Kate Bush
No 1 Singles This Day In 1968 – 1972 – 1978
Top singles from the past…
11 March 2021
Artist: Otis Redding
September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967
Song: (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay
No 1: on the US Soul Charts this day in 1968 – 53 years ago
Otis Redding: Discography
Artist: Harry Nilsson
June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994
Song: Without You
No 1: in the UK this day in 1972 – 49 years ago
Harry Nilsson: Discography
Artist: Kate Bush
Song: Wuthering Heights. – debut single
No 1: in the UK this day in 1978 – 43 years ago
Kate Bush: Discography
KATE BUSH Released Double Album ‘AERIAL’ 15 Years Ago Today
7 November 2020
Artist: KATE BUSH
Album: AERIAL – 8th LP
Released: 7 November 2005 – 15 years ago
The Guardian: “Aerial sounds like an album made in isolation. On the down side, that means some of it seems dated. You can’t help feeling she might have thought twice about the lumpy funk of Joanni and the preponderance of fretless bass if she got out a bit more. But, on the plus side, it also means Aerial is literally incomparable… Daring to walk the line between the sublime and the demented is the point of Kate Bush’s entire oeuvre. On Aerial she achieves far, far more of the former than the latter.” Full review here. Score: 5/5.
Kate Bush: “Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: ‘Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'”
Full album…
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KATE BUSH: Facebook
‘Babooshka’ By KATE BUSH – Released 40 Years Ago
Top singles from the past…
1 July 2020
Artist: Kate Bush
Single: Babooshka
B-side: Run The Waltz
Released: 27 June 1980 – 40 years ago
Score: #5 on the UK Singles Chart
Album: Never For Ever – her third LP
Original clip…
KATE BUSH: Facebook
‘HOUNDS OF LOVE’ By FUTUREHEADS – Released 15 Years Ago Today…
21 February 2020
Band: The Futureheads (2000–2013, 2018–present)
Single: Hounds Of Love
B-side: Man Made
Released: 21 February 2005 – 15 years ago today
Album: Self-titled debut LP – released in 2004
Note 1: The song is a cover of Kate Bush’s title track
from her third album – released in 1985 – a song about
being afraid to fall in love, in the song this feeling is
compared to being chased by a pack of hounds
Note 2:When performing the song live the band
sometimes divided up the audience in two halves to sing
the a capella parts of the track which usually brought the
public into a state of euphoria (I experienced it myself once)
Score: The single peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart
and was NME’s track of the year
Here we go… Oh Oh Oh
Sing along live version (Glastonbury 2005)…
Kate Bush‘s original version…
THE FUTUREHEADS: Facebook
KATE BUSH Released Her Sixth Album ‘THE SENSUAL WORLD’ 30 Years Ago…
16 October 2019
30 years ago today, on 16 October 1989, legendary singer/songwriter and innovative performer KATE BUSH released her sixth, triumphant album ‘THE SENSUAL WORLD‘.
The ever eccentric and noise-exploring Bush sings about falling in love with a computer, dressing up as a firework, and dancing with a dictator and the intriguing music translated
her wayward views bizarrely fitting, yet accessible. Never a dull moment with Kate Bush!
AllMusic wrote: “An enchanting songstress, Kate Bush reflects the most heavenly views of love on the aptly titled The Sensual World. The follow-up to Hounds of Love features Bush unafraid to be a temptress, vocally and lyrically. She’s a romantic, frolicking over lust and love, but also a lover of life and its spirituality… She possesses maternal warmth that’s surely inviting, and it’s something that’s made her one of the most prolific female singer/songwriters to emerge during the 1980s. She’s never belonged to a core scene. Bush’s intelligence, both as an artist and as a woman, undoubtedly casts her in a league of her own.” Full review here. Score: 4.5/5
The singles/clips…
– THE SENSUAL WORLD –
– THIS WOMAN’S WORK –
– LOVE AND ANGER –
Album in full…
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KATE BUSH: Facebook
40 Years Ago KATE BUSH Scored A Number One Hit In The UK With Debut Single ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’…
Timeless in sound and vision…
11 March 2018
Iconic singer/songwriter and fascinating performer KATE BUSH hit the top spot with
debut single WUTHERING HEIGHTS on the UK singles chart on 11 March 1978 – 40 years ago today – and stayed there for four weeks. Bush was inspired by the novel of the same name and wrote, at the age of 18, the idiosyncratic and spectacular song after watching the last ten minutes of a BBC mini-series based on Wuthering Heights. Legend goes that when Bush discovered that she shared the same birthday with writer Emily Brontë (30 July) she decided to write a song about the book within the space of just a few hours. Here’s that prodigious pearl, here’s that breathtaking voice, here’s that classic…
KATE BUSH: Website – Facebook – You Tube
WUTHERING HEIGHTS was on her debut LP THE KICK INSIDE
KATE BUSH Released Her Phenomenal Debut Album ‘THE KICK INSIDE’ Forty Years Ago…
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
15 February 2018
Artist: KATE BUSH
Album: THE KICK INSIDE – debut LP
Released: 17 February 1978 – 40 years ago
BBC Music wrote (in 2008) : “The tale’s been oft-told, but bears repeating: Discovered by a mutual friend of the Bush family as well as Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Bush was signed on Gilmour’s advice to EMI at 16. Given a large advance and three years, ‘The Kick Inside’ was
her extraordinary debut. To this day nothing sounds like it. Using mainly session musicians,
‘The Kick Inside’ was the result of a record company actually allowing a young talent to blossom. Some of these songs were written when she was 13! Helmed by Gilmour’s friend, Andrew Powell, it’s a lush blend of piano grandiosity, vaguely uncomfortable reggae and intricate, intelligent, wonderful songs. All delivered in a voice that had no precedents. Even so, EMI wanted the dullest, most conventional track, James And The Cold Gun as the lead single, but Kate was no push over. At 19 she knew that the startling whoops and Bronte-influenced narrative of Wuthering Heights would be her make or break moment. Luckily she was allowed her head.
TURN UP THE VOLUME says: “I still remember being completely struck dumb when I
first heard this album (some years after its release, actually). That otherworldly voice. Those peculiar song structures. Those daring, mature and outspoken stories. It took
some time to fully understand the genius of this young, experimental pop phenomenon. Special then, still special now. Oh yeah, after a couple of spins yesterday and today this magnum opus sounds as spectacular and compelling as back then. Well, this is what outstanding artists are all about…
Three highlights: Wuthering Heights / Strange Phenomena / The Man With The Child In Eyes…
* WUTHERING HEIGHTS – unavoidable and imperishable…
* STRANGE PHENOMENA – angelic and mysterious…
* THE MAN WITH THE CHILD IN HIS EYES – a beauty of a different kind…
The kick in full…
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KATE BUSH: Website – Facebook – Discography
