Kate Bush - Them Heavy People (1979 Xmas Special)

Kate performs "Them Heavy People" on the 1979 Christmas special.
Lyrics:
Rolling the ball, rolling the ball, rolling the ball to me.
Rolling the ball, rolling the ball, rolling the ball to me.
They arrived at an inconvenient time.
I was hiding in a room in my mind.
They made me look at myself. I saw it well.
I'd shut the people out of my life.
So now I take the opportunities:
Wonderful teachers ready to teach me.
I must work on my mind. For now I realise:
Everyone of us has a heaven inside.
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.
Them heavy people help me.
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.
Rolling the ball, rolling the ball, rolling the ball to me.
They open doorways that I thought were shut for good.
They read me Gurdjieff and Jesu.
They build up my body, break me emotionally.
It's nearly killing me, but what a lovely feeling!
I love the whirling of the dervishes.
I love the beauty of rare innocence.
You don't need no crystal ball,
Don't fall for a magic wand.
We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.
Them heavy people help me.
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.
Rolling the ball, rolling the ball, rolling the ball to me.
Rolling the ball, rolling the ball, rolling the ball to me.
Rolling the ball, rolling the ball...

[@stripedhyenuh]

I'm going through a really hard time in my life right now, a lot of really severe depression, uncertainty if I should even go on living. I got into listening to Kate Bush recently and great music like this is the only thing really helping me to hold on. I simply can't give up now after hearing her music. It's really saved my life, I wish I could thank her in person somehow.

[@knutz7]

I hope you’re still with us and that Kate helped you through the hard times. Love to you

[@simonjupp4604]

Xxxxx

[@wildaviation5528]

Wow I know how you feel music can have that ability Kate bush is excellent

[@KalypsoKent]

Healing through music is what keeps us alive - no matter when

[@societyssista6179]

🙏

[@thomaswalthall998]

The queen of rhythm. Not only always on beat but always on rhythm.

[@osvaldoe]

There's just no way to describe her..beautiful, silly, athletic, off beat, girlish, sexy, enchanting, hypnotic, unusual, genius, unique..I could go on..simply delightful. No one else like her.

[@claudiaverde6492]

osvaldoe ]]]

[@leehitchman5648]

osvaldoe bravo !

[@batmanlaughed800]

Wonderfully apt description

[@williamwellington8668]

Supremely talented!!

[@pato2200]

Beautifully put. A unique talent.

[@davidconnelly]

That was the most entertaining four and a half minutes of my whole life.

[@michaelstaub8690]

Now, that we've got 2021, I can say, she was ahead of her time more than 40 years.

[@andrewdyke5561]

Easily

[@ijopson75]

Awsome Kate . A young Kate full of life 😅💝

[@isaacredmond.]

She was timeless

[@ikeepscreamingbutgodwontan3132]

Fr... I've never seen anything like her before

[@margin606]

I suspect she will always be 'ahead of her time' because she is unique

[@charliechaz1982]

A constant risk taker all in the name of art. Her performances are sublime. So unique. No one like her. Irreplaceable brilliance. She is operating on another level, another planet.

[@carolinegodden4364]

Out of this world

[@Mmmmkaaay]

It would take a century for me to understand Kate Bush. Half the time I'm lost and in a trance.

[@theflamingone8729]

Last year I had covid. I got my KZbin activity summary. 300 hours of Kate Bush, music, interviews, all sorts. It didn't feel like anywhere near that long.

[@tigerarmyrule]

She is without argument the greatest female pop star ever....unique irreplaceable . The queen of pop.

[@moderndancer9071]

Never seen this choreography before. Kate is a genius, always trying something different. Yes so ahead if her time and timeless!

[@gedq]

2024 and she's still ahead of the times

[@davethebass3517]

Love this!❤ I was lucky enough to see her in 1979 in Machester (England), and I still have the £3.50 ticket.

[@paulamiles9559]

As usual, her dancers crush it.

[@robertjohnston4280]

The greatest musical artist of her time?

[@robertjohnston4280]

"I was hiding in the room in my mind..." Kate was a one and only!

[@maximesteinebrunner9941]

Still is

[@soundseeker63]

Her creativity and writing skill are often praised (and rightly so) but the sense of movement, fun and theatrics she puts into all her live performances is much underrated IMO. Everything she does is a visual feast and a joy to watch.

[@aucourant9998]

I love her dancing, it's so loose and free.

[@curanderos]

+aucourant it's choreographed, but it's actually telling a story. love it!

[@ikkenhisatsu7170]

She was so quirky, sexy and talented. And I'm still in love with her after I saw her first on SNL 40+ years ago.

[@theflamingone8729]

Not overtly sexualised though, just beautiful. Not Cardi B, or Madonna.

[@tomcharlton696]

A true English rose 🌹xx

[@goober650NX]

Great choreography! I bet the three of them had a ball doing that routine.

[@tropicaldan]

Whatever happens, she will always be ahead of her time.

[@AzimuthTao]

Clearly, it's just luck of genetics that Kate Bush was a stunning beauty but the ability to combine that natural element with the genius of her art made her one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the planet.

[@KalypsoKent]

There has never been another like her. No one.

[@beathusk1018]

Too talented 👍

[@DAYGLOUKNOUKNO]

The beauty of Kate Bush is..she didn't just raise the bar for a female songer songwriter in general...she raised the bar for Kate Bush....almost 40 years later....u cannot just rewatch the above clip (as well as others) and just feel utter joy of her existence in our universe....and the future generations who have yet even to be born that will be touched in the exact same way

[@paulkubic786]

Wish this made it to the USA in ‘79! When I talked about the great KATE, they thought me daft! Glad to see a Resurgence for KB!

[@SpecialAgent-zn1vv]

KBA4L 🌹

[@robertwatson9940]

Kate Bush stopped performing 40 years ago.After a lighting engineer died.He fell through a trap door on stage.And hit the concrete under the stage.

[@thefool2007]

She is a genius artist and underrated. Her performances are as captivating as the music she pulled from deep inside. She inspires me as a musician. But she brings art alive in the truest sense. And honestly…Del Palmer is an incredible bassist and musician in his own rite. I’m a big fan and it shows in my bass playing as well (that pillow like bass cushion- omg amazing).

[@TJPalmer2024]

Del Palmer was a brilliant bass player and helped so much with Kate’s music as he also was her sound engineer. He was an excellent artist releasing 3 albums in his own right.

[@thefool2007]

@@TJPalmer2024 agreed. As a bassist, Del inspired me. I love his playing and tone (I wanted that fat, rich, deep, Ibanez tone from Tour of Life). RIP.

[@betoally7015]

i am you i am on prozac and xannx and just a few months ago it got real bad , i thought bout what my life was . turns out after many doc visits and meditation and this and other old music , i am feeling better i need music in my daily routine . i want to live i want to work bout 7 more yrs then hope to enjoy retirement , you hang in there my friend we need each other . you too saved someones life 8 months ago just by being you and sharing your story , God loves you and so do i , YOU can B OK

[@rabahelaawar2499]

Whoever does not love Kate Bush after this magnificent, beautiful and funny performance is nothing but a loser... Kate Bush, we love you!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@beathusk1018]

I'm a big winner then since I worship her 😉

[@keithlegge6848]

The late Del Palmer's bass playing really lifts this song . I can't imagine any other bass line suiting it.

[@TJPalmer2024]

Del Palmer playing bass is amazing he produced some works of his own 3 albums and a beautiful piece of music called firefly he was truly talented

[@keithlegge6848]

thanks for the like. Do you know the titles of the albums and whether they are still available.@@TJPalmer2024

[@gabrieleluparello3312]

Simply the best.

[@MojaSzerokosc]

I'm not sure if words are enough. Feelings would be much better. Unfortunately I can't type feelings. Stunning performance.

[@taniastevens2313]

Kate rocks!!!

[@carstenmarquardt9416]

Mind-blowing good

[@mikegray4702]

Kate Bush is a unique talent. Magnificent composer, singer, dancer (no particular order). Bless her! The BEST!

[@johnperry6874]

Just astonishingly creative, wonderfully freaky and with that English sensibility. She is a treasure.

[@jennawest5279]

She's one of a kind, that's for sure. Been a fan for years.

[@phileasfoxx2006]

Ох! Спасибо Вам! Никогда бы не увидел этот номер в исполнении Кейт!!

[@isobeljames1328]

We know we know Babooshka means grandma give us a fu.. Cking break

[@Kajun666]

GOD DAMN..how can something so small ...so petite....so beautifull produce such amazing vocals.

[@shermoore1693]

Original to the bone. A bit like David Bowie was. She was decades ahead of her time.

[@Davidudka]

It's funny that you should say this because I've always thought of Kate Bush as a female version of Bowie. As you say very much ahead of her time. Sadly I never got to see Kate perform live but a friend of mine who did said her shows were out of this world... a real performer. I'd love to meet her!

[@danielbrockett9544]

So cute and sensual in this performance. Kate's an international treasure, this is by far my favorite version of "Them Heavy People" I've never heard her live with a full group of BG vocalists, this actually sounds live too, it's definitely different than the album version if it wasn't fully live? It's so funny, at this tender age, she had to play the ingenue on stage and in interviews, yet she was 100% fully in control of her image, songs, albums and everything in her output by this point. Yet she still managed to come off so authentically, incredibly nice, humble and sweet in every public appearance and clip. That alone is an amazing achievement for the era, considering how cutthroat the music business was and is. She really is one of a kind, there will never be anyone even remotely like her.

[@beathusk1018]

A very very very intelligent woman 😍

[@bertrandbunatz1765]

Gorgeous 😍

[@oscarlite1786]

Great performance , kate looked amazing in them heels x

[@nathandyer7256]

Beautiful talent,Beautiful to look at. Ok she was just beautiful before she was even born.

[@melothrone]

Absolutely love the bass line.

[@jjsmith3302]

Ahhh... undoubtedly the loveliest creature ever to grace planet Earth. Everything about her is sublime.

[@deadman2312]

That was fucking awesome!

[@natalialunadelpozo6167]

What a perfect performance.

[@goldenhorn15]

How much fun did Kate have doing that? Not as much as we had watching her, a dozen times a month!

[@chuzzwozzer]

Bloody gorgeous.

[@missa3655]

This is amazing 🤩

[@alejandrogiraldoorozco4075]

What a beautiful performance, smile, voice, eyes, soul and heart, there will never ne anyone like this Woman, an absolutely genius. I'm only 19 but i feel very grateful for living on the same time as Kate. We were blessed with her existence.

[@PEPPERS777]

she might be the best thing ever, fer real

[@charlesmanise5649]

+just peppers yep, definitly is, no doubt about that :p

[@garyz2043]

Such an amasing voice,wow

[@marieadams3720]

She's great! And she can dance too!

[@gabrieljardine]

Truly wise music

[@lolitadeon1577]

she's so perfect in interpretation of her songs!!! and greatest dancer!! legs of a ballerina....

[@dumdumboy7796]

In case there is another life after death, please remind me to reappear in the audience of this show, thanks in advance

[@dumdumboy7796]

***** Ah ah I thought this too but I would never dare^^ Or I'd better improve my guitar play.

[@kantstenchonthemel5641]

I'll just ask to reappear only if Kate does (and possibly in a house next to hers)

[@bookowl1775]

Are not you supposed to choose a future time?

[@richarddecker2336]

She's too cool!!! - dig it!!!

[@paulsashark]

great voice...what a catchy tune

[@sylvielabadi1768]

Adorable Kate 💖 si talentueuse 🌺

[@James-jl8fj]

Love this song

[@JPA419]

Completely mesmerized.

[@jesserichardson4900]

Just fucking amazing

[@RARA-ek3yp]

GENIUS

[@elenabutnot185]

she is everything

[@Blueboy9055]

Keep on rolling Kate, you are the best

[@coreycox2345]

Iconic!

[@Soulthinker2007]

My fave Kate Bush song. I first heard it in 1985. Loved it since.

[@MaxDecembre]

she is unbelievably adorable!

[@ThePhaeriephox]

However you got this---THANK YOU! The first time I ever saw Kate, she did this live on Saturday Night Live, back in the day. Loved here ever since!

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

Yeah, me too. I was just 14 so I was like "what the hell is this?" later somebody in college turned me on to "The Dreaming" album and it blew my mind.

[@clevm002]

I've watched this way toooooo many times !

[@ddelony1]

I like how this turns into Wrestlemania at the end.

[@uplnejvypatlanec1692]

she is ... excellent

[@JonJon-jo9cm]

nothing else like her and the band in the world just simply the best

[@JaydBellicoseYou]

She's my absolute favourite singer.

[@DaFuqBoom]

This version sounds much better than one on album with squeaky vocals.

[@lennybogart]

Yeah, the live versions of this are much better!!

[@Querientje]

@@lennybogart this isnt live

[@sebastiendamarey6673]

@@Querientje not Kat, but the band yes !

[@alantebb9160]

From time to time God delivers perfection, this is the perfect example.

[@slyestfox935]

Excellent comment I lv it 👌

[@shannonb082905]

Very well performed. Every step right on perfect. Kate Bush and her dancers are so professional.

[@ameralbadry6825]

Crazy for her ❤

[@richardsawyer1492]

I think I was revising for a test, when I first heard this song. After the test, (which I passed), managed to get hold of the long playing record version of this song. Now forty years later, hearing it again, fantastic. Memories came flooding back. Thanks Kate.

[@waltjohnson8324]

There are two people I remember from way back when Saturday Night LIve really was not ready for prime time. Leon Redbone, sadly gone now, is one. Kate Bush is the other. I've been addicted to her angelic creativity ever since.

[@st2816ven]

Well i'm glad i caught that.

[@numofan]

She was/is one of a kind - I remember watching this when it 1st aired, and I had never seen anyone do a performance of this kind - except in musical theatre and performance art. It seems as if a lot of wildly creative people were signed by the major labels back in the 70s who would *never* get notice today ... she would be an indie act if she were a new artist now.

[@danielricardo5029]

She is the moment.

[@valeriacavalcanti3947]

Que linda ela é! ❤

[@zennor_man]

I have no words that do justice to this performance...thank you Kate..

[@pauloandrasan]

I was born in 1980, and Kate Bush was love at first sight!

[@Luncea28]

can't help but smile watching this :)

[@beathusk1018]

Why ? 😉

[@Luncea28]

Beat Husk B/c it’s so delightful :))

[@gabrielclaudino7693]

Que mulher incrível

[@user-tn7wj7jv6g]

such a great preformence !

[@tropicaldan]

Now I know where they got those dance moves from for the series ‘Wednesday’

[@themetacrisis]

There is no one like her.

[@beekay5914]

I saw her on SNL in the 70's, had never heard of her. She is so deep and so "arty" and ....desirable. I love her style and her music.

[@thenutbar44]

Kate is a Gift from The GODS!

[@RobinLMaze]

Perfect!

[@garrysimpson1395]

As a 49 year old disabled man I don"t remember this at all! Was this Kate"s Christmas Speicial! A great performance from a great singer! Thank You Symphonyflowers GOD BLESS!

[@blumonap]

As a disabled man?

[@scottarnest8980]

What I love about her is her respect for men and the beauty she finds in their bodies. Being a man, I get a bit tired of songs that demean men. I have never felt that from Kate. I came to her by chance. I was really into female voices at the time and I had to pick between Amy Grant and Kate Bush as to which of their CD's I would buy. I did not know either. I picked Kate's Whole Story, which I did not know was her greatest hits. Right when I heard Wuthering Heights, I was blown away. I went back and bought everything she put out, even a bootleg called Shrubberies of just her at the piano and really young. I thought all of my friends would hear the brilliance ... they did not like her. Needless to say, it warms my heart when I read all of the wonderful comments about her. Although, many people claim she is a female Bowie; I see her more as a female Peter Gabrial. Actually, she is really in a category all by herself. A wonderful, modest, creative, fearless, and beautiful artist. When I first heard Tori Amos, I could see other women performers (and men) were listening.

[@mrkrabslove]

@Electric Sheep electric sheep why not just respect that both sexes have struggles. I'm sure there are songs disrespecting men but there sure as hell are a fuck ton disrespecting women. Both are real issues. You cant tell someone to shut up about an "ugly topic" when someone already brought up an uglier one.

[@ouarghinordine9014]

Elle est trop belle 😂😮❤😊

[@blumonap]

I love this intro...

[@1974loki]

beste Künstlerin 1980er

[@tryharder75]

Wow! Hindsight! This is so good. That choreography is amazing. I think this might be my favourite KB clip so far.

[@Heartwing37]

Kate Bush is everything

[@MrRobbyvent]

lovely!