Re: Kate's Lyrics/Music (Was elton and bernie)

[Stanley Yunick <s-yunick@students.uiuc.edu>]

kate talks about that in one of her interviews, the VH1-sensual world
interview, I think?

my memory is quite fuzzy on her answer, but i think it went something
along the lines that very occasionally the lyric and the music come
together from the start but that usually a song starts from a tune and
gets developed from there.

stan

Don wrote:
> 
> At 9:06 PM -0700 9-18-97, len bullard wrote:
> >>I doubt that this is true because Bernie writes the lyrics and I don't
> >>think he could write lyrics to music he had never heard.
> >
> >>jOHN
> >
> >umm.. minor point: in all the interviews
> >i've seen or read about their work together,
> >they've said that IS how they work.  Bernie
> >writes the lyrics first.  That is how
> >many songwriting teams work.  It keeps
> >the words from being chained to the
> >meter of the instrumentation and
> >elton likes the challenge.
> 
> Okay...let's move this back to Kate Bush.
> 
> Does anyone know if she writes the music or lyrics first...or if it varies
> by song.
> 
> - Don