Post by tannis on Aug 29, 2008 22:27:06 GMT
AUBREY BEARDSLEY: The Face of a Genius...
You and me on the bobbing knee--
Welling eyes from identifying with Lizzy Wan's story.
I will come home again, but not until
The sun and the moon meet on yon hill.
~ The Kick Inside" Brother (demo version)
gaffa.org/phoenix/d_lyric2.html
Kate's original lyrics in the demo version of The Kick Inside included the line "Welling eyes from identifying with Lizzie Wan's story" making it clear that her own story refers to a modern pair of siblings who face a similar crisis.
Kate Bush: "The song 'The Kick Inside', the title track, was inspired by a traditional folk song and it was an area that I wanted to explore because it's one that is really untouched and that is one of incest. There are so many songs about love, but they are always on such an obvious level. This songs is about a brother and a sister who are in love and the sister becomes pregnant by her brother. And because it is so taboo and unheard of, she kills herself in order to preserve her brother's name in the family. The actual song is in fact the suicide note. The sister is saying 'I'm doing it for you' and 'don't worry, I'll come back to you someday.' this is it."
"Self Portrait", The Kick Inside promo LP/cassette Interview (1978)
gaffa.org/reaching/im78_tki.html
John Carder Bush: "The Pre-Raphaelites and the turn of the century book illustrators were an obsession for me long before the fashion machine born in the sixties plastered Beardley all over Europe, the Brotherhood into every home."
home.att.net/~james51453/preface.htm
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898) was an influential English illustrator, and author, today best known for his erotic illustrations. Beardsley’s drawings also featured in Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. Beardsley was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica, which were the main themes of his later work. His most famous erotic illustrations were on themes of history and mythology, including his illustrations for Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Wilde's Salomé. Speculation about his sexuality include rumors of an incestuous relationship with his elder sister, Mabel, who may have become pregnant by her brother and miscarried. Aubrey Beardsley died from tuberculosis at the age of 25 on March 16, 1898. Mabel Beardsley died in 1916. WB Yeats celebrates her courage during a long battle with terminal cancer in his sequence of poems 'Upon a Dying Lady'.
So maybe the speculation about Beardsley's sexuality gave KT the inspiration for The Kick Inside? ...
You and me on the bobbing knee--
Welling eyes from identifying with Lizzy Wan's story.
I will come home again, but not until
The sun and the moon meet on yon hill.
~ The Kick Inside" Brother (demo version)
gaffa.org/phoenix/d_lyric2.html
Kate's original lyrics in the demo version of The Kick Inside included the line "Welling eyes from identifying with Lizzie Wan's story" making it clear that her own story refers to a modern pair of siblings who face a similar crisis.
Kate Bush: "The song 'The Kick Inside', the title track, was inspired by a traditional folk song and it was an area that I wanted to explore because it's one that is really untouched and that is one of incest. There are so many songs about love, but they are always on such an obvious level. This songs is about a brother and a sister who are in love and the sister becomes pregnant by her brother. And because it is so taboo and unheard of, she kills herself in order to preserve her brother's name in the family. The actual song is in fact the suicide note. The sister is saying 'I'm doing it for you' and 'don't worry, I'll come back to you someday.' this is it."
"Self Portrait", The Kick Inside promo LP/cassette Interview (1978)
gaffa.org/reaching/im78_tki.html
John Carder Bush: "The Pre-Raphaelites and the turn of the century book illustrators were an obsession for me long before the fashion machine born in the sixties plastered Beardley all over Europe, the Brotherhood into every home."
home.att.net/~james51453/preface.htm
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898) was an influential English illustrator, and author, today best known for his erotic illustrations. Beardsley’s drawings also featured in Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. Beardsley was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica, which were the main themes of his later work. His most famous erotic illustrations were on themes of history and mythology, including his illustrations for Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Wilde's Salomé. Speculation about his sexuality include rumors of an incestuous relationship with his elder sister, Mabel, who may have become pregnant by her brother and miscarried. Aubrey Beardsley died from tuberculosis at the age of 25 on March 16, 1898. Mabel Beardsley died in 1916. WB Yeats celebrates her courage during a long battle with terminal cancer in his sequence of poems 'Upon a Dying Lady'.
So maybe the speculation about Beardsley's sexuality gave KT the inspiration for The Kick Inside? ...