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Kate Bush Sings "Cloudbusting"

submitted by silvercord

1 decade 7 years 6 months 1 week ago

The song is a look at a special relationship between a boy and his father. It describes psychologist Wilhelm Reich's arrest and incarceration through the eyes of his son, Peter, who wrote his father's story in A Book Of Dreams, published in 1973, on which the song is based. Wilhelm Reich is the inventor of the cloudbuster, which is the device pictured on the cover of this single.

The music video, directed by Julian Doyle and conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush, features Donald Sutherland playing a father, and, most famously, Bush playing a young boy.

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Awesome. I think there was one already, but it was dead. Glad to have it back.

Excellent post.
My favorite KB album.

We met Kate's plane in New York (she arrived at JFK via the Concorde). This video had just come out. I introduced myself, she was gracious and charming, and all my wife could think to say was "I thought you cut your hair!".

I think this is the first music video I ever saw, back in the 80s. I never knew what it was until now. Nice.

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