Asked to name her favourite places in London on the TV show Rough Guide, Bush responded: “I’m not going to tell you because I wanna be there with as few people as possible.” Larkin, Colin (1998). "Bush, Kate". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (3rded.). Omnibus Press. pp.850–51. ISBN 0-333-74134-X.

a b Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.Alan Murphy – electric guitar (1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 11); electric guitar solo (7); acoustic guitar (4, 10); bass (10) Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Hounds of Love: Released on 16 September 1985 by EMI Records, “Hounds of Love” stands as the fifth studio album from acclaimed English musician Kate Bush. Following a quieter period after her previous album “The Dreaming” in 1982, this album marked her triumphant resurgence. The lead single, “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God),” swiftly climbed to UK’s number 3 spot, later achieving a second number 1 in June 2022. The album’s first side spawned additional hits with “Cloudbusting,”“Hounds of Love,” and “The Big Sky.” The album’s second side, titled The Ninth Wave, intricately weaves a conceptual tale of a woman adrift at sea. Garnering both immediate and lasting acclaim, “Hounds of Love” is often hailed as Bush’s pinnacle work, securing its place among the greatest albums ever. In point of fact, it is possible to tell the difference between a small nuclear explosion and a large one by a very simple method Last year, an offhand remark by Coachella festival in the New Yorker led to a story that Bush had offered to play the event but been “snubbed”. Both Bush and Coachella denied the claims.

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The first the world got to hear of this new Abbey Road material was the astonishing single Breathing, released on April 14, 1980. Its subject matter – an unborn child inhaling radiation after a nuclear explosion – was controversial. This was a clear line in the sand, “From my own viewpoint that’s the best thing I’ve ever written,” Bush told ZigZag that September. “I call that my little symphony, because I think every writer, whether they admit it or not, loves the idea of writing their own symphony.” The opening of Hounds of Love – “It’s in the trees! It’s coming!” – is a sample of a line from the 1957 British horror film Night of the Demon.

Kate Bush once duetted with Rowan Atkinson, playing a lounge bar crooner character, on a song called Do Bears … for Comic Relief. “He’s an utter creep and he drives me around the bend,” sang Bush. “To alleviate the boredom I sleep with his friends.” And, by the end of The Tour Of Life, it would have been very possible for her to be seduced by these trappings. In the UK and Europe, Kate Bush was now famous: James Bond theme famous. She had been approached by Eon Productions to sing the theme to the fourth Roger Moore Bond vehicle, Moonraker. She was third in line to sing it – Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis both turning it down. Reports vary as to exactly why she declined – too busy, too exhausted after her tour or whether the song really suited her, but she was asked: that very fact alone showed how far and how fast she had travelled, considering she hadbeen playing in pubs in south London less than 24 months earlier, and Wuthering Heights, her first record, was only released in January 1978. Exotic instrumentation used on Bush’s albums: the lirone, tupan, boobams, kabosy, singing bowls, strumento de porco. Matrix / Runout (Runout, B-side, stamped, etched Do & spectacles, variant 2): EMA 794 B-3 Do [Spectacles logo] Caulfield, Keith (22 November 2005). "Ask Billboard: Bush League". Billboard. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019 . Retrieved 26 June 2019.Complete UK Year-End Album Charts". Archived from the original on 11 January 2012 . Retrieved 12 September 2011.