As a Kate Bush fan, I've always loved this parody. When I'm playing the Lionheart CD, I can't listen to the lyric 'Oh England, my Lionheart" without thinking "leotard".
@@ZoolGatekeeper Yeah. I've always liked Lionheart. I can see there are better albums (my personal favorite is Hounds of Love), but there are some great tracks on Lionheart - I love Kashka From Baghdad.
I'm old enough to remember Kate as an up-and-coming young musician. instantly turning me into a fan (not only because of the leotard, but it helped). I have never seen this video before & am totally surprised by the great quality: of Pamela performing, but also the music & lyrics of this spoof. It is witty into perfection. I'm positive Kate must have love this sketch too. The ambition to ridicule her fabulously original performance in even the slightest details, is actually a great homage to Kate's art.
I once read Kate Bush's comment on this send up, she said something like: 'You actually realise how famous you've become when a well known comedy show takes the piss out of you' She also commented on how beautiful she thought Pamela Stephenson was.
I was 21 then and, understandably, had an enormous crush on Pamela Stephenson. Looking back and laughing out loud at these clips, she remains a great comedienne, actress and singer. She never really got her due as a member of the team. Bloody funny and bloody gorgeous! Thank you Pamela!! By the way, the newscasters she impersonated were always my favourite part of her contribution to the show. The memory kinda lingers!!
It really captures Kate's approach, it's crazy. Whoever came up with this was obviously a fan and really listened to her, because this runs through just about every approach in Bush's toolbox at the time and really attempts to accurately recreate it - totally unnecessary if it were to just send her up.... There's more than a little love in this.
Pam was EVERY bit as talented a comedy actress as Kate was a musical performer. She deserved FAR more credit than she actually received.......................... Lucky ol' Billy Connolly, though !!!!
I like this parody so much, that this chorus la la la oh la la la, turned into music for my cats. They love. Cat food manufacturers do not imagine the potential of this tune to advertise.
What a brilliant vid. If you closed your eyes you could picture Kate singing this. Great bit at the end with the other 3 playing charades- comic genius
I love this. especially the very end with the 'oh England my Lionheart' inspired music. A very high brow piss take, I wonder what Kate thought of this. I know she liked Faith Brown's take on her?
alan greig Rumour has it that when Ms Bush saw this she roared with laughter. Shortly after she became involved with a lot of the Comic Strip things so it's quite believable.
as I watched a a child with my parents ,,, they were laughing so hard and I as an infant wondering why? A fee years later... I know why! !! bloody ingenious
It just goes to show that when these parodies were made people thought that they had Kate Bush pegged. By the time that Hounds of Love was released it was like a renaissance for her from her older, more consciously theatrical, style. To go from being such a piano-oriented musician to switching to guitars and drums shows a lot of personal self belief and capacity for reinvention.
Ive listened to Kate Bush over 30 years but I've never seen this vid. Somehow it's almost blasphemous to parody the Kate. But then again, I saw a Sia parody that had me falling off my chair, so I must live with this.
I know! I was trying to figure out what song they were actually parodying because this doesn't sound anything like Oh England My Lionheart, it's kind of a combination of Them Heavy People, Violin, and Hammer Horror
As with many things involved with Rowan Atkinson. Nearly all of the music that was created for Not the nine out clock news parodies and subsequent projects was written and arranged by the one and only Howard Goodall including I believe this. I can't listen to Them heavy people without singing this to it!
Thomas Sutherland What surprised me most was not that I liked it but that it uses a tune that is hardly the most well known song of hers. I wonder how many even know of, let alone have heard of, the song used. I wonder how many fans of Ms Bush would love this if she recorded it herself? Give how many of us like her song about a washing machine and pi it is likely to be a lot. :-)
***** What I found amazing is how comedy programs of the 1980s were used to support the establishments and soil its popular critics while pretending to criticize it! The original Kate Bush song was a statement against the system, a sort of an early "Neo Vs Agents" scene. Its message was delivered subtly, but the smart British People got effortlessly. And that's when the British establishments hidden soldiers (the comedy shows) come to aid their masters. The awesomely made comic spoof by Pamela Stephenson in the Not the 9 O'clock news successfully diverted our attention from Kate Bush's political message to her "Latex Tits".
UKMikey It was not in the charts when this was done. Unless you were a Kate Bush fan the likely hood of remembering a tep ten hit from two years before is very small.
For anyone who's struggling with the lyrics, this is a TERRIBLY clever - if extremely specific - parody of "Them Heavy People", both musically and lyrically. You'd have to know "Them Heavy People" fairly well to get what Pamela Stephenson's on about here...
Yes.... crossed with the "Babooshka" video, no? An utterly brilliant parody - for its lyrics, and sheer crazy Kate Bushness at the time. And I say that as a fan!
I understood "People buy my latest hits 'cause they like my latex tits" and "My cauliflower quiches were better than the bought ones" but that's about it :D
My favourite bit: "It's not your mind, it's your body they're into, my business manager said. He said that I need an intellect like I need a hole in the, hole in the, hole in the head!”
I was into yin and yang and hatha yoga Ginseng and caraway seeds and being a non-smoker My carrot quiches were better than the bought ones And I was thicker than two short ones People bought my latest hits Cos they liked my latex tits Everyone trying hard To get inside my leotard Went to my hairdresser to have a hair-do (hair do-be-do-be-do) He asked if I knew A La Recherche De Temps Perdus That's how I was introduced to Colette, Cocteau and Marcel Proust Now wholefood cookery is just a sideline (Shrill 'La-La-la' middle eight.) I went to Cairo and I read the Gnostic Apocryphon of John in the original Coptic Korsakoff's psychosis theories And the Fibonacci series Studied acupuncture and the Bible - the Byabubble - Opened the windows in my mind 'It's not your mind, it's your body they're into-oo-oo' My business-manager said. He said that I need an intellect like I need a Hole hole in the in the hole in the head Though I'm an honorary member of Mensa now I have to try and keep up a pretence somehow 'Cos you buy my latest hits Because you like my latex tits And you're all trying hard to get inside my Leotard leotard leotard Oh England, my leotard Ooh ooh ooh ooh
In this specific version she says Cauliflower but I just watched another one that was recently uploaded and it does say Carrot! Freaked me out at first. ua-cam.com/video/pe_Nk6UKOZA/v-deo.html
Really thanks for the text. Great Dr. Pamela Stephenson! :D She was able to catch some brilliant songs of Kate Bush (the parody was a little bit cruel in some passages), a reminescence of Them Heavy People(1978, I° album), Oh England My Lionheart (1978, II° album), the look taken from Babooshka style. They were both great and professional, both Kate Bush and Pamela Stephenson! :D
She did. Or at least she claims she did. People close to her however claims she thought she was an easy target to make fun of since everyone and their mother did it in all forms of media at the time. You can laugh at yourself being spoofed once or twice. When it becomes fairly common it's easy to be annoyed by it.
I bought the LP this was on at a record fair in the 1990s and I seem to remember (but could be wrong) that it was credited "Words and Music: K Bush". She also performed "Do Bears Sh... In The Woods" with Rowan Atkinson at the Secret Policeman's Ball, so she is certainly not too precious to mock herself. Which makes her ever-more the genius in my eyes!
Harry Tuttlebee Yes, I know, it's Pamela Stephenson. Now a clinical psychologist, writer and Mrs Billy Connolly. But the credit on the Not The Nine O'Clock News spoof album says "Words and Music: Kate Bush". And as Kate has worked with Rowan Atkinson in other places, I am suggesting she [edit: might have] had a hand in the spoof herself, although she didn't appear in it.
For years I thought so, but playing devil's advocate, they could just have given her a royalty because the music was so close to hers, she could easily have sued if she'd wanted to. It's possible the lyrics were by the NTNOCN team and this is assumed by the album title. I guess it would be nice to track down one of the surviving members and ask. Funny, I just read an interview with Kate on her official website a few days ago where she says she was flattered rather than upset by it: "Mark: Looking back on Kate Bush at the time, and you used to present things... I had a flashback to that "Not The Nine O'clock News" Pamela Stephenson, what was it... "Oh England My Leotard", or something. (Kate laughs) Mark: Do you remember that? Kate: Yes I do. Mark: Do you find that flattering, maybe you find it insulting. Or maybe you thought, "I've arrived and being taken off on 'Not The Nine O'clock News' " which is the biggest TV show of that era. Kate: I was obviously very flattered, because she was very beautiful. I think at the time it was very nervous that I was thinking that people were just taking the piss out of me because I was having the piss taken out of me so much by everybody. But I saw it a couple of years later, and I thought it was brilliant. It was really wonderful." (source: gaffa.org/reaching/iv06_bbc2_Mark_Radcliff_Talking_with_Kate.html) I'd LOVE to find out one day that Kate did write the lyrics for it and gave it to the team, but it's an open question ... though it would explain why she was so happy to sing "Do Bears ... In The Woods" with Rowan Atkinson at a comedy show later... if they'd already worked together on this.
Peter Brewis (listed in the music credits at 1:40) wrote the lyrics. Due to legal threats by EMI's lawyers (UK didn't have the same laws protecting parodies as the US at the time), they were forced to credit Kate Bush when the LP was released.
Does it hit anyone else anymore when credits roll over the programme still running. These were all done before my time but even in the 90's, you still had it but it started to phase down. Funnily enough, Live & Kicking is one of my earliest memories of Mitch talking over the credits and it used to annoy me as certain theme tunes just made ya happy, that one of them. House Party was another. If anyone can think of better words but I just think for certain programmes, like this especially, there is something poetic and non-narcissistic about still playing your programme whilst the names of people who worked their arses off barely get noticed. I haven't watched The Simpsons for years but I used to think that of Matt Groening and co because that was almost a treat to get the bonus material during credits which meant no announcer (even when Sky would mess it up and talk over it anyway) talking aimlessly and I always got that impression with The Simpsons that if you want to work on it, leave your ego at the door. I know Harry Shearer become a bit of a nightmare but my point remains, I bet you have to go through hurdles and hoops now not to get the screen to cut half way down or no announcements for the following programme or "later tonight". The BBC not so much. I just managed to make 4 paragraphs out of credits, something so inane but the music and credits together are what were a % of the success of this show. I do have a quandary question, a head test if you like. When people say "the BBC has gone down the swanny" & "they don't make comedy like this no more", I agree with both them statements, does it have more impact when someone like me, who is 37 years of age, wasn't a gleam in my Dad's eye yet also prefers to watch this and haven't watched a BBC comedy programme this century?
For Kate Bush fans, check out the book - "Under The Ivy - The Life & Music of Kate Bush", it's very good indeed! Better than I expected actually... I remember my friend telling me about 15years ago(when I was 17!) that she liked to smoke a spliff now and then, and me going, "Yeah yeah, sure..." thinking he was having me on! But no, it seems she WAS rather into smoking joint after joint in the studio! (I didn't believe she even smoked cos of her voice being so high and at times, squeaky!)... Oh, and there's a bit in the book, where one of her band recalls going out to the pool at the studio in the south of France, and Kate's there all smiles, sunbathing topless! And the guy basically saying it was rather "refreshing" being with a half naked 20yr old! Yeah, I bet!!! Virtually all the men interviewed in the book "fell in love with her"... Me too... me too... damn, she was soooo HOT back then, and totally COOL as well! LoL! =oD
So when Phil Collins once said that Kate is "the most stoned woman in Britain" he didn't just pull that out of the blue? That being said, what artist back then didn't smoke joints?? I'd say the late 70's to early 80's must have been the most drug-liberal era in history.
What a great impersonation of kate bush, my favourite lmpersination of kate bush doing a parody of my favourite all time kate bush single, but isn't there another version of this knocking about somewhere or did I just imagine it ?.
Thanks for putting this up. I watched the recent documentary about 'Not The 9 O'clock News' and most of the clips were familiar. I didn't see this one, but it was one I remember viewing originally when it was broadcast. It probably seemed funnier in my mind, but Ms Bush kinda sets herself up for lampooning. I saw her on the Top of the Pops Christmas Special doing 'December will be magic again' and she seemed just like a parody of herself in that!
Went to my hairdresser to have a hairdo He asked if I knew 'A la recherche du temps perdu?' That's how I was introduced to Colette, Cocteau and Marcel Proust Now wholefood cookery is just a sideline La, la, la, la La, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la I went to Cairo and I read the Gnostic Apocryphon of John in the original cop a tickle (Coptic) Korsakoff's psychosis theories and the Fibonacci series
It's mostly Them Heavy People but it has elements of Violin, Hammer Horror and Oh England My Lionheart. I don't think Never For Ever existed yet so it's probably just coinci that it sounds a bit like Violin
@@JesseColton This was broadcast on the 3rd of November 1980, and "Never For Ever" had been released on the 7th of September, so they had plenty of time to parody a bit of "Violin" and the "Babooshka" video.
just in case anybody is interested, this song mostly parodies "Them heavy people" for most of the melody at 1:45 briefly "Violin" and the final section "Oh England my Lionheart" Finally, the video appears to parody the one for "Hammer Horror"
@Aueneye Which one, Kate or Pamela?! Really they were both very talented. This is so funny - love those hands groping her accompanied by those babyish backing vocals :)
Pam was a member of Mensa, professor of psychology and a non-smoker. Kate Bush was never in Mensa, and was a smoker of Silk Cut at that time, since quit.
it was a great spoof or take off but you are unjust towards a genuine genius. Her work is absolutely brilliant. She did not ask for the hype. Indeed she has sought to remove herself from the hype and celebrity
I was into yin and yang and hatha yoga Ginseng and caraway seeds and being a non-smoker My cauliflower quiches were better than the bought ones and I was thicker than two short ones People bought my latest hits 'cause they liked my latex tits Everyone trying hard to get inside my leotard
@tecdessus they have opened the borders, they need lots of workers so you would get a work visa easy and you could stay a couple of years. It's the perfect time to come here. You'll love it here, and I'll buy you lunch if you come to sunny Brisbane.
This is a very funny spoof (parody) of Kate Bush's music video style. I watched a few Kate Bush videos after this one, and immediately saw the satire was pitch perfect! Watch this original "official Kate Bush" video to see how brilliant this satire is: ua-cam.com/video/qfNtPbHkp0U/v-deo.html
The most accomplished imitation of Kate there has ever been. Pan can really sing like her.
And she was hot.
As a Kate Bush fan, I've always loved this parody. When I'm playing the Lionheart CD, I can't listen to the lyric 'Oh England, my Lionheart" without thinking "leotard".
For me it "Them Heavy People" that I can't listen to without getting and image of this in my head :-D
@@Dermacrosis The subject matter is Heavy People, for sure.
@@dangerszewski9816 With a touch of 'Violin' at the end too.
Can you believe it, Lionheart is considered her weakest album.
She really put out such greatness..
@@ZoolGatekeeper Yeah. I've always liked Lionheart. I can see there are better albums (my personal favorite is Hounds of Love), but there are some great tracks on Lionheart - I love Kashka From Baghdad.
I saw this on broadcast, and cried with laughter at the disembodied groping hands!
I'm old enough to remember Kate as an up-and-coming young musician. instantly turning me into a fan (not only because of the leotard, but it helped). I have never seen this video before & am totally surprised by the great quality: of Pamela performing, but also the music & lyrics of this spoof. It is witty into perfection.
I'm positive Kate must have love this sketch too. The ambition to ridicule her fabulously original performance in even the slightest details, is actually a great homage to Kate's art.
Mick The Nick she wrote Pamela a long letter congratulating her 👍🏻
Pam and Kate both brilliant talent. I bet Kate loved this and from a time when both music and comedy were wonderful.
The best parodies are ones did with love and not out there to insult.
Funny, the song is Them Heavy People, the title is Oh England, My Lionheart, and the video is Babooshka.
and a bit of violin!
Little wonder Billy fell in love with Pamela … so gorgeous and hilarious ❤❤
I once read Kate Bush's comment on this send up, she said something like: 'You actually realise how famous you've become when a well known comedy show takes the piss out of you' She also commented on how beautiful she thought Pamela Stephenson was.
I was 21 then and, understandably, had an enormous crush on Pamela Stephenson. Looking back and laughing out loud at these clips, she remains a great comedienne, actress and singer. She never really got her due as a member of the team. Bloody funny and bloody gorgeous! Thank you Pamela!! By the way, the newscasters she impersonated were always my favourite part of her contribution to the show. The memory kinda lingers!!
ha, i was still a school boy and will never forget the revelation of the power of the American Express card!
What about the revelation of Barclays banking?
It really captures Kate's approach, it's crazy. Whoever came up with this was obviously a fan and really listened to her, because this runs through just about every approach in Bush's toolbox at the time and really attempts to accurately recreate it - totally unnecessary if it were to just send her up....
There's more than a little love in this.
Or maybe it just comes easy for pam.
Hilarious ! All the little idiosyncrasies regarding our beloved Kate's voice are there ! Great lyrics too !
Pam was EVERY bit as talented a comedy actress as Kate was a musical performer.
She deserved FAR more credit than she actually received..........................
Lucky ol' Billy Connolly, though !!!!
Absolutely. Watching this again I appreciate that even more 40 years on. It's brilliant.
They all do! This show has slipped into the forgotten treasures list. Yet was so clever.
NTNON was the best satirical show ever by a mile
Pamela Stephenson - what a legend! Brilliant and loving parody x
"I went to Cairo and I read the Gnostic, Apocryphon of John in the original Coptic"
Very clever indeed!
Did I hear the Fibonacci sequence in there too. Bloody glorious.
"BRILLIANT!" -Vyvyan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I like this parody so much, that this chorus la la la oh la la la, turned into music for my cats. They love. Cat food manufacturers do not imagine the potential of this tune to advertise.
What a brilliant vid. If you closed your eyes you could picture Kate singing this. Great bit at the end with the other 3 playing charades- comic genius
Ha Ha! she got the stance, mannerisms, and dance moves down to an absolute "T"! Man, she was talented : )
Cor blimey Pam was gorgeous--no wonder Billy was smitten at first sight.
Billy and a few hundred thousand schoolboys...
Who wouldn't be, the lucky fucker
I love this. especially the very end with the 'oh England my Lionheart' inspired music. A very high brow piss take, I wonder what Kate thought of this. I know she liked Faith Brown's take on her?
alan greig Rumour has it that when Ms Bush saw this she roared with laughter. Shortly after she became involved with a lot of the Comic Strip things so it's quite believable.
She actually wrote to both saying how much she liked them.
Brought back a childhood memory of seeing this broadcast on the Beeb. Loved it and it was such a good parody. Ms. Stephenson was so funny.
as I watched a a child with my parents ,,, they were laughing so hard and I as an infant wondering why? A fee years later... I know why! !! bloody ingenious
It's not your mind, it's your body they're into, my business manager said
He said I need an intellect like a hole inn the head 🤣
It just goes to show that when these parodies were made people thought that they had Kate Bush pegged. By the time that Hounds of Love was released it was like a renaissance for her from her older, more consciously theatrical, style. To go from being such a piano-oriented musician to switching to guitars and drums shows a lot of personal self belief and capacity for reinvention.
@@malcolmgerald A pop genius.
Hounds of Love is mainly drums and synth, if memory serves.
I wouldn’t say there’s more guitar and drums on the later albums than the earlier ones. The main difference was the Fairlight.
Really great! Love the charades bit at the end. All-around great catalogue of Kate Bush references. Great quality, too. Thanks!
Ive listened to Kate Bush over 30 years but I've never seen this vid. Somehow it's almost blasphemous to parody the Kate. But then again, I saw a Sia parody that had me falling off my chair, so I must live with this.
This is amazing !
I love Kate Bush so much ! but I love so much Pam' Stephenson too : she can play everything :D
Oh, there's a bit of "Violin" in there too! They sure did their background research for this parody : D
I know! I was trying to figure out what song they were actually parodying because this doesn't sound anything like Oh England My Lionheart, it's kind of a combination of Them Heavy People, Violin, and Hammer Horror
Costume-wise, it's got some Babooshka thrown in, too.
probably actually "rabid" fans themselves lol
Yep!
where's the violin here?
In middle age, one needs to try harder to even to get inside one's own leotard!
Absolutely Brilliant.
I think the majority of Kate Bush's fans dig both her body _and_ her mind.
As with many things involved with Rowan Atkinson. Nearly all of the music that was created for Not the nine out clock news parodies and subsequent projects was written and arranged by the one and only Howard Goodall including I believe this. I can't listen to Them heavy people without singing this to it!
No this was Peter Brewis
Absolute class!
Put the parody to one side a minute. This actually shows how talented Pamela Stevenson is. She moves beautifully.
As a rabid Kate Bush fan, and anyone who knows a K8T fan knows rabid is not an exageration, I love this.
Me too .
Thomas Sutherland
What surprised me most was not that I liked it but that it uses a tune that is hardly the most well known song of hers. I wonder how many even know of, let alone have heard of, the song used.
I wonder how many fans of Ms Bush would love this if she recorded it herself? Give how many of us like her song about a washing machine and pi it is likely to be a lot. :-)
+ Dermacrosis Them Heavy People was a top ten hit in the UK. I'm pretty sure the audience knew the song.
*****
What I found amazing is how comedy programs of the 1980s were used to support the establishments and soil its popular critics while pretending to criticize it! The original Kate Bush song was a statement against the system, a sort of an early "Neo Vs Agents" scene. Its message was delivered subtly, but the smart British People got effortlessly. And that's when the British establishments hidden soldiers (the comedy shows) come to aid their masters. The awesomely made comic spoof by Pamela Stephenson in the Not the 9 O'clock news successfully diverted our attention from Kate Bush's political message to her "Latex Tits".
UKMikey
It was not in the charts when this was done. Unless you were a Kate Bush fan the likely hood of remembering a tep ten hit from two years before is very small.
Fucking hell, her voice is SPOT ON a young Kate Bush's.
Also the high and low notes are so close together it almost sounds like a Nina Hagen song.
For anyone who's struggling with the lyrics, this is a TERRIBLY clever - if extremely specific - parody of "Them Heavy People", both musically and lyrically. You'd have to know "Them Heavy People" fairly well to get what Pamela Stephenson's on about here...
Yes.... crossed with the "Babooshka" video, no? An utterly brilliant parody - for its lyrics, and sheer crazy Kate Bushness at the time. And I say that as a fan!
Genuinely one of the best parodies in history.
I understood "People buy my latest hits 'cause they like my latex tits" and "My cauliflower quiches were better than the bought ones" but that's about it :D
My favourite bit: "It's not your mind, it's your body they're into, my business manager said. He said that I need an intellect like I need a hole in the, hole in the, hole in the head!”
There are also nods to "Oh England, My Lionheart" and "Violin".
This song has a such a great bass line ;)
& harmony too
Still fantastic 👏
She is SO precise!
Just a fantastic parody. Brilliant lyrics. I daresay Kate loved it!
I was into yin and yang and hatha yoga
Ginseng and caraway seeds and being a non-smoker
My carrot quiches were better than the bought ones
And I was thicker than two short ones
People bought my latest hits
Cos they liked my latex tits
Everyone trying hard
To get inside my leotard
Went to my hairdresser to have a hair-do (hair do-be-do-be-do)
He asked if I knew A La Recherche De Temps Perdus
That's how I was introduced to Colette, Cocteau and Marcel Proust
Now wholefood cookery is just a sideline
(Shrill 'La-La-la' middle eight.)
I went to Cairo and I read the Gnostic
Apocryphon of John in the original Coptic
Korsakoff's psychosis theories
And the Fibonacci series
Studied acupuncture and the Bible - the Byabubble -
Opened the windows in my mind
'It's not your mind, it's your body they're into-oo-oo'
My business-manager said.
He said that I need an intellect like I need a
Hole hole in the in the hole in the head
Though I'm an honorary member of Mensa now
I have to try and keep up a pretence somehow
'Cos you buy my latest hits
Because you like my latex tits
And you're all trying hard to get inside my
Leotard leotard leotard
Oh England, my leotard
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
+Angela Szerencses Thanks for the lyrics, I have never been able to hear them all so this is brilliant! x
+Angela Szerencses This could be the soundtrack for every modern Hipster. The more things change.....
cauliflower not carrot
In this specific version she says Cauliflower but I just watched another one that was recently uploaded and it does say Carrot! Freaked me out at first. ua-cam.com/video/pe_Nk6UKOZA/v-deo.html
Really thanks for the text. Great Dr. Pamela Stephenson! :D She was able to catch some brilliant songs of Kate Bush (the parody was a little bit cruel in some passages), a reminescence of Them Heavy People(1978, I° album), Oh England My Lionheart (1978, II° album), the look taken from Babooshka style. They were both great and professional, both Kate Bush and Pamela Stephenson! :D
Amazingly well done, for what it is. I hope Kate had a big laugh over it.
She did. Or at least she claims she did. People close to her however claims she thought she was an easy target to make fun of since everyone and their mother did it in all forms of media at the time. You can laugh at yourself being spoofed once or twice. When it becomes fairly common it's easy to be annoyed by it.
I bought the LP this was on at a record fair in the 1990s and I seem to remember (but could be wrong) that it was credited "Words and Music: K Bush". She also performed "Do Bears Sh... In The Woods" with Rowan Atkinson at the Secret Policeman's Ball, so she is certainly not too precious to mock herself. Which makes her ever-more the genius in my eyes!
This isn't her, this is a spoof...
Harry Tuttlebee
Yes, I know, it's Pamela Stephenson. Now a clinical psychologist, writer and Mrs Billy Connolly. But the credit on the Not The Nine O'Clock News spoof album says "Words and Music: Kate Bush". And as Kate has worked with Rowan Atkinson in other places, I am suggesting she [edit: might have] had a hand in the spoof herself, although she didn't appear in it.
James White You're correct, Kate did help write this!
For years I thought so, but playing devil's advocate, they could just have given her a royalty because the music was so close to hers, she could easily have sued if she'd wanted to.
It's possible the lyrics were by the NTNOCN team and this is assumed by the album title. I guess it would be nice to track down one of the surviving members and ask.
Funny, I just read an interview with Kate on her official website a few days ago where she says she was flattered rather than upset by it:
"Mark: Looking back on Kate Bush at the time, and you used to present things... I had a flashback to that "Not The Nine O'clock News" Pamela Stephenson, what was it... "Oh England My Leotard", or something.
(Kate laughs)
Mark: Do you remember that?
Kate: Yes I do.
Mark: Do you find that flattering, maybe you find it insulting. Or maybe you thought, "I've arrived and being taken off on 'Not The Nine O'clock News' " which is the biggest TV show of that era.
Kate: I was obviously very flattered, because she was very beautiful. I think at the time it was very nervous that I was thinking that people were just taking the piss out of me because I was having the piss taken out of me so much by everybody. But I saw it a couple of years later, and I thought it was brilliant. It was really wonderful."
(source: gaffa.org/reaching/iv06_bbc2_Mark_Radcliff_Talking_with_Kate.html)
I'd LOVE to find out one day that Kate did write the lyrics for it and gave it to the team, but it's an open question ... though it would explain why she was so happy to sing "Do Bears ... In The Woods" with Rowan Atkinson at a comedy show later... if they'd already worked together on this.
Peter Brewis (listed in the music credits at 1:40) wrote the lyrics. Due to legal threats by EMI's lawyers (UK didn't have the same laws protecting parodies as the US at the time), they were forced to credit Kate Bush when the LP was released.
Pamela is so good here
Pam was so good great show loved it . All gone now . 😢😢
OMG! What a spoof of Kate Bush... ROFL!!! :D
Does it hit anyone else anymore when credits roll over the programme still running. These were all done before my time but even in the 90's, you still had it but it started to phase down. Funnily enough, Live & Kicking is one of my earliest memories of Mitch talking over the credits and it used to annoy me as certain theme tunes just made ya happy, that one of them. House Party was another.
If anyone can think of better words but I just think for certain programmes, like this especially, there is something poetic and non-narcissistic about still playing your programme whilst the names of people who worked their arses off barely get noticed.
I haven't watched The Simpsons for years but I used to think that of Matt Groening and co because that was almost a treat to get the bonus material during credits which meant no announcer (even when Sky would mess it up and talk over it anyway) talking aimlessly and I always got that impression with The Simpsons that if you want to work on it, leave your ego at the door. I know Harry Shearer become a bit of a nightmare but my point remains, I bet you have to go through hurdles and hoops now not to get the screen to cut half way down or no announcements for the following programme or "later tonight". The BBC not so much.
I just managed to make 4 paragraphs out of credits, something so inane but the music and credits together are what were a % of the success of this show.
I do have a quandary question, a head test if you like. When people say "the BBC has gone down the swanny" & "they don't make comedy like this no more", I agree with both them statements, does it have more impact when someone like me, who is 37 years of age, wasn't a gleam in my Dad's eye yet also prefers to watch this and haven't watched a BBC comedy programme this century?
Why do I actually know the words to this better than "Them Heavy People"?
For Kate Bush fans, check out the book - "Under The Ivy - The Life & Music of Kate Bush", it's very good indeed! Better than I expected actually...
I remember my friend telling me about 15years ago(when I was 17!) that she liked to smoke a spliff now and then, and me going, "Yeah yeah, sure..." thinking he was having me on! But no, it seems she WAS rather into smoking joint after joint in the studio! (I didn't believe she even smoked cos of her voice being so high and at times, squeaky!)...
Oh, and there's a bit in the book, where one of her band recalls going out to the pool at the studio in the south of France, and Kate's there all smiles, sunbathing topless! And the guy basically saying it was rather "refreshing" being with a half naked 20yr old! Yeah, I bet!!!
Virtually all the men interviewed in the book "fell in love with her"...
Me too... me too... damn, she was soooo HOT back then, and totally COOL as well! LoL! =oD
So when Phil Collins once said that Kate is "the most stoned woman in Britain" he didn't just pull that out of the blue?
That being said, what artist back then didn't smoke joints?? I'd say the late 70's to early 80's must have been the most drug-liberal era in history.
Wez Marauder I believe Prince was fiercely against joints. Zappa might also
Priceless
haha, very well done!
What a great impersonation of kate bush, my favourite lmpersination of kate bush doing a parody of my favourite all time kate bush single, but isn't there another version of this knocking about somewhere or did I just imagine it ?.
Shes genius love you Pam
Thanks for putting this up. I watched the recent documentary about 'Not The 9 O'clock News' and most of the clips were familiar. I didn't see this one, but it was one I remember viewing originally when it was broadcast. It probably seemed funnier in my mind, but Ms Bush kinda sets herself up for lampooning. I saw her on the Top of the Pops Christmas Special doing 'December will be magic again' and she seemed just like a parody of herself in that!
HAHAHA i love this so much. its so funny :D
Wow... Sounds more like Kate than Kate ever did! ;-)
Hysterical!
OK, that's Them Heavy People. And England My Lionheart. Had a sibling who liked this stuff.
Cruelly accurate.
I loved her in Superman3!!
Pamela, you pulled it off... and not the leotard.
Now that's class
As spoofs goes, this is 👌
gorgeous
"Bows & arrows! William Tell!"
Brilliant
Went to my hairdresser to have a hairdo
He asked if I knew 'A la recherche du temps perdu?'
That's how I was introduced to Colette, Cocteau and Marcel Proust
Now wholefood cookery is just a sideline
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I went to Cairo and I read the Gnostic
Apocryphon of John in the original cop a tickle (Coptic)
Korsakoff's psychosis theories
and the Fibonacci series
Kate Bush obviously has a sense of humour. Witness her duet with Rowan Atkinson in the song "Do Bears....."
Okay for the vids used I am thinking "Coffee, Homeground" and "Babooshka".
I love British humour and Kate "flower" Bush is my favourite singer .
So mean, so funny!
Them Heavy People And Me,
Violin :D
It's mostly Them Heavy People but it has elements of Violin, Hammer Horror and Oh England My Lionheart. I don't think Never For Ever existed yet so it's probably just coinci that it sounds a bit like Violin
@@JesseColton This was broadcast on the 3rd of November 1980, and "Never For Ever" had been released on the 7th of September, so they had plenty of time to parody a bit of "Violin" and the "Babooshka" video.
@@Severian19671 Thank!
"Being a non-smoker" - in reality, Kate Bush IS a smoker!
So funny 😂😀
just in case anybody is interested, this song mostly parodies "Them heavy people" for most of the melody at 1:45 briefly "Violin" and the final section "Oh England my Lionheart" Finally, the video appears to parody the one for "Hammer Horror"
And, costume-wise, "Babooshka...!
Nice spoof of Them Heavy People
I've got Hedgehog Sandwich, and it's not the full version. You don't hear "Oh, England my leotard"
@Aueneye Which one, Kate or Pamela?! Really they were both very talented. This is so funny - love those hands groping her accompanied by those babyish backing vocals :)
Very funny.
Criminal she wasn't paid as much as the others ...
Really?! Then, yes, it was...!
So funny.
1:09 Does anyone else hear her sing "buy a bubble" after singing Bible?
"bio-bubble"
duncan rmi
I can see that one. to me it is always going to be "buy a bubble" even though it makes no sense. 🙂
Very clever parody, I think they had to hand over half of the songwriting rights to Kate lol.
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Ah, I didn't realise Pamela was the female member of Not the Nine O'Clock News! Damn, she does a good piss-take of Kate Bush! XD
most of the lyrics are actually quite intellectual...
Pam was a member of Mensa, professor of psychology and a non-smoker. Kate Bush was never in Mensa, and was a smoker of Silk Cut at that time, since quit.
1:42 Hedgehog effects - Sophie. WHAT
damnnnn roasted
A wonderful parody of Kate Bush! Can they say "tits" on English TV? LOL
Fawlty Towers 2nd series (1979, about a year before this,) got away with "Flowery Tw@ts" on the sign in the intro for The Anniversary episode.
Only after 9pm (which fits in with the title of the show).
In 1980? Absolutely. Now? Not without a lot of ridiculous "trigger warnings".
Oops! Sorry about the spacing!
it was a great spoof or take off but you are unjust towards a genuine genius. Her work is absolutely brilliant. She did not ask for the hype. Indeed she has sought to remove herself from the hype and celebrity
Ten years later she is enjoying a well deserved renaissance.
Seeing as she took the trouble to put the kit on and everything a rear view would have been nice, however brief. Some directors just don´t think...
I was into yin and yang and hatha yoga
Ginseng and caraway seeds and being a non-smoker
My cauliflower quiches were better than the bought ones
and I was thicker than two short ones
People bought my latest hits
'cause they liked my latex tits
Everyone trying hard
to get inside my leotard
So proud she is an Australian.
@tecdessus Aussie
@tecdessus had a feeling you were a kiwi so I say to you. 20/ 20 world cricket cup. Good sting by you, take care.
@tecdessus they have opened the borders, they need lots of workers so you would get a work visa easy and you could stay a couple of years. It's the perfect time to come here. You'll love it here, and I'll buy you lunch if you come to sunny Brisbane.
@tecdessus just checked , your correct, she was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia when she was 15. I'm so disappointed.
I recognise this song from Stranger Things
she knew exactly what to do-
rap shrink
This is a very funny spoof (parody) of Kate Bush's music video style. I watched a few Kate Bush videos after this one, and immediately saw the satire was pitch perfect! Watch this original "official Kate Bush" video to see how brilliant this satire is: ua-cam.com/video/qfNtPbHkp0U/v-deo.html
I bet even Kate Bush laughed at this. :)
I came here to be offended and left surprised .