This song is, for me, simply spellbinding and manages to cover me in goose bumps every time I hear it.” - Heather Findlay
“Her complete approach is both incredibly pure and feminine, yet overwhelmingly powerful all at once. You may think that you’ve heard it too often, but then it surprises you all over again.” - Mark Fergusson, via email 1) The Ninth Wave (B-side suite, Hounds Of Love, 1985) “Magnificent and involving, and it had a great video too.” - Daria Bianchini, via email 2) Wuthering Heights (from The Kick Inside, 1978) “Simply a great track from a great album.” - Peter Hammill, VdGG 3) Cloudbusting (from Hounds Of Love, 1985) “Most emotional, strong feminist song (‘ You will NOT rape me!’) I’ve ever heard.” - TaoManThree Progressive Ears 4) Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (from Hounds Of Love, 1985) “The bond she has with her father moves me to tears.” - Laura Dent, via emailĥ) Get Out Of My House (from The Dreaming, 1982) Very proggy.” - Bill Graham, via email 11) The Fog (from The Sensual World, 1989) “Love those minor chords, and extra beats. Melodies, fragmented sounds, a capella, impressionistic portrayals, hits, rhythms and innovation.” - Sonja Kristina, Curved Air 12) There Goes A Tenner (from The Dreaming, 1982) “The culmination of all her talents welded into a masterpiece. but still failed to make much of an impression in the States, and considering the time slot Kate. 1978's Lionheart achieved a higher spot in the U.K. A virtuoso display.” - Peter Thorley, via email 13) Hounds Of Love (from Hounds Of Love, 1985) Kate Bush Lionheart (1978) Immediately after the release of The Kick Inside, Kate Bush was rapidly becoming the new hot pop artist in her own country and the record label pushed for new material in order to solidify this potential status. “A bizarre meshing of sounds and styles that only Kate has the gusto to pull off. The lyrics are also very interesting, and who can forget the video?” - Wilton Said Progressive Ears 14) Sat In Your Lap (from The Dreaming, 1982) Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel: Why I Love Kate Bushġ5) Babooshka (from Never For Ever, 1980).
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It’s FREE TO JOIN, and we’ll email the magazine direct to you when published.20) In Search Of Peter Pan (from Lionheart, 1978) If you’d like to receive a FREE personal copy of each issue, simply SIGN UP at. You can read a sample edition of the magazine here (best viewed in full-screen mode). We’ll soon be launching Sh-Boom! as a digital magazine. In 1978, at the age of 19, she topped the UK Singles chart for four weeks with her debut single ‘Wuthering Heights’ – becoming the first woman to have a UK Number One with a self-written song.Īfter her 1979 tour – the only concert tour of her career – she released the 1980 album Never for Ever which made her the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts … and the first female artist ever to enter the UK album chart at Number One. Kate Bush was signed by EMI Records as a sixteen-year-old after being recommended by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour. The albums are now expected to be re-issued later this year. She recently won back control of four albums – The Dreaming, Hounds of Love, The Sensual World and The Red Shoes – which EMI originally released between 19. She has not sung in public since the birth of her son, Albert, in 1998. The last new song released by the ‘Wuthering Heights’ star was ‘Lyra’, written for the soundtrack of the 2007 fantasy-adventure film The Golden Compass. “There’s nothing ready until Kate says it’s ready. However, a spokesman for the singer insisted that no album plans have been finalised. More than five years after her eighth studio album, Aerial, Kate Bush, 52, has confirmed she is currently working on a collection of new songs which may form the basis of a new album to be released by the end of the year.