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Read the lyrics of Babooshka, a song by Kate Bush from her 1980 album Never For Ever. The song tells the story of a woman who tests her husband's loyalty by posing as a young admirer.
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"Babooshka" is a song by English singer, songwriter Kate Bush, taken from her third studio album Never for Ever (1980). Released as a single in June 1980, it spent 10 weeks in the UK chart, peaking at number five. [1]
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Kate Bush Lyrics. "Babooshka". She wanted to test her husband. She knew exactly what to do: A pseudonym to fool him. She couldn't have made a worse move. She sent him scented letters, And he received them with a strange delight. Just like his wife.
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Read the lyrics of Babooshka, a song by Kate Bush from her 1980 album Never for Ever. The song is about a woman who tries to seduce her husband with a fake identity and a pseudonym.
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There are two versions of ‘Babooshka’: the single version which fades out and the album version which segues into the next track, Delius (Song Of Summer). Two demo versions from 1977 have also surfaced and were released on various bootleg CD’s.
The music video depicts Bush beside a double bass (contrabass) which symbolises the husband, wearing a black bodysuit and a veil in her role as the embittered wife. This changes into an extravagant, mythlike and rather sparse “Russian” costume as her alter-ego, Babooshka. An illustration by Chris Achilleos was the basis for the costume.
Kate performed ‘Babooshka’ in various European programmes, including Collaro (France), Countdown (Netherlands) and Rock Pop (Germany). Her performance of the song in a Dr. Hook television special remains the first, and is memorable for the costume she is wearing: on her the right side she resembles a staid Victorian lady in mourning dress; on the l...
‘Babooshka’ has been covered by Astral Prince, Brain Grimmer, Sonia Cat-Berro, Kat Devlin, Eartheater, Goodknight Productions, Göteborgs Symfoniker, The Hounds Of Love, Yuri Kono, Miss Platnum, Oldelaf, the Plunging Necklines, Niki Romijn and Debra Stephenson.
Australia: 2 France: 5 Germany: 14 Ireland: 5 israel: 5 Italy: 5 Netherlands: 15 New Zealand: 8 Norway: 4 UK: 5
She wanted to test her husband. She knew exactly what to do: A pseudonym to fool him. She couldn’t have made a worse move. She sent him scented letters, And he received them with a strange delight. Just like his wife But how she was before the tears, And how she was before the years flew by, And how she was when she was beautiful. She signed the le...
Drums: Stuart Elliott Electric bass: John Giblin Fender Rhodes: Max Middleton Balalaika, Backing vocals: Paddy Bush Electric guitars: Brian Bath, Alan Murphy Backing vocals: Gary Hurst
Read the full lyrics of "Babooshka", a song by English singer Kate Bush, from her album Never for Ever. The song is about a woman who tries to seduce her husband with a fake identity and a pseudonym.
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