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Old 04-06-2011, 06:37 PM   #12
Grainiary

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That's from the Dr. Hook Special, which aired on BBC2 in the UK on April 7, 1980. The Delius performance was also re-broadcast later that year on a documentary about Delius

(Also shown November 25, 1980 as part of a programme about the composer Frederick Delius from the U.K. TV series The Russell Harty Show) This video, which was never included among Kate's commercial video packages, was made very quickly but after careful preparation (see Paddy Bush's reminiscences about the shoot in an issue of the Newsletter). The setting is a quiet, lazy English riverbank filled with reeds and grass. By the bank is a wheelchair-ridden old man, his body covered by a throw-rug, his head obscured by a large yellow disk resembling a sun. This figure presents an image of Delius much like the one which was depicted in a BBC television film about Delius's late years which was directed by Ken Russell in the early 1970s and which had greatly impressed Kate as a child. Gliding along on the river is a young swan-girl, represented by Kate in a gossamer white gown with wings. The imagery for this performance might nearly as well have served to illustrate Kate's cover version of Donovan's Lord of the Reedy River, as well, so compatible is the imagery. (No video was ever made for the Donovan song.) Also note the re-use of the sun-mask in a scene from the Breathing video.
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