This was the encore from her 1979 tour.  She managed that vocal performance at the END of a 2 hour concert!  It's simply amazing.  This was the first use of a wireless headset mic during a concert.  It was designed specifically for this tour so she could dance as she sang.  She was a trailblazer in so many ways.  In my opinion, she could never be appreciated enough.

She is a genius. That's it. Probably one of the greatest artists of the last 50 years.

Kate was a teenager when she composed this masterpiece.

Kate Bush is the definition of artist. As a vocalist, lyricist and performance artist. Transcendent and brilliant.

Kate wrote, "The Man with the Child in his Eyes" at age 13. That's just incredible.

I went to one of the Palladium shows in Kate Bush's 1979 tour with my mother and sisters. I was only 13 and more into punk at the time and only went along because my mother didn't trust leaving me in the house alone. I remember being absolutely stunned by Kate's performance, not just by her vocals but the atmosphere and emotion she created with each song that seemed to pull you in. As we were walking out I asked my mother if we could see her again. We couldn't - the next show was in another city and besides the tickets had all sold out weeks before. It remains the only time I have seen Kate Bush live but 46 years later I can still feel that atmosphere and emotion like it was just yesterday.

Kate Bush was the first performer to use a wireless microphone for a musical performance. She basically invented the wireless headset herself. For her 'Tour of Life' tour in 1979 she had a compact microphone combined with a self-made construction of wire clothes hangers, to free her hands for her expressionist dance performances.

Anybody else tear up when she sings: “Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold”?
It gets to me EVERY single time since I first heard it in ‘78 ❤🥹

I'm now 74, and I still recall how amazed I was to hear Kate performing a song based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. I mean, who does that?  She was magnetic,  captivating in a way I'm still hard pressed to adequately describe. I became a lifelong fan. Kate has no equal.

I remember when this lady first appeared with this voice in the UK. Nobody had heard anything like it before.  We were all stunned but at the same time massively impressed.
Kate Bush was a one off.

this is her after 2 hours of singing..    the headset was made by a roadie using a coat hanger so that she could dance without having to hold a mic..    pretty incredible all round..    oh, and i was at the manchester show on this tour.. !

The English have a term for people like Kate Bush…
National Treasure…
And Kate is in the pantheon…

I love how she's basically singing the song in the character of the ghost of Cathy.

When this came out the song just mesmerized me. I actually wrote her twice through her record company and lo and behold she responded and wrote me  back from England! I have both these letters framed today. 🎉

Thank Dave Gilmour for Kate Bush. He discovered her, and put her on the map. Her monumental talent took it from there of course, and she became a legend.

When Kate goes in she goes all in.  That's Cathy on stage.

Kate Bush was and still is an innovative genius who stood alone. Arguably the best and most unique female artist to have blessed this planet. A timeless gem.

This song needs to be performed as much as sung. Which is exactly what Kate did. She is so good.

She is the definition of unique. Nobody sounded like her, wrote songs like her or sung like her. A true artist that creates their own music too. This authenticity is what makes her resonate. She isn't a manufactured record company cookie cutter product.

When you said "like she was playing a role" you nailed it. She was playing a role. She once once explained that she was the ghost of Kathleen with the high thin voice to define the character. Brilliant, and truly an artist.