Added: 4 years ago
From: anklamer
Views: 109,551
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:

All Comments (209)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • In my opinion she's still smoking... though not in that sense.

  • So what if she smoked!She still has an amazing voice.

  • Comment removed

  • Kate Bush said she had her first cigarette at the age of 9.

  • Wow this is shocking after the vegan stuff I never expected she would smoke.

    But my mom is her age and she started at 14 and she said back in the 70's the side effects weren't really known as much they are now.

    And smoking was what having blackberries and iPhones is today.

    I still think she's the perfect human being.

  • It's Kate Bush! so special

  • Everybody used to smoke! Perhaps people should complain more about the fumes from cars. Did you know that the total number of global car deaths is 1.2 million a year! Go here: (dot) nhtsa . gov

  • What did she say at the end?

  • She can blow smoke in my face. Oh yeah.

  • Kate just makes me never want to quit.

  • i like a smoke as well, good for you Kate, you're the greatest!!

  • Comment removed

  • Kate smoked everyday since about 12-13 to she was 40 and had a baby.She still smokes now and then from unofficial reports and whats the big deal?

  • She still smokes after not for a while

  • Have any of you nay-sayers ever heard of an old expression that begins with : "Oh," and ends with "Brother!" Oh, brother! Kate Bush is and was a beautiful woman. So she smokes - so what? Tobacco and smoking is a simple human comfort. God knows we humans need those little comforts at times. And it's her and your choice - no one else's. Be happy and at peace as you travel through this dim vale. Oh, and the politically inept can go to hell miserable. Thanks Kate - you're a talented babe.

  • she must of quit early on cause her voice is still fine

  • I think we're only just hearing the damage done now (on her director's cut stuff.) And she's had to hit the botox, cos the smoking had added years to her face.

  • I'm astonished at how powerful her vocal range was in songs like Wuthering Heights and her other songs for her to have smoked. Freddie Mercury also a heavy smoker had powerful range as well. Robert Plant got away with smoking and still had great range too. To be able to do that you'd have to be more than gifted but super-gifted.

  • She' s like an underage kid smoking, giggling, needing an older person to fix her make up still

  • Smoking hot, ya mean!

  • breathing the nicotine...:)

  • It is a surprise to see her smoke, especially as she looks after herself so much and works out a lot, with her dance routines and the like. Is that the one flaw in the perfect woman?

  • So all you guys who fantasies about Kate, remember that her hair stinks like Sh......

    But really who cares. This creature makes music, and forms images in the mind like no other.

  • this is kind of weird

    kate usually looks really humble on interviews, but here she looks kind of scary, conceded, or -something-

    is this real?

  • That's the set of the "Wow" video. Anyway, off for a smoke!

  • If you ever happen to get obsessed enough with Kate to dig up and read through all the interviews, rare letters, photos, and videos, you'll discover that Kate was actually a very regular daily smoker for over 25 years. She says she quit in 2001. Most of her public appearances were very controlled, though, so it's a surprise to many.

  • @machineofadream I am obsessed enough, do you have any links to send me of those rare photos and letters interviews and videos????

  • Funny how people never criticize people drinking, yet drinking causes more health problems, violence, vandalism, deaths by drink driving and costs the UK Health Service far more money than smoking ever will. Yet see someone having a cigarette and its like the end of the world ! Alcoholism is destroying the UK, not smoking. Hypocrites.

  • @katesPinkZeppelin Offcourse you are right, its was a reaction on peoples silly remarkings on smoking and having a totaly wrong image of Kate. During the recording of- the kick inside - she smoked joints all the time, it is said that that kept here relaxed, because she was so nervous.

    Great human being as musicion and a person.

  • come on folks, it is well known that kate smoked a lot of grass for a long time, thats probably why her music is so incredible good.

  • @hanskumar1 True and theres nothing wrong with that, but I do think her music would have been as great.

  • @hanskumar1 Drugs does not equal good music. It's called talent.

  • @widdlepuddyfat

    Too right ! Drugs enhance certain feelings that you may write about. But it's already in you to get out. John Cale said after all his years of taking drugs he thought "what were you doing ? All that time wasted."

  • come on folks, it is well known that kate use to smoke a lot of dope during a long time, notting wrong with that, it probably helped her making this incredible music.

  • get over it people im sure she didnt smoke a fag every five minutes. its not a big deal if you ave one occasionally. people should chill and have one if you want, its not going to kill you, and even if it does, we've all got to die one day. you might as well have oone and be chilled and happy instead of being stressed, which causes much more illnesses

  • yech?

  • she could smoke me

  • I'm sorry to see Kate smoking. I hope she quits. If not, it's liable to affect that incredible voice.

  • @ftsjr i agree. because this video is old, maybe she didnt really continue, or at least stopped by now or something. her voice is perfect! : )

  • ....I got a boner

  • Oh, no, not a cigarette...she has turned into marilyn manson...

  • she is smoking...she is one of the best female artist

  • I just love it that she used to smoke! It makes smoking so much easier, when you know that our hero Kate used to do it! XX Haha

  • Comment removed

  • @MissNeverForEver Yeah your right there, it does make smoking easier, I was so pleased when I found out she used to smoke as well, it made me realise what I am doing can't be terrible, haha and I thought Kate couldn't get any more smoking.

  • @thebiglebowski1993 Great comment

  • @MissNeverForEver sure - you can share the same throat cancer specialist and cough up the filthy phlegm in the same brand of spittoon

  • @spottydog4477 Haha exactly! ;)

  • She was gorgeous !!!!!! I love you Kate !!!!!

  • i kissed her once

    im glad she didnt reek of fags

  • @goodtimetone "Yeah and I'm Schptuping Lassie " Triumph the comic insult dog 2001

  • Kate was cool not prudish, stragjht laced or uptight. It was 80's. I'm not surprised at all that she smoked

  • Ssssmokin'... what an unbearably sexy doll!!!

    What is it about a brilliant young girl with a cig that warms my cockles? I think she just gave me a smoking fetish...

  • Smoking in the 70s was the norm. Now we know better.

  • WTF

  • sexy

  • it seemed to be a planned scene

  • In 1979 everybody smoked. So what?

  • i was about to say didnt everyone smoke back then? lol

  • Just because she smokes here doesn't mean she is or was a smoker... if she's addicted, well then she's a smoker. She smokes ~here~

  • i dunno for sertain but i seems to be a today of the guy in the unritend stantes that wass un presidntiaent one day y do you know waht i been?

  • Who is Kate Bush? Know how to Google? She is arguably the best female pop musician ever.

  • @fupedworld the best musician in general

  • @fupedworld Totally agree!

  • so if you heard a rat a tat tat on your bedroom window , you looked and there was kate bush in a satin nightie, you would say kate NO! never with a smoker.

  • Kate Bush could cut both ends off two packets of fags and smoke all 20 in each hand in one go, just so long as she was asking me to let her in at my window-ow-ah....

  • She can smoke all she wants...

    It clearly never affected her voice back in the day or the quality of music she produced.

    Kate is simply a legend.

  • Cannot believe people are shocked at Kate smoking. What difference does it bloody make?! None whatsoever. She is human, she makes fantastic records, has incredible talent. Oh, and she happends to smoke! OMG SHOCK HORROR!! Let's all burn her CD's now. What a bitch! How could she do this to us!? GET OVER IT PEOPLE!!!

  • @craigieboy2001 I think almost everybody tried smoking cigarettes some time when they are young, or not??In the 70' everybody that was "modern" had to try smoking, it was very normal. They didn't know it was bad. But I agree... what difference does it make. She is great...

  • @craigieboy2001 exactly, we have weird stressful unnatural lives, so you might as well chill and smoke a bit so you dont go insane

  • so what everyone used to smoke in the 70s

    even sony consoles

  • Ha ha ha :)

  • so what she's smoking she quit in 2001

  • oh oh what day? I did too!

  • Well, it looks like she is enjoying her smoke!

  • LOL, I bet she's like that with everything!

  • People, please, stop stressing out over one little cigarette. Kate's quit that habit now and anyway, it looks like she's on a movie set of some kind. Calm down, guys!

  • 'Kate Bush - thin girl pop star in 1970s under huge pressure from media and record company - smokes' shock horror!

    I hear the Pope was Catholic back then as well

  • She was probably filiming a movie, that's what it looked like to me. 8-)

  • lol she looks like she doesnt know how to handle that ciggy

  • Kate is SMOKIN'!!!!

  • I hate smoking but I love Kate. Hope she does not smell.

  • It's quite amusing to me that the most shocking video of Kate Bush out there is one of her smoking a cigarette and people are absolutey stunned by it where as every other star has videos of them doing coke/beating someone up/having sex/showing giblets getting out of a car. XD Kate Bush is an amazing artist, there'll never be anyone quite like her.

  • Amen to that, peace brother.

  • @CynicalHippie Certian acts are'nt better b/c worse ones exist. It's correct that Kate Bush is an amazing musician and has the right to to choose what goes through her lungs.

  • it's really porn settish... ha

  • I've just come.

  • Folks, simmer down--that clip is from 1979, and, yes, she was smoking a "cigarette" of some kind, but that doesn't mean she's smoking anything 30 years later or was like some kind of "fiend" with it. Man, get some perspective, do even a bit of research on her, and THINK! And do you think she'd endanger the life of her son? You know, there is this thing called "free will" that allows people to STOP and START doing all manner of things, particularly if they lead something of life.

  • Build a bridge and get over it!

  • That's just about the sexiest thing I've ever seen.

    God damn.

  • haha

  • whyyyyy kaaate ????

    Why do you harm your beautiful voice ????

    ='(

  • lol

  • Kate smokes Silk Cut. Kate can do what she likes. She's Kate. We are mere mortals.

  • aww i love kate, she is my english sweet heart. Such a lovely creature. And what stunning big eyes she has.

  • Does Kate say 'Sucker" in an American accent?? Anyone else hear that? Weird! :)

  • Yes, I hear it, too! (btw, I seriously doubt Kate would blow smoke in someone's face and then smile and call them a "sucker" in an american accent - but it made me laugh anyway.)

  • alot of people in england smoke, its not really a big deal. especaily in the 70's when alot of people werent aware of the side effects of smoking. never seen anybody look cooler smoking than kate though. the womens a goddess and a true artist if ive ever seen one.

  • it gave her lines on her face

  • I GOD !!!! SHE MUST HAVE MURDERED SOMEONE !!!! SHE SMOKES >>> SHE SMOKES !!!!!

    CALL THE TOBACCO POLICE !!!!!!!! KATE BUSH SMOKES !!!!!!! SHIT THE WORLD IS GOING TO END ????????????? for fucks sake .... will the Tobacco police !! please go and save the thousands of third world kids that Die every day from neglect !!!! Not smoking !!! ..and leave me alone to fill my lungs with shit !!!! GO DO SOMETHING USEFULL !!!!!!!!

  • LOL

  • i want to be a cigarette

  • I think she still DOES smoke. Read an interview maybe a couple of years old. She said she just couldn't give up the habit. Don't be too hard on yourself, Katie... Smoking is cool.

  • Shes so beautiful, I had to save it!

  • ah could murder a smoke right now, lol why is there no videos of me avvin a fag :P

  • What about her video "Breathing" I thought that she was always so "anti smoke" this was a real surprise. N E Way, Kate rocks no matter what!!!!!!

  • This is such a pity! So I do know now why she has lost her cute voice...

  • No-one keeps the voice of a child when they are 50.

  • Yeah - she never "lost" her voice through smoking. She just grew older.

  • ha...good one..and SO TRUE!

  • blow it out your arse !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Ok, ok,... yes, you're right. I agree, nowadays she sounds like this, really... :(

  • Talented people are often fag merchants - it's just a law

  • :o kate bush tsk tsk tsk

  • Who cares? She's a 40 year old woman. Of course she has wrinkles. It's a beautiful thing.

  • She is actually 50 years old now. Look it up.

  • even when she quit smoking in the mid 90's i dont think u would of ever new she smoked unless u actually saw her, beutiful women very natural.

  • God she's hot, smokin'!!!

  • She said she knew it wasn't a good thing to smoke but she was simply addicted. She quit smoking though, in the mid-1990's.

  • champion

  • Kate looks fine.

  • true

  • i dont think wrinkles are formed solely on the sun and smoking,dieting, if at all in some cases, simply old age plays a huge part. Kate doesn't look wrinkly

  • It's hard to tell, since most of her recent photos are album ones (she's hardly the type to get papped is she?) and they're usually airbrushed. But like everyone, she's going to get wrinkles.

  • Not really, i`m 52 but can pass as 40 no probs. Don`t believe all yo hear on the telly mate.

  • As much as I loathe smoking, like everything else she does, she makes it look so sensual & appealing. I'm very glad she quit, though.

  • She makes everything look glamorous.

  • She doesnt smoke anymore fact-fans.

  • damn, she's hot... no matter what she does... I hope she doesn't loose her voice

  • are u being sarcastic? its hard to know sometimes with utubers

  • No, you should burn all her cd's immediately. And then burn your house down.

  • Hahahahahahahahaha....sorry i find this very funny!!!

  • She's one of the loveliest people in music nowadays, in a sort of John Peel kind of way. That is a very rare thing in pop these days. She might smoke (I'm not sure if she does now,) but that does not make her a horrid person! We all have our personal vices, after all.

  • Kate Bush gave up in the nineties, mainly due to her son, but also for general health. Kate did not chain smoke, so she's not as bad as you might think, but nearly all the singers of the seventies smoked - it wasn't all that bad back then, to them. Just because she smoked doesn't make her a bad person. There are millions of smokers everywhere, does that make them all bad people?

    NB I don't smoke.

  • Of course shes a good person!!! Just because she smoked dosent mean she should be sent to hell! Shes still an amazing singer, performer and person!!!

  • i dont understand? i dont think smoking makes anyone a bad person, it's not that good for your health if you smoke heavily??????????? anyway i love kate and am not sure why anyone shudn't just becuase she used to smoke?

  • @GrossbergerXXX hope this is a joke

  • Are we sure it's tobacco? I understand that Kate was/is a noted stoner...

  • She mentioned in an interview in 1978/9 she'd tried hash a few times and a drug which she didn't know the name of. And that she smoked her first cigarette at nine (I thought I was bad for trying mine at eleven!). But taking all of this into account, she's still the most talented person I've ever seen, and good for her for having the determination to quit smoking.

  • oh i saw her with a pack of rothrams at her mum and dads home

  • Oh pulease! What is this, a witchhunt? This clip is from 30 years ago for heavens sake! Get a grip! Good lord it's a cigarette for heavens sake, it's not crystal meth crack heroin or dope. She's not Amy Winehouse for goodness sake!

  • no she aint... kate has huge talent and any amy has wot? 2 years before shes pushing up daiseys....and zero talent!!!

  • seen her lately? smoking gave her wrinkles! still a hot chick though for her age

  • ????? And how do you know that??? Bla bla bla wrinkles...have been smoking since I was 15, now in my late 30's....not a wrinkle. However I have never baked in the sun and none of my parents ot grandparents wrinkle or wrinkled much. Blame genetics and foremost the sun!!! Smoking does not cause wrinkles on everyone...lot's of friends who smoke and have smoked...the sun seems to be the main factor and then genes....and come on...she looks great!!!

  • @Paguridae the sun is responsable of the skin-aging 70% at leas !!!! but it's true too that genetics are a big factor. A smokers body (I mean a real smoker) needs 23 times more vitamin C as a non smoker. And vitamin C is one of the most important thinks for your skin, to keep it healty I mean. So, a real smoker, that does not drink at least 2 liters of water a day, has big chance to look older than a non smoker when he is 45 or 50. Of course, it depends on more things than the smoke, yes.

  • ohhh... VERY nice horns!!!

  • oh cut it out! this country (usa) is becoming so puritanical. never pick up a beer, don't smoke, no fatty foods, excersize and live forever and stay young looking while you do it.

    pleeeeze. get off your high horses and live and let live.

  • you smoke eh?

  • occasionally.

    I have a set of horns growing out of my forehead.

  • lol i like your style!! (FYI uk isn't any better either!)

  • thank you shortyzan!

    yes - we were in the UK last summer. In Scotland and N.Ireland the ban was on and just about to start in England.We got a couple of smokes in at pubs in Brighton, london and Oxford just before the ban.

  • i saw kate smoking and even if she is a rare beauty it turned my guts... but hey? thats just me eh? but i did have tes with her mum and dad once.... very nice

  • nice horns?

  • Diamond studded.

  • Yo! And you have infected us Europeans:-( Or not you obvilously, but the most of them....

    Off to hear att Johnson sing "Heartland"

  • when I see Kate smoking its like seeing a rare orchid crushed under a large heavy boot. Se's so beautiful inside and out.

  • she smoked and the last I heard was about 1985 when she was trying to give up. My guess is she has given up since having her son. She also did an interview in the late 70s saying she occassionally smoked hash and grass!she never smoked in any videos inclusing the dreaming, its just a special effect.

  • No, the video for "The Dreaming" included reversed film of Kate exhaling a lung full of smoke. As in all things, the most simple explanation is the one most likely to be correct.

  • very hot, i cant help it. i wonder what was her brand of choice? camels? something american? the devil knows virginia and carolina makes the finest and deadliest tobbacco in the world.

  • Two brands we know she smoked: John Player Special and Silk Cut.