At a concert of Prince in the Earls Court he gave Kate Bush a
sign of admiring her work; that was the cause for a collaboration.
After permanent contacts and his approval to work in one track they
send an analog tape to Paisley Park. Bush tried to reach him on
telephone. She was told by assistants that "he works on it". Then,
a month later, several tapes came back from Paisley Park.

"He took a four measure part of a chorus of one of Kate's songs,
made a loop out of it and just slammed 48 tracks with everything
possible: guitars, keyboards, drums, voices ... I sat there and
thought: Wow, that's great, but what the hell should we do with
that? I created a mix and gave it to Kate, and she puzzled months
on it. We came back to this part again and again and with a lot
of work she made this song to what it once was. It was simply crazy,
all this stuff on a four measure loop; there was no relation, no
sense. Completely according to the motto: here it is, take what you
need. It sounded this way because she only told him: 'I want that
you sing a bit here and a bit there.' He did do this, but over the
loop that he created. So we had the wanted vocals, but not at the
right position. We had to puzzle around with the voice parts and
insert them were we wanted them; the same thing with the solo
guitar. We also had to reconstruct the verses, so that they again
matched to the lyrics. Then we exchanged the original drums with
new, more adequate ones, because it became more of an up tempo
song. Goal of the whole procedure was to again make a Kate Bush
piece out of it. And even though it honestly didn't work in many
areas as we hoped it would it still is a very interesting mishmash
song."

woj

don;t leave me hangin'. tell me the name of the damned song. U know i got 2 hear it

immortally beloved,
james aaron

This is an English translation of an interview from 1994 with Del Palmer from a German magazine. This section specifically covered the recording of 'Why Should I Love You?' on 'The Red Shoes'.

http://gaffa.org/reaching/i94_fme.html

The story was also recounted in an interview with Michael Koppelman in Uptown magazine, issue #45, and also in a message board exchange:

http://gaffa.org/moments/2_2j.html

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thank u, langebleu i am ordering it 2day, and should have it next week.

I Love Rhonda Joy,
James Aaron