Kate Bush Interview about Cloudbusting #2

Kate interviewed (on the channel that used to feature music videos) by J.J. Jackson in 1985.

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Music

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• kate
• bush
• interview
• cloudbusting

[ToniHedley]

wow the interviewer has the most soothing and unthreatening voice! his questions are great! i wish they had decent interviewers like that nowadays! instead of stupid girls and boys asking musicians what their favorite colours are!!!!

[k8fan]

@ToniHedley The late, great JJ was a radio professional long before the channel that used to air music videos started. He got his start in the 1960s at WBCN in Boston before moving to LA and spending more than a decade in radio and TV. So year, he had a deep love and knowledge of music, and knew Kate's music and her level of influence.

He is missed.

[mizzlotus]

Great interview! Thanks for sharing. I remember how difficult it was getting her music in the US. Had to use my cousin's connection to a record distributer to get a copy of Hounds of Love. My cousin thought I was a little nutty about some "unknown." Hah!

[k8fan]

I know! After they couldn't figure out how to sell The Kick Inside in the US, EMI-America actually pressed copies of Lionheart, then changed their minds (I have one of these "destroyed" LPs). They didn't even try with Never For Ever, finally releasing The Dreaming. Hounds of Love was preceded by a "Mini-LP" and a release of all the previous records.

But on the other hand, Kate wasn't working especially hard to help the record company sell the album. She has the level of success she wants.

[runly1]

kate always seems so humble... really appreciate that!

[Sharmilka]

K8Fan, you have the most lovely personality to share all those KT and HR treasures with the world just like that. Thank you so much for all those years of your work.

[cavhoki]

shes so beautiful

[aaronxalapa]

The same year at the same age than Kate, Madonna was becoming a star getting naked and singing "Like a Virgin" and "Material Girl".

Kate was putting one the best albums ever made by a female artist.

[thedeadcellist]

This would make anyone miss MTV's golden years. Twix-sponsored as it is, compare this to the sexist nonsense she had to deal with in the UK. This is a great spot.

[Sherlew62]

Thank You KATE!!!

[mistofoles]

Did you know that when the video's producers approached Donald's agent, he/she refused to pitch it to him, so the producers contacted Donald directly!

[Tracymmo]

A woman singer fulled clothed? I'm so confused. (Yes, that's sarcasm.) J.J. 's radio background so in evidence here, both his voice and his interview style. Someone from Canada complained in the comments that they don't have good music interviewers, but I watch Jian Ghomeshi's CBC Qtv interviews here on YouTube, and he's quite good.

[katkongo]

@iamsammybe THIS!

You're completely right. There are talented and imaginative musicians today but most can't hold a candle to Kate Bush. Her music is abstract yet powerful at the same time. Sometimes musicians become so abstract that their music becomes poorly delivered and quite strange but Kate Bush has a healthy balance of imaginative writing and powerful delivery.

[iamsammybe]

although there are many wonderful and interesting genius musicians throughout modern music you really just can't match her combination grace, intelligence, beauty, talent, creativity, vision, articulateness. etc. in any other artist.

[stayjit1]

I never could understand why Kate was so huge in Europe and Canada and never got airplay in the US.