1985: KATE BUSH on HOUNDS OF LOVE | Whistle Test | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive

[@sebastiancastro7039]

I love the fact that she didn´t engage in criticizing another artist.... and the look she gave him.... priceless... Great upload!! THX!!

[@jesseleeward2359]

@Art yeah that was the 80s mentality my dad is into. It was a reaction against 70s highbrow culture. The journalists were saying that if you aren't thinking about your fans then you are being selfish because your customers keep you in business.

[@LeeMichaelWalton]

I agree with you wholeheartedly;. Kate Bush is far too classy to engage in that kind of criticism..

[@24megabytesleft]

I said the same thing!

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

Exactly! Madonna has never gotten involved in that sort of thing either. They love to pit women, especially, against other women.

[@adamlarsson3828]

that was never Kate’s style. Also, she wouldn’t be so mean-spirited as to correct this presenter but the use of sex and sexuality was /always/ part of Kate’s music and art, right from the very beginning. So the ‘highbrow’ /‘lowbrow’ contrast that he is attempting to present is as reductive as it is meaningless. Kate does not reciprocate in this foolishness.

[@richardbarter9864]

I could listen to Kate talk all day…she is exactly as you imagined, ethereal, mysterious, innocent, just so interesting and obviously unique. I like the way she tries to keep out of shot right at the end too 😂

[@maxcrc]

she is an angel, mate.

[@EvaFull]

Please keep digging through the archives and finding more gems in The Kate Bush Collection.

[@soupdragon151]

Amen. I've seen most of these clips before but they're always from someones home VCR recording and poor quality to see something pulled straight from the BBC archive is a treat

[@bruja2591]

Kate Bush doesn’t tear other people down and puts all her energy into her work, while maintaining a private life… we stan!!

[@paradiselostx]

The way she awkwardly leans back at the end to try and escape the camera shot 3:38 😭😭😭

[@nickavenoso7851]

She’s like “You didn’t see me. I wasn’t here. Focus on him”. Lol. She is/was a very shy person and didn’t like being in front except for when she was working.

[@luckyboy4766]

"Well, thanks for coming in."

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

I love watching Kate just lean back at the end and try to get out of the shot. It’s hilarious!

[@whatever999ization]

Yes that made me laugh too!

[@spraymie]

Kate Bush is and always is THE most talented and stunning female artists

[@dougxvale]

she is such a sweetheart! if it wasn't for her we wouldn't have Fiona Apple or Lorde for example

[@southendonseaarts]

she's always so polite and never gets fazed at interviews

[@HandyAndyTechTips]

Silly interview and questions, but Kate manages to shine regardless.

[@drstevie]

FAB !!! Congrats to Kate on getting to #1 in 2022 !!!

[@marieecott7124]

Yes I think she's there 2022 wonderful Kate 🍷🥀

[@ellymurniati525]

In Indonesia She was Top Hits Recorded 1977-1980s at every radio fms including my hometown malang east java discrict.

[@genergia]

She speaks like she sings….What a lovely woman ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@hilaryepstein6013]

A lovely person and one of the best singers to come out of the 70s - so pleased she's having a bit of a revival. And why wouldn't Donald Sutherland want to be in a Kate Bush video?

[@ricochetpig]

It wasn’t him, it was the body snatchers

[@elliotttalksf1825]

Such a well spoken lovely lady. Class act!

[@bushmonster1702]

She’s a delight. I can see why she has such a hardcore following.

[@rickykingi5191]

Wow Kate Bush.. such an awesome singer & very very well spoken ❤❤

[@Sydroo1969]

Love Kate. Been a fan since late 1980. When I saw Wuthering Heights on a tv show on Nickelodeon pre-MTV. Hounds Of Love is a sublime album. I still have mine on vinyl from back in the day. Sadly she never got much air play over here in the U.S.

[@markb4257]

Wow I'm.... many years to late to say this.. but I think I have a crush on her now..😅 Still listening to running up that hill on loop..🙌🙌🙌 To motivate to my stressful day at work.

[@JohnPenfold1]

Just delightful isn't she? 😍

[@mikekaraoke]

Kate Bush is such an icon! + so proud she came from the county of Kent! I have stories as well-My friend Fraser him and his family's GP was Kate's dad Robert Bush who worked in South East London in Plumstead. And we used to speak to him loads when he finished work or when we was in Kent in Bexleyheath,Welling, Dartford, Swanley, Chislehurst, Orpington etc, on our bikes. He sometimes gave us a lift back to Kent from Plumstead-Such a nice man! + sometimes said hello to Hannah as well and she would make us massive jug of orange squash + met Kate/Del Palmer few times etc Great memories I will always cherish!

[@ddjr6673]

I am from Kent here too.... She was a neighbour of a close friend of mine, who always said that she was kind, and down to earth - she is about 12- 13 years older than us, and he saw her as a kind of older sister, genuine and kind.

[@mikekaraoke]

@@ddjr6673 Very small world, just got an email saying I had a new message on here lol Where in Kent you from. I'm right between Dartford/Bexleyheath! Oh really so your close friend still lives in Welling then?? I was only had a work meeting at Welling Youth Centre the other day 😁

[@ddjr6673]

@@mikekaraoke Sadly my friend died a few years ago (cystic fibrosis). My family are from Bromley, but i now live in central London. The nearest I got to meeting Kate Bush was seeing her live in 2014. I feel so fortunate to have seen and heard her perform.

[@mikekaraoke]

@@ddjr6673 Oh sorry to hear that, was the house taken over by other family or was it sold?? Ah Bromley-lovely part of Kent, have a work meeting there next week-also meeting up with some friends there tomorrow 😁 That is awesome you went, did try and get tickets but all sold out 😤 When was you last in my part of Kent Dartford/Bexleyheath?? I don't mind visiting London, but couldn't live there personally!

[@ddjr6673]

@@mikekaraoke sold and moved and not been down your end of the world for a while

[@conqueringlion420]

What a voice ❤

[@rain73ful]

She such a lovely human being. Very rare indeed.

[@Grimoire6666]

What a cool funny woman and her songs are killer!! Great clip

[@nobodydoesithalfasgoodasyou]

Absolutely enchanting. I couldn't help but smile the whole time.

[@stephenbrown9977]

I've never heard Kate put another artist down in fact she is delightful girl and man would want her every single time over usual pop stars

[@mrpositronia]

Kate Bush and Madonna are the same age. Imagine if Madonna's first album also came out in 1978. Anyway, Kate is untouchable and amazing. She doesn't need to court controversy in order to sell records. But each to their own.

[@Missjunebugfreak]

I love that Kate didn't use that opportunity to tear Madonna down like the interviewer wanted her to. She kept things classy and was respectful towards Madonna. One of the reasons I admire Kate so much, besides her music, is that she never wanted to be a celebrity. She's an artist in every sense.

[@michaelsevilla3697]

madonna is the most legendary female artist of all time she isn't called the queen of pop for nothing she had more catchy good songs than any woman in music period ✌️

[@mrpositronia]

@@michaelsevilla3697 eh, okay. I didn't want to make anyone cry, but sure. If you think she's the best, then carry on. No one said Kate Bush was the queen of pop (well, perhaps outside the UK), no matter how official, or unofficial, the rankings are. I was just comparing two same-aged female singers who have had very good commercial success and their differing methods for achieving it.

[@Happyal-qt3xs]

I love the way people spoke in those days... the English language has changed so much in the past 40 years

[@LoveAge]

Holy Kate 👑🙏❤ If i could ever describe what this womans music & art has meant to/in my life. 🥹❤

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

Wow so pretty and such a sweet voice Hounds would have to be her best album I like how Running Up That Hill has made a comeback.

[@Heartwing37]

Kate Bush is everything

[@Nosh_Feratu]

she is simply one of a kind.

[@LeeMichaelWalton]

Great! Bring on EVERYTHING of Kate Bush.... come one BBC... let the world know about this AMAZING artist who is Kate Bush!... xxx

[@matthewbell4273]

Stunning.

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

OMG - when I saw Kate perform at Hammersmith, Madonna was also in the audience. Incognito on the balcony with her friend David Collins ⚡

[@philipe1966]

Of course the last album was away from the ‘mainstream’. Every Kate Bush album is away from the mainstream. She’s Kate F*****g Bush! Richard Bloody Skinner, honestly.

[@OnlyGoodMusic_]

Well... actually, "The Dreaming" went to #3 in the UK and that week the albums that were on top were a compilation of various artists and a soundtrack, so it became the #1 studio album in the UK in that week. To put a comparison in context: Caroline Polachek, who is an artist with certain characteristics similar to Kate in today's world, has not even had an album in the top 20. So Kate Bush was still mainstream with that album.

[@davedogge2280]

Kate Bush above knew that Stranger Things Season 4 Part II in July 2022 will feature Hounds of Love so she's not worried that it slipped to number 2 back in the charts in the 80s.

[@mikekaraoke]

But what episode do you think it will be in the 8th or 9th??

[@cassie2055]

wait the song ?? or the album??

[@mikekaraoke]

@@cassie2055 That is a good question, where you from?

[@l8nitevibe812]

omg, if the Hounds of Love song is used on Vol. 2 of Stranger Things that will be amazing.

[@cassie2055]

@@mikekaraoke lmao what ?

[@hugo_PaNK]

Kate Bush, la única y más grande artista de la historia!!!❤❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@Joanna7428]

I adore Kate Bush shes so talented, feminine and unique to herself. She isnt like any other artist and i love that! ❤

[@videogamebookreviews]

Top Ten in Ceefax format in the background. I like that.

[@signalenergie]

Thank you so much for sharing this. Kate Bush is so brilliant.

[@thylac2024]

I've just watched one of her earlier interviews on TOGWT and she's so much more confident just a few years later. Almost a different person...

[@liamwalters5029]

Elegant, beauty, but respectful, classy she had it all , to today’s artists she’s miles clear.

[@mikearchibald744]

Thats hilarious, the interviewer says "madonna is going a different way from you, she's going for the sex appeal", and Kate just smiles at him like "thanks a *&^%ing lot". Not that people should be judged on their image (god help us comparing Phil Collins and Neil Young based on looks) but in my books Kate Bush has sex appeal pretty much wrapped up. And when she sings Song of Solomon, come on. Nothing against Madonna although the guy who wrote 'like a virgin' (yeah, a man wrote it) tells a pretty unflattering story about how a singer treated the person that made them rich and famous. She was pretty much the definition of style over substance. Hell, just Kate Bush's lips have more sex appeal here than Madonna. But then to each their own. The 'substance' has pretty much been proven in spades.

[@za.307]

People are still listening to Kate Bush's songs... "Like A Virgin" only comes on a re-live the 80s shows or Heart FM. No one is seeking it out to listen to the lyrics or musical layers. "Running up that Hill" blew my mind as a teen... now it's doing the same for my kids thanks to Netflix.

[@erickgabriellimadacosta182]

What Phil Collins and Neil has connection with these?

[@guinnessharvey4476]

These two dudes in the company of greatness. And yes, of course Donald Sutherland said yes:)

[@emersongoes2850]

Sò uma coisa supera seu talento, sua beleza. Essa mulher é linda.

[@seemassive6024]

Have you noticed in this video she has a similar look, facial expressions and speech pattern of a young Jackie Kennedy. So Cool!

[@eiffe]

Paul McCartney seems very much alive in this clip, considering he died in 1966.

[@AlbPerNil]

stfu, Mccartney is GOD and by thinking he did in 66' that means they some how found another greatest musician of all time to create Sgt Peppers and Abbey Road for example

[@erickgabriellimadacosta182]

It's a theory of an accident

[@raycarter4030]

DJs like him always asked inane under informed embarrassing questions.

[@kindnessfirst9670]

They were representing the inane under informed viewers.

[@trevorclausen2994]

Kate Bush will always be the Greatest Voice and performer i ever heard,An Angelical Beautiful Woman who is shy but a queen of seductress ,a Beautiful interview,

[@andydixon2980]

So much more class, self respect and intelligence than many female 'artists' today, not to mention her great talent.

[@lamecasuelas2]

my queen!! 🤗

[@PUNKinDRUBLIC72]

I was meant to marry Debbie Harry in the '70s and Kate Bush in the '80s ................,.we never met 😐

[@nealm6764]

Dude wanted to start a cat fight between her and Madonna, and Kate wasn't biting at all. Kind of an abrupt ending: "Ok, thanks for coming in... Now for Bobby Womack who..." lol

[@solidaz80]

100 times better than Madonna

[@anonnymous4684]

Impossible to measure. They're both great artists who've had an immense impact on popular culture. I'm glad they both exist.

[@FredBloggsTheThird]

Always important to check your socks are pulled up tight before introducing the next act

[@nealm6764]

That may have been the worst transition away from a guest I have ever seen.

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Donald Sutherland is a great actor. So good on Don't Look Now

[@mikeshinoda703]

Thats a very creepy, original film

[@bushmonster1702]

RIP

[@ricchardo]

"Tragically" I've got Kate Bush sitting next to me. TRAGICALLY!! TRAGICALLY!! Just look at her man!! Just listen to her!!

[@richalderson6069]

Madonna leaves Kate speechless!

[@cmcc3721]

Madonna was still scraping a living doing $5 an hour gigs when this was recorded.

[@richalderson6069]

@@cmcc3721 And doing Live Aid? Hardly.

[@jamiedianne6778]

She was just being nice 😂

[@465marko]

Aww... 3:37 hahaha

[@shaunigothictv1003]

Cool singer but she talks like a female version of Rodney Trotter from Only Fools and Horses. Her singing voice is much better. Personally i think Bush is one of the most underrated artists in Britain. Its a fact that most of the young teenagers on Council Estates nowadays (both Black and White) have never heard of her. Aside from her Rodney Trotter personna which (incidentally seems a bit fake) i would say that Bush is a super talented singer and an amazing dancer. She is one of the greatest stand alone artists this country has ever produced.

[@darkalligator]

😁

[@1Three8Fiver]

Something you wouldn't notice at the time but is blatantly obvious now is the terrible structuring and unnaturally forced questioning, comes across as more of an interrogation than a relaxed interview/conversation from people genuinely interested. Real hostile environment.

[@jasonfallon4968]

Jesus take me back.

[@yussepig6629]

Wow never heard Kate talk about Madonna before. Nice to see Kate was impressed by her even back then before she turned arty.

[@rainerzufall42]

Don't forget, that Madonna went to at least one of the 2014 events "Before The Dawn" in London. Maybe they really do respect themselves, although there's a lot of buzz about their differences...

[@yussepig6629]

@Rainer: is that true? Or was it just the media? Would love to see Madonna mention Kate.

[@thinkingallowed7042]

@@yussepig6629 I can't imagine that Kate was being anything other than tactful about Madonna but I wouldn't be at all surprised if Madonna is in awe of Kate's talent.

[@yussepig6629]

@Thinking Allowed: I don’t think Kate is as snobbish as some of her ignorant fans. If she appreciates Elvis then I’m sure she appreciates Madonna. But I would like to hear Madonna talk about Kate. Her ROL album was as close to a KB album as you can get.

[@thinkingallowed7042]

@@yussepig6629 When you resort to insults ('ignorant') because you don't get consensus or compliance, you lose the argument. Have you never seen the interview where she says she can't relate to most of what's in the charts? What does that tell you? Why should someone finding little value in things that don't reflect their values be called 'snobbish'? Ray of Light, Madonna's finest hour, is as close to art as Madonna could hope to get (American Life also contains some very interesting work) but at her peak she only comes close to the weakest Kate Bush album The Red Shoes.

[@harrytiltmam3075]

The strangest thing happened and I came here

[@jeremysullivan2268]

'Girl' - patronising berk

[@sebastianward324]

Awful interview. Richard Skinner sounds like an amateur

[@somethingelse516]

This seems sexist and cringe

[@jamaicanjock6305]

That's a ghirl letting a feeling of a song out an iconic performer