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From: hanson@ast.saic.com (Jeffrey Hanson)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 16:25:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Kate refs
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: SAIC
References: <2776mv$3pp@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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--Where are the strangest places you've heard Kate's music or seen a --reference to Kate? The strangest place for me happened in July 1988. I had been travelling through the Soviet Union for the last two weeks, and I was standing in a hotel gift shop in Leningrad. They were playing a cassette tape of Hounds of Love--Running Up That Hill was the song that was on. What was amazing about it to me was that almost all the people I went with on that trip had never heard of Kate Bush, but some gift shop employee in Leningrad was playing it. By this point in the tour, I was dying to hear some English music anyway. What is it about being in a foreign country that makes you dance to really bad music--as long as its English? I remember being in a Moscow nightclub dancing to Tiffany! Something I wouldn't be caught dead doing in America. Actually almost all the young kids I met in the Soviet Union knew more about English and American music than anyone I knew. They knew all of it--from "obscure" artists like Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins to all the heavy metal bands I still know nothing about it. I guess music really is a universal language. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Hanson | (619) 458-5130 4161 Campus Point Court M/S E3R | hanson@ast.saic.com San Diego, CA 92121 |