Back in the day, I dated a girl who was quite a fan of Kate, me, I just saw her as a strange lady with a strange voice, funny facial expressions, gyrating all over the place. That was until one day when we were loungin around the apartment, she put on some Kate, as she often did, then lay next to me on the sofa, when Cloudbusting came on, she pressed her face to my chest and fell asleep, I laid there listening to the songs as they played, fell completely in love with them both on that day.

"I don't feel that I have to conquer territories" Only Kate could say that!

I can't believe that anyone could seriously consider Kate an "airhead". She's frighteningly intelligent and a legendarily tough interview subject.

This guy is such a natural, personable and respectful interviewer. No awkward silences, well-researched and he does come across like he’s actually a fan of her music.

She has the sweetest speaking voice.

Such a lovely, low key interview. I really like the interviewer, he is so sincere, calm and asked Kate intelligent questions...really good!

wow the interviewer has the most soothing and unthreatening voice! his questions are great! i wish they had decent interviewers like that nowadays! instead of stupid girls and boys asking musicians what their favorite colours are!!!!

Really hard to believe that this was done on MTV. A very straightforward and serious interview without any pandering or pretentiousness.

No, the late J.J. Jackson was a skilled professional, and I believe he genuinely liked Kate's music.

When I hear other celebrities talk during interviews, I can't seem to retain any of the details. When Kate speaks, the words are so clear and direct that they seem memorable like song lyrics! Someone once said that she speaks like she thinks about every word she's saying. I love her clarity and her intelligence.

What an incredible woman.

This was a wonderful interview. Mr. Jackson was fantastic. His calm, introspective style played to Kate Bush perfectly. Very well done.

Nice, i like the interviewer, he's respectful and asks slightly more interesting questions than other people i've seen interviewing kate. nice voice too.

I adore this lady, she is a super star in every sense of the word, Her undeniable artistic talent, a unique voice go without need of further elaboration. What strikes me the most though Is Kate Bush`s warm approachable demeanour. She never gives the impression she is doing people a favour when she does rare interviews. She is humble, down to earth and has never been in this game for the fame and the celebrity. She just an artist who wants peple to experience her take on the world be it through song, dance, video. She always kept true to her self writing songs that meant something to her rather than kow towing to record industry bosses milking the latest music fad till it was dried out. hats why Kate is so long lived, remembered and loved still today. I am so glad that younsters are discovering her music too. God bless this example of how money wealth and celebrity do not have to turn you into a self centered egotistical maniac like so many of todays so called "Artists"

I remember watching this when it first aired. It was beyond exciting that Kate was finally receiving some long overdue attention here in the States. JJ was really the lone intelligent presence on that network back in the day, and it's really nice to not have to cringe in embarrassment at an American interviewer's questions to Kate. Bless him. Thank you, k8fan, for this clip!

Great interview. I think Kate Bush is tied with Prince for best artist of the 80s. And she seems so down-to-earth, intelligent, and sensuous. She's 1000x sexier than the lascivious, talentless female artists that MTV pushes these days.

The look on Kate's face with the presenter pushing her to go on tour... Omg! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I wish she did more tours although I truly understand why she did not all these years, and for that I cannot blame her. Love you, Kate! 😍😍😍😍😍

Beautiful little interview. The interviewer was beautiful, Kate was beautiful, the song is beautiful. Damn remember when life was beautiful?

@ToniHedley The late, great JJ was a radio professional long before the channel that used to air music videos started. He got his start in the 1960s at WBCN in Boston before moving to LA and spending more than a decade in radio and TV. So year, he had a deep love and knowledge of music, and knew Kate's music and her level of influence. He is missed.

Great interviewer and equally great interviwee. Love Kate bush, real talent.

although there are many wonderful and interesting genius musicians throughout modern music you really just can't match her combination grace, intelligence, beauty, talent, creativity, vision, articulateness. etc. in any other artist.

JJ was a professional - that means making the interview subject feel at ease, and hopefully eliciting interesting responses. And Kate is a difficult interview subject. She can be evasive and prickly when asked about things she doesn't want to talk about. She'll remain unfailingly polite, but you can see the point in many interviews where she shuts down. If an interviewer being polite and friendly is defined as "brown nosing" in your personal lexicon, I'm afraid I can't help.

fully clothed. no plastic. all intelligence. plays down her looks. yet so so so sexy. amazing.

So bright, eloquent and such a strong sense of self.

It's a miracle you kept this recorded vhs tape all these years. Thank you.

What a charming interviewer.. a joy to watch and a rare talent.. Smart questions.. As for Kate.. well.. I could listen all day

Kate was always gracious during an interview, no matter how bad the host's questions. This one was brilliant. J.J. was a special interviewer. R.I.P. Sir. And R.I.P. Mr. Sutherland. ❤

Kate is the most fabulous being in the universe.

This was definitely one of the best KB interviews I've seen. Wished it was longer, the intellectual depth between these two...

Well guys! You Know what? Kate is just FANTASTIC.

It's very soothing and she is so charming.

Much better than the "Night Flight" interview she did that same year.

Good interview by JJ Jackson aka "Triple J".

She is basically saying I did what I do and if you like it that's great. She wouldn't compromise to accommodate what the industry wanted.

Kate Bush is just fantastic. Very unique, very bright, beautiful, creative, humble, and full of class.

She's got such a sweet and gentle smile

I never could understand why Kate was so huge in Europe and Canada and never got airplay in the US.

I love the way she pronounces R's as W's. Very endeawing. Wish I had her accent (but I'm stuck with my Aussie twang) 😄

I find the interview very good and JJ Jackson was prepared to ask some decent questions. Kate was lovely and very forthcoming. I love this woman to this day. One of the best MTV interviews was JJ talking to John Lydon and Keith Levene of Public Image Ltd. John was very open with JJ and seemed to appreciate the amount of research and JJ's down-to-Earth style.

Wow! MTV used to be about music, didn't it? Hehe, miss those days.

Such a beautiful lady in every way.

Talent, true gifted talent like Kate, doesn’t need flashy gimmicks.. I’m so glad a new generation are getting to see what a unique, strong independent artist - a woman - performing on her own terms - actually is.

there is gentle quality to her that very much reminds of women i used to know when i lived in ireland, which isn't surprising as her mother was irish.

Loved this interview X felt natural and not forced like some interviewing and a genuine ease between them💚🎶

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..

what a an amazing gracious woman ...

Kate was a Day dreamer filled with thoughts and emotions.

Never seen this before. What a lovely interview.

i love her!

Such a lovely interview.

I know! After they couldn't figure out how to sell The Kick Inside in the US, EMI-America actually pressed copies of Lionheart, then changed their minds (I have one of these "destroyed" LPs). They didn't even try with Never For Ever, finally releasing The Dreaming. Hounds of Love was preceded by a "Mini-LP" and a release of all the previous records. But on the other hand, Kate wasn't working especially hard to help the record company sell the album. She has the level of success she wants.

I love the way she smiles when he says about the Twix advert.

It's "well pronounced" rather than posh. If anything it's a perfect unaffected neutral English. However compared to the vast majority of the UK (where everyone has affected accents of some variety) it's common to mistake "clear pronunciation and diction" for being posh. I live up north, and despite having a "northern" accent I'm considered well spoken and "posh" because I use the occasional long word and am (relatively speaking) well spoken and clear. You can tell she's a southerner though :D

Man do I wish i had seen that first and only tour.

I fell in love with her in ‘77.!!still love her.!!

"right after this word from TWIX." Lolz!

I love her so much.

Damn, that was highly professional.

Truly gorgeous.Voice is honey

Is she well known in America now? She's a national treasure!

Always a big fan of Kate Bush. JJ is the perfect interviewer for her. Glad YT hasn't pulled it yet and to have it on the 80s MTV music video playlist. Loved the living room style studio set on 80s MTV. That's the way it should've stayed.

Thank you for posting this most exellent clip

Kate Bush is everything!

That's a great interview

Another wonderful interview. Brava Kate!

Great interview, Thank you very much for uploading!

So diplomatic.

shes so beautiful

Fantastic interview. What a lovely, soothing, ultra-feminine voice she has. Note the vast difference between 80's MTV versus that of today: now it's an endless stream of (c)rap and idiotic "reality" bullshit.... You can't even see real musicians like Kate on VH1 anymore.

I love her ^_^ she is such a pro and intelligent

I just love the way that guy laughs at the end after he asks her to tour, he goes "haha" like he knows that's never gonna happen lol

Thank-you for posting - a good and respectful interview.

I have to generally agree. Any of the good music (there has been some) gets buried beneath mounds of general crap. It's really very sad.

I don't have the unedited Night Flight interview on my collection here. It's too painful. I do have the unedited MTV interview, and I love it. A lot of the viewers complain that the interviewer sounds bored in that one, but he comes up with great questions and gets excellent responses from Kate. The Night Flight one the questions are from this bimbo without a single fraction of a clue.

Holy Smokes! VJ's used to speak in complete sentences???? Kate is awesome by the way.

...the songs were so good and totally original.

Great video - one of the best from the 80s

Funny to see the videos he intros, Arcadia & Billy Joel, that's how you know it's the 80's. MTV when it was really something, Great clip!

wow yeah i bet he is! i just love watching this interview, both because of kate and him! thanks!!! :)

Kate is so stubborn about not doing live shows, I always felt she could have at least done a few concerts that weren't big productions but could have just highlighted her great singing and piano playing. Oh well.

man interviews were so much longer back then

In the unedited Night Flight interview, she'd gave a complete answer, mentioning Reich and "A Book of Dreams"...and they ruined her answer with technical problems, and she had to give the same answer again. The second time was less complete. Could have happened in this case, although this organization and interviewer was quite a bit more professional.

If you gave Kate Bush a *thumbs down*, I pity your imagination.

Wow such a great interview. Really a shame what became of "that channel".

I do not remember this guy on MTV but what a pro!

English rose!

As far as many efforts on the English spoken word goes i think she has a nice (speaking) voice and either way what does it matter, i like her voice, spoken or singing, she will always be someone i admire regardless of how she is percieved by others.. :)

You can’t beat a bit of Bush ...

thanks for sharing, very interesting

Everybody's been touring this year, since the past 2 years were taken away since Covid. Kate should consider doing a world tour, since 'Running Up That Hill' skyrocketed the charts this past summer. And if she toured in the US, especially in Boston (where I am), I would totally soil my pants and buy tickets afterwards.

Quite a quick interview. Kate Bush does ever so well to explain away something as classic as that video, song and work of literature that is not revealed... I'm well read but have no idea as to the derivation of text and reference.

Amazing content-filled and intelligent interview. ADHD has caused havac for modern TV viewers.

She may well have, and they edited it out. There is another interview for the same channel that lasted roughly 45 minutes, and they used less than 2 minutes in the end.

No, she is pretty much a "cult" artist in the US these days. Not really the fault of the record company, as she's not done any promotion for the last album, and very little for "The Red Shoes".

Coming from one of her male fans!! We love this lady oooh soo much!! Keep it up Kate! :)

Classy is the word :-)

You are so right!

The moderator mentioned her older videos using "wild choreography," while this particular video doesn't feature it. This may possibly be why I prefer this video to her other ones. Not only was this mix of the song wonderful, but the accompanying video was so perfect for the story being told. She's an excellent singer, but I'd prefer she not try to dance much. hehe

She only acted in her videos and two other things - "The Comic Strip: Les Dogs" and her own "The Line, The Cross & The Curve". She was OK in Les Dogs, which didn't really require her to be much other than stunningly beautiful, but some of her work in TLTC&TC was...painful. I love her, but it was true. I don't know if she would have become a better than average actor.

She's from Welling, Kent and went to an all-girl Convent school. But if you watch earlier interviews, in some she had a bit of an affected accent for some of her very first ones.