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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]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Today's Style And Looks|work=Face & Figure|year=1979}}</ref> and mime training with [[Adam Darius]].<ref>[[Adam Darius|Darius, A]]. (1984) ''The Adam Darius Method'', page 236–240. Latonia. {{ISBN|0-9502707-2-5}} [http://www.mimecentre.com/ Mime Centre] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903000013/http://www.mimecentre.com/|date=3 September 2009}}</ref> For the first two years of her contract, Bush spent more time on school work than recording. She left school after doing her mock [[GCE Advanced Level|A-levels]] and having gained ten [[General Certificate of Education|GCE]] [[O-Level]] qualifications.<ref name=MightyBush>{{cite news |title=The Mighty Bush |work=[[Scotland on Sunday]] |date=2 October 2005 |last=Williamson |first=Nigel}}</ref> |
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]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Today's Style And Looks|work=Face & Figure|year=1979}}</ref> and mime training with [[Adam Darius]].<ref>[[Adam Darius|Darius, A]]. (1984) ''The Adam Darius Method'', page 236–240. Latonia. {{ISBN|0-9502707-2-5}} [http://www.mimecentre.com/ Mime Centre] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903000013/http://www.mimecentre.com/|date=3 September 2009}}</ref> For the first two years of her contract, Bush spent more time on school work than recording. She left school after doing her mock [[GCE Advanced Level|A-levels]] and having gained ten [[General Certificate of Education|GCE]] [[O-Level]] qualifications.<ref name=MightyBush>{{cite news |title=The Mighty Bush |work=[[Scotland on Sunday]] |date=2 October 2005 |last=Williamson |first=Nigel}}</ref> |
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Bush wrote and made demos of almost 200 songs, some of which circulated as [[Bootleg recording|bootlegs]] known as the ''Phoenix Recordings''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.last.fm/music/Kate+Bush/Demos%253A+The+Phoenix+recordings+%252F+Studio+Sessions |title=Demos: The Phoenix recordings |publisher=Last.fm}}</ref> From March to August 1977, she fronted the KT Bush Band at public houses in London. The band included [[Del Palmer]] (bass), Brian Bath (guitar), and Vic King (drums). She began recording her first album in August 1977,<ref name=Rebel /> although the tracks "The Saxophone Song" and "[[The Man with the Child in His Eyes]]" had been recorded in mid-1975.<ref>{{Citation|title=Kate Bush – The Man With the Child in His Eyes|url=https://genius.com/Kate-bush-the-man-with-the-child-in-his-eyes-lyrics|language=en|accessdate=6 February 2018}}</ref> |
Bush wrote and made demos of almost 200 songs, some of which circulated as [[Bootleg recording|bootlegs]] known as the ''Phoenix Recordings''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.last.fm/music/Kate+Bush/Demos%253A+The+Phoenix+recordings+%252F+Studio+Sessions |title=Demos: The Phoenix recordings |publisher=Last.fm}}</ref> From March to August 1977, she fronted the KT Bush Band at public houses in London. The band included [[Del Palmer]] (bass), Brian Bath (guitar), and Vic King (drums). She began recording her first album in August 1977,<ref name=Rebel /> although the tracks "The Saxophone Song" and "[[The Man with the Child in His Eyes]]" had been recorded in mid-1975.<ref>{{Citation|title=Kate Bush – The Man With the Child in His Eyes|url=https://genius.com/Kate-bush-the-man-with-the-child-in-his-eyes-lyrics|language=en|accessdate=6 February 2018}}</ref> |
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Birth name | Catherine Bush |
Born | Bexleyheath, Kent, England | 30 July 1958
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Years active | 1975–present |
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Website | katebush |
Catherine Bush CBE (born 30 July 1958)[1][2] is an English singer-songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer. Bush came to notice in 1978 when, 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.[11] She has since released 25 UK Top 40 singles, including the top-10 hits "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", "Babooshka", "Running Up That Hill", "Don't Give Up" (a duet with Peter Gabriel) and "King of the Mountain". She has released ten studio albums, all of which reached the UK Top 10, including the UK number-one albums Never for Ever (1980), Hounds of Love (1985), and the compilation The Whole Story (1986). She is the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist to enter the album chart at number one.[12]
Having written songs since age 11, she was signed to EMI Records after Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour helped produce a demo tape. Her debut album, The Kick Inside, was released in 1978. Bush slowly gained artistic independence in album production, and has taken sole credit for production all her studio albums since The Dreaming in 1982. After the release of her seventh album The Red Shoes (1993), she took a 12-year hiatus, ending with the album Aerial in 2005. She drew attention again in 2014 when she announced her concert residency Before the Dawn, her first set of shows since 1979's The Tour of Life.
Bush's eclectic and experimental musical style with literary and unconventional lyrical themes has influenced a diverse range of artists. She has been nominated 13 times for British Phonographic Industry accolades,[13] winning for Best British Female Artist in 1987.[14] She has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards. In 2002, she was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. In October 2017 she was nominated for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.[15] Bush was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to music.[16][17]
Early life
Bush was born in Bexleyheath, Kent,[18] to an English medical doctor, Robert Bush (1920–2008), and an Irish mother, Hannah Daly (1918–1992).[19] She was raised as a Roman Catholic[20] in their farmhouse in East Wickham, an urban village in the neighbouring town of Welling, with her older brothers, John and Paddy.[21] Bush came from an artistic background: her mother was an amateur traditional Irish dancer, her father was an amateur pianist, Paddy worked as a musical instrument maker, and John was a poet and photographer. Both brothers were involved in the local folk music scene.[22]
John was a karateka at Goldsmiths College karate club and Kate also trained there, becoming known as "Ee-ee" because of her squeaky kiai – the loud verbalisation accompanying some martial arts attacking manoeuvres. One of the instructors, Dave Hazard, later noted in his autobiography that her dance moves seemed to owe something to karate.[23]
Her family's musical influence inspired Bush to teach herself the piano at the age of 11. She also played the organ in a barn behind her parents' house and studied the violin.[24] She soon began composing songs, eventually adding her own lyrics.[25]
Musical career
1975–1977: 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.[26] During this time her family produced a demo tape with over 50 of her compositions, which was turned down by record labels. Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour received the demo from Ricky Hopper, a mutual friend of Gilmour and the Bush family. Impressed, Gilmour helped the sixteen-year-old Bush record a more professional demo tape.[27] Three tracks in total were recorded and paid for by Gilmour.[28] The tape was produced by Gilmour's friend Andrew Powell, who went on to produce Bush's first two albums,[25] and sound engineer Geoff Emerick, who had worked with the Beatles.[29] The tape was sent to EMI executive Terry Slater,[30] who signed her.[31]
The British record industry was reaching a point of stagnation.[30] Progressive rock was very popular and visually oriented rock performers were growing in popularity, thus record labels looking for the next big thing were considering experimental acts.[30] Bush was put on retainer for two years by Bob Mercer, managing director of EMI group-repertoire division. According to Mercer, he felt Bush's material was good enough to release, but felt that if the album failed it would be demoralising and if it was successful Bush was too young to handle it.[32] However, in a 1987 interview, Gilmour disputed this version of events, blaming EMI for initially using "wrong" producers.[33]
"Every female you see at a piano is either Lynsey de Paul or Carole King. And most male music – not all of it but the good stuff – really lays it on you. It really puts you against the wall and that's what I like to do. I'd like my music to intrude. Not many females succeed with that."[25]
Bush, speaking to Melody Maker magazine in 1977.
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,[34] and mime training with Adam Darius.[35] For the first two years of her contract, Bush spent more time on school work than recording. She left school after doing her mock A-levels and having gained ten GCE O-Level qualifications.[36]
Bush wrote and made demos of almost 200 songs, some of which circulated as bootlegs known as the Phoenix Recordings.[37] From March to August 1977, she fronted the KT Bush Band at public houses in London. The band included Del Palmer (bass), Brian Bath (guitar), and Vic King (drums). She began recording her first album in August 1977,[25] although the tracks "The Saxophone Song" and "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" had been recorded in mid-1975.[38]
1978–1979: The Kick Inside and Lionheart
For her début album, The Kick Inside (1978), Bush was persuaded to use established session musicians instead of the KT Bush Band. She retained some of these even after she had brought her bandmates back on board.[39] Her brother Paddy played the harmonica and mandolin. Stuart Elliott played some of the drums and became her main drummer on subsequent albums.[40]
The Kick Inside was released when Bush was 19, with some songs written when she was as young as 13. EMI originally wanted the more rock-oriented track "James and the Cold Gun" to be her debut single, but Bush, who already had a reputation for asserting herself in decisions about her work, insisted that it should be "Wuthering Heights"[25]
In the United Kingdom alone, The Kick Inside sold over a million copies.[41] "Wuthering Heights" topped the UK and Australian charts and became an international hit.[42] Bush became the first woman to reach number one on the UK charts with a self-written song.[43] A second single, "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", reached number six in the UK charts.[44] It also 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.[45] According to Guinness World Records, Bush was the first female artist in pop history to have written every track on a million-selling debut album.[41]
Bob Mercer blamed Bush's lesser success in the United States on American radio formats, saying there were no outlets for Bush's visual presentation.[32] EMI capitalised on Bush's appearance by promoting the album with a poster of her in a tight pink top that emphasised her breasts. 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. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist in a female body."[25] 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 album was produced by Andrew Powell, assisted by Bush. While it gained high sales and spawned the hit single "Wow", it did not reach the success of The Kick Inside, reaching number six in the UK album charts. She went on to express dissatisfaction with Lionheart, feeling that it had needed more time.[46]
Bush set up her own publishing company, Kate Bush Music, and her own management company, Novercia, to maintain control of her work. Members of her family, along with Bush herself, comprised the board of directors.[25] Following the release of Lionheart, she was required by EMI to undertake heavy promotional work and an exhausting tour.[47] The Tour of Life began in April 1979 and lasted six weeks. It was described by The Guardian as "an extraordinary, hydra-headed beast, combining music, dance, poetry, mime, burlesque, magic and theatre".[11] The show was co-devised and performed on stage with magician Simon Drake.[48] Bush was involved in every aspect of the production, choreography, set design, costume design and hiring.[25] The shows were noted for her dancing, complex lighting and her 17 costume changes per show. 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 primitive version in the early 1960s.[1][49]
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 first experience as a producer was on her Live on Stage EP, released after her tour the previous year. The first two albums had resulted in a definitive sound evident in every track, with orchestral arrangements supporting the live band sound. 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".
"Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance...It is man-made so the press can feed off it."
—Kate Bush in a 1980 interview[50]
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.[25] It was her first record to reach the top position in the UK album charts, also making her the first female British artist to achieve that status,[36] and the first female artist ever to enter the album chart at the top.[12] The top-selling single from the album was "Babooshka", which reached number five in the UK singles chart.[51] 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.[52] With her new-found freedom, she experimented with production techniques, creating an album that features a diverse blend of musical styles and is known for its near-exhaustive use of the Fairlight CMI. The Dreaming received a mixed reception in the UK, and critics were baffled by the dense soundscapes Bush had created to become "less accessible".[53] In a 1993 interview with Q (magazine), Bush stated: "That was my 'She's gone mad' album."[25] However, the album became her first to enter the US Billboard 200 chart, albeit only reaching number 157.[54] The album entered the UK album chart at number-three,[55] but is to date her lowest-selling album, garnering only a silver disc.[56]
"Sat in Your Lap" was the first single from the album to be released. It pre-dated the album by over a year and peaked at number 11 in the UK.[57] The title track, featuring Rolf Harris and Percy Edwards, stalled at number 48,[58] while the third single, "There Goes a Tenner", stalled at number 93,[59] despite promotion from EMI and Bush. The track "Suspended in Gaffa" was released as a single in Europe, but not in the UK.
Continuing in her storytelling tradition, Bush looked far outside her own personal experience for sources of inspiration. She drew on old crime films for "There Goes a Tenner", a documentary about the war in Vietnam for "Pull Out the Pin", and the plight of Indigenous Australians for "The Dreaming". "Houdini" is about the magician's death, and "Get Out of My House" was inspired by Stephen King's novel The Shining.[60]
1985–1988: Hounds of Love and The Whole Story
Hounds of Love was released in 1985. Because of the high cost of hiring studio space for her previous album, she built a private studio near her home, where she could work at her own pace.[61] Hounds of Love ultimately topped the charts in the UK, knocking Madonna's Like a Virgin from the number-one position.[62]
The album takes advantage of the vinyl and cassette formats with two very different sides. The first side, Hounds of Love, contains five "accessible" pop songs, including the four singles "Running Up that Hill", "Cloudbusting", "Hounds of Love", and "The Big Sky". "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. 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.[63]
The album earned Bush nominations for Best Female Solo Artist, Best Album, Best Single, and Best Producer at the 1986 BRIT Awards. In the same year, Bush and Peter Gabriel had a UK Top 10 hit with the duet "Don't Give Up" (Dolly Parton, Gabriel's original choice to sing the female vocal, turned his offer down),[64] and EMI released her "greatest hits" album, The Whole Story. Bush provided a new lead vocal and refreshed backing track on "Wuthering Heights", and recorded a new single, "Experiment IV", for inclusion on the compilation. Dawn French and Hugh Laurie were among those featured in the video for Experiment IV. At the 1987 BRIT Awards, Bush won the award for Best Female Solo Artist.
1989–1993: The Sensual World and The Red Shoes
The increasingly personal tone of her writing continued on 1989's The Sensual World. One of the songs "Heads We're Dancing", touched by Bush's black humour; is about a woman who dances all night with a charming stranger only to discover in the morning that he is Adolf Hitler. The title track drew its inspiration from James Joyce's novel Ulysses.[65]
The Sensual World went on to become her biggest-selling album in the US, receiving an RIAA Gold certification four years after its release for 500,000 copies sold. In the United Kingdom album charts, it reached the number-two position.[66]
"I don't think of myself as a musician. As a writer, I suppose. I only ever play the piano to accompany myself singing. I could never sit and read a piece of music. At best, I'm an accompanist. I suppose the worst thing is frustration at your own ability. Not being able to do what you want to do."
In 1990, the boxed set This Woman's Work was released and included all of her albums with their original cover art, as well as two discs of all single B sides recorded from 1978 to 1990. In 1991, Bush released a cover of Elton John's "Rocket Man", which reached number 12 in the UK singles chart,[68] and reached number two in Australia. In 2007, it was voted the greatest cover ever by readers of The Observer newspaper.[69] Another John cover, "Candle in the Wind", was the B-side.[70]
Bush's seventh studio album, The Red Shoes, was released in November 1993. The album features more high-profile cameo appearances than her previous efforts, including contributions from composer and conductor Michael Kamen, comedy actor Lenny Henry, Prince, Eric Clapton, Gary Brooker of Procol Harum, Trevor Whittaker, and Jeff Beck. Both The Sensual World and The Red Shoes featured contributions from Trio Bulgarka, the Bulgarian female vocal trio, who sang on six tracks, including "You're The One" and "Rocket's Tail". 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. In the UK, the album reached number-two, and the singles "Rubberband Girl", "The Red Shoes", "Moments of Pleasure", and "And So Is Love" all reached the top 30.[57][71] In 1994, Bush released an accompanying short film, The Line, the Cross & the Curve. Written, directed by, and starring Bush, along with English actress Miranda Richardson,[72] the film was based around the concept of The Red Shoes and featured six of the songs from the album.
The initial plan had been to tour with The Red Shoes release, but did not reach fruition. Thus, Bush deliberately produced a "live-band" feel for the album, with less studio production that had typified her last three albums and which would have been too difficult to re-create on stage.[73] The result polarised her fan base, who had enjoyed the intricacy of her earlier compositions,[74] with other fans claiming they had found new complexities in the lyrics and the emotions they expressed.[75]
This period had been a troubled time for Bush. She 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.[36] The people she lost were honoured in the ballad "Moments of Pleasure." However, Bush's mother was still alive when "Moments of Pleasure" was written and recorded. Bush describes playing the song to her mother, who thought the line where she is quoted by Bush as saying, "Every old sock meets an old shoe", was hilarious and "couldn't stop laughing."[76]
1994–2010: Hiatus and Aerial
After the release of The Red Shoes, Kate Bush dropped out of the public eye. She had originally intended to take one year off, but despite working on material, twelve years passed before her next album release. Her name occasionally cropped up in the media with rumours of a new album release. The press often viewed her as an eccentric recluse, sometimes drawing a comparison with Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.[77] In 1998, Bush gave birth to Albert, known as "Bertie", fathered by her guitarist and now husband Danny McIntosh.[36][78] In 2001, Bush was awarded a Q Award as Classic Songwriter.[79] 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.[36] The album single "King of the Mountain", had its premiere on BBC Radio 2 two months prior.[80] The single entered the UK Downloads Chart at number six,[81] and would become Bush's third-highest-charting single ever in the UK, peaking at number four on the full chart.[42] Aerial entered the UK albums chart at number three,[82] and the US chart at number 48.[83]
Aerial, as on Hounds of Love (1985), is divided into two sections, each with its own theme and mood. The first disc, subtitled A Sea of Honey, features a set of unrelated themed songs, including "King of the Mountain"; "Bertie", a Renaissance-style ode to her son; and "Joanni", based on the story of Joan of Arc. In the song "", Bush sings 117 digits of the number Pi.[84] The second disc, subtitled A Sky of Honey, features one continuous piece of music describing the experience of 24 hours passing by.[85] Aerial earned Bush two nominations at the 2006 BRIT Awards, for Best British Female Solo Artist and Best British Album.[13]
In late 2007, Bush composed and recorded a new song, "Lyra", for the soundtrack to the fantasy film The Golden Compass.[86]
2011: Director's Cut and 50 Words for Snow
In May 2011, Bush released the album, Director's Cut. The album, which Bush has described as an entirely new project rather than a collection of mere remixes, contains 11 tracks of substantially reworked material from her earlier albums, The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, all of which have been recorded using analogue, rather than digital, equipment to create "a warmer sound". All the tracks have new lead vocals, new drums, and reworked instrumentation. Some of them have been transposed to a lower key to accommodate her lowering voice. Three of the songs, including "This Woman's Work", have been completely re-recorded, with lyrics often changed in places.[87] This is the first album on her new label, Fish People, a division of EMI Records, with whom she's had a relationship since she started recording. In addition to Director's Cut in its single CD form, the album was released with a box-set that contains the albums The Sensual World and the analogue re-mastered The Red Shoes. It debuted at number-two on the United Kingdom chart.[88]
The song "The Sensual World" has been renamed "Flower of the Mountain" and contains a passage of Molly Bloom's soliloquy from James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Bush said, "Originally when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World', I had used text from the end of Ulysses. [But I had to write my own lyrics instead because I was denied permission.] When I came to work on [Director's Cut] I thought I would ask for permission again and this time they said yes."[89]
The first single released from the album was "Deeper Understanding" and contains a new chorus featuring computerised vocals from Bush's son, Albert. A video for the song, directed by Bush, has been released through her channel on YouTube. It features Robbie Coltrane as a man consumed by his relationship with his computer (voiced by Bush's son). Frances Barber plays the man's wife, and Noel Fielding also appears.
Bush's next studio album, 50 Words for Snow, was released on 21 November 2011. It features high-profile cameo appearance of Elton John on the duet "Snowed in at Wheeler Street".[90] The album contains seven new songs "set against a backdrop of falling snow", with a total running time of 65 minutes.[91][92] A radio edit of the first single, "Wild Man", was played on BBC Radio 2's The Ken Bruce Show on 10 October.[93] and was released as a digital download on 11 October.[94] The album is distributed in the United States by Anti-Records.
On 14 November 2011, NPR played 50 Words for Snow in its entirety for the first time.[95] Australia's ABC Radio National declared 50 Words for Snow album of the week of 12 November 2011.[96]
The album's songs are built around Bush's quietly jazzy piano and Steve Gadd's drums, and utilise both sung and spoken word vocals in what Classic Rock critic Stephen Dalton calls "a ... supple and experimental affair, with a contemporary chamber pop sound grounded in crisp piano, minimal percussion and light-touch electronics ... billowing jazz-rock soundscapes, interwoven with fragmentary narratives delivered in a range of voices from shrill to Laurie Anderson-style cooing."[97] Bassist Danny Thompson appears on the album, which also features performances by Elton John and actor Stephen Fry.
On the first track, "Snowflake", in a song written specifically to use his still high choir-boy voice,[98] Bush's son Bertie sings the role of a falling snowflake in a song expressing the hope of a noisy world soon being hushed by snowfall. "Snowflake" drifts into "Lake Tahoe", where choral singer Stefan Roberts and Bush sing about a rarely seen ghost: a woman who appears in a Victorian gown to call to her dog, Snowflake. Bush said to fellow musician Jamie Cullum in an interview on Dutch Radio,[99] that she wished to explore using high male voices in contrast to her own, deeper, voice. "Misty" is about a snowman lover who melts away after a night of passion, while "Wild Man" tells the story of a group of climbers in the Himalayas who, upon finding evidence of a nearby Yeti, erase all traces of it to protect it from discovery. Elton John and Bush as eternally divided lovers trade vocals on "Snowed in at Wheeler Street", while Stephen Fry recites the "50 Words for Snow". The quiet "Among Angels" finishes the album.[100]
50 Words for Snow received general acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 88, based on 26 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[101] She was nominated for a Brit Award in the "Best Female Artist" category,[102] and the album won the 2012 Best Album at the South Bank Arts Awards,[103] and was also nominated for Best Album at the Ivor Novello Awards.[104]
2012–present: Before the Dawn and remasters
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Bush turned down an invitation to perform at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony. Instead, a new remix of her 1985 single "Running Up that Hill" was played.[105] In 2013, Bush became the only female artist to have top five albums in the UK charts in five successive decades.[106]
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.[107] Tickets sold out in 15 minutes. The concerts received positive reviews.[108] An album of recordings from the concerts, Before the Dawn, was released on 25 November 2016.[109]
In August 2014, bolstered by the Before the Dawn publicity, Bush became the first female performer to have eight albums in the UK Top 40 Albums Chart simultaneously, putting her at number three for simultaneous UK Top 40 albums.[110] She had 11 albums in the top 50.[111][112] On 6 December 2018, Bush published her first book, a compilation of lyrics, How to Be Invisible: Selected Lyrics.[113]
In October 2018, Bush announced two boxsets of remasters of her studio albums, released on November 16 and 30. Vocals from Rolf Harris, who was convicted of multiple sexual assault charges in 2014, were replaced by Bush's son Bertie.[114]
Musical style
Bush's musical aesthetic is eclectic, and is known to employ varied influences and meld disparate styles, often within a single song or over the course of an album.[1] Even in her earliest works, with piano the primary instrument, she wove together diverse influences, drawing on classical music, glam rock,[4] and a wide range of ethnic and folk sources. This would continue throughout her career. By the time of Never for Ever, Bush had begun to make prominent use of the Fairlight CMI synthesizer, which allowed her to sample and manipulate sounds, expanding her sonic palette.[25] She has been compared with other "'arty' 1970s and '80s British pop rock artists" such as Roxy Music and Peter Gabriel.[6] The Guardian called Bush "the queen of art-pop."[4]
Bush has a dramatic soprano vocal range.[115] Her vocals contain elements of British, Anglo-Irish and most prominently (southern) English accents and, in its utilisation of musical instruments from various periods and cultures, her music has differed from American pop norms.[116] Reviewers have used the term "surreal" to describe her music.[117] Her songs explore melodramatic emotional and musical surrealism that defies easy categorisation.[118] It has been observed that even her more joyous pieces are often tinged with traces of melancholy, and even the most sorrowful pieces have elements of vitality struggling against all that would oppress them.[119]
Lyrics and inspirations
Elements of Bush's lyrics employ historical or literary references, as embodied in her first single "Wuthering Heights", which is based on Emily Brontë's novel of the same name. She has described herself as a storyteller who embodies the character singing the song and has dismissed efforts by others to conceive of her work as autobiographical.[116][120][121] Bush's lyrics have been known to touch on obscure or esoteric subject matter, and New Musical Express noted that Bush was not afraid to tackle sensitive and taboo subjects in her work.[122] "The Kick Inside" is based on a traditional English folk song (The Ballad of Lucy Wan) about an incestuous pregnancy and a resulting suicide.[123] "Kashka from Baghdad" is a song about a homosexual male couple; Out magazine listed two of her albums in their "Top 100 Greatest Gayest Albums" list.[124][125] She has referenced G. I. Gurdjieff in the song "Them Heavy People", while "Cloudbusting" was inspired by Peter Reich's autobiography, A Book of Dreams, about his relationship with his father, Wilhelm Reich. "Breathing" explores the results of nuclear fallout from the perspective of a fœtus.[126]
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.[127] "The Infant Kiss" is a song about a haunted, unstable woman's paedophilic infatuation with a young boy in her care (inspired by Jack Clayton's film The Innocents (1961), which had been based on Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw);.[128][129] 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 death of a groom and the bride's subsequent revenge against the killer.[130] Bush has also cited comedy as a significant influence. She has cited Woody Allen,[131] Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and The Young Ones[132] as particular favourites.
Comments from other musicians
Musicians who have cited Bush as an influence include Regina Spektor,[133] Ellie Goulding,[134] Charli XCX,[135] Tegan and Sara,[136] k.d. lang,[137] Paula Cole,[138] Kate Nash,[139] Bat for Lashes,[140] Erasure,[141] Alison Goldfrapp of Goldfrapp,[142] Tim Bowness of No-Man,[143] Chris Braide,[144] Kyros,[145] Aisles,[146] Darren Hayes[147] and Grimes.[148] Nerina Pallot was inspired to become a songwriter after seeing Bush play "This Woman's Work" on Wogan.[149] Coldplay took inspiration from "Running Up That Hill" to compose their single "Speed of Sound".[150]
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 Annie Lennox,[151] Björk,[152] Florence Welch[153] of Florence + The Machine,[154] Little Boots,[155] Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins,[156] Dido,[157] Sky Ferreira,[158] St. Vincent,[159] Lily Allen,[160] Anohni of Antony and the Johnsons,[161] Big Boi of OutKast,[162] Tupac Shakur,[163] Stevie Nicks,[164] Steven Wilson,[165] Steve Rothery of Marillion,[166] and André Matos.[167] According to an unauthorized biography, Courtney Love of Hole listened to Bush among other artists as a teenager.[168] Tricky wrote an article about The Kick Inside, saying: "Her music has always sounded like dreamland to me.... I don't believe in God, but if I did, her music would be my bible".[169] Suede front-man Brett Anderson stated about Hounds of Love: "I love the way it's a record of two halves, and the second half is a concept record about fear of drowning. It's an amazing record to listen to really late at night, unsettling and really jarring".[170] John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, declared her work to be "beauty beyond belief".[160] Rotten once wrote a song for her, titled "Bird in Hand" (about exploitation of parrots) that Bush rejected.[171] Bush was one of the singers who Prince thanked in the liner notes of 1991's Diamonds and Pearls.[172] 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".[173]
Kele Okereke of Bloc Party said about "Hounds of Love": "The first time I heard it I was sitting in a reclining sofa. As the beat started I was transported somewhere else. Her voice, the imagery, the huge drum sound: it seemed to capture everything for me. As a songwriter you're constantly chasing that feeling".[174] Rufus Wainwright named Bush as one of his top ten gay icons.[175] Outside music, Bush has been an inspiration to several fashion designers, including Hussein Chalayan.[176]
Live performances
Bush's first tour took place 2 April – 13 May 1979; 35 years later she embarked on a series of 22 concerts at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, beginning 26 August 2014. Apart from these two concert series, she has given only occasional live performances. Suggestions were prompted as to why she abandoned touring, among them her reputed need to be in total control of the final product, which is incompatible with live stage performance; a rumour of a crippling fear of flying;[177][11] and the suggestion that the death of 21-year-old Bill Duffield severely affected her.[178] Duffield, her lighting engineer, was killed in an accident during her concert of 2 April 1979 at Poole Arts Centre. Bush held a benefit concert on 12 May 1979, with Peter Gabriel and Steve Harley at London's Hammersmith Odeon for his family.[11] Duffield would be honoured in two later songs: "Blow Away" on Never for Ever and "Moments of Pleasure" on The Red Shoes. Bush said in a BBC Radio 2 interview with Mark Radcliffe that she actually enjoyed the tour but was consumed with producing her subsequent records. A BBC film crew followed the preparation for the tour which was shown as a 30-minute special on the Nationwide programme.
During the same period as her tour, she made television appearances around the world, including Top of the Pops in the United Kingdom, Bios Bahnhof in Germany, and Saturday Night Live in the United States (with Paul Shaffer on piano) – her only appearance on American television to date.[179] On 28 December 1979, BBC TV aired the Kate Bush Christmas Special. It was recorded in October 1979 at the BBC Studios in Birmingham, England; choreography by Anthony Van Laast.[180] As well as playing songs from her first two albums, she played "December Will Be Magic Again", "Violin", "The Wedding List", "Ran Tan Waltz" and "Egypt" from her forthcoming album, Never for Ever. Peter Gabriel made a guest appearance to play "Here Comes the Flood", and a duet of Roy Harper's "Another Day" with Bush.[181]
After the Tour of Life, Bush wanted to make two more albums before touring again. At that point, she got involved with production techniques and sound experimentation that took up a lot of time and prevented her from touring. She came close to touring again following the release of The Dreaming and The Red Shoes, but live shows never materialised.[182]
Bush participated in the first benefit concert in aid of The Prince's Trust in July 1982.[183] Bush performed live for British charity event Comic Relief in 1986, singing "Do Bears... ?", a humorous duet with Rowan Atkinson, and a rendition of "Breathing".[184] In March 1987, Bush sang "Running Up That Hill" at The Secret Policeman's Third Ball accompanied by David Gilmour.[185]
In 2002, Bush appeared again with David Gilmour, singing the part of the doctor in "Comfortably Numb" at the Royal Festival Hall in London.[186]
In March 2014, Bush announced a 22-night residency, Before the Dawn, in London from 26 August to 1 October 2014 at the Hammersmith Apollo.[187] The BBC reviewed the concert positively.[108] The set list[188] comprised most of Hounds of Love featuring the entire Ninth Wave suite, most of Aerial including the entire second disc, two songs from The Red Shoes, and one song from 50 Words for Snow. Bush's first four albums and The Sensual World were excluded.[189]
Video projects
In 1978 Bush made her debut on Dutch television in "De Efteling Special", which was broadcast on 11 May 1978. The amusement park De Efteling served as a backdrop for six songs from The Kick Inside: "Moving", "Wuthering Heights", "Them Heavy People", "Strange Phenomena", "The Man With The Child In His Eyes" and "The Kick Inside". In early 1978, the amusement park's Haunted Castle was completed and the opening was scheduled on 10 May that year. Bush, who just had a big hit in the Netherlands with "Wuthering Heights", made her debut on Dutch television in this special. Her popularity was used to draw the attention to the Haunted Castle.[190]
Bush has appeared in innovative music videos designed to accompany her singles releases. Among the best known are those for "Running Up that Hill", "Babooshka", "Breathing", "Wuthering Heights", "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", and "Cloudbusting", featuring actor Donald Sutherland, who made time during the filming of another project to take part in the video.[191]
In 1993, she directed and starred in the short film, The Line, the Cross and the Curve, a musical co-starring Miranda Richardson, featuring music from Bush's album The Red Shoes, which was inspired by the classic movie of the same name. It was released on VHS in the UK in 1994 and also received a small number of cinema screenings around the world. In recent interviews, Bush has said that she considers it a failure, and stated in 2001: "I'm very pleased with four minutes of it, but I'm very disappointed with the rest."[192] In a 2005 interview, she described the film as "A load of bollocks."[193]
In 1994, Bush provided the music used in a series of psychedelic-themed television adverts for the soft drink Fruitopia that appeared in the United States. The same company aired the adverts in the United Kingdom, but the British version featured singer Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins instead of Bush.[194]
Bush has released four short videos for the album 50 Words for Snow. One is an advertisement for the album. Two stop-motion "Animation Segments" were posted on the Kate Bush Official website and YouTube, one to accompany a 2-minute 25 second section of "Misty", called "Mistraldespair", the other to accompany a 2-minute 33 second section of "Wild Man". "Mistraldespair" was directed by Bush and animated by Gary Pureton,[195] while the "Wild Man" segment was created by Finn and Patrick at Brandt Animation.[196] On 24 January 2012, a third piece called "Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe", was premiered on her website and on YouTube. Running at 5:01, the piece is a sepia tone shadow puppet animation. Directed by Bush and photographed by award-winning British cinematographer Roger Pratt, the shadow puppets were designed by Robert Allsopp.[197] Bush stated that "Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe" is intended to be a "self contained piece" separate from the song "Lake Tahoe".[198]
Film projects
Bush starred in the 1990 black comedy film Les Dogs, produced by The Comic Strip for BBC television. Bush plays the bride Angela at a wedding set in a post-apocalyptic Britain. In another Comic Strip Presents film, GLC, she produced and sang on the theme song "Ken". The song was written about Ken Livingstone, the leader of the Greater London Council and future mayor of London, who at the time was working with musicians to help the Labour Party garner the youth vote.[199]
Bush wrote and performed the song "The Magician", using a fairground-like arrangement, for Menahem Golan's 1979 film The Magician of Lublin.[200] The track was scored and arranged by Michael Kamen. In 1986, she wrote and recorded "Be Kind to My Mistakes" for the Nicolas Roeg film Castaway. An edited version of this track was used as the B-side to her 1989 single "This Woman's Work". In 1988, the song "This Woman's Work" was featured in the John Hughes film She's Having a Baby, and a slightly remixed version appeared on Bush's album The Sensual World.[201] The song has since appeared on television shows, and in 2005 reached number-eight on the UK download chart after featuring in a British television advertisement for the charity NSPCC.[202]
In 1999, Bush wrote and recorded a song for the Disney film Dinosaur, but the track was not included on the soundtrack. According to the winter 1999 issue of HomeGround, a Bush fanzine, it was scrapped when Disney asked her to rewrite the song and she refused. Also in 1999, Bush's song "The Sensual World" was featured prominently in Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's film "Felicia's Journey".[203]
In 2007, Bush was asked to write a song for The Golden Compass soundtrack which made reference to the lead character, Lyra Belacqua. The song, "Lyra", was used in the closing credits of the film, reached number 187 in the UK Singles Chart[204] and was nominated for the International Press Academy's Satellite Award for original song in a motion picture.[205][206] According to Del Palmer, Bush was asked to compose the song on short notice and the project was completed in 10 days.[207]
Collaborations
Bush provided vocals on two of Peter Gabriel's albums, including the hits "Games Without Frontiers" and "Don't Give Up", as well as "No Self-Control". 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. 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 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. Stivell had appeared on The Sensual World. In 1991, Kate Bush was invited to perform a cover of Elton John's 1972 song "Rocket Man" for the tribute album Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin. 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 1994, Bush covered George Gershwin's "The Man I Love" for the tribute album The Glory of Gershwin. 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. Bush had to sing the song in Irish, which she learned to do phonetically.[208]
Artists who have contributed to Bush's own albums include Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Nigel Kennedy, Gary Brooker, Danny Thompson, and Prince. 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. The song, which was engineered and produced by Del Palmer, was released on Azulay's album Out of the Ashes.[209] Bush declined a request by Erasure to produce one of their albums because, according to singer Vince Clarke, "she didn't feel that that was her area".[210]
Personal life
Bush married guitarist Dan McIntosh in 1992. Their son, Albert, also known as Bertie, was born in 1998.[211][212] Bertie featured prominently in the 2014 concert Before the Dawn. She previously had a long-term relationship with bassist and engineer Del Palmer from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.[213]
Bush is a former resident of Eltham, southeast London.[214] In the 1990s, she moved to a canalside residence in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, and moved to Devon in 2004.[211] Bush is a vegetarian.[215][216] Raised a Roman Catholic, she said in 1999:
I was a Roman Catholic and brought up in Roman Catholic schools. I would never say I was a strict follower of Roman Catholic belief, but a lot of images are in there; they have to be; they're so strong. Such powerful, beautiful, passionate images! There's a lot of suffering in Roman Catholicism. I think I'm looking for not necessarily religion, but ways of helping myself to become more understanding, more complete, a happier person – what we all want in life. But I really don't think I've found a niche.[20]
The length of time between albums has led to rumours concerning Bush's health or appearance.[132][217] 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 ... I wish there weren't such big gaps between them". In the same interview, she denied that she was a perfectionist, saying: "I think it's important that things are flawed ... 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.[120]
In 2016, the Canadian magazine Maclean's reported that Bush supported the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, and quoted her as saying: "I actually really like her and think she’s wonderful. I think it’s the best thing that’s happened to us in a long time ... It is great to have a woman in charge of the country. She’s very sensible and I think that’s a good thing at this point in time."[218] In 2019, Bush published a statement on her website saying she had been quoted out of context and did not support the Conservative Party. She wrote: "My response to the interviewer was not meant to be political but rather was in the defence of women in power ... I said that we had a woman in charge of our country, and that I felt it was a good thing to have women in power … it could make it seem like I am a Tory supporter which I want to make clear I am not."[218]
Awards and nominations
Discography
- The Kick Inside (1978)
- Lionheart (1978)
- Never for Ever (1980)
- The Dreaming (1982)
- Hounds of Love (1985)
- The Sensual World (1989)
- The Red Shoes (1993)
- Aerial (2005)
- Director's Cut (2011)
- 50 Words for Snow (2011)
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Further reading
- Cann, Kevin; Mayes, Sean (1988). Kate Bush: A Visual Documentary. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-1039-1.
- Doherty, Mike (22 December 2005). "This Bush's Mission Finally Gets Accomplished". National Post. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.
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- Muskens, Helena; Racké, Quirine (2007). Come Back Kate. Snow White Films.
- Osborn, Michael (30 July 2008). "Behind the Enigma of Kate Bush". Entertainment. BBC News. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
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suggested) (help) - Thomson, Graeme (2012). Kate Bush: Under the Ivy. Omnibus Press. ISBN 1-84772-930-4.
- Vermorel, Fred; Vermorel, Judy (1980). Kate Bush: Princess of Suburbia. Target Books. ISBN 978-0-7119-0152-0.
- Vermorel, Fred (1983). The Secret History of Kate Bush and the Strange Art of Pop. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-0152-X.
- Withers, Deborah (2010). Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory. Hammeron Press. ISBN 0-9564507-0-9.
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