Kate Bush - The Saxophone Song

This beautiful song is one of Kate Bush's earliest compositions and was written way before it featured on her first album The Kick Inside.
When asked what the song was about Kate said "I wrote The Saxophone Song because, for me, the saxophone is a truly amazing instrument. Its sound is very exciting - rich and mellow. It sounds like a female. I think of a beautiful sax like a human being, a sensuous shining man being taken over by the instrument. The perfect setting was this smokey bar in Berlin with nobody listening except me in a corner, the streams of light flashing off it to me."
DISCLAIMER: THIS VIDEO DOES NOT CONTAIN THE 2018 REMASTERED SOUND RECORDING - THE SAXOPHONE SONG.
Drums: Barry de Souza
Bass: Bruce Lynch
Guitars: Paul Keogh, Alan Parker
Keyboards: Andrew Powell
Saxophone: Alan Skidmore
Electric guitar: Paul Keogh
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[@Picnicl]

2.26 and 3.35 She went FULL Kate Bush there like I've never seen before, all mysterious, coy and moody all at the same time. I've always adored this song. To be honest, I think that Lionheart was a fantastic follow up, her most explicitly theatrical album with the most dark humour. It didn't have the lightness of touch nor prog rock feel of The Saxophone Song but it was an expansion of what interested Kate Bush at that time or as a child, particularly campy British horror movies and humour and theatricalness.

[@banberry2112]

Absolutely brilliant video. I am casually lost for works. Thank you so much for uploading this. Take care

[@DebbSaxx1]

. As a saxophone player, I have to say this video is definitely captivating! Thanks for posting!! Debb Saxx .

[@1705Paulyt]

This is incredibly good, one of the best fan video monatges I ahve ever seen..

[@marcussoares1446]

[Verse 1] You'll find me in a Berlin bar in a corner, brooding You know that I go very quiet when I'm listening to you There's something special indeed There's something special indeed [Pre-Chorus 1] In all the places where I've seen you shine, boy There's something very real in how I feel, honey [Chorus] It's in me, it's in me And you know it's for real Tuning in on your saxophone Da-bah-da-bah-doo... [Verse 2] The candle burning over your shoulder is throwing Shadows from your saxophone, a surly lady in tremor The stars that climb from her bowels Those stars make towers on vowels [Pre-Chorus 2] You'll never see that you had all of me You'll never see the poetry you've stirred in me Of all the stars I've seen that shine so brightly I've never known or felt in myself so rightly [Chorus] It's in me, it's in me And you know it's for real Tuning in on your saxophone Da-bah-da-bah-doo...

[@mildredwinter]

it's in me, and you know it's for real...

[@jucoraggio]

always fresh to an open mind.

[@atgunchev]

Congratulations Mr Marrs, you did very good job on this video.

[@MrMarrs]

***** Thank you Atanas. Cheers.

[@lgbtes]

The ending... oh Lord... the end of this tune

[@youandwhosearmy6339]

A lot of those sax runs sound like the stuff played on a Caravan song called Can't Be Long Now from 1970. Beautiful playing on both tracks.

[@leonoxia8050]

I love Katie for 35 years, your video tells me you feel the same way :) !!!

[@yousefghanimeh9817]

just for one month, but feel like 35 years

[@arnaudfauchere1769]

Amazing !!! Beautiful !!! Vraiment excellent !!! Grande créativité !!!! Félicitations ;-) ( in English) = congratulation !!!

[@crepegeorgete]

Brilliant video....beautiful song... love voice Kate Bush ٠•●♥*♫•* ♫♪

[@Unkn0w0n]

0:42 Why does that creature look exactly like Kate herself? Amazing 😄

[@Blueboy9055]

Such a brilliant song Kate.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

Thank you for this. I needed some beauty today.

[@MrBrownpotato]

1:52 - her handwriting? I've read somewhere that she puts circles above i

[@MrMarrs]

yes that's Kate Bush's hand writing of the lyrics to this song.

[@savag1]

unique voice!

[@pontepolentepontepi]

Beautiful !

[@83kikyo]

This made me cry. So beautiful!

[@Maralyssa]

NICE job!!!!

[@michelavazzana]

Great song and thank you for creating this wonderful video!!!

[@marinanononsense]

Magical

[@windymiller7]

Stunning.

[@PjotrePansky]

and u know there is something special indeed

[@mattski73]

Stunning

[@saschasagemann80]

Die computeranimierten Sequenzen hier stammen aus Disneys 'Fantasia 2000'. Dort bildet dieses Segment über Tod und Wiedergeburt den Abschluss zur Feuervogel Suite (Version 1919) von Igor Stravinski. Diese Szenen nun zu Kate Bushs 'Saxophone Song' zu sehen ist für mich als Trickfilmliebhaber doch etwas seltsam-befremdlich. Das Lied ist zweifelsohne eine traumhafte Nummer und die gespielten Saxophonlinien von Alan Skidmore begründen Kate Bushs Gefühle - dieses Lied ist wahrlich eine Liebeserklärung - jedoch eher in platonischer Form. Was Alan Skidmore hier spielt ist zwar fesselnd und mäandernd (ausufernd) - jedoch zu keinem Moment verführerisch-sexy, exstatisch-'schreiend' oder volltönend-laut, wie in anderen Liedern mit prägnanten und weltbekannten Saxophon Solis (z.B. 'George Michael - Careless Whisper', 'Al Stewart - Year of the Cat', ' oder 'Gary Rafferty - Baker Street').