Music legend Kate Bush did a personal interview, though she is known to rarely speak in public. Radio 4 women’s watch To celebrate her return to the hit list.

Thanks to its prominent position on the new season of Stranger Things, Kate’s song “Mysterious Hill” topped the UK singles chart last week, giving the singer her first number one hit in 37 years.

In her honor, she sat down with Emma Barnett, the host of Women’s Hour, to discuss the award.

“It’s just unusual,” Kate said. “I thought this track would get a lot of attention, but I couldn’t imagine such a thing. It’s very exciting.”

“But that’s really shocking.” In other words, everyone is crazy. “

He goes on to say, “This is a whole new audience, and often they haven’t heard of me and I love it. Think about what really young people first heard and discovered about this song. I think it’s a very special song.”

Kate also discussed changing the song’s name due to record label concerns, as it was first known by its subtitle, A Deal With God.

“I think they were worried it wouldn’t get on the radio,” he explained. To make people feel like it was a touchy subject… I think it’s still called “the deal with God.”

He concluded that: It is strange what is happening, so thank you all. And it’s very exciting. And thank you Emma, ​​thank you for giving me time to appreciate everything. And you know-Fu!

Mysterious Hill was first featured in 1985 as the lead single from Kate Bush’s album Hounds of Love, and has held number three since its first release.

In 2012, a re-recorded version of the song was included at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics, it was later released as a single and reached number 6 in the UK charts.

Kate Bush was famous in the limelight, but in 2014 she performed several concerts in London, where she was on the list of Mysterious Hills.

Celebrating her song’s first place finish last week, Kate wrote on her website: Energy. I must admit that all of this really bothered me. Thank you for suddenly becoming number one. “

Highly acclaimed musicians often avoid showing their music in movies and TV shows, but he was clearly already a fan, so he gave Stranger Things permission.

I spoke with Wendy Crowley at Sony Music Publishing variety“Kate Bush is selective about her music licensing, so she checked the script page and pictures so she could see exactly how the song was used.”

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