Kate Bush - very early interview 1978

[peoniesfleur]

Real beauty is no foundation liquid make up.Great skin,no fake eyelashes. Long eyelashes that are natural. No excessive eye make up, and only make up that accents your already great looks. No hair dyes that look fake especially if your hair is not gray. Why not accept what you are and not put excessive make up on? If a person is healthy and radiant, they don't need excessive beauty products. I like some excellent skincare, but RAW foods and great attitude help.Eating RAW kale every morn

[sydbarrett5]

I love her. She is incredible.

[thekorksta]

@katebushisagenius Oh yea that too, for sure.

[queenmagic1982]

so beautiful in this interview

[steeplepossum39]

I have always loved Kates music and the she is so classy,charming,ultra feminine and Iwas just listening to Wuthering Heights and The man with the child in his eyes she has a voice that is amazing and increibly expressive. with her movements,her timing is amazing and shi is beautiful.I have heard she was e teachingg ymnastics before she became famous.Does anyone know if this is true?Kate Bush fan foever!

[thekorksta]

i love the way she talks, I love the way she sings.

[jonathan45278]

Wow. The only way I would ever get an o level is if I go on a lift which has a level o.

[theburt83]

Not many singers think that way: write songs that they themselves may not even be able to sing (such as "Wuthering Heights").

[RaikenXion]

Hav to agree with every1 here, she really is just beautiful, and very sexy lol

[stfugtfofgt]

Isn't she beautiful!?

[somesortanaughty]

..she just melts my heart...year in year out, decade after another

[queenmagic1982]

an amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing beautiful woman at this time i accept to have a girlfriend like, her oh yeaaaaaaah

[Katefanforever]

@queenmagic1982.So do I!Many women are beautiful but the most beautiful was Kate.

[queenmagic1982]

@Katefanforever yes agree

[nw8000]

Christ! I remember seeing this on top of the pops when I was 7. I am 40 toady!

[katkongo]

@poopingbotham I hope you're joking there! If not they're the same person. Michael Aspel had a show called Ask Aspel

[elimar008]

love those lips

[MarietteDavina]

She interviews SO well - so natural

[JGib12345]

So hot so nice and genuine

[digitaldoodler7]

ALL current female pop singers and for the past 30 years, whether they know it or not, were influenced by this lady. I have been in love with her since SNL

[Poopingbotham]

Are Ask Aspel & Michael Aspel TWIN brothers, or simply brothers?

[bluestar80]

she is so beautiful

[katiekoolmiss]

She's so lovely!!!

[ftsjr]

The clip is way too short.

[brybish]

your right no one else could sound like kate bush.

[MsFanmail]

kate bush is more talented than cheryl cole

[Katefanforever]

@MsFanmail.Kate is much more talented than any other female artist.Consequently she's much more talented than Cheryl Cole.

[UliJones]

@MsFanmail

My pet weasel is more talented than Cheryl Cole!

[dajecipo]

TI AMO

[beautydaddy]

I first saw Kate at the age of 13 when she made her appearence on Saturday Night Live here in America...been in love with her ever since.

[Samshile]

@beautydaddy This is 1978. akte says she is 20. SNL came out in 1975. She was not 13. MOre like 17-18.

[Samshile]

@beautydaddy This is 1978. Kate says she is 20. The SNL episode was Dec 1978. She was 20.

[Symphonyofflowers]

@Samshile I think Beautydaddy means he was 13 years old when he saw Kate on SNL, not that Kate was 13.

[Samshile]

@Symphonyofflowers I can see that now you pointed it out. Thanks!

[LukasFin]

Nature's child in a time. Actually like to add, that She's brilliant artist too.

[Fender1976uk]

With Kate, you could sit in a room with her and have a big chat about music!! she could play stuff on a piano! etc. if you had Cheryl Cole with you? it would be along the lines of 'so sorry, I don't play a single instrument' 'who's Pink Floyd?' 'a real nice guy wrote a tune for me' 'whats autotune? I'm not a tech guy' :)

[unzenonsen]

smart

[lettato]

Kate is so beautiful

[Katefanforever]

@lettato.So beautiful and so talented!

[matrags]

Sex.

[Piuba86]

he´s so cute

[rewardedmate]

Oh my God! I love when the interviewer says that he thinks nobody could sing Kate Bush's songs. I truly believe that if many artists who have made versions of her songs, listened to him, they probably wouldn't have acted like idiots, trying to sing her songs and ruining them. It's really sad when people don't hear the truth.

[MsGORGONS]

she has pouting lips...does it come naturally or did she work on it??

[dsp128]

Imagine Kate and Freddie Mercury doing a duet - 2 fantastic voices.

[MsGORGONS]

@dsp128 urk ! I just puked...

[KatesPinkZeppelin]

@MsGORGONS Exaxtly, we can't compare her with Freddie Mercury.

[Fender1976uk]

Music has changed so much now!! the Brits had Kate Bush as an outstanding creative force! inspiring and a true star!! played instruments, wrote her own stuff!! etc. and now we have stuff like Cheryl Cole?????? :(

[DollfieEyes]

@Fender1976uk I agree entirely, and it is fucking depressing!!!

[MsGORGONS]

@Fender1976uk I fink there's much worse no? I see a whole collection of artists with no testicles...it's scary...with the likes of Cowell and Osbourne proliferating on telly giving shit to shit people, you can't really expect much more...Maybe the world will become a better place but WILL WE HOLD the real responsible people responsible for what they did and...GUILLOTINE THEM ??

[Fender1976uk]

I remember wondering years ago if we would ever have a period where the crap becomes the new cool? if that makes sense? and here it is!!! alot of people like bland, crap, re-packaged, numb entertainment? even alot of the comedians are just saying random playground humour stuff that doesn't make sense? sorry, I'm talking about british comedian's?? I don't know whats funny with a guy that walks on stage and says 'I told a granny to F off last week' and everyone will be in tears, laughing??

[MsGORGONS]

@Fender1976uk they do 'market' shit !! and worst of all...people buy it ! When they can't sell to adults anymore...they target CHILDREN...they kinda like vampyres...Justin Bibberr is another manufactured product. We may have to...'grow old' with him...?? what a horrid thought...as for comedy, maybe it's gone full circle. Did well in England but the novelty wears out. What nxt?

[Fender1976uk]

This is what gets me angry!! how greedy record companys that have idiots who disrspect good music and just focus on profit alone! they will fill our children's heads with crap! look at the Jonas brothers, they have programmed kids into thinking they are a serious rock act?? thats for America :) but sooner or later there must be a group of bands that will fight back! like a punk movement!! and get the backing of the public!! who want to say NO to the likes of the X factor! remember the xmas rage

[bananasplitsable]

Who cares how many O levels she has? Her music is great.

[lenief]

you were 19 and today you're 52 is it? wow i'm so thankful you were born today kate happy birthday!

[Yamboozle]

The interviewer is right. There is no one else who could sing her songs, because no one else can match her incredible voice.

[lightflower]

gorgeous Kate Bush

[whatdeyecallher]

she's so beautiful here it actually makes me want to cry!

[MrNePiS]

Kate's an enigma Very mature at 20 and yet remains forever young to this day.

[HelenDiazOfficial]

aww shes so sweet and still so down to earth. x

[Leojoris]

Does anyone know where I can find the entire show?

[cathkin33]

big gorgeous eyes with hooded eyelids give her a dreamy,hypnotic look.......mesmerising!

[Guusjj15]

She's so sweet! her smile and voice are CUTE!

[maddog167]

Kate came back onto another show hosted by the same interviewer here in the UK about 20 years later, they showed this clip from the 1970s on that show and had a good laugh about how young they all looked. Would be great if anyone could post that later interview, sometime from the mid or late 90s I think - anyone got it?

[Leojoris]

It's on you tube. Just enter Aspel and Kate bush and you will find it.

[THiRAKAULiTZ]

oh fuck she's so pretty!

[JasonB1969]

She is really sweet in this video.

Good on you Kate for giving us such great songs and albums over the years.

[winehousedrunk]

Thank you for posting this. The young, sweet... genius taking her first steps in public, and she'd do it less and less. Glad she's still making great music though, like she did with Aerial.

[SarahNJoshLuvGrapes]

haha this interview is actualy really cute

[JolPil]

Interesting to note how many here say they would MARRY HER!

[integration1000]

I would have loved to marry her.What about you?

[sjoekiloeki]

I know I would. And I just want to say that Del Palmer and Danny McIntosh are two lucky bastards!

[jensaushamburg]

what a sweet smile and fabulous eyes... i never realised how cute she was...

[marzarza]

SIMPLEMENTE I LOVE YOU KATE BUSH

[bbvn1]

she's got the cutest accent ever

[integration1000]

And she's got the cutest face ever!

[acerflots]

lovable and talented person

[mistofoles]

@acerflots Well, yes he is, but give Kate some Credit as well!

[beautydaddy]

A face to melt a heart and a voice to lift a soul.

[cadetstarnoodle]

Well said.  Sigh.

[Katefanforever]

@beautydaddy.Kate's irresistible!

[KB1523]

@beautydaddy.thank you.i remember this interview,i was petrified...

[iwasknownasthewild1]

THE most beautiful creature God ever made...I'm born all over!

[integration1000]

William and Hannah Bush gave birth to the most beautiful creature ever!

[Symphonyofflowers]

I agree, but her father was called Robert John Bush, not William.

[integration1000]

I correct,Robert John and Hannah gave birth to the most beautiful creature ever!

[Dorkdufus]

is that robert redford?

[lazarush1980]

lol - no its not robert redford:) - its Michael Aspel - he is famous in the UK & Ireland for his chat-shows - but most notable for his show called "This is your life"

this interview took place 2 years before I was even born - she always kinda reminded me of a greek goddess or something - so alluring yet illusive:)

[ftsjr]

She is such a sweetheart, it's impossible not to fall in love with her.

[lazarush1980]

i couldnt agree more - she is so lovely - such a gentle soul - i think she is the embodyment of what a lady should be - intelligent - beautiful - artistic - strong - i would marry her even now - she is still beautiful in her 50s:)lol

[integration1000]

That's why i fell in love with her!

[alocohc]

Beautiful talking voice, absolutely charming lady.

[joeglimmix]

strange hair

[Inspiration9991]

I loved her "How did you know that?"

[hanghang71]

she breaks my heart every time i see her oh if only........

[donniebirthday]

...you could've been back there to charm her? I know, breaks my heart too ^^

[pinkvela]

she comes across as the most genuinely sweet person. Love the dimple in the upper left cheek (viewer's right).

[CanardDeChien]

Oh, my god she had 10 O'levels when that counted, she is sheba lovely!!!

[KateBushvideos]

Neither am I, but my understanding O (Ordinary) Levels were pass/fail examinations at age 16, followed by A (for Advanced) at 18, which were used for admission to Universities. Kate passed 10 O levels, indicating a very high level of academic interest and achievement. In another interview, she mentioned that she took her "mock A" exam, but left school before the full exam.

For context, Wikipedia indicates that, at the time, only 3 A levels were required for entrance to most Universities.

[Leojoris]

great, thank you ;)

[cdc84dawn]

@KateBushvideos You are right, O Levels are now called GCSE's. But you still only need 3 A Levels to get into Uni.

[rikmeucci]

@cdc84dawn

Well technically, back then you could get into the lowest grade of "University". with a pair of "A" levels. Only they weren't called Universities then - they were Polytechnics...

10 "O" levels was good going. Modern equivalent would probably be 12 or more GCSEs, with a good few at A*grade, I suspect.

[PoireauMan68]

@KateBushvideos BROWN soon will reach ZERO levels too...back to the gutter...where he belongs.../Give it a few years and A levels (two notch from O in non-alphabetical order) and Britain will have a proper BACCALAUREAT and KAte bush will be singing...IN FRENCH !!!!!!!!!!!! like Petula Clark but better...

[psprog]

@KateBushvideos

I think they're now GCSEs or something - the big exams you do when you're 16. I was in the last year of O Levels and got 7 A's and 2 B's (and a D = fail!) so Kate did better then me, though she never said what grades she got (eg if she got 10 C's that's not so hot ;-)

[CherryLipsXx]

@KateBushvideos even nowadays, only 3 A levels are needed, or equivalent.

[cathkin33]

shes got the most beautiful eyes /cheekbones ive ever seen......its difficult to look away!

[ToiletEarth]

Yeah i can see the resemblances tho.

[tatbrat2001]

She is such a frickin cutie!! She's so hot, then and now. I love the way she moves her lips...oh yeah, and her music is awesome!

[whatdeyecallher]

she's so pretty

[jtm101583]

I don't like her style of music, but I thought she was very pretty in her time.

[ToiletEarth]

Dude what are you talking about? Wuthering heights, Babooshka great songs.

And she was hot!

[athywren]

Was?

[ToiletEarth]

Well i havent seen her lately. But, i figure i'd still bang her.

[athywren]

A silly part of me would compare her to Mrs Robinson... but Mrs Robinson was never that good looking, so it might be an unfair comparison.

[ToiletEarth]

Yes i can see the resemblances tho.

[dartmoorboxing]

A unique jewel she is such a lovelly woman ,I love her music.

[narcissa912]

cute :3

[lookatdoor]

I love how she moves her lips, it's so cute and sexy

[wwwtonyleegbcom]

I've no idea what a "drop out" is, but can't you post the full video regardless?

This is superb btw. Thanks for sharing.

[KateBushvideos]

A "drop-out" is a place where the magnetic coating has actually fallen off the videotape. The result ranges from a white speck to the picture breaking up. My goal has been to provide the very best quality possible.

I checked, and I don't have my longer, worse quality version with me at the moment. It will be a few weeks before I get back home to my undigitized videotapes.

[JRGrange25]

OMG she is so beautiful, I can see why my late father loved her, great taste dad.

[cathkin33]

aspels gagging for it .......get in the queue mate!

[wwwtonyleegbcom]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!! : )

[relwarcdnim]

woooaaaahh! great :D

[TAPICTURES]

Coole Frau.Macht super gute Musik

5*****

Lg.

tino

[suzylux]

*dies*

How adorable is she??

[theledzeppguy]

She has a sexy voice!

[Leojoris]

i love her smile!

[drummergirl1025]

but i cant understand what they are saying! arg, too much accent!

[ketmaniac]

"..go back to the beginnings. You're nineteen now?"

"Twenty."

"Twenty?"

"Yeah - just."

"And you're from Kent?"

"Yeah"

"Is Kate Bush your own name?"

"Yes, it is."

"You got a lot of O-levels [exam grades], you got ten. Seems like a world record to me."

"How did you know that?"

[ketmaniac]

"Oh, I know a lot of things But did you always want a musical career in spite of all those qualifications?"

"Yes, I did. I've always wanted to be involved in music. I never thought I'd actually be able to sing them, sing my songs, but it seems that I've done it."

"I don't think anyone else could do them, really...."

[ketmaniac]

That last comment is a real laugh, in retrospect. Type in "running up that hill" and see how many versions (apart from Kate+Gilmour) are listed before her own original video turns up - somewhere on Page 5. Even drunken amateurs singing RUTH in pubs are listed ahead of her on YouTube. It must be one of the most covered songs in the last 30 years!

[starry2006]

This is about her earlier songs where the vocal was very unusual at the time. Has anyone really covered Wuthering Heights that well for instance?

[ketmaniac]

No, they haven't. All you can say is some other versions are reasonably competent. The problem is they are by singers who seem not to have paid too much attention to the words and their meaning. It isn't a ballad about unrequited love. It's a Gothic horror song, and shouldn't be turned into "easy listening". Only Bush provides the chill factor this song needs. But who knows, one day Bjork might have go at it, or Annie Lennox. They might be worth listening to.

[Neptuneman07]

Pat Benetar's cover was so-so. I agree that only Kate Bush can capture the true sense of the magical song.

[jblacktree]

Well, you have to have read the novel and understood it to have written that song. No one has sung it with such eerie other-worldly haunting power as its author. No one ever will.

[Neptuneman07]

I agree. I read Wuthering Heights once as well as watch three film adaptations. Kate Bush's ballad fits the novel perfect.

[lazarush1980]

I agree with you - her song fits the novel to a tee - you should also listen to "The Sensual World" - she drew inspiration for that song from James Joyce - Ulysses

[KateBushvideos]

Kate actually set Molly Bloom's speech to music, then sought permission from the Joyce estate. Stephen Joyce refused, and Kate had to write new lyrics and created the song we have today.

There's a version floating around of a singer singing the "rediscovered" lyrics over the instrumental version of the song.

[trossachs2003]

I'm familiar with the story of the lyrics, exactly as you say it but I have always been interested to konw how she would have done it if the Joyce estate hadn't been so pompous and unnecessary...the Molly Bloom monologue is about sixty pages, so which bit would she have chosen?

[KutaPuta]

No on has done it well...

[suzylux]

lol. Sorry, couldn't help but giggle at you. I'd love to see your face listening to a Scottish or Geordie accent ;)

[ketmaniac]

Or Jah Wurzel.

[drummergirl1025]

she's stunning!

[bushnicks]

She was so beautiful when she was young!

[screamingdean5]

She was beautiful when she was young but she got better looking as she got older.

[NuclearMisfit]

I love her! perfect woman.

[Typhoon10000]

Hey! She's my dream...leave her alone!

[Neptuneman07]

Im glad im not the only one who had dreams of Kate Bush. She's extremely beautiful!

[tiddler111]

dreaming of kate. you jammy sod. think i'll try tonight

[zack11993]

Thank you for this. I had a dream about her last night and she saved me from drowning.

[wildfemale]

I'll sound banal, but... I have to say that;)- she's sooo lovely:D

[Leojoris]

thank you for posting. i hope i'll see the whole interview soon

[jjmd280]

Love it!

[lookatdoor]

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!