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  • Way...way Cool!

  • 2 BIG VOICES

  • Danke!

    v.g.

    Achim

    

  • ladies and gentlemen, it is classics.

  • A triple treat .......... one of Roy's great love songs interpreted well by two talented individuals.

  • hmmmm no... very nearly ... but ...... No

    TMC's version is just too much better

  • I have had the audio of this for 30 years and completely unwatchable VHS copies for 25. I never imagined I'd see it like this. For me this is the YouTube find of the year. THANK YOU!

  • Utter beauty, spoken through the caution of gentle youth we all remember...

  • Fascinating curiosity, never had a clue this existed. Got to say I'm not all that keen, though I love all 3 artists dearly and this song in particular.

  • thanks . so beautiful - the perfect duet

  • High Art!

  • aaah yes...back in the days when music was an art...I love this...

  • WOW... WOW.. OH MY GOD.....

    That was so Incredible..........

    Truly a masterpiece of performance and all that....

    I am blessed to have found this

    ROY HARPER, KATE BUSH & PETER GABRIEL....

    Brilliant.... THANK YOU, CHF COOPER !!... you are way cool.

  • amazing stuff!!!!!

  • This is amazing - I want it on my ipod.... Now...

  • brilliant! 

  • Two great British artists, you just don't get this quality now. innit.

  • Why the hell isn't this available to download?

  • Gabriel ... oh yes. He was great, but I suspect he's even better now!

  • HEY it sounds like my marriage. :-/

  • Thank you for uploading this at such an early age as they both began to experiment and change our musical landscape individually in this early hint of what was to come.

  • quel talent voix sublimes

  • There is a big B/W pic of Kate like this from Lion Heart album art work in the Retro Bar in London. It is so stunning and she is her own icon. Wonderful talented person.

  • love it! :)

  • all the Gaga's & Beyonces look-a-likes need to seriously rewind back to this time and learn what is a beautiful, eternal, powerful woman voice & presence - no need to undress at all to earn fame, its called TALENT

  • @draltar I totally agree

  • Almost having to pinch myself here.

    A Christmas tv show featuring Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel covering Roy Harper???

    What a version too. Sometimes YouTube's really worthwhile, eh?

  • I hate the applause! lol fookin ruins it >:|

  • I never knew this existed. What can I say, Roy Harper's lyrics are so powerful. But performed by Kate and Peter this performance is superb, they are fantastic together.

  • Such a beautiful song. Roy Harper really gets around; Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd (Wish You were Here), and this - hats off to Roy Harper (and Gabriel and Bush - two of my all-time favourites)

  • I still love Kate after 28 years when I first listen to her

  • this is a brilliant cover of Roy Harper's brilliant songs. I never heard this before. It's stunning

  • I can never thank you enough for posting this...

  • Roy Harper's song

  • super and original video

    super singers

    not today we can see them, so sad...

  • Wow, Roy Harper...such an unsung hero!!

  • well that was uplifting.

  • great foresight in Kates lyrics, which are written by roy harper

  • great foresight in Kates lyrics,

  • @hippiekind8 You're right, I think. Actually when she appeared in 1978/79 and we still had Vinyl records, there were people who thought they were playing it with the wrong speed. Don't get me wrong: I do like what she did then.

  • Wow -- I was a huge Peter Gabriel fan in the eighties, had all of his albums. I never knew about this song till now, and it's beautiful!

  • Kate Bush a vraiment une voix particulière, unique.

  • I love Kate Bush but she sounds way to young here, not her best vocals, but still awesome

  • i only knew this song for a long time from this mortal coils it'll end in tears ... with liz fraser singing ... this version is just as incredible

  • Song written by Roy Harper. Please check him out the man's a genius.

  • Sorry guys but "Don't Give Up" is ohhhh so much better than this song. Sorry Peter and Katie, but this song doesn't really go anywhere. Too all over the place. but I love Kate's high notes and her 'little girl voice'- that's what makes her who she is - she stands alone...brilliant!

  • i love this song and this video, but that's because i love peter gabriel and kate bush. they are both amazing, beautiful artists, true artists.

  • Great song and video. Good idea the two pairing up.

  • Kate bush is pure Theatre and I mean that in the best possible way.

  • first time ive ever heard this song .. kate is a brilliant singer , any one know if shes doing another album yet

  • Peter Gabriel has the most amazing voice.

  • I haven't seen this video in years! Thanks

  • I love both of these artists! I'm so glad to see them singing together, especially in "Don't Give Up", the video is amazing.

  • Can understand you find her voice strange, as it is certainly unique, though having fallen in love with it 30 years ago I can't say i agree, but I do agree with the comment about taking the time t o listen to her 2005 album AERIAL - especially the second CD sky o fhoney. It is uttelry sublime. Like hearing light. The woman is just supremely gifted. thanks for posting this video...

  • gilda radner and andy kaufman rule.i didnt know they could sing.just goes to show you the fashion of the time.

  • chilling and beautiful

  • I am probs in a lotta peoples eyes an old fool of 55 but havei loved and i have lost and loved again.....this is probs the best love song i have ever heard.....bar none

  • Absolutely chillingly beautiful........

  • standing ovations from germany!

  • Thank you very much wasn't familiar with this.

  • For those who don't know: Kate sang on Roy Harper's "You" from The Unknown Soldier and Roy sang backing vocals on Kate's "Breathing" from Never For Ever. The version of this song with vocals by Liz Frazer appeared on the album It'll End In Tears by This Mortal Coil.

  • This song is heartbreaking, but gosh... PG just makes me melt.

  • You have to listen to her later work for she grew into her voice later and PG is always awesome

  • I love Kate and Peter together..

  • She is unique and a gift to all who hear her !!

  • There has to be a master tape somewhere...

  • Kate's Voice WAS HER MAGIC. Her Theatricality set the foundations to many subsequent artist to follow in her footstep and develope as Recording Technology improved. When you think up to early 70s Artists could produce such great works by using old technology they had to have talent, for in those days THERE WERE NO VOCAL ENHANCERS (Just simple Reverb/Echo), no Gates Limiters, Expanders,nothing, of what in the past 10 years many Artists have been enjoying whilst having half of Kate's Talent.

  • too much hair and that voice, i can't turn away. there is something for everyone.

  • This song is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. Kate and Peter give Roy Harper's lyrics so much depth and the vocal choir in the background is so epic, it almost has a beautifully melancholic sadness like Pink Floyd. You can just feel the emotion of two people crying out inside because they love each other but both are too damaged inside to vocalize it and save themselves. Just incredible...

  • Brilliant! Thanks for sharing!

  • Peter sure was a handsome chap.

  • Thank you so much for shring this, simply wonderful duet from two of the most talented artists of our generation !

  • I am torn to shreds.

    This. Is. EPIC.

  • Such a nice song. Just want to point a reminder to Roy Harper's original rendition. The reproduction is much better too: It's in the video links on the right anyway.

  • I just love this interpretation, the chords themselves are powerfull but this P and K really add the spice to it all.

  • Great clip. I love i ,but I have to chukle a bit becuase Kate's hair makes her look like Roseanne Roseanadana

  • different class

  • This is very interesting how Peter & Kate portraits on this clip the meaning of this song.

  • This is why youtube is great. I never would have heard this otherwise.

  • Brilliant.

  • Its amazing what you find when you are just looking. Unbelievable, classic.

  • Out-freekin'-standing. Thanks for the share!

  • Just love this. I only wish I could buy it somewhere.

    So gorgeous - particularly when the brass blends in.

    Any woman who loves this - I offer my hand in marriage to...

  • Adore this song. Love the contrast of their voices. Exquisite.

  • Na tablicy mojego serca ze spokojem wypisuję imię tego, który odszedł na zawsze. Sprawia mi to wiele bólu. Potem idę dalej.....

  • Thanx my friend...glad you to find this so

    moving.....beautiful.....!!!!!

  • The beauty of a collabo between mavericks...

  • Heart breaking............

  • I still hear this and get shivers all over my body.

  • My point is, I have followed both for years, but the genius is Roy Harper. If you don't know his work you have missed out on our greatest poet/song writer. He wrote this and sings it like a man in love and lust.

  • she is the most graceful creature on earth, and she makes music like no other. i admire her so much

  • Personnaly.I'm more on Peter Gabriel than Kate Bush.Probably because Peter was more present in Canada than Kate.

    I appreciate both though and actually rediscovering Kate 's work .(I'm watching Sat in your lap in loop ).

  • wasn't the christmasspecial in the year 1980? Or was there one the year before too?

    Thx for posting this vid!!!

  • Frankly, my two most admired musicians of all times. I'd die to see them live...

  • Yes but they cannot hold a light to Roy harper, I loved Peter but Roy wrote this beautiful song

  • Mine too! :)

  • two of the coolest musicians around, loveley, but it is nothoing leike the origional

  • It's a beautiful, powerful, moving song performed by two great artists.

  • Wow, I had never heard this version before. I am stunned. so beautiful. Was it ever recorded as an audio track?

  • What an utterly beautiful song, sung by two utterly beautiful artists. So very touching.

  • . . . so sad ='(

  • This special is the best christmas television I have seen in a long long time. Absolutely amazing. Thanks to the youtube people who have posted it. BBC has gone to the dogs these days. LITERALLY.

  • have loved Roy's original since '69. Never seen this before but it's lovely

  • Make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!

  • I never knew they did this. The original is Roy Harper (1970). It is very down home, John Denver like. It was done again in the mid 80's by This Mortal Coil with a very siren feel to it. All are very different in sound, but all very good

  • i have never seen or heard this one - - -

    peter gabriel was really one good looking bastard,

    that must have been around the time of his third album.

    he and kate in a row of really honest, original people making wonderful music ( kate even til today)

  • this is from 1979.

  • Check out Roy Harper's original (and best!) on Flat Baroque and Berserk - and it's on YouTube.

  • Roy Harper is the English genius.

  • bella canzone, e che bello era lui!

  • Kate I believe this guy shows you the love we all feel for you

  • ...Peter and Kate created a theatrical feeling. On the other hand 'This mortal coil''s edition gives the 'supernatural' ambient... Lovely song with many faces...

  • This song was written by....Green Arrow's sidekick.

  • What a beautiful song, I never knew this existed, thank you. Kate is just wonderful, and Peter too

  • love love love love

  • This song combines both artists' musical styles in a spinetingling way. Wonderful.

  • gorgeous song, thanks for posting!!!

  • top notch, not least cos it sounds, despite bein someone else's song, definitively 70s kate and peter. love 'em.

  • simply perfect together....

    pure emotion. great song, great singers.

  • I didn't know this version of the song existed until now. Great song, two great artists!

  • my teacher dated peter lol! i'd better ask her if she met Kate! :O

  • haha Im jealous of your teacher!

    Peter Gabriel is a legend ^-^

  • This is so beautiful:D!! I really Love it, they are Perfect togehter!!

  • A Roy Harper masterpiece...

    Wonderful

  • Quite perfect, really.

    Kate Bush is Music God.

  • unbelievable - and they both do live... they both are real! to good to be true?

  • They were a PERFECT match.

  • I wish you had the choir that led into this performane

  • Thanks alot for posting this video and song,I love this song so much.Librarian ,you are so right in what you say.

  • Wow, Kate and Peter covering Roy Harper. Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

  • WOW. Two geniuses singin a song by a genius!

  • Two of the greatest musical genius of all time. wonderful. I was lucky enough to see Peter Gabriel perform last year, I would give anything to see Kate play live, but its just never going to happen : ( -Why will she not play, she knows there are so many people desperate to see her. Thanks for postingthis rare clip xx

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