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Subject: *** Famous Kate Bush Fans ****
Date: 18 Aug 92 07:44:41 GMT
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FAMOUS KATE BUSH FANS
by Ed Suranyi, Ron Hill, Andrew Marvick (IED), Julian West, Doug
Alan, D. Mark Ouellette, Anthony Kosky, and Dirk Kastens.
Compiled and edited by Ed Suranyi and Ron Hill
See also the article on cover versions of Kate's songs, the
article on Kate's session work, and the book Cloudbusting, under the
names of people who know Kate.
Peter Gabriel -- he asked Kate to sing with him several times.
Midge Ure (formerly of Ultravox) -- asked Kate to sing on his
album, and praised her in interviews
Nigel Kennedy -- Knows Kate and has praised Kate in interviews.
Calls her "Bush Baby". In the Oct. 28, 1989 issue of _Melody Maker_ he
said "She's just a great musician, so inspired in her attitude to music.
I think she's one of the greatest composers of the century in my opinion.
That's another type of music that relates to my way of thinking. You
can call it classical, whatever, it just takes in influences from all
over. The main song I played on was "The Fog", where I played the
counter melody to her vocal. I also did chord
banks on another song -- "Heads We're Dancing". We did it in her own
48-track studio. It was all acoustic. I think it's about the best
studio sound I've ever had -- her boyfriend Del is a great engineer."
John Hughes -- asked Kate to sing for his movie
Nicolas Roeg -- asked Kate to sing for his movie.
Suzanne Vega -- In an Oct. 1990 issue of _Rolling Stone_, Suzanne
lists _The Dreaming_ as one of her favorite albums of the eighties.
Dave Gilmour -- discovered Kate
Pat Benatar -- covered W. Heights, which she said was a
"beautiful song"
Donny Osmond -- called "Don't Give Up" his "theme song"
Natalie Cole -- covered "The Man With..." several times
Ozzy Osbourne -- TSW one of his favorite albums of the year
Robert Smith (of the Cure) -- TSW one of his favorite albums of
the year
Paul Kantner (of Jefferson Airplane) -- TSW on his Christmas wish
list
Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes (of Duran Duran) -- played the video
for Sat in Your Lap when they were guest DJs on MTV. In a 1985 issue of
"No. 1", Simon Le Bon revealed that his favorite female singer is Kate
Bush. And that he thinks the album Hounds Of Love is great.
Colin Moulding (of XTC) -- said he was a Kate fan in the XTC
fanzine. (Jon Drukman can probably provide the exact quote).
Roy Harper -- asked Kate to sing on his album, twice.
Sarah McLachlan -- said she'd been influenced by Kate
Mick Karn -- Whose more recent expression of his respect for
Kate's work postdates and presumably supplants earlier, less favourable
assessments by members of his ex-group Japan--himself included--back in
1982, when they jointly asserted that the Japanese singer-songwriter
Akiko Yano did what Kate "tried to do" better than she did
Fish (of Marillion) -- why?
Dave Gahan (of Depeche Mode) -- In one of those *Star Hits* star
polls in 1986, he voted for Kate Bush as "Most desirable human being" (he
also voted for her for best song and best female singer....).
John Cale - In an awful article on Kate Bush in Sounds in 1986 he
says that Kate Bush's videos are the only creative work in the field.
Iron Maiden - The band members have all said they are Kate Bush
fans in various interviews. They also used the Kate Bush symbol on the
cover of the album "Somewhere In Time", although that might be because
it's also the Knights Templars symbol.
Paula Abdul (POSSIBLY) - Video "Blowing Kisses In The Wind" very
simular to a Kate video.
Brian Eno (POSSIBLY) - At a "Conversations with Brian Eno" panel
discussion in 1990, one of the critics asked Brian if there were any
artists he had not worked with that he would like to work with. Someone
in the audience (not me!) yelled out "Kate Bush" and there were quite a
few "Yeahs" "Yays" and lots of clapping. Brian said that he'd prefer NOT
to work with artists who are in the same area of music that he's in and
that "She's too close" to work with.
Enya (POSSIBLY) - She did the soundtrack for a BBC television
series called _The_Celts_. That soundtrack has been released in the U.S.,
and is even available on CD domestically. It is sometimes simply called
_Enya_. Also, although Enya loves to claim that she never listens to
anyone's music and has no influences at all (which is absurd), the cover
of _The_Celts_ is extremely similar to Kate's cover for _Hounds_of_Love_.
It shows Enya kneeling, with two wolves flanking her. Those who remember
Kate's and John Carder Bush's descriptions of the difficult sessions they
had with Bonnie and Clyde (the
Weimeraners on the cover of _HoL_) will understand why Enya's wolves are
stuffed rather than live. But no-one will ever convince IED that _HoL_'s
cover didn't directly influence Enya's. The photo is even placed in the
center of a blank white field, as in _HoL_.
Prince (POSSIBLY) - Thanks Kate in the linear notes to "Diamonds
And Pearls". Rumours that they were to work together.
Metalica - Have said in interviews that they are fans.
Judas Priest - Ker-rang! had a "What we want for Christmas" piece
and Judas Priest said "Kate Bush videos".
Donal Lunny and Liam O'Flynn, Irish musicians, who have worked
with Kate on several occasions and who, upon being asked about the
experience by IED a couple of years back, were _very_ animated in their
praise of her talent and character.
Slash", of "Guns 'n' Roses" is rumoured to sport a large tattoo
of
Kate on his right shoulder. It's a head-and-shoulders likeness, and even
has her name at the bottom.
Big Country - Stuart says he's been a Kate fan for a long time.
Invited Kate to sing on the song "The Seer".
Sinead O'Connor's - when her debut album, _The Lion and the
Cobra_, came out, there were a lot of people comparing her to Kate. Not
because she sounds like Kate (she doesn't), but because "she uses her
voice in bizarre ways to create interesting effects" (_L.A. Times_), or
because they're both "women shattering the boundaries of pop music"
(_Rolling Stone_).
She was interviewed in the _L.A. Times_ around 1988, and here's
what she had to say about this:
"I like Kate Bush, so it's kind of flattering [to be compared with
her]. I'd rather be compared with her than with someone I really
detested. . .like Suzanne Vega, Joni Mitchell."
Six months earlier she had told a fan that she hated to be
compared to Kate because everybody did it and the combined effect was to
deny the originality of her music.
Tori Amos - Frequently compared to Kate and has praised her
several times:
>From interview in Keyboard Review, Feb 1992:
By now you'll have gathered that Tori Amos is her own woman
with a distinctive style. However writers and critics still
want to pigeonhole her, likening her to Kate Bush
(particularly the vocal style), Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchel.
But she's not intimidated or angry. "I have great respect for
the people I'm compared with, and find it really fun. I love
what Kate Bush does but we're very different people. I've been
hearing comparisons with Kate for 10 years --- before I'd
heard her work. But people don't say I sound like many guys
and I've been influenced by more men than woman. It's an
energy --- people are missing the energy. We all compare
people to sonics instead of vibes. I don't get compared much
to Elton John of Ray Charles," she laughs. "As a woman you do
get compared to other women and I feel that's not the whole
picture because I'm sure that a lot of women and men are
inspired by the opposite sex".
>From a Tower Records magazine (Top, Febuary 1992):
Having done the apples and tea, Tori now begins the vigorous
production of an omletter. Clearly she dislikes inactivity.
Certain songs on the new album, for example "Crucify" the
first track, have led people to compare Tori to Kate Bush, as
previously mentioned. Does she mind this?
"I don't mind at all. The truth is that I think there's maybe
a quality, an energy that people sense that we have in
common.In fact, if you put our songs back to back, they're as
alike as night and day. I'm a huge fan of hers, of course, but
this comparison was first made ten years ago in a club and at
that time I hadn't heard any of her work. When I did hear her
work, I loved it, but I made it a rule not to get _every_
record she made because I didn't want to cop (sic). Let's face
it, when you're compared to somebody that you like, it doesn't
get much better than that".
The June 1992 issue of the German KEYBOARDS magazine:
Tori: "It doesn't depend on how many chords you can place in a song, but
on what you create out of every single chord. One of the best
songs of this kind that I've heard during the last years and that
has absolutely no example is 'Running Up That Hill'."
Keyb: "Many critics did compare you to Kate Bush."
Tori: "Yes, but I think that is nothing to do with my songs but with
my singing. They hear these high tones and remember Kate Bush."
Keyb: "But the conceptions of your songs are completely different."
Tori: "Yes, she works with different structures. But her songs are very
original and that is what matters."
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