( Kate Bush Club newsletter, September 1980)Īpparently it is grandmother, it's also a headdress that people wear. The way in which we often ruin things for ourselves. ‘Babooshka’ has been covered by Astral Prince, Brain Grimmer, Sonia Cat-Berro, Kat Devlin, Eartheater, Goodknight Productions, Göteborgs Symfoniker, The Hounds Of Love, Miss Platnum, Oldelaf, the Plunging Necklines and Niki Romijn. Her figure is lit so that only the "repressed" side of her costume is visible during the verses of the song, and mainly the "free" side during the choruses. 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 left side a glittering, liberated young woman in a silvery jumpsuit, with bright lightning-streaks painted down the left side of her face. Kate performed 'Babooshka' in various European programmes, including Collaro (France), Countdown (Netherlands) and Rock Pop (Germany). An illustration by Chris Achilleos was the basis for the costume. This changes into an extravagant, mythlike and rather sparse "Russian" costume as her alter-ego, Babooshka. 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. Two demo versions from 1977 have also surfaced and were released on various bootleg cd's. 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). 'Babooshka' was released as a 7" single in various territories. The relationship is ruined only because of her own paranoia. In her bitterness and paranoia, Babooshka arranges to meet her husband, who is attracted to the character who reminds him of his wife in earlier times. To do so, she takes on the pseudonym of Babooshka and sends notes to her husband in the guise of a younger woman - something which she fears is the opposite of how her husband currently sees her.
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According to Kate, the song chronicles a wife's desire to test her husband's loyalty.
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Originally released as a single on 27 June 1980 and subsequently included on the album Never For Ever.