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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsKate Bush - BBC Documentary (video)
just aired on the BBC a couple of weeks ago. A huge treat for fans of hers. Enjoy
This documentary explores Kate Bush's career and music, from January 1978's Wuthering Heights to her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow, through the testimony of some of her key collaborators and those she has inspired.
Contributors include the guitarist who discovered her (Pink Floyd's David Gilmour), the choreographer who taught her to dance (Lindsay Kemp) and the musician who she said 'opened her doors' (Peter Gabriel), as well as her engineer and ex-partner (Del Palmer) and several other collaborators (Elton John, Stephen Fry and Nigel Kennedy).
Also exploring their abiding fascination with Kate are fans (John Lydon, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui) and musicians who have been influenced by her (St Vincent's Annie Clark, Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes, Tori Amos, Outkast's Big Boi, Guy Garvey and Tricky), as well as writers and comedians who admire her (Jo Brand, Steve Coogan and Neil Gaiman).
Lochloosa
(16,066 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)Thanks.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)as Nigel Kennedy says. Thanks very much for sharing it IcyPeas. I just watched the whole thing. I was really glad to see Annie Clark, Tricky & Big Boi (artists with whom I'm more familiar) discuss what an enormous impact Kate Bush has on them. I love Running Up That Hill, Wuthering Heights, The Sensual World & Hounds of Love & of course the spectacular stuff she did with Peter Gabriel (Games Without Frontiers and Don't Give Up). Now I know a lot more of her music & life. When I hear her music again, I'll understand it better!
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)I'd never in my young life seen or heard anything like her. I've been a huge fan ever since.
The Dreaming is one of the greatest, gutsiest albums ever made. That's just a fact.
ms liberty
(8,580 posts)She has the most beautiful voice. .love her.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)one of my favorite sites.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kate-bush-mn0000855423/discography
IcyPeas
(21,889 posts)Experiment IV (the lyrics are included if you "show more"
The song is also notable for featuring Nigel Kennedy on violin, who at one point replicates the screeching violins from Bernard Herrmann's famous scoring of the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.
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The music video for the song adapts the "storyline", and chronicles the destruction of a secret military installation by a creature made of sound. The science fiction film-in-miniature includes appearances from Dawn French, Hugh Laurie, Richard Vernon, Peter Vaughan and Del Palmer. Bush appears on screen as an orderly officer serving tea, as the sound creature and at the end entering a van. The video was banned from Top of The Pops because it was considered too violent.[3]
The music video has been nominated for the Best Concept Music Video at the 1988 Grammy Awards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment_IV
derby378
(30,252 posts)You mean to tell me that the nation whose capitol weathered 57 straight nights of bombing by the German Luftwaffe during World War II somehow got cold feet when it came to the video for Experiment IV?
I'm glad it got the attention it deserved, though.