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Re: Kate refs

From: hanson@ast.saic.com (Jeffrey Hanson)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 16:25:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Kate refs
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
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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.

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