Moments Of Pleasure : The Music Of Kate Bush

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This Day in History!

21.12.1979
45 years ago

The Winter Snowtime Special is aired on BBC TV. This is the second of two films for which Kate had contributed performances on February 18th, 1979. However, the original film of Kate singing Wuthering Heights while walking barefoot in the snow is not included. Instead, a hastily filmed video for December Will Be Magic Again is aired on the programme.

It Happened This Month!

09.12.1978	Kate Bush makes her first and only appearance on Saturday Night Live. The British singer-songwriter performs the songs "The Man With The Child In His Eyes" and "Them Heavy People" from her debut album, The Kick Inside.
09.12.1978	Most importantly, she performs two songs on the U.S. NBC-TV programme, Saturday Night Live.
14.12.1985	Hounds of Love reaches its peak position of number 30 the U.S. Billboard album chart.
21.12.1979	The Winter Snowtime Special is aired on BBC TV. This is the second of two films for which Kate had contributed performances on February 18th, 1979. However, the original film of Kate singing Wuthering Heights while walking barefoot in the snow is not included. Instead, a hastily filmed video for December Will Be Magic Again is aired on the programme.
22.12.1981	Kate takes a break from recording to tighten melodies and lyrics.
23.12.1985	In the annual Record Mirror poll Hounds of Love is voted Best Album, and Running Up That Hill is voted Best Single.
28.12.1979	Kate, a forty-five-minute television special, is screened on BBC TV, featuring songs old and new. Some of these were filmed during live television-studio performances, others were videos prepared in advance and featuring studio recordings in more or less the same form as their album counterparts. Among the songs performed are Violin, Egypt, and Ran Tan Waltz (which would emerge as the b-side of Babooshka in 1980). In addition, one or two small pieces of incidental music are recorded specifically for the programme, which includes a guest appearance by Peter Gabriel, and a duet by Gabriel and Kate of Roy Harper's song, Another Day.
30.12.1980	The first of two special forty-five minute programmes is broadcast on BBC Radio 1, in which Kate plays and discusses with DJ Paul Gambaccini some of her favourite music by other artists. This programme is devoted to traditional and classical favourites.
31.12.1980	The second of 2 forty-five minute programmes is aired over BBC Radio 1, this one including some of Kate's favourite tracks by "popular" artists.