Song · Kate Bush
“The Man With The Child In His Eyes” by Kate Bush
From the album The Kick Inside (1978)
“The Man With The Child In His Eyes” by Kate Bush appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1991 and 2022. It was first released in 1978 on the album The Kick Inside. Its best result is #61 on the 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,419 alternative song of all time.
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Kate Bush was 13 when she wrote "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" and 16 when she recorded it, yet it sounds like the confession of somebody far older. It sits on The Kick Inside, her 1978 debut, and as her second single that May it climbed to number six in Britain and hung around the chart for 11 weeks.
The session dates back to June 1975 at AIR Studios in London, with David Gilmour watching over it as executive producer and Andrew Powell producing and arranging. Bush plays piano and sings lead and her own backing vocals, and she has admitted that facing a large orchestra at that age scared her. The song is about the boy who lives on inside grown men, and how that lets this one meet a young girl on her own level. It won an Ivor Novello Award in 1979.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 538 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
| 2005 | 351 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 500 |
| 2006 | 464 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) | 500 |
| 2022 | 61 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s | 908 |
Also listed as: Man With the Child in His Eyes; The Man with the Child in His Eyes.
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