The new Kate Bush video King Of The Mountain was premiered on Channel 4 last night. Her first work for twelve years, the song and video (from the album Ariel due to be released on 7th November) will be reviewed on Newsnight next Friday. The video is very atmospheric and enigmatic, and includes sequences in colour and black and white. Among the closing images is the snow-sprinkled word "Rosebud" taken from the film Citizen Kane (my photo from the television). Citizen Kane is a cinematic work beyond superlatives, directed by Orson Welles and satirising (but also commemorating) the life of William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was a newspaper tycoon and megalomaniac (bad though he was, he had more morality than Rupert Murdoch).
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