Placebo’s Brian Molko on why they covered Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’
nme.comPlacebo‘s Brian Molko has spoken about the band’s connection to Kate Bush and the reason they chose to cover ‘Running Up That Hill’.The original song has found renewed popularity after featuring in the fourth season of Stranger Things.
The track – which appears on Bush’s 1985 fifth studio album, ‘Hounds Of Love’ – reached Number One on the UK singles chart earlier this month (June 17).In an interview with the Guardian, the frontman revealed how he first came across Bush. “My first exposure to Kate Bush was the video for Babooshka when I was a preteen,” he said.“I’d never seen anything like it: who is this person from outer space, singing an incredibly strange song?
I was completely captivated by this beautiful woman who had such charisma and seemed so unique.“Then I discovered that my older brother had [album] ‘The Kick Inside’, so I was introduced to ‘The Man With the Child in His Eyes’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’.
Then [in 1985] ‘Hounds of Love’ came out and blew my mind completely.”Placebo covered ‘Running Up That Hill’ in 2003, with the song becoming the first track on the band’s ‘Covers’ album that same year.
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