Kate Bush influences

[nessus (Doug Alan)]

> From: Tim

> I think If kate listen to some go-go music (mainly troublefunk) she
> would enjoy it. however I never see where she says she is influenced
> by an american artist. Most artist she likes (Killing Joke, etc) are
> English in nature, Maybe I'm wrong.

Well here's a list of some of the musicians that I recall Kate saying
have influenced her:

David Bowie, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Killing Joke, King
Crimson, Peter Gabriel, The Beatles, Roy Harper, David Byrne, Brian Eno,
Brian Ferry, Stevie Wonder, Captain Beefheart, Rolf Harris, early Roxy
Music, Nat King Cole, Frank Zappa, Donovan, Steely Dan, Windom Hill,
ECM, Eberheart Weber, Alan Stivel, A. L. (Bert) Loyd, Ewan MacCall,
Delius, Eric Satie, Debussy, The Eagles, The TV National Iranian Chamber
Orchestra, Pipers Rock, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Choir of King's
College Chapel, The Bothie Band, Billy Holliday, Buddy Holly, Jules and
The Polar Bears, Bob Marley, Patti Smith, ....

She also claimed to be influenced by the energy, emotion, and newness
(at the time) of Punk music.

She says that her song "Sat in Your Lap" was inspired by seeing a Stevie
Wonder concert.  How "Sat in Your Lap" came out of that, I don't know...
but art is strange!

She once said that after hearing Pink Floyd's "The Wall" she nearly
couldn't write music again, because she thought it said "everything there
is to say".

The song "The Dreaming" is clearly based on a Rolf Harris song from the
sixties called "Sun Arise".

She has also said that she loves backwards vocals.

			"We let the weirdness in"

			 Doug