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From: Desi The Three-Armed Wonder Comic <jondr@sco.COM>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 15:52:35 PST
Subject: ure says bush is genius - film at 11
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so y'all remember the kate/midge ure duet "sister and brother" right? i don't know if i ever saw this quote from ure posted before. if it's a repeat, tough luck. Another magic moment was the duet with Kate Bush "Sister and Brother." Ure paints this song of sexual equality with overly broad rhetorical strokes, but Bush's impassioned pleas almost pull it off. "In the music industry you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters," says Ure disgustedly. "They seem to be these sexist assholes. They will listen to a girl's tape and think it's fantastic and really love it and say `What's she look like?' Who cares what she looks like! You know, `Is the tape good, are the songs good, is there talent there?'" The fact that they never sang together, or for that matter, were never in the studio together except to hear a rough mix, strikes Ure as another metaphor for the equality message of the song. "Well I don't think you have to be together," he says defensively. "I mean it also shows that you can be incredibly equal. She's sitting in her little technical world and I'm sitting in my little technical world. And I have the utmost respect for everything she does. I think she is brilliant on all levels and she's touching genius, absolutley brilliant. I consider her to be equal to any musician, any producer, any writer that I've admired. So that strengthens the idea of the song to me." Jon Drukman (God's personal DJ) uunet!sco!jondr jondr@sco.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Milk, you practically entombed that old bag with spew and puke! TERRIFIC!