This was a great episode, but the Number 1 reason some people seek it out has been left off of the home video. It's for that reason I gave it a lower rating than I would have if it were available in its entirety.
As one website put it, almost every Kate Bush fan in the US knows where they were December 9, 1978. That was the evening of Bush's sole US appearance in her entire career. American audiences had never seen anything like the young woman sitting on Paul Shaffer's piano in a gold body stocking, or her two dramatic performances ("The Man With the Child In His Eyes" and "Them Heavy People").
For unknown reasons, her numbers were scrubbed from the video that was later sold. A total shame because Kate Bush became a tremendous influence on some of the most important female musicians to emerge in the nearly-thirty years since that appearance.
Still, the comedy of the night was fantastic.
As one website put it, almost every Kate Bush fan in the US knows where they were December 9, 1978. That was the evening of Bush's sole US appearance in her entire career. American audiences had never seen anything like the young woman sitting on Paul Shaffer's piano in a gold body stocking, or her two dramatic performances ("The Man With the Child In His Eyes" and "Them Heavy People").
For unknown reasons, her numbers were scrubbed from the video that was later sold. A total shame because Kate Bush became a tremendous influence on some of the most important female musicians to emerge in the nearly-thirty years since that appearance.
Still, the comedy of the night was fantastic.
