Kate wrote this when she was 13 and recorded it when she was 16 under the wing of Dave Gilmour from Pink Floyd in 1976. Talent doesn't begin to describe Kate Bush.
Oh yes. When you listen to the Alone At My Piano demos, it's crystal clear she reached a level of sophistication in her early teens few achieve throughout their whole careers spanning decades. ❤️
I usually don't like this type of voices, but she is the exception. Her mature artistry, her deep lyrics and her powerful approach in a unique, wonderful contrast with her "childlike" voice. She is phenomenal!
Unique is the word, there is no one like Kate. Huge talent, writer, performer, musician, dancer and such a pure voice. I loved that the album s always came with all the lyrics, even studying them, the meaning did not always become clear. To be so young and super intelligent.......a true legend. Thanks for sharing. ❤️🌹 Rose 🌹
Kate's first live shows in 35 years sold all 75,000 tickets in 15 minutes, some changing hands for as much as $2,000. Absolutely a one-of-a-kind woman, talent and spirit. Please do more.
Kate Bush has been with me since I was 9 in 1979. She opened up a whole world of music, fantasy and imagination to me which finally brought me to singing, dancing, piano and the drums in my own little studio and as a second profession of mine - so being a one-woman-army artist. ;) ;) She was and still is ahead of her time. The song to me was always about a pretty sensual and new relationship to a sensitive man - an experienced man still capable of wonder and childlike behaviour. I can feel the emotional and delicate tension of the new and powerful feelings you might have meeting someone the first time - crossing the brink between fascination, sensuality and excitement. At least that's what she always triggered in me while listening to that particular song.
I've always thought this song is about an invisible imaginary lover, just like the invisible friends most kids have in their childhood. Love so many songs by Kate, it is hard to pick one.
My heroine since I was 15 and awakened me (I am 56 now) kate was breathtakingly enchanting and unique x her music got me thru tough times as she speaks to the heart and spirit. Love her xxxx🎶🎹💚🌹
Kate Bush is amazing, an absolute genius. I listen to The Kick Inside every so often and it's still as mesmeric and awe-inspiring as the first time I heard it ♥️
Love Kate Bush! Another unique singer is Elizabeth (Liz) Fraser. Would love to hear your reaction to something from her time with Cocteau Twins or her version of ”Song to the Siren” (This Mortal Coil) 👍🏻
I’ve never heard her before! Just incredible!! From what I could gather, she is singing about a very rare trait-(at the risk of sounding sexist, especially in a man) innocence. Pure love and kindness. I’m blessed with a wonderful man a lot like that!
I love your comment. Yes, I agree with your assessment. I think Kate once said in an interview that she wrote the song with the idea in mind that certain men have a child-like quality about them, a certain innocence that they manage to maintain and keep with them in the face of a world that would just as easily stomp it out. To keep your inner child alive is not an easy feat. Will you be listening to more Kate? She is truly and amazing song writer and singer.
A good starting point to get more into her music is the album “The Whole Story”, a compilation album put out in 1986. This is where I started, I read a review saying how it was impossible to classify her work - and of course, being a young man at that time, I was also drawn in by her amazing beauty. After that, I started filling in her official albums, I have all she has released to date (10, I believe). There is no one like her, a truly gifted artist.
Whenever i go for a 1+ hour swim in the sea my head plays a beautiful kate bush playlist, thats how deep shes in my soul, swimming is meditation for me and i got the best playlist ❤️❤️
I just finally listened to Kate Bush’s first seven albums in their entirety this year (still have a few to go) but she quickly became one of my favorites. So glad you did this video because more people today need to know about her and what an impact she had on modern music. I always interpreted this as her fantasizing about a romance with an older man, or perhaps a crush she had on a real older man who she felt understood her more than the boys her own age.
What a wonderful emotional voice, loved it when I was 14 and still love it 40 years later. A true artist, thank you for all your music Kate you are truly an example to younger artist
Kate Bush 🤩since more than 30 yeras i have her LPs, listen her over and over and over. And thats also some of my favourit Songs, also England my lionhesrt, kashka from Bagdad, babooshka 🙃
The lyrics to "The Man With A Child In His Eyes" were quite scary to me at first. "I realize he's there when I turn the lights off and turn over" That was terrifying to me LOL I thought she was singing about a girl who got abused by an old man. So I searched up about it, and then found out that it was about her boyfriend. I just love everything about Kate, she's unique, she's beautiful, she's creative. Has a great range, amazing songwriting skills, and she's a nice human being. Her body of work is awesome
Talking about how she realized she sounded so pretty with the piercing high voice -- Running Up That Hill just a few years later really lands her in such a deeper, more grown up, grounded voice. Always wondered about that too. Such a journey she has from album to album in her career, clearly never wanting to repeat herself, always growing.
Thank you for your review - Kate Bush is a truly wonderful artist, like Peter Gabriel, or Roger Waters, or Joni Mitchell and the like, but with even more dimensions to her work. I remember when I was a kid, which is when she first started recording, she said in an interview on TV that she always had a very low singing voice in school and it meant that she either couldn't sing in the choir, or couldn't sing like everyone else, so she kept practising to sing high. I also saw another interview with her parents when she had just completed her first live tour - her father said that when she first started singing, she wasn't very good, but she worked at it. She would go to a shed at the bottom of the garden, where there was some kind of ancient beat-up keyboard and spend all her available time in there. Her brothers play various kinds of traditional Celtic instruments and contribute to her albums. She might have inherited her passion for dance from her mum, who was an Irish dancing champion. What did Kate do with the money from Wuthering Heights? She enrolled on a dance and mime course with Lindsay Kemp. The source of this song, The Man with the Child in His Eyes, was her crush on her school caretaker.
what a lovely response. I agree its a terrific song and she is a fascinating singer. Ive been an official fan since 1985! I think i drove my family mad though at the time with oveplaying kb!
Thank you for this, I've been looking forward to it since you out her in your poll. Her voice is like a bell. And it's so versatile. I actually am more drawn to her older voice on aerial
Love you Georgina. And adore Kate Bush. Pleeeeassse critique Bjork. I feel that Kate and Bjork have alot in common. Unique and other worldly voices and performances.
That was a beautiful performance wauw , I miss that in the big singers of now , everything must be loud and as high as possible and all the riffing and stuff, I miss the 80s , greetings from Benjamin from Holland 👋
Kate Bush conjures magic, she casts spells over the listener. I'm not a singer or musician, but I know that every cell in my body is smiling & vibrating when I hear her voice. Can somebody explain that to me because it is so rare. I've always loved "Under the Ivy" as well.
Even though I was a toddler when this song dropped, it's still a song that spoke to me as a boy growing up, her debut album The Kick Inside is a masterpiece IMO. I always thought this song was about an imaginary lover.
I think for me my favourite lyric is "These moments given are a gift from time" from Moments of Pleasure. It's a very deep and meaningful song. Certainly every lyric tells a story and she really does convey that in her performance. This version of The Man With the Child in his Eyes is far more personal and intimate than the studio version. There is a range her voice can cover that very few others can. Wuthering Heights, Sat In Your Lap, Army Dreamers, Big Sky, Cloudbusting, Constellation of the Heart all are very different in tone and equally incredible and of course The Nth Wave is a work of art.
Loved Kate Bush, all my life, her words are poetry and just beautiful. Really touched the soul. Love this appraisal of this beautiful artist. Thank you 😊
The first time I heard Kate Bush was in 1979. I was 18 and it was something inexplicable. I had an indescribable sense of enchantment. Then, when I saw a video of her performing, I was completely fascinated with her so beautiful, delicate, sweet and magical figure. It's been 40 years and the magic is still the same. I get mesmerized every time I see a video with her. It is something inexplicable. Her voice, her extraordinary talent, expressiveness and uniqueness have since made her my favorite artist ever. It is simply unique. I will love Kate Bush forever. Thank you for showing this video.
Made me cry first time I heard this genius. What a beautiful angel. I cry and smile to this Ladies work and her talent plus her Beauty is untouchable. Love your reaction. Cheers 🇬🇧
Everyone relates Kate bush to me as l have loved her since l was a kid l use to dance like her and dress like her as a kid to weathering heights. My sister always remembers me as a kid loving Kate bush she is my favourite she is beautiful.
For those who love contemporary dance and watch So You Think you Can Dance you have most likely heard Kate Bush’s song, “This Woman’s Work” from various artists. I think it is one of the most used songs on the show for contemporary dance numbers.
Georgina, you're amazing, it seems to me, that Kate is writing about the fact that some people manage to remain an innocent child somewhere even as they mature and become adults perhaps even a little cynical they still hold on to that inner child and she is able to see this reflected in this person's eyes. My grandfather was this way and he became my inspiration to 'Peter Pan' in that I hoped I would never grow up and I have in many ways succeeded. I think she is enamored with this man, but I am uncertain as to whether it is someone she actually knew or someone she met briefly but imagined what it would be like to know them. Dreams can be powerful things after all. Thanks for doing this Georgina, I had never heard this song and now I think it will haunt me.
I am 100% more compelled by female singers...I am obsessed with Kate Bush, I adore that fantastically talented woman!!!! I can listen to her all day on a continuous rotation...one if the BEST female vocalist/writer EVER!!!! She deserves WAY MORE ACCOLADES FOR HER SONG WRITING.
I love 'The Kick Inside' album which features this particular song . In fact Kate's earlier albums are my favourites .I think that her vocals are probably at their peak on 'The Dreaming' album; so expressive and varied and dramatic and well recorded .... sheer brilliance !!!
More Kate Bush please! Kate is one (if not, THE) biggest inspiration in music and in life for me. She taught me to embrace my weird and wonderful ways and I've been connected with her music ever since I first listened to it properly when I was fourteen (now twenty-one). Everything about her is fascinating to me and I do resonate with her. I love Kate and I loved this video!
Kate was a prodigy. She has channelled the most beautiful and ethereal music from other realms~~ I've studied voice and would like to add that her sound is placed beautiful in the "front of the mask." Her voice has certainly lowered with age, which happens naturally. She was young here, and I think because her music was so theatrical she used her voice to create amazing sound imagery (example: "Get out of My House")
Since she wrote this song at the age of 13, recorded it professionally at age 15 or 16, she is singing it the way she used to use her voice at that time. So it is mostly her headvoice what you hear. On later recordings she drops her tone. Kate once declared she was exploring her higher range when first recording her music.
I’ve been a fan since 1979 and her first album. To me she’s the most talented song writer and singer ever. Only Liz Frazer can rival in her own way. If you want to listen to some of her vocal beauties, check The Dreaming album. It’s amazing.
This has always been my favourite song of Kate Bush, too. To me it seems as if she woke up from a dream and wrote it down to remember, to remember what and how she felt in her dream. A dream about her "animus" to use this Jungian term.
So pleased to hear you love Kate as much as I do... I respect your opinions even more now! She's my favourite artist of all time. Her music is unique and ever changing and takes me somewhere out of this world.
Have admired Kate since I was a young girl, love her uniqueness as a singer/songwriter/performer. This is a blast from the past which brings back many memories.
I am so glad you were respectful about Kate her voice is so unique her voice is outstanding and like no other this was a great review i know i got angry at your enya video review but i do love her .. love Kate too a very big fan. can you review Martha wash voice of the weather girls she has one of the best voices iv ever heard .
I have no idea why, but every time I hear this particular song, I get transported back to the early nineteenth century. A lady at her piano singing about her love. A beautiful number by Kate Bush. ❤
