Kate Bush - Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake (1979 Xmas Special)

Kate performs "Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake" on the 1979 Christmas special.
Lyrics:
Emma's come down.
She's stopped the light
Shining out of her eyes.
Emma's been run out on.
She's breaking down
In so many places,
Stuck in low gear
Because of her fears
Of the skidding wheels,
(The skid of her wheels she feels.)
Skidding wheels,
(The skid of her wheels she feels.)
Spinning wheels.
(Wheel-skidding feeling.)
Her heart is there,
But they've greased the road.
Her heart is out there,
But she's no control.
Oh, come on, you've got to use your flow.
You know what it's like, and you know you want to go.
Don't drive too slowly.
Don't put your blues where your shoes should be.
Don't put your foot on the heartbrake.
(She's losing, she's losing, she's losing, she's losing...)
She's losing that inner flame.
It was burning bright,
But she's losing the light fast.
She's only herself to blame.
Well, take care of yourself,
And remember Georgie.
But she's so O.D.'d on weeping
She can hardly see
That she's dropping beads.
(Red, red glass is bleeding.)
Dropping beads.
(Red, red glass is bleeding.)
Dropping beads.
(Red, red on the parquet.)
Her heart is there,
But they've greased the road.
Her heart is out there,
But she's no control.
Oh, come on, you've got to use your flow.
You know what it's like, and you know you want to go.
Don't drive too slowly.
Don't put your blues where your shoes should be.
Don't put your foot on the heartbrake.

[@robibm2003]

During the 1970's, I was completely in love with Joni Mitchell and Ann Wilson. In the 1980's it was Kate. God, she's just incredible!

[@Chrisamusic1]

I have always been in love with Dreamboat Annie and Kate!

[@lovelesskidfu6767]

Kate is the best !! And aways remember: " Don't put your blues where your shoes should be".

[@trevorbrown6654]

The first few Kate Bush albums are sensational and this is a great example of that. She looked and sounded unlike anything that had ever come before, and most of her music she wrote herself. Here she is stunning audiences 7 years before Lady Gaga was born. She has also been smart enough to release her albums sparingly since the mid 1980s and they are almost always well received. She also hates publicity and is something of an enigma, rarely appearing in the UK newspapers although I gather that she has quite a sense of humour, especially about herself. I'm not sure if she had much success in the U.S and her music may not be to everyone's taste but I reckon a juke box musical could be fashioned out of her biggest hits

[@Picnicl]

It seems to me that, from 1980 onwards, Kate Bush's songs tended to only implicitly reference 'rock and roll' via dance or via progressive rock. But songs like Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake and James and the Cold Gun show that she could be a 'bona fide' rocker too. The real deal in every sense.

[@beathusk1018]

Violin too 😉

[@paulamiles9559]

As usual, Kate's dancers crush it.

[@SonOfTamriel]

This is so far ahead of it's time it's truly incredible. She is so damn talented and sexy the way she ends this song is mesmerizing

[@WoodRatGirl]

Now that's what I call an awesome ending performance to a show!

[@MarkPMus]

She raises the art of dancing to a completely different stratosphere from the typical Legs & Co fodder of 1979. They were like reading The Sun. Kate’s dancers are like The Guardian! 😃😃 They deserve at least as much credit for this performance as Kate.

[@peterwilliams9698]

Kate's best effort at rock. Brilliant !

[@rabahelaawar2499]

I did not know that she performed it on a Xmas special!!! LOVED IT!!! The dance, the story, the choreography... Wow!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@SonOfTamriel]

She also performed The Wedding List as a Xmas special lol, which is a song about revenge and murder. Totally epic track

[@deanbevilacqua6041]

Love that scream!!!

[@Malcolm-p4r]

I saw this tour as a 21 year old and I still say it was one of the best experiences of my life.👍🎸☮️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@hollyboulter2036]

I feel Like I found a gift. I have watched this over and over, it makes me feel she is not of this world, pure genius. Love her❤️❤️❤️

[@harrycarden5538]

Incredible performance! Kate is always a joy to watch, she's just fantastic.

[@Chrisamusic1]

Uncomparable, magnificent, immense, beautiful. More superlatives needed ....

[@pinkobreftempsla]

Kate is, and has always been, simply brilliant.

[@alexandrehur5761]

Única. Sem palavras. Sem comparação. Superstar. Harmonicamente única.

[@pradaman307]

Great song-Great voice !!

[@iLikeTheUDK]

0:08 Where and how did they get that footage of me

[@youkyouk7471]

Her Heart is There ! ( Waouhhh ! Kate rocks !)

[@waterdragon4950]

1979. A lifetime ago. 🌎🌊🌲🔥🌪 ❤️

[@basscovers-guitarcovers-my9597]

terrific song Kate is awesome!

[@Katherine0862]

I'm consistently reminded of why she's one of my all-time favorite musicians! ~K

[@funnybone250]

shiny disco pants!!! kate had fashion sense years ago along with the moves and voice :))))

[@thedarksiderebel]

This, and James with the Cold Gun, would have made amazing Bond themes

[@trespasser121]

Maybe 20 years from now.

[@rutha6260]

If Grease and Rocky Horror Picture Show had a baby.

[@beataspiewakjonsson1749]

She is so good 😻

[@beatacatthegreat]

She looks wonderful here!

[@dizzylizzysunflower]

Absolutely love this song ..

[@Hagen771]

what a jewel!

[@pradaman307]

Best Kate Bush song by miles-love it

[@pradaman307]

Think what you like-we all have our favourites and this is mine

[@chucks1255]

Unique choice friend

[@cloudyswildride]

Great choice. This is an epic song.

[@jelly-baby]

@@pradaman307 I've always liked ot Too!

[@paulamiles9559]

Definitely my favorite of Kate s early songs.

[@annother3350]

Not my favorite song but what a performance!

[@miserablerhurensohn]

It's weird that I ALWAYS have this song pop into my head in the late New England Autumn while I'm driving to work in the dark and the roads are covered with leaves after a hard rain fall. Greased roads - brakes - skidding wheels.

[@Heartwing37]

Kate Bush is everything

[@edkollin]

Heavy Metal Kate

[@iLikeTheUDK]

Not so much as in The Wedding List though

[@TheJosep70]

@@iLikeTheUDK Violin is her heaviest song.

[@drichard123]

Love this.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

I noticed that from her very first TV appearances up to this, and also in the Tour of Life, the outro to Wuthering Heights sort of became her signature closing song. It does seem to have this quality to it which makes it good to use as that.

[@RedMoore129]

Smphony you've got one video better than another! here she wears like olivia newton john in grease

[@John-wd8be]

Hey, did you happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world

[@benmo1263]

Kate Bush

[@Septymus]

love the piano in this song!

[@caldionni4815]

1:08 Hope Kate didn't get mad after that little fail 😅 Outstanding performance

[@beathusk1018]

Un tout petit raté

[@caldionni4815]

@@beathusk1018 C'est pas si grave après tout 😉 Elle reste parfaite

[@beathusk1018]

@@caldionni4815 Déesse ! 😍

[@deketelaere]

Woww!:))Quelle grande Artiste vraiment!:♥♥♥

[@benmo1263]

La meilleure. Si belle et si talentueuse!

[@kriksix]

Oh Kate 😍❤️🤩

[@thenutbar44]

Good sound on this, Rocks!

[@SpiritGirlSF]

@oddn Because of her intention to dance as she sang, her sound engineers used a wire coat hanger and a radio microphone to fashion the first headset mic to be used by a rock performer, at least since the Swedish group Spotnicks used a very primitive version in the early 1960s.[1][26]

[@martinsmith500]

She is a listening and visual delight

[@АнджейДубиковский]

Rewelacja! ❤❤❤

[@fionamaddock3984]

the piano at the beginning sounds like Jethro Tull's Locomotive Breath!

[@luizguilhermemoreirasales1548]

OH GREAT VIDEO 😎🇧🇷👏

[@Dermacrosis]

It's from her live TV show. There is no official music video release to this unfortunately. All her songs need officially produced videos.

[@luizguilhermemoreirasales1548]

@@Dermacrosis Ok THANK YOU 😎👍

[@drichard123]

Genius.

[@arnaudfauchere1769]

Thank you very mutch Symphonyofflowers !!!

[@maricamonte6165]

Wow!❤

[@keefbeef]

Wow! 😲

[@peterbeavis-go9wr]

thank you kate

[@casiopea-_-]

¿fue el mejor programa de Navidad de la historia?

[@casiopea-_-]

sí, sin duda... se lo debemos a kate.

[@davidhex2044]

❤️👌🏼

[@clariceresende5983]

The Best one

[@oddn]

aha! thanks ;)

[@karenlau4981]

😍♥️♥️♥️

[@karenjanicehollick1545]

Never seen any of these performance s , wasn't a real Kate Bush fan , but intersting

[@thebrideoffrankenstein2415]

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤😍

[@carolinegodden4364]

🌟

[@cullyvan]

@oddn The mic is up her chuff. Actually the lip sync suggestion is probably nearer the mark and more mature.

[@goldenhorn15]

minute 3:03 tears!

[@RedMoore129]

Grease version...

[@ryokan9120]

If my memory serves me correctly, I think this was aired after The Little and Large show in 1979?

[@karenjanicehollick1545]

On her construction of work she brought to the fold

[@silentartista4057]

Is the guy in 2:58 the same in '''Them heavy people'' video?

[@chucks1255]

both of them actually, they were in most of Kate's early work

[@silentartista4057]

Ok,thanks!

[@Steveunnie2798]

Kate in leather!!!!!!

[@wendymurchison9818]

Pretty sure she lip-syncs but I don't care... Brilliant! Hard to dance like that and sing at the same time. A uniquely gifted woman!

[@alexgalipeau6443]

She doesn't even have a microphone, so... yeah

[@e2e353]

Watch her performance of this song during her Hammersmith Odeon performance. Similar routine and she's singing there.

[@deepnation10009]

She might be mimicking to a performance track because this is not the original vocal.

[@adolforodolfo6929]

@@deepnation10009 You could well be right - it wouldn't be the first time (Them Heavy People video for example).

[@deepnation10009]

​@@adolforodolfo6929 Yes! I love that video.

[@oddn]

is it just me or can no-one else see her mic?? It sounds live, which is why i'm confused as to where the mic is..?

[@drumcatfairy77]

Lip sync....

[@fionamaddock3984]

It's a pre-recorded 'live' version, so she can do the dance but give it an overall 'live' feel! She did this with Hammer Horror so she could concentrate on the dance. There's no way she could have danced that one and sung live!

[@adolforodolfo6929]

@@fionamaddock3984 She did sing this live (and dance) on the 1979 Tour of Life - but she isn't singing live here. And you're right about Hammer Horror, even on the Tour of Life she lip-synched that one because it was too difficult to dance and sing at the same time.

[@101HFC]

Bass guitar 🎸😮

[@mana_beast_beats1114]

0:18

[@reneemanzoor746]

I thought I was just imagining things but has it occurred to anyone else that the infamous Madonna has copied Kate in many ways ESPECIALLY from Kate’s performances? For example look up Madonna’s Confessions tour and the song “Sorry “. Also in the very old 1985 concerts of Madonna’s had two dancers with her....anyone recall Kate’s “Violin” video? Hmmmm...🤨🤔 And they say Gaga has copied a pioneer called Madonna? 🤨

[@eri6280]

That foot bro 3:18 |~

[@chucks1255]

I would love this song more if it was just her and the piano

[@silverascal]

"Heavy?" How so? You mean in comparison to "James and the Cold Gun," "Hammer Horror," "Breathing," "Pull Out the Pin," "Leave it Open," "Get Out of My House?"

[@terrycrookston4983]

while through intro to what this action is restating springsteen kittys back from wild innocent go figure no clue we all float if not now in the end

[@scorpionic-night]

her hair though

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Not one of the best songs tbh

[@boggybond]

Kate’s brilliant in short doses…….her voice (like Cilla Black’s) becomes very irritating after a few songs.

[@deepnation10009]

True fans will not agree. I could listen to her all day.

[@boggybond]

@@deepnation10009 Are there false fans then?

[@deepnation10009]

@@boggybond 🙄 I'll play along... yes.