KATE BUSH . There Goes A Tenner From her fourth album The Dreaming. Released as a single on 2 November 1982. Kate Bush – vocals, keyboards Dave Lawson – keyboards Del Palmer – bass Stuart Elliott – drums Written and produced by Kate Bush. There Goes a Tenner is often considered to be something of a lost single, because it gained no interest from any radio stations or music television programmes (despite a music video being made). Due to the lack of media interest, the single did not sell well and became the only record by Kate not to chart in the UK. It was originally intended to be her first 12 inch single, but plans to release a 12 were cancelled. Its about amateur robbers who have only done small things, and this is quite a big robbery that theyve been planning for months, and when it actually starts happening, they start freaking out. Theyre really scared, and theyre so aware of the fact that something could go wrong that theyre paranoid and want to go home. - Kate Towards the end of the song, the lyrics and tone take on a dream-like state, which is reflected in the video. A review in Record Mirror commented that despite the comic tone of the song, the end left a rather unnerving effect. Bush sang it in what has been described as a curious accent that seemed to veer from an aristocrat to an East End villain. from Keyboard magazine (1985): That was written on the piano. I had an idea for the tune and just knocked out the chords for the first verse. The words and everything just came together. It was quite a struggle from there on to try to keep things together. The lyrics are quite difficult on that one, because there are a lot of words in quite a short space of time. They had to be phrased right and everything. That was very difficult. Actually the writing went hand-in-hand with the CS-80. Its easy to hear how the piano was used for the verses, but what about the choruses? Those sections are very uncharacteristic of what youd expect to be written on a piano? That was really the difficult structure of the song. I could hear what I wanted, but until we put the Synclavier in there - which was played by Dave Lawson - I couldnt get the full picture. I really like what we did in that. https://youtube/watch?v=lxVcrFTzZMs
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