5.8. The Red Shoes (Kate Bush Music)
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This article is from the Gaffa - Love-Hounds - Kate Bush FAQ, by Ulrich Grepel uli@zoodle.robin.de with numerous contributions by others.
5.8. The Red Shoes (Kate Bush Music)
Moments of Pleasure
This song is Kate's tribute of several of her friends who've
passed away. Murph is Alan Murphy, her guitarist who died in
1993(?) of AIDS. Bill is Bill Duffield, the lighting technician
for The Tour of Life, who died in an accident while setting up
for the tour. "Teddy" is the late John Barratt, assistant engineer at
Abbey Road Studios during the recording sessions for "Never for Ever".
Bubba is for Gary Hurst (dancer in '79 tour), Maureen is Kate's
aunt [YS, WW]. No one (except Kate, as far as I know - [SB]) knows who
anyone else is in this song, especially "George the Wipe". The verse
about the "balcony in New York" refers to her meeting of Michael
Powell, director of the film "The Red Shoes".
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