beth!
She has a hauntingly beautiful voice. Kate Bush was the first female Artist to have a UK Number 1 Single with a song she also wrote herself, Wuthering Heights.
I'm a complete rock fan. Rush always were and always will be my favourites but there's also Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and many more and I love and accept that the Beatles were the greatest, but, there's a special place in my musical heart for Kate Bush, she's a musical genius and second to none as far as I'm concerned. Rush and Bush will do for me!
Thank You for Your analysis! Kate Bush was a trailblazer , pioneer , groundbreaker , "door opener" , innovator : (headset mic) and an inspiration for other artists to come. For sure! And You can hear Her influence on many of them..
Catherine Bush CBE didn't perform Live after 1979 until 2014, 35 years later. She did 22 concerts in the Hammersmith-Apollo theatre in London, it was sold out in 15 minutes!
There's a very sad reason why she never toured again after this first tour. It was because during that tour, while preparing one of the concerts, one of the lighting technicians fell from the scaffolding onto the stage and died. Kate was very shocked that someone died because of her performance and said she doesn't want that to repeat anymore.
My first exposure to Kate Bush was from her entire video The Whole Story being shown on TV. I think it was on PBS, but I could be wrong. I was enthralled by her talent, and I wanted more. Unfortunately, I couldn't find more than a couple of her albums in the Chicago area. Fortunately, at the time, I was travelling to Toronto a couple of times a year. The next time I was in Toronto, I bought every album I could find, plus the video collection I saw on TV. She's still one of my favorite artists of all time, and I have very eclectic tastes in music.
She appeared when I was young and she, like others was ridiculed but she didn't do anything but her own thing. She was my first album I bought with my own money and I've loved her ever since with all of my heart. 😊
Absolute nut job. Like Bowie. Totally unique and I have never come across a talent like this since 1978. She wrote everything, sang, arranged, played produced. Genius. Most of kick inside was written when she was 16! It still stands up today, anything today as good as "Man with the child in his eyes?" Saxophone song? This?
My absolute favorite musican in those days !!! She was and is fantastic ! ( she only did one tour.. but seen the effort she put in to it - sha was also a dancer )
You mentioned you were not sure whether this was the best live video to pick because there were credits ar the end. This is the perfect video to pick for that reason. Some of those artists are sadly no longer with us and we must give credit to those people. And to see the joy on Kate's face at the very end as she came out of character. Something to behold.
I love how you recognize how completely different Kate was, even though you're from a much younger generation. I remember hearing her sing for the first time when I was a kid and to be honest she wasn't my cup of tea. BUT as the years passed by, her style grew on me and nowadays I find it stunningly beautiful.
One of the most captivating and unique voices I’ve ever heard even to this day! Sidebar: happy new year Beth! Wishing you continued success with your channel❤
Bethany, so happy you did this. I had never seen this particular performance before. Kate Bush is a genius and a prodigy. Imagine writing this at 19!! Like you I am so thrilled that this was so warmly received because it truly sounds like nothing that had ever been recorded before. But we can be glad that Kate was so successful and we get to enjoy her music and artistry! Please do more This Woman’s Work! ❤
@davidgrubbs4480 - Kate Bush was actually 18 years old when she composed "Wuthering Heights". She had just watched a BBC adaption on television of "Wuthering Heights" on March 5, 1977, and afterwards, in just a few hours later that same night, Kate composed the entire lyrics and song.
I immediately started loving her in the 70-ties after her first appearances on my tiny black and white TV when I was 23. Now, in the age of 72, this love has never stopped and I collected all her music and have tried to look at every of her performances on TV or RUclips or DVD ... She's one of a kind, you can't find the words to descibe her ... And besides that: she had great help from another hero of mine, David Gilmour ! Pink Floyd is my life band and their - and Kate's - music will be played at my funeral !
I was there ❤ 1979 it was the first concert I’d ever been to and she spoilt me for years! I’d never seen anyone sing and dance with the special mic and to this day I will never forget that concert ❤ I was young and I sneaked in because I was tall so was often mistaken for older but I was 15 😂 Kate Bush was my superstar 👍🏼
She revisited this song years later, recording a new vocal, that came out in 1986, and it's every bit the equal or more of the original. Fascinating to hear how she approached it from a more mature and experienced place.
I remember when this came out, at first people did think she was weird, and people were confused, but she couldn't be dismissed because she was just so good. She sounded like nobody else, back then I never met anybody who didn't like her.
I had a very happy period of time in my life listening to Kates music.. I was in my mid 20s and life was so good, and I had a couple of Kate Bush album ‘tapes’ playing on repeat in my car at the time.. Anytime I hear her songs, I am instantly transported to this time in my life..and my heart & soul smiles. Thank you Kate, you’ll never know how your music helped so many. 🙏🏽
I remember when this was released. The night before the album went on sale they dedicated a full hour to it on Radio 3 - the BBC classical music station! - and they played the whole album with the DJ introducing each song in turn. Next day, I went straight out and placed an order at our local music store. A week or so later Wuthering Heights was all over the radio.
Some artists are genuinely unique. Kate Bush was the definition of that, there simply hadn’t been anyone like her up until then and really there hasn’t been anyone like her since.
Kate Bush was only 18 years old when she composed "Wuthering Heights". She had just watched a BBC adaption on television of "Wuthering Heights" on March 5, 1977, and afterwards, in just a few hours later that same night, Kate composed the entire lyrics and song.
And, if I remember correctly, recorded the vocals in one take! She then fought EMI to release it as the first single (EMI wanted James and the Cold Gun). She got her way, and the rest is history. Fearless and uncompromising are just two more adjectives to describe her.
I saw a film of one her live shows where she was standing inside a wheel, hands and feet pressing the inside of the wheel as she actually rolled on stage, singing the whole time. WHAT??? Who can do that? The films I see now of violinists doing trapeze and dancing while they play is amazing, but hey, Kate was doing that 40 years ago and with her VOICE, while she still had to breathe and dance in time with the music. When you watch her performances, you will notice she rarely stops moving, swaying, twirling, running, always moving, and continually singing through it all with perfect pitch and timing. There has never been anyone like her. Bowie is probably the closest I can think of, but he didn't dance the way she did. AND, she wrote terrific songs in the progressive rock field, and I don't know any other women who did that.
I had just read Wuthering Heights when I heard this song for the first time, and I was totally mesmerized. Kate captures the ghost of Katherine so well. If you want to better understand the acting aspect of this performance I recommend reading this classic novel.
This came out when I was 18, so Kate would have been 22, I was so child like compared to her obvious maturity. To write and perform the way she did was fantastic. I was able to go out and buy her L.P. I felt so grown up to buy it, listen to a grown up singer, understand a song based on a story. Kate had it all, I was transfixed by her and desperate to copy her style. I was a real David Bowie fan and to me she was a female equivalent of him. Truly amazing 😊
Kate was 18 when she wrote this, and 19 when it was recorded and released. Her second single, the Man with the Child in his Eyes, was written when she was 12. Kate was a great David Bowie fan as well, and was at the legendary last Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars at this very same venue, the Hammersmith Odeon, in 1973.
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This was the encore from her 1979 tour. She managed that vocal performance at the END of a 2 hour concert! It's simply amazing. This was the first use of a wireless headset mic during a concert. It was designed specifically for this tour so she could dance as she sang. She was a trailblazer in so many ways. In my opinion, she could never be appreciated enough.
That its a headset mic is in itself not that impressive even for the times, mic technology was very very well developed even before this, its that it is wireless and that it also sounds very good in spite of it being wireless. The overall sound in this recording is also very good.
Thankyou dear,,i would have been teen😅,, my dad would always crank that one up, in the brain forever❤yes brilliant, and i realized more so as I got older,vocally👌
And she could genuinely sing and dance at the same time--unlike most of the modern performers who generally mime to a recorded vocal track if they are dancing.
And the cradle for the mic was fashioned from a wire coat-hanger!
And she is still a teenager here!
Kate Bush is the definition of artist. As a vocalist, lyricist and performance artist. Transcendent and brilliant.
The exact words are : singer, songwriter composer PRODUCER..... than a performer from the perspective of 2025, with all the informations we have.
Sadly, there is little room for artists today. Only products.
Kate wrote, "The Man with the Child in his Eyes" at age 13. That's just incredible.
I'm now 74, and I still recall how amazed I was to hear Kate performing a song based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. I mean, who does that? She was magnetic, captivating in a way I'm still hard pressed to adequately describe. I became a lifelong fan. Kate has no equal.
No equal for sure.... I will forever be in love with Kate. If you haven't my friend...Do check out Chinchilla...especially "Fingers Live For Hunger TV" (ruclips.net/video/KK56SwMFzdc/видео.html) and/or "1:5" (ruclips.net/video/wvh-iW803bY/видео.html). While there will never be another Kate Bush.... this young lady (Daisy Bertenshaw) is most certainly vying to wear her crown ... AND don't miss her and Ren's live busking version of "Sexual Healing" (she's pushing Janis as well)✌
I went to one of the Palladium shows in Kate Bush's 1979 tour with my mother and sisters. I was only 13 and more into punk at the time and only went along because my mother didn't trust leaving me in the house alone. I remember being absolutely stunned by Kate's performance, not just by her vocals but the atmosphere and emotion she created with each song that seemed to pull you in. As we were walking out I asked my mother if we could see her again. We couldn't - the next show was in another city and besides the tickets had all sold out weeks before. It remains the only time I have seen Kate Bush live but 46 years later I can still feel that atmosphere and emotion like it was just yesterday.
She is a genius. That's it. Probably one of the greatest artists of the last 50 years.
I will never grow tired of saying this, but very, very few people in the music business are really, truly deserving of the term 'genius'..... Kate Bush is a genius.
I know that you will be inundated daily with requests to react to this or that performer, but I have never heard any voice coach react to the extraordinary Kate Bush vocal on the album recording of "Violin" - the song that includes her highest recorded note. I would be great to hear your take on what she does with her voice on that track. Thanks for a really cool reaction vid.
Would you consider Tuomas Holopainen (Nightwish) in that category? And Floor Jansen? Many do.
I was at school in the UK when this song came out, aged 15. The boys at school liked a mixture of music - some were into pop, others rock and hard rock, some into punk, some into classical. But when this song came out, EVERYONE in the school loved it, and loved Kate Bush too. And not just because we all fell in love/had crushes on her. Her talent and uniqueness stood out. Saying an artist is a one off is overused these days, but it really does apply to Kate.
great memories! I met her music when I was studying my career in 2016, almost a decade ago . I remember I was into Bjork and a friend of mine told me : Listen to Kate bush , she is goat!. So I listened to her first album and I was mesmerized! , such delicacy and artistry , very beautiful. The song "Moving" is one of my favourites.
Kate Bush is from another dimension....totally memorizing..... with a voice that covers virtually every register. She performs and sings seemingly without effort; a reminder for all of us that talent like this is reserved for the few chosen ones who never stop improving their craft. Magnificent and thank you for covering!!
When you said "like she was playing a role" you nailed it. She was playing a role. She once once explained that she was the ghost of Kathleen with the high thin voice to define the character. Brilliant, and truly an artist.
The name is Catherine/Cathy, but yes, she plays her ghost.
@@matthiask08 The wind keening across the moors...
Thank Dave Gilmour for Kate Bush. He discovered her, and put her on the map. Her monumental talent took it from there of course, and she became a legend.
I love her . I got The Kick Inside for my 16th birthday . I just spent so much time in my bedroom listening to this . Everyone said I looked liked her . Maybe . I will just adore her forever . This woman is our National treasure . I think she learnt to dance under Lindsay Kemp . And she was shy at first . He coaxed her amazing talent out . ☺👍
I have never been as captivated by a woman's voice as Kate was during my adolescence. The Kick Inside is in the top ten of the albums of my life. Beautiful memory. Bethany, Thank you!
The kick inside is truly a great album ❤
Kate is amazing! I was exclusively a metalhead back in my younger days.....until I saw/heard Kate Bush who made me realize there are amazing and talented people in other genres......she's absolutely awesome, as is the wonderful Tori Amos, who I also adore!! 🎶🙏❤️
I was exclusively a goth in the very early 80s... until I heard this
Tori basically credits her for her career as it was flailing until she heard Kate on the car radio. She was self described directionless.
Then you MUST listen to André Mattos, former ANGRA vocalist (a metal band from Brazil) his version of this song is unbelievable!
I saw her 5 times on this tour. Edinburgh, Paris and all 3 nights at the Hammersmith Odeon, where this was filmed. I was lucky to meet her in Paris & then backstage at the Odeon. Genuinely a lovely lady.. 😍
I saw her at London Palladium? You sure she played Hammersmith Odeon on her first (and only) tour? She played what was Hammersmith Odeon when she did that series of shows 10 years ago.
@and2rew 100% She did 3 nights. I was at all 3. It was originally supposed to be 2 but at the start of her tour one of her crew died in an accident, Bill Duffield, so she did an extra show as a benefit for him. She was joined onstage that night by Steve Harley & Peter Gabriel.
As a side note.. Not only did I get to meet Kate at the Odeon, but I hung out with her & Simon Drake, her magician/mime artist, & Liz & Glynnis (her backing singers).
We were preparing the "intestines" needed during the gigs for when she sung "James & The Cold Gun". Preparing was basically sitting in the sun behind the Odeon, using scissors to cut red towels into thin strips so it looked like guts when the bad guys got shot.. 😎 😏
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@@and2rew He did indeed play at the Hammersmith Odeon. In fact this video is from the VHS "Kate Bush Live at the Hammersmith Odeon" (I have it) from her first tour in 1979
We love Kate. I’m 70, so her ilk and have grown up having her as a kind of backdrop to my life. Again I say… We love Kate.
A female artist is yet to be born and be able to topple this legend from her pedestal.
We all owe a great debt to David Gilmour for discovering Kate and bring her to the spotlight.
And David Bowie for inspiring her.
Interesting too is that many of the musicians on her early albums were from The Alan Parsons Project - I can remember (decades ago) reaching for the album sleeve notes to find out the name of her guitarist because his sound felt so familiar (it was the late Iain Bairnson) and that's when I recognised the names of some of the others and had a bit of an 'aha' moment.
I'm so pleased you reacted to this live version! Was a kid when this was first played on the radio, and to me, it was like lightning from a clear blue sky. Incredible. Thank you 🙏
Kate has such a distinctive beautiful voice that every time you hear it you stop doing whatever you’re doing and listen with a feeling of ❤😊
Kate is so talented and so utterly fearless. I've been in awe of her ever since discovering her work. Thanks for bringing her onto the channel! If you ever want to look at more of her work, I'm here for it!
My introduction to Kate Bush came via her 1978 appearance on Saturday Night Live and I was transfixed. I bought the album (The Kick Inside) on Sunday at the local (only) record store in the small town where I was stationed with the USAF. I remain a fan to this day.
I fell completely in love with Kate Bush when she first appeared on TV here in the UK, on a show called Top of the Pops, when she released this single, in 1978, and I was 9 years old. Everything about it and her was absolutely mesmerising in a way I've never been able to quite explain to this day. I'm 54 now, and her voice still just melts my heart.
I actually saw her first tour and the whole concert was mind blowing. Her first album is one of the greatest debuts of all and we have to realise she was only 20 when it was released. Everyone should have this album. Let’s also not forget that it was Dave Gilmour who helped her get recognized.
Kate Bush was other worldly. To have inhabited the same time line will have been an honor. I had the pleasure of discovering her and many other amazing artists doing college radio in the early eighties.
I saw her on this tour, Sunderland Empire 12th of April 1979. We had never seen anything like it before, singing AND dancing at the SAME time! That radio head mic was invented by her sound engineer using a coat hanger just so she could do that. When sadly we had to leave the magical world Kate had taken us to I left the theater vowing to see her on her next tour. And 35 years later, I did, at this very venue (Hammersmith Odeon, London) in 2014, and it was just as magical.
I've seen all the greats, except the Beatles, but those two Kate Bush concerts were the best I've ever seen.
So lucky!
Like you I am one of the fortunates in seeing Kate in 1979 and 2014. Whenever I walk past Starbucks in London from where I booked my tix online I mutter thankyou as I know many many were not as lucky as you and me.
WOW! I've been looking for this footage for years! I remember this from 1979 and it was very innovative in the use of a wireless/hands-free microphone. Everyone talked about it.
Every time she sings "oh it dark, it gets lonely, on the other side from you" and the keyboard does that creepy little five note motif it send chills down my spine. I never get tired of this song!
Such a groundbreaking tour from one of the all time great female artists. Totally unique. Here at the age of 20 she had already written hundreds of songs, taught herself to play the piano , learned dance and mime, released two albums, had the balls to turn down an invitation to support Fleetwood Mac on their ‘Rumours’ tour, inspired production of the first head mic hastily fashioned out of a wire coat hanger with a radio mic taped onto the end so that she could dance while singing. A genius!
Thank You.❤ Saw this about 40 yrs ago now.... I was stunned, captivated, and Instantly fell in love with Kate ...forever!!
She is so underestimated..I sick of saying that..but she was a one off .so talented ❤
The English have a term for people like Kate Bush…
National Treasure…
And Kate is in the pantheon…
❤She was signed to EMI Records after David Gilmour of Pink Floyd helped produce a demo tape. In 1978, at the age of 19, she topped the UK singles chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a fully self-written song.(*)
I heard when she came into the studio, she brought 200 self-written songs with her.
Must have been a new problem for the crew, not how do we find enough songs to fill the record, but how do we pick out the 12 best songs out of this avalanche.
Wikipedia is full of half truths and outright bullshit. Please don't cut and paste their bullshit as truth
If I understand correctly, she’s also both the youngest *and* the oldest artist to have a #1 single in the UK, with ‘Wuthering Heights” back then and “Running Up That Hill” (which didn’t make #1 when it was first released in the 80s) a couple years ago.
Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Enya. Goddesses of music!👍🔥 🔥
And Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple, and Bjork
I was so very much in love with Kate Bush as, a teenage boy, she was only a few years older than me.
Beautiful lady with such a lovely voice.
Watch her singing Babooushka - why girls of my my age hated/ loved her.
She is a treasure. She has so many good songs many people have never heard. Under the Ivy is so beautiful.
A magnificent song
Glad you enjoyed this! Kate at that time in her career a true innovator at a time when women were not generally recognised. A true talent, a lovely lady who did not sell her soul for money .
A truly amazing creature. She has given so much.❤
When she hugs the flowers at 11.05. That always got to me as a kid, we had the video and me and my friends wore it out in 1985.
Kate Bush is amazing! I loved this song when I was a child. I was born in 1971 so I really didn't understand it but I fell in love with the unusual sounds the song brought me.
It's interesting you talked about how lucky she was to find an audience; that she came at the right time. Famously, in England anyway, a BBC Radio 1 DJ played this for the first time on his show and thought the song was a joke. Nobody in England knew Kate Bush or the song at that point. He kinda trashed it, promised never to play it again and I think he actually broke the disc live on air. I think it was Mike Reid, but nobody outside England is expected to know that name so don't worry lol. Anyway, radio was really big back then and DJs were very influential.
This was Kate's first big entry into the UK market and that DJ could have crushed her UK career chances right there and then, but luckily, as you said, the time was right and the audience found the song and Kate was embraced by the UK, at least for a while. It was lucky, though. A couple of years earlier and she might not have made it. It always amazes me how many talented people there are out there who just never find their audience, even with the internet in recent years. Being an artist is a tough life.
Always loved Kate Bush. Hounds of love is my fav album.
When Kate goes in she goes all in. That's Cathy on stage.
When this track hit the airwaves a lot of people put Kate Bush down as a 'novelty' act. A bit like an upmarket Toni Basil. A couple of years later they realised she was more than that. A few years after that and suddenly people knew there was a real genius out there. 30 years later and people are still 'discovering' her.
I remember as a young teenager living in England at the time when this song was hitting the the top of the charts. I'm now just a few months from turning 60. Time flies, but some things are timeless.
You do need to watch this whole show. It's revolutionary and almost indescribably beautiful.
Beautiful voice. Her movements and voice seem theatrical and dramatic. It's like what you would hear in a Disney film. It's lovely, hypnotic and alluring. It's hard to comprehend that this is from 1979 this beautiful woman is far beyond her time. A masterful performance. ❤
To hear her now makes me cry - I have all the records, but there is nothing like the magic of the first time hearing her on my tiny transistor radio late at night - what a feeling!. She is a treasure now and always!!
That we we watch "response/first listen" videos - because we are voyeurs, want to see this moment so that we are more reminded of our first time.
One of England's national treasures. A brilliant singer and an utterly compelling musician...
She didn't just sing...she produced her own tracks and she managed herself in the music industry. The woman was more than a class act!
I've been listening to her music since I was a kid in the mid 80's, I was a metal head from my young teens, but she's always been my guilty pleasure.
I don't know why, but I always get shivers along my neck and back every time I hear her sing "I hated you, I loved you too" 🥰
She wrote all the 13 songs on her first album (The Kick Inside). To do that in your late teens, amazing! She was 19 (almost 20) when the album was released.
The debut album "The Kick Inside" reached number 3 in the UK chart and sold over a million copies. It was a top 8 or better in 10 other countries and indeed reached number 1 in the Dutch and Portuguese album charts.
Kate Bush. Simply Brilliant !!
Kate is one of those very unique creative souls.
Kate appears to also be a genuine nice person ❤❤❤ one of the greats of our time.
She is/was such a unique performer, and this song is extremely special, both because of originality and because it really just encapsulates so much magic, fantasy and romanticism. Been one of my favourites since I first heard it in around 1978, and I never get bored of it. She was definitely very much loved for what she gave.
Was on a school trip to London in 1978 when this song came on the radio on the coach we were travelling on & it blew our teenage minds! I thought Debbie Harry & Blondie was something but this took me to literally another place. Loved her music ever since & love her for being so enigmatic & private in this world of ‘celebrity 365’. Thank you for the analysis- spot on! 🙏🙌🏼
Love the Wondering Heights, seen her on TV often in the 70st in the Netherlands, such a beautiful song and TV performance
The kick inside was one of my first album purchases... i am 61 now... she is part of my musical history and set the bar 🎉
I love that album too, "Strange Phenomena" is one of my favourites that should be played more.
I'm always in awe of that album. Magnificent from start to end.
I just turned 62. I bought The Kick Inside within days of first hearing Wuthering Heights on the radio in early 1978, aged 15. There haven't been many other songs that have done that to me. "Crucify" was another, 15 years later.
@BruceHoult personally Ren Hi Ren had the same effect.. and before that Idles
Yes ♡♡♡♡♡
Thanks, didn't see the performance up till now; it's a real treat!
First of all, this video is a gem (and I hadn't seen it!). Second it was a great choice, the titles are alright, they don't matter. And finally I like your review a bit more everyday. Thanks a lot Beth!
Her first 5 albums are absolutely mind-blowing.
She has a hauntingly beautiful voice. Kate Bush was the first female Artist to have a UK Number 1 Single with a song she also wrote herself, Wuthering Heights.
I'm a complete rock fan. Rush always were and always will be my favourites but there's also Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and many more and I love and accept that the Beatles were the greatest, but, there's a special place in my musical heart for Kate Bush, she's a musical genius and second to none as far as I'm concerned.
Rush and Bush will do for me!
I could not agree more, both just such brilliant brilliant artists.
I’ve drawn a parallel between the two as well! Kate’s first few albums remind me of Rush’s earlier stuff in a way.
Certainly there can be comparisons between Neil's and Kate's lyrics and composition.
Thank You for Your analysis! Kate Bush was a trailblazer , pioneer , groundbreaker , "door opener" , innovator : (headset mic) and an inspiration for other artists to come. For sure! And You can hear Her influence on many of them..
@On_Te_Ie_Gram_The_Vocalyst Hi gorgeous 👋
Catherine Bush CBE didn't perform Live after 1979 until 2014, 35 years later. She did 22 concerts in the Hammersmith-Apollo theatre in London, it was sold out in 15 minutes!
There's a very sad reason why she never toured again after this first tour. It was because during that tour, while preparing one of the concerts, one of the lighting technicians fell from the scaffolding onto the stage and died. Kate was very shocked that someone died because of her performance and said she doesn't want that to repeat anymore.
My first exposure to Kate Bush was from her entire video The Whole Story being shown on TV. I think it was on PBS, but I could be wrong. I was enthralled by her talent, and I wanted more. Unfortunately, I couldn't find more than a couple of her albums in the Chicago area. Fortunately, at the time, I was travelling to Toronto a couple of times a year. The next time I was in Toronto, I bought every album I could find, plus the video collection I saw on TV. She's still one of my favorite artists of all time, and I have very eclectic tastes in music.
She appeared when I was young and she, like others was ridiculed but she didn't do anything but her own thing. She was my first album I bought with my own money and I've loved her ever since with all of my heart. 😊
Hopefully your review of the masterful Kate Bush will open the eyes for new followers: She is a one of a kind, but what a kind!!
Absolute nut job. Like Bowie. Totally unique and I have never come across a talent like this since 1978.
She wrote everything, sang, arranged, played produced.
Genius.
Most of kick inside was written when she was 16!
It still stands up today, anything today as good as "Man with the child in his eyes?"
Saxophone song?
This?
Quite simply a genius,....dancer,singer songwriter, choreographer, actor......endless talent......genius.
And producer, she was one of the first female artists to produce her own music.
she has been and always will be amazing!
I've never seen this performance before and at one point I realized my jaw was hanging open...and my face must have been like 😍
You too? 😊
I'm so glad you chose a clip from this show.
Happy New Year. So glad to see an analysis of the great Kate. Loved it, love her and absolutely love that guitar outtro.
My absolute favorite musican in those days !!! She was and is fantastic ! ( she only did one tour.. but seen the effort she put in to it - sha was also a dancer )
Kate Bush is hands down just brilliant, end of 😎🥰 Loved your reaction.
You mentioned you were not sure whether this was the best live video to pick because there were credits ar the end. This is the perfect video to pick for that reason. Some of those artists are sadly no longer with us and we must give credit to those people. And to see the joy on Kate's face at the very end as she came out of character. Something to behold.
I love how you recognize how completely different Kate was, even though you're from a much younger generation. I remember hearing her sing for the first time when I was a kid and to be honest she wasn't my cup of tea. BUT as the years passed by, her style grew on me and nowadays I find it stunningly beautiful.
64 years old today and my first ever concert was Kate Bush in London. I remember it like it was yesterday.
One of the most captivating and unique voices I’ve ever heard even to this day!
Sidebar: happy new year Beth! Wishing you continued success with your channel❤
The first vhs video tape i saw was the live at Hammersmith Odeon concert….be amazed by it loving them heavy people and james and the cold gun.
Kate was def a trailblazer, and to date other than Bowie no one else has probably matched her talent and artistry, simply brilliant 🤌
What about Jacob Collier?
Bethany, so happy you did this. I had never seen this particular performance before. Kate Bush is a genius and a prodigy. Imagine writing this at 19!! Like you I am so thrilled that this was so warmly received because it truly sounds like nothing that had ever been recorded before. But we can be glad that Kate was so successful and we get to enjoy her music and artistry! Please do more This Woman’s Work! ❤
@davidgrubbs4480 - Kate Bush was actually 18 years old when she composed "Wuthering Heights". She had just watched a BBC adaption on television of "Wuthering Heights" on March 5, 1977, and afterwards, in just a few hours later that same night, Kate composed the entire lyrics and song.
@@toddlevinOK thanks for clarification. I guess she was 19 when it was released.
she's a legend :)
can't even imagine how many she inspired to start singing. it has to be many tens of thousands, if not more.
I immediately started loving her in the 70-ties after her first appearances on my tiny black and white TV when I was 23. Now, in the age of 72, this love has never stopped and I collected all her music and have tried to look at every of her performances on TV or RUclips or DVD ... She's one of a kind, you can't find the words to descibe her ... And besides that: she had great help from another hero of mine, David Gilmour ! Pink Floyd is my life band and their - and Kate's - music will be played at my funeral !
Love this song, love the original film, laurence Olivier and Merl Oberon xxx
I was there ❤ 1979
it was the first concert I’d ever been to and she spoilt me for years! I’d never seen anyone sing and dance with the special mic and to this day I will never forget that concert ❤ I was young and I sneaked in because I was tall so was often mistaken for older but I was 15 😂 Kate Bush was my superstar 👍🏼
She revisited this song years later, recording a new vocal, that came out in 1986, and it's every bit the equal or more of the original. Fascinating to hear how she approached it from a more mature and experienced place.
Absolutely love the 1986 version - the control on her vocals on that recording is exceptional
Great analysis - really get a sense of just how much Kate Bush inspires The Vocalyst... ♥
Kate hypnotizes me every time I watch her
This was the first thing I ever heard by Kate Bush way back in the day. You're right; there was nobody like her. Fantastic. 😎
*is*
argh, meant "is, not was"
I remember when this came out, at first people did think she was weird, and people were confused, but she couldn't be dismissed because she was just so good. She sounded like nobody else, back then I never met anybody who didn't like her.
Great statement responding the fact that Kate Bush had been able to have success, resp. people had been receptive enough to loved and still love it.👌
And to think that Kate Bush was a teenager when she recorded this song! Absolutely brilliant song and such a beautifully, mesmerising voice.
I had a very happy period of time in my life listening to Kates music.. I was in my mid 20s and life was so good, and I had a couple of Kate Bush album ‘tapes’ playing on repeat in my car at the time..
Anytime I hear her songs, I am instantly transported to this time in my life..and my heart & soul smiles. Thank you Kate, you’ll never know how your music helped so many. 🙏🏽
I remember when this was released. The night before the album went on sale they dedicated a full hour to it on Radio 3 - the BBC classical music station! - and they played the whole album with the DJ introducing each song in turn. Next day, I went straight out and placed an order at our local music store. A week or so later Wuthering Heights was all over the radio.
Some artists are genuinely unique.
Kate Bush was the definition of that, there simply hadn’t been anyone like her up until then and really there hasn’t been anyone like her since.
Kate Bush was only 18 years old when she composed "Wuthering Heights". She had just watched a BBC adaption on television of "Wuthering Heights" on March 5, 1977, and afterwards, in just a few hours later that same night, Kate composed the entire lyrics and song.
And, if I remember correctly, laid down the vocals in one take!
And, if I remember correctly, recorded the vocals in one take! She then fought EMI to release it as the first single (EMI wanted James and the Cold Gun). She got her way, and the rest is history. Fearless and uncompromising are just two more adjectives to describe her.
I saw a film of one her live shows where she was standing inside a wheel, hands and feet pressing the inside of the wheel as she actually rolled on stage, singing the whole time. WHAT??? Who can do that? The films I see now of violinists doing trapeze and dancing while they play is amazing, but hey, Kate was doing that 40 years ago and with her VOICE, while she still had to breathe and dance in time with the music. When you watch her performances, you will notice she rarely stops moving, swaying, twirling, running, always moving, and continually singing through it all with perfect pitch and timing. There has never been anyone like her. Bowie is probably the closest I can think of, but he didn't dance the way she did. AND, she wrote terrific songs in the progressive rock field, and I don't know any other women who did that.
I saw Bowie on The Glass Spider Tour at Maine Road in 1989. Couldn't help drawing comparisons with what Kate had done years earlier.
This girl wrote this song aged 16 and signed to EMI at the age of 17. A rare talent indeed.
Thanks to David Gilmour
I had just read Wuthering Heights when I heard this song for the first time, and I was totally mesmerized. Kate captures the ghost of Katherine so well. If you want to better understand the acting aspect of this performance I recommend reading this classic novel.
This came out when I was 18, so Kate would have been 22, I was so child like compared to her obvious maturity. To write and perform the way she did was fantastic. I was able to go out and buy her L.P. I felt so grown up to buy it, listen to a grown up singer, understand a song based on a story. Kate had it all, I was transfixed by her and desperate to copy her style. I was a real David Bowie fan and to me she was a female equivalent of him. Truly amazing 😊
Kate was 18 when she wrote this, and 19 when it was recorded and released. Her second single, the Man with the Child in his Eyes, was written when she was 12. Kate was a great David Bowie fan as well, and was at the legendary last Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars at this very same venue, the Hammersmith Odeon, in 1973.
There's a Kate Bush day where everyone wears red and sings & dances this.