by Paul
Kate Bush suddenly entered my consciousness – and presumably that of many others – in February of 1978 with her debut hit “Wuthering Heights”.
I was staying with my grandmother in Brighton, England, on my way back from Germany to New Zealand to finish my degree when I heard this magical voice on British radio, and I just had to get the album when I got back home.
Here’s the original, “white dress” version:
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by Paul
“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” from Pink Floyd accompanied me all the way round New Zealand’s South Island in the back seat of the family car at the end of 1975, my last year at school. (I grew up on the North Island, by the way.)
And a few years later I remember hearing a band called Father Time playing it in the “Old Wool Room” at Massey University, where they used to hold the student dances before it was pulled down. Key members of Father Time later went on to become “Mi-Sex”, a top band in Australia.
Of course, Pink Floyd was everywhere in the 70s, you couldn’t go to a party without hearing the album “Dark Side of the Moon” if nothing else.
I had a bit of a problem regarding a video of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” – the song is so long, people have had to break it up and it wasn’t so easy to find the matching clips!
This one is an earlier live version, from 1974:
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Tags: David Gilmour, Kate Bush, Music of the Seventies, The Kick Inside, Wuthering Heights
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