Bush directed and starred in the short film The Line, the Cross and the Curve, which featured music from her album The Red Shoes, itself inspired by the 1948 film of that name.
"Breathing" explores the results of nuclear fallout from the perspective of a fœtus. Other non-musical sources of inspiration for Bush include horror films, which have influenced the gothic nature of her songs, such as "Hounds of Love", which samples the 1957 horror movie Night of the Demon.
Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer.
Because of her need to dance as she sang, sound engineers used a wire coat hanger and a radio microphone to fashion a headset microphone; it was the first used by a rock performer since the Spotnicks used a rudimentary version in the early 1960s. ===1980–1984: Never for Ever and The Dreaming=== Released in September 1980, Never for Ever saw Bush's second foray into production, co-producing with Jon Kelly.
Her songs have occasionally combined comedy and horror to form dark humour, such as murder by poisoning in "Coffee Homeground", an alcoholic mother in "Ran Tan Waltz" and the upbeat "The Wedding List", a song inspired by François Truffaut's 1967 film of Cornell Woolrich's The Bride Wore Black about the murder of a groom and the bride's subsequent revenge against the killer.
She has been compared with other "'arty' 1970s and '80s British pop rock artists" such as Roxy Music and Peter Gabriel.
Bush declined a request by Erasure to produce one of their albums because, according to Vince Clarke, "she didn't feel that that was her area". ==Personal life== Bush was in a long-term relationship with bassist and engineer Del Palmer from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
In 1991, Kate Bush was invited to perform a cover of Elton John's 1972 song "Rocket Man" for the tribute album Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin.
She soon began composing songs, eventually adding her own lyrics. ===1975–1977: Career beginnings=== Bush attended St Joseph's Convent Grammar School, a Catholic girls' school in nearby Abbey Wood which, in 1975, after she had left, became part of St Mary's and St Joseph's School in Sidcup.
It includes the previously unreleased track Humming, recorded in 1975.
From March to August 1977, she fronted the KT Bush Band at public houses in London.
She began recording her first album in August 1977. ===1978–1979: The Kick Inside and Lionheart=== For her debut album, The Kick Inside (1978), Bush was persuaded to use established session musicians instead of the KT Bush Band.
The only artists ahead of Bush were Elvis Presley, who had 12 entries in the top 40 after his death in 1977 and The Beatles who had 11 in 2009.
In 1978, aged 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song.
Her debut album, The Kick Inside, was released in 1978.
It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist in a female body." In late 1978, EMI persuaded Bush to quickly record a follow-up album, Lionheart, to take advantage of the success of The Kick Inside.
The song reached number-eight in 2005 on the UK download chart after featuring in a British television advertisement for the charity NSPCC. In 1990, the boxed set This Woman's Work was released; it included all of her albums with their original cover art, as well as two discs of all her singles' B-sides recorded from 1978 to 1990.
Bush drew attention again in 2014 with her concert residency Before the Dawn, her first shows since 1979's The Tour of Life. Bush's eclectic and experimental musical style, unconventional lyrics, and literary themes have influenced a diverse range of artists.
"The Man with the Child in His Eyes" made it onto the American Billboard Hot 100 where it reached number 85 in early 1979, and went on to win her an Ivor Novello Award in 1979 for Outstanding British Lyric.
The Tour of Life began in April 1979 and lasted six weeks.
The result polarised her fan base, who had enjoyed the intricacy of her earlier compositions, with other fans claiming they had found new complexities in the lyrics and the emotions they expressed. During this period, Bush had suffered a series of bereavements, including the loss of guitarist Alan Murphy, who had started working with her on The Tour of Life in 1979, and her mother Hannah, to whom she was exceptionally close.
For her Tour of Life in 1979 she had a compact microphone combined with a self-made construction of wire clothes hangers, so that she did not have to use a hand microphone and had her hands free and could dance her rehearsed choreography of expressionist dance on the concert stage and sing with a microphone at the same time.
For the recurring The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever event, thousands of people gather worldwide to recreate her dance routine from the "Wuthering Heights" music video. ==Live performances== Bush's only tour, the Tour of Life, ran for six weeks in May 1979, covering Britain and mainland Europe.
On 28 December 1979, BBC TV aired the Kate Bush Christmas Special.
Gabriel appeared on Bush's 1979 television special, where they sang a duet of Roy Harper's "Another Day".
She has sung on two Roy Harper tracks, "You", on his 1979 album, "The Unknown Soldier"; and "Once", the title track of his 1990 album.
Her nephew, Raven Bush, is violinist in the English indie band Syd Arthur. === Political views === During the 1979 United Kingdom general election campaign, Bush, who at the time was on a live concert tour of the UK, posed for a photograph alongside the Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan. In the Comic Strip Presents episode The Carnage Continues..., she produced and sang on the theme song "Ken".
Because of her need to dance as she sang, sound engineers used a wire coat hanger and a radio microphone to fashion a headset microphone; it was the first used by a rock performer since the Spotnicks used a rudimentary version in the early 1960s. ===1980–1984: Never for Ever and The Dreaming=== Released in September 1980, Never for Ever saw Bush's second foray into production, co-producing with Jon Kelly.
The range of styles on Never for Ever is much more diverse, veering from the straightforward rocker "Violin" to the wistful waltz of hit single "Army Dreamers". Never for Ever was her first album to feature synthesisers and drum machines, in particular the Fairlight CMI, to which she was introduced when providing backing vocals on Peter Gabriel's eponymous third album in early 1980.
In November 1980, she released the standalone Christmas single "December Will Be Magic Again", which reached number 29 in the UK charts. September 1982 saw the release of The Dreaming, the first album Bush produced by herself.
In an interview with NME in 1982, Bush criticised the choice: "People weren't even generally aware that I wrote my own songs or played the piano.
In November 1980, she released the standalone Christmas single "December Will Be Magic Again", which reached number 29 in the UK charts. September 1982 saw the release of The Dreaming, the first album Bush produced by herself.
Bush participated in the first benefit concert in aid of The Prince's Trust in July 1982, at which she sang "The Wedding List" with a backing band composed by Pete Townshend, Phil Collins, Midge Ure, Mick Karn, Gary Brooker, Dave Formula and Peter Hope Evans.
"Houdini" is about the magician's death, and "Get Out of My House" was inspired by Stephen King's novel The Shining. ===1985–1988: Hounds of Love and The Whole Story=== Hounds of Love was released in 1985.
"Running Up that Hill" reached number three in the UK charts and re-introduced Bush to American listeners, climbing to number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1985.
Instead, a new remix of her 1985 single "Running Up That Hill" was played.
The second side of the album, The Ninth Wave, takes its name from Tennyson's poem, "Idylls of the King", about the legendary King Arthur's reign, and is seven interconnecting songs joined in one continuous piece of music. The album earned Bush nominations for Best Female Solo Artist, Best Album, Best Single, and Best Producer at the 1986 BRIT Awards.
She performed live for British charity event Comic Relief in 1986, singing "Do Bears...
She has also sung on the title song of the 1986 Big Country album The Seer; the Midge Ure song "Sister and Brother" from his 1988 album Answers to Nothing; Go West's 1987 single "The King Is Dead"; and two songs with Prince – "Why Should I Love You?", from her 1993 album The Red Shoes, and "My Computer" from Prince's 1996 album Emancipation.
She has been nominated for 13 British Phonographic Industry accolades, winning for Best British Female Artist in 1987, and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards.
However, in a 1987 interview, Gilmour disputed this version of events, blaming EMI for initially using the "wrong" producers. After the contract signing, EMI gave her a large advance, which she used to enroll in interpretive dance classes taught by Lindsay Kemp, a former teacher of David Bowie, and mime training with Adam Darius.
At the 1987 BRIT Awards, Bush won the award for Best Female Solo Artist. ===1989–1993: The Sensual World and The Red Shoes=== Released in 1989, The Sensual World was described by Bush herself as "her most honest, personal album".
In March 1987, Bush sang "Running Up That Hill" at The Secret Policeman's Third Ball accompanied by David Gilmour.
She has also sung on the title song of the 1986 Big Country album The Seer; the Midge Ure song "Sister and Brother" from his 1988 album Answers to Nothing; Go West's 1987 single "The King Is Dead"; and two songs with Prince – "Why Should I Love You?", from her 1993 album The Red Shoes, and "My Computer" from Prince's 1996 album Emancipation.
In 1987, she sang a verse on the Beatles cover charity single "Let It Be" by Ferry Aid.
She has also sung on the title song of the 1986 Big Country album The Seer; the Midge Ure song "Sister and Brother" from his 1988 album Answers to Nothing; Go West's 1987 single "The King Is Dead"; and two songs with Prince – "Why Should I Love You?", from her 1993 album The Red Shoes, and "My Computer" from Prince's 1996 album Emancipation.
At the 1987 BRIT Awards, Bush won the award for Best Female Solo Artist. ===1989–1993: The Sensual World and The Red Shoes=== Released in 1989, The Sensual World was described by Bush herself as "her most honest, personal album".
In December 1989, Robert Smith of The Cure chose "The Sensual World" as his favourite single of the year, The Sensual World as his favourite album of the year and included "all of Kate Bush" plus other artists in his list, "the best things about the eighties". Kele Okereke of Bloc Party said about "Hounds of Love": "The first time I heard it I was sitting in a reclining sofa.
She sang a line on the charity single "Spirit of the Forest" by Spirit of the Forest in 1989. In 1990 Bush produced a song for another artist, Alan Stivell's "Kimiad" for his album Again; this is the only time she has done this to date.
The song reached number-eight in 2005 on the UK download chart after featuring in a British television advertisement for the charity NSPCC. In 1990, the boxed set This Woman's Work was released; it included all of her albums with their original cover art, as well as two discs of all her singles' B-sides recorded from 1978 to 1990.
She has sung on two Roy Harper tracks, "You", on his 1979 album, "The Unknown Soldier"; and "Once", the title track of his 1990 album.
She sang a line on the charity single "Spirit of the Forest" by Spirit of the Forest in 1989. In 1990 Bush produced a song for another artist, Alan Stivell's "Kimiad" for his album Again; this is the only time she has done this to date.
Bush provided backing vocals for a song that was recorded during the 1990s titled Wouldn't Change a Thing by Lionel Azulay, the drummer with the original band that was later to become the KT Bush Band.
Bush declined a request by Erasure to produce one of their albums because, according to Vince Clarke, "she didn't feel that that was her area". ==Personal life== Bush was in a long-term relationship with bassist and engineer Del Palmer from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
In the 1990s she moved to a canalside residence in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, and then to Devon in 2004.
In 1991, Bush released a cover of Elton John's "Rocket Man", which reached number 12 in the UK singles chart, and reached number two in Australia.
Bush was one of the singers whom Prince thanked in the liner notes of 1991's Diamonds and Pearls.
In 1991, Kate Bush was invited to perform a cover of Elton John's 1972 song "Rocket Man" for the tribute album Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin.
In 1998, Bush gave birth to Albert, known as "Bertie", fathered by guitarist Dan McIntosh, whom she met in 1992.
In a 1993 interview with Q magazine, Bush stated: "That was my 'She's gone mad' album." However, the album became her first to enter the US Billboard 200 chart, albeit only reaching number 157.
Bush plays the bride Angela at a wedding set in a post-apocalyptic Britain. Bush's seventh studio album, The Red Shoes, was released in November 1993.
She has also sung on the title song of the 1986 Big Country album The Seer; the Midge Ure song "Sister and Brother" from his 1988 album Answers to Nothing; Go West's 1987 single "The King Is Dead"; and two songs with Prince – "Why Should I Love You?", from her 1993 album The Red Shoes, and "My Computer" from Prince's 1996 album Emancipation.
The album gave Bush her highest chart position in the US, reaching number 28, although the only song from the album to make the US singles chart was "Rubberband Girl", which peaked at number 88 in January 1994.
It was released on VHS in the UK in 1994 and also received a small number of cinema screenings around the world. The initial plan had been to tour with The Red Shoes release, but did not reach fruition.
In 1994, Bush covered George Gershwin's "The Man I Love" for the tribute album The Glory of Gershwin.
She has also sung on the title song of the 1986 Big Country album The Seer; the Midge Ure song "Sister and Brother" from his 1988 album Answers to Nothing; Go West's 1987 single "The King Is Dead"; and two songs with Prince – "Why Should I Love You?", from her 1993 album The Red Shoes, and "My Computer" from Prince's 1996 album Emancipation.
In 1996, Bush contributed a version of "Mná na hÉireann" (Irish for "Women of Ireland") for the Anglo-Irish folk-rock compilation project Common Ground: The Voices of Modern Irish Music.
In 1998, Bush gave birth to Albert, known as "Bertie", fathered by guitarist Dan McIntosh, whom she met in 1992.
In 1998 an asteroid was named after her. In 2019, Pone, ex Fonky Family member, releases Kate and me, an entire album created from samples of Kate Bush's work.
Raised a Roman Catholic, she said in 1999: The length of time between albums has led to rumours concerning Bush's health or appearance.
In 2001, Bush was awarded a Q Award as Classic Songwriter.
In 2002, Bush was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
In 2002, she was awarded an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and performed "Comfortably Numb" at David Gilmour's concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Kate Bush's eighth studio album, Aerial, was released on double CD and vinyl in November 2005.
She appeared with Gilmour again in 2002, singing the Pink Floyd song "Comfortably Numb" at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Bush returned to headline performance with a 22-night residency, Before the Dawn, which ran from 26 August to 1 October 2014 at the London Hammersmith Apollo.
In the 1990s she moved to a canalside residence in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, and then to Devon in 2004.
The song reached number-eight in 2005 on the UK download chart after featuring in a British television advertisement for the charity NSPCC. In 1990, the boxed set This Woman's Work was released; it included all of her albums with their original cover art, as well as two discs of all her singles' B-sides recorded from 1978 to 1990.
In 2002, she was awarded an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and performed "Comfortably Numb" at David Gilmour's concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Kate Bush's eighth studio album, Aerial, was released on double CD and vinyl in November 2005.
Aerial earned Bush two nominations at the 2006 BRIT Awards, for Best British Female Solo Artist and Best British Album. ===2007–2013: Director's Cut and 50 Words for Snow=== In 2007, Bush was asked to write a song for The Golden Compass soundtrack which made reference to the lead character, Lyra Belacqua.
In 2007, it was voted the greatest cover ever by readers of The Observer newspaper.
Aerial earned Bush two nominations at the 2006 BRIT Awards, for Best British Female Solo Artist and Best British Album. ===2007–2013: Director's Cut and 50 Words for Snow=== In 2007, Bush was asked to write a song for The Golden Compass soundtrack which made reference to the lead character, Lyra Belacqua.
The only artists ahead of Bush were Elvis Presley, who had 12 entries in the top 40 after his death in 1977 and The Beatles who had 11 in 2009.
According to Del Palmer, Bush was asked to compose the song on short notice and the project was completed in 10 days. In May 2011, Bush released the album Director's Cut, comprising 11 reworked tracks from The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, recorded using analogue rather than digital equipment.
It debuted at number two on the United Kingdom chart. Bush's next studio album, 50 Words for Snow, was released on 21 November 2011.
In 2011, Elton John collaborated with Bush once again in "Snowed in at Wheeler Street" for her most recent album 50 Words for Snow.
In 2011, she told BBC Radio 4 that the amount of time between albums was stressful: "It's very frustrating the albums take as long as they do ...
She was nominated for a BRIT Award in the "Best Female Artist" category, and the album won the 2012 Best Album at the South Bank Arts Awards, and was also nominated for Best Album at the Ivor Novello Awards. Bush turned down an invitation to perform at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.
Bush was appointed a CBE in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to music.
In 2013, Bush became the only female artist to have top five albums in the UK charts in five successive decades. ===2014–present: Before the Dawn, How to Be Invisible and remastered catalogue=== In March 2014, Bush announced her first live concerts in decades: Before the Dawn, a 22-night residency in London running from 26 August to 1 October 2014 at the Hammersmith Apollo.
Bush drew attention again in 2014 with her concert residency Before the Dawn, her first shows since 1979's The Tour of Life. Bush's eclectic and experimental musical style, unconventional lyrics, and literary themes have influenced a diverse range of artists.
In 2013, Bush became the only female artist to have top five albums in the UK charts in five successive decades. ===2014–present: Before the Dawn, How to Be Invisible and remastered catalogue=== In March 2014, Bush announced her first live concerts in decades: Before the Dawn, a 22-night residency in London running from 26 August to 1 October 2014 at the Hammersmith Apollo.
Vocals from Rolf Harris, who was convicted of multiple sexual assault charges in 2014, were replaced by versions by Bush's son Bertie.
In 2015, Adele stated that the release of her third studio album was inspired by Bush's 2014 comeback to the stage. In addition to those artists who state that Bush has been a direct influence on their own careers, other artists have been quoted expressing admiration for her work including Tori Amos, Annie Lennox, Björk, Florence Welch, Little Boots, Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, Dido, Sky Ferreira, St.
She appeared with Gilmour again in 2002, singing the Pink Floyd song "Comfortably Numb" at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Bush returned to headline performance with a 22-night residency, Before the Dawn, which ran from 26 August to 1 October 2014 at the London Hammersmith Apollo.
That's what makes a piece of art interesting sometimes – the bit that's wrong or the mistake you've made that's led onto an idea you wouldn't have had otherwise." She reiterated her prioritisation of her family life. Bush's son Bertie (Albert McIntosh), featured prominently in the 2014 concert Before the Dawn.
In 2015, Adele stated that the release of her third studio album was inspired by Bush's 2014 comeback to the stage. In addition to those artists who state that Bush has been a direct influence on their own careers, other artists have been quoted expressing admiration for her work including Tori Amos, Annie Lennox, Björk, Florence Welch, Little Boots, Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, Dido, Sky Ferreira, St.
An album of recordings from the concerts, Before the Dawn, was released on 25 November 2016.
The song is a satirical song about how Hollywood glamourises and fictionalises political figures, in this particular case Ken Livingstone, the former leader of the Greater London Council. In 2016, Canadian news magazine Maclean's published an interview in which Bush was asked about the role of misogyny in the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election.
She was nominated twice for induction in the 2018 and 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. == Life and career == ===1958–1974: Early life=== Bush was born in Bexleyheath, Kent, to an English doctor, general practitioner Robert Bush (1920–2008), and Hannah (1918–1992), née Daly, an Irish staff nurse, daughter of a farmer in County Waterford.
She had 11 albums in the top 50. On 6 December 2018, Bush published her first book, a compilation of lyrics entitled, How to Be Invisible. In October 2018, Bush announced two boxsets of remasters of her studio albums, released on 16 and 30 November.
The compilation of rare tracks, cover versions and remixes was released separately and titled The Other Sides on 8 March 2019.
In 1998 an asteroid was named after her. In 2019, Pone, ex Fonky Family member, releases Kate and me, an entire album created from samples of Kate Bush's work.
She's very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time." In 2019, Bush published a clarifying statement on her website saying she did not support the Conservative Party.
A few months later, after hearing about the album and listening to it, the English star wrote a message to the French producer, expressing her emotion, admiration and approval. In 2020, Grazia magazine conducted an interview with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
She was nominated twice for induction in the 2018 and 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. == Life and career == ===1958–1974: Early life=== Bush was born in Bexleyheath, Kent, to an English doctor, general practitioner Robert Bush (1920–2008), and Hannah (1918–1992), née Daly, an Irish staff nurse, daughter of a farmer in County Waterford.
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