Kate Bush talks success 37 years after song release: ‘The world has gone mad’

In 1985, English singer-songwriter Kate Bush launched a music referred to as “Working Up That Hill.” It did fairly nicely — reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Scorching 100 within the US.

However 37 years after its launch, the tune — featured in final week’s episode of Netflix’s “Stranger Issues” — bumped Harry Kinds’ “As It Was” to No. 2 on the US Billboard High 10.

The sudden success additionally makes her each the oldest and the youngest lady to have a self-written No. 1 in the UK, Billboard reported.

In a uncommon interview with BBC Radio 4’s “Lady’s Hour” podcast on Wednesday, Bush shared her “thrilling” ideas on the music’s resurgence.

“It’s simply extraordinary. It’s such an incredible sequence, I believed that the observe would get some consideration, however I simply by no means imagined that it will be something like this,” Bush mentioned, noting she was a fan of the sequence even earlier than her music was included in Max’s struggle for survival scene.

“It’s so thrilling, it’s fairly stunning actually, isn’t it? The entire world’s gone mad. I feel they put it in a very particular place … I believed what a beautiful method for the music for use in such a optimistic method, as a form of talisman for Max. It’s very touching really.”

Kate Bush attends a champagne reception at the 60th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the London Palladium on November 30, 2014 in London, England.
“It’s so thrilling, it’s fairly stunning actually, isn’t it? The entire world’s gone mad,” Bush mentioned concerning the music’s resurgence.
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Bush, 63, mentioned she hadn’t heard the music in a very long time as a result of she doesn’t normally take heed to her “previous stuff,” however is comfortable that the observe was launched to a brand new era of followers.

“What’s actually fantastic I feel is that it’s this complete new viewers who in loads of instances, they’ve by no means heard of me, and I really like that,” she mentioned. “The considered all these actually younger individuals listening to the music for the primary time and discovering it, I feel it’s very particular.”

The songstress informed podcast host Emma Barnett that she has seen each episode of “Stranger Issues” after a pal’s advice.

"Running Up That Hill" plays while "Stranger Things" character Max fights for her life.
“Working Up That Hill” performs whereas “Stranger Issues” character Max fights for her life.
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“It’s pretty as a result of, in an analogous strategy to ‘Harry Potter,’ the place in these early movies they have been simply little youngsters, after which because the movie has progressed, it turns into heavier and darker,” she mentioned.

“And people little youngsters flip into actually gifted, younger grownup actors. And you've got a unique reference to one thing that’s moved by way of years actually of watching them develop.”

"Running Up That Hill" appeared on Bush's "Hounds of Love" album in 1985.
“Working Up That Hill” appeared on Bush’s “Hounds of Love” album in 1985.
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