2. Personal Call, BBC Radio One, 1979
3. The Dreaming Interview Disc, CBAK 4011, 1982
4. The Mark Radcliffe Show, Radio Two, November 7, 2005
5. Kate Bush In Concert, German TV, April 1980
6. Electronics & Music Maker, 1982
7. Sounds International, September 1980
8. Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio Four, February 21, 1979
9. Friday Night, Saturday Morning With Desmond Morris, BBC 2, November 21, 1981
10. Electronics & Music Maker, 1982
11. Crawdaddy, 1974
12. ibid
13. New Musical Express, October 1982
14. Radio & Record News, February 1978
15. VH-1 Special, 1990
16. The Peter Powell Show, Radio One, October 11, 1980
17. ibid
18. Tune-In, Christmas 1978
19. Razzamatazz, ITV, July 14, 1981
20. Electronics & Music Maker, 1982
21. Sounds, August 30, 1980
22. Kerrang, February/March 1984
23. VH-1 Special, 1990
24. Tune-In, Christmas 1978
25. Sounds, August 30, 1980
26. New Musical Express, October 1982
27. Melody Maker, June 3, 1978
28. Nationwide, BBC One, April 4, 1979
29. The Dreaming Interview Disc, CBAK 4011, 1982
30. ibid
31. Musician, Autumn 1985
32. Homeground, Summer 2007
33. Musician, Autumn 1985
34. Homeground, Summer 2007
35. Musician, Autumn 1985
36. Record Mirror, October 7, 1978
37. Hot Press, November 1985
38. Nationwide, BBC One, April 4, 1979
CHAPTER FOUR:
1. Musician, Autumn 1985
2. Radio & Record News, February 1978
3. Sounds, March 11, 1978
4. Kerrang!, 1982
5. The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, BBC One, January 20, 1979
6. Record Mirror, February 25, 1978
7. Melody Maker, June 3, 1978
8. Kerrang!, February/March, 1984
9. Both quotes from Brian Bath, interview with author
10. Peter Lyster-Todd, interview with author
11. Q, November 1989
12. ibid
13. Kate Bush Club Newsletter, No. 5, 1980
14. Sounds, August 30, 1980
15. ibid
16. Homeground, Summer 2004
17. Kate Bush In Concert, German TV, April 1980
18. New Musical Express, March 1978
19. Hot Press, November 1985
20. Sounds, March 11, 1978
21. Homeground, Summer 2004
CHAPTER FIVE:
1. Kerrang!, February/March, 1984
2. Pulse, December 1989
3. Q, November 1989
4. Tune-In, Christmas 1978
5. News At Night, MTV, January 1990
6. Radio & Record News, February 1978
7. Trouser Press, July 1978
8. Melody Maker, November, 1978
9. ibid
10. Lionheart promotional cassette, EMI-Canada, 1978
11. Melody Maker, November, 1978
12. Sounds, August 30, 1980
CHAPTER SIX:
1. Smash Hits, May 1980
2. Musician, Autumn 1985
3. Kate Bush: The Whole Story, Kerry Juby, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988
4. Homeground, Summer 2007
5. ibid
6. Homeground, Summer 2004
7. Nationwide, BBC One, April 4, 1979
9. Nationwide, BBC One, April 4, 1979
10. Homeground, Summer 2007
11. Nationwide, BBC One, April 4, 1979
12. ibid
13. Smash Hits, May 1980
14. Smash Hits, September 1979
15. Kate Bush: The Whole Story, Kerry Juby, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988
16. Homeground, Summer 2007
17. Q, November 1989
18. Record Mirror, September 1981
19. Kate Bush In Concert, German TV, 1980/ ‘Getting Down Under With Kate Bush’, Record Mirror, 1982
20. Musician, Autumn 1985
21. Sunday Telegraph, July 6, 1980
22. Poppix, 1982
23. Homeground, Summer 2007
24. ibid
25. Musician, Autumn 1985
26. Company, January 1982
27. Sunday Telegraph, July 6, 1980
28. New Musical Express, October 20, 1979
29. Homeground, Summer 2007
30. Musician, Autumn 1985
31. Homeground, Summer 2007
32. Blitz, September 1985
CHAPTER SEVEN:
1. The Women Of Rock, 1984
2. Nationwide, BBC One, April 4, 1979
3. Sounds, August 30, 1980
4. Kate Bush: A Visual Documentary, Kevin Cann and Sean Mayes, Omnibus Press, 1988
5. Smash Hits, June 1981
6. MuchMusic, Canadian TV, 1985/Electronics & Music Maker, 1982
7. Zig Zag, 1980
8. ibid
9. ibid
10. ibid
11. Razzmatazz, ITV, July 14, 1981
12. Hot Press, November, 1985
13. Guardian, October 12, 1989
14. Record Mirror, October 7, 1978
15. The Best Of Kate Bush, EMI Music Publishing, 1981
16. Record Mirror, September 6, 1980
17. The Peter Powell Show, Radio One, October 11, 1980
18. Fachblatt Musikmagazin, November 1985
CHAPTER EIGHT:
1. Record Mirror, September 1981
2. ibid
3. Musician, Autumn 1985
4. ibid
5. Electronics & Music Maker, 1982
6. Mix, 2006
7. Melody Maker, October 16, 1982
8. Record Mirror, September 1981
9. Kate Bush Club Newsletter, No. 12, October 1982
10. Record Mirror, September 1981
11. ‘Getting Down Under With Kate Bush’, Record Mirror, 1982
12. Company, January 1982
13. Q, November 1989
14. Electronics & Music Maker, 1982
15. Preview of The Dreaming, Radio Two, September 13, 1982
16. Kate Bush Club Newsletter, No. 12, October 1982
17. Homeground, Summer 2007
18. Company, January 1982
19. Paul Hardiman, interview with author
20. The Women Of Rock, 1984
21. Hi-Fi For Pleasure, August 1983
22. Fachblatt Musikmagazin, November 1985
23. Interview with Tony Myatt, Kate Bush fan convention, November 1985
24. MuchMusic, Canadian TV, December 1985
25. Homeground, Summer 2007
26. Kerrang!, 1982
27. Q, November 1989
28. ibid
CHAPTER NINE:
1. Kate Bush Club Newsletter, No. 14, Autumn 1983
2. You, October 22, 1989
3. Interview Disc, CBAK 4011, 1985
4. Kate Bush: The Whole Story, Kerry Juby, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988
5. MuchMusic, Canadian TV, November 1985
6. The Times, August 27, 1985
8. What Kate Did Next, http://gaffa.org/reaching/i85_what.html, 1985
9. Fachblatt Musikmagazin, November 1985
10. Hot Press, November 1985
11. Unaccredited radio interview, July 29, 1983
12. Daily Mirror, March 21, 1990
13. You magazine, October 22, 1989/Daily Mirror, March 21, 1990
14. Kate Bush Club Newsletter, No. 14, Autumn 1983
15. ibid
16. ibid
17. Classic Albums, Radio One, January 26, 1992
18. The Dreaming Interview Disc, CBAK 4011, 1982
19. Interview with Tony Myatt, Kate Bush fan convention, November 1985
20. Kate Bush Club Newsletter, No. 17, Winter 1984
21. Homeground, Summer 2007
22. Classic Albums, Radio One, January 26, 1992
23. ibid
24. Musician, Autumn 1985
25. Homeground, Summer 2007
26. Musician, Autumn 1985
27. Interview with Tony Myatt, Kate Bush fan convention, November 1985
28. Classic Albums, Radio One, January 26, 1992
29. Q, November 1989
30. Interview by Doug Alan, November 1985
31. Q, November 1989
32. Q, December 1990
33. Unaccredited US radio interview, 1989
34. Q, 20th Anniversary issue, October 2006
35. Zig Zag, November 1985
36. Hot Press, November 1985
37. Kate Bush Club Newsletter, No. 21, Winter 1987
38. Mojo, December 2005
39. Melody Maker, October 21, 1989
40. Blitz, September 1985
41. Classic Albums, Radio One, January 26, 1992
CHAPTER 10:
1. You, October 22, 1989/Daily Mirror, March 21, 1990
2. http://ebni.com/byrds/newsbwidc2.htm
3. YTV Rocks, Canada, December 1989
4. Melody Maker, October 21, 1989
5. International Musician, December 1989
6. Musician, February 1990
7. Tracks, November 1989
8. VH-1 Special, 1990
9. Melody Maker, October 21, 1989
10. Reaching Out, 1989
11. The Sensual World Press kit, CBS America, 1989
12. WFNX radio, Boston, Autumn 1989
13. Pulse, December 1989
14. International Musician, December 1989
15. Options, March/April 89
16. Melody Maker, October 21, 1989
17. ibid
18. ibid
19. ibid
20. Raw, issues 32/33, November 1989
21. From ‘Rocket Man’ single sleeve
22. Q, HMV Special mini-edition, 1990
23. ibid
24. Los Angeles Times, January 29, 1990
25. Capital Radio, September 1989
26. Q, HMV Special mini-edition, 1990
27. Homeground, Summer 1996
28. Future Music, November 1993
29. ibid
30. Homeground, Spring 1994
31. Q, 20th Anniversary issue, October 2006
32. Vox, November 1993
33. ibid
34. Front Row, BBC Radio Four, November 4, 2005
35. Associated Press, November 17, 1989
36. Future Music, November 1993
37. Rock World, October 1993
38. Q, December 2001
39. Mojo, December 2005
40. Q, December 2001
CHAPTER 11:
1. Musician, Autumn 1985
2. Melody Maker, 1983
3. ibid
4. Classic Albums, Radio One, January 26, 1992
5. Unedited interview with MTV, November 1985
6. Good Morning With Anne And Nick, BBC One, April 1994
7. ibid
8. Musician, February 1990
CHAPTER 12:
1. BBC Radio 2, July 4, 1996
2. Kate Bush Club Newsletter, December 1995
3. Vox, November 1993
4. Q, December 2001
5. Q, December 1993
6. Thank You For The Days, Mark Radcliffe, Simon & Schuster, 2009
7. Q, December 2001
8. ibid
9. Mojo, December 2005
10. Front Row, BBC Radio Four, November 4, 2005
11. The Mark Radcliffe Show, BBC Radio Two, November 7, 2005
12. Q, December 2001
13. ibid
14. Mojo, December 2005
15. ibid
16. ibid
17. Rolling Stone (France), February 2006
18. Front Row, BBC Radio Four, November 4, 2005
EPILOGUE:
1. Times, October 22, 2005
2. Mojo, December 2005
3. Front Row, BBC Radio Four, November 4, 2005
4. The Word, October 2009
5. Details, March 1994
6. Mojo, December 2005
7. Front Row, BBC Radio Four, November 4, 2005
Selected Bibliography
Numerous newspapers, magazines and web pages were enormously helpful during the writing of this book. Most notably, Homeground magazine has been a longstanding and always fascinating source of both hard information and strongly felt opinion on Kate Bush. There are several dedicated Bush sites on the internet, and in particular the Kate Bush News And Information Service and Gaffaweb are both invaluable destinations for any Bush fan. The following books have also proved particularly useful:
The Best Of Kate Bush, EMI Music Publishing, 1981
Cathy, John Carder Bush, 1986
The Complete David Bowie, Nicholas Pegg, Raymond & Hearns Ltd, 2002
Dylan: Behind The Shades, Clinton Heylin, Viking, 1991
The Illustrated Guide To Kate Bush, Robert Godwin, Collector’s Guide Limited, 2005
Kate Bush: An Illustrated Biography, Paul Kerton, Proteus Books, 1980
Kate Bush And Hounds Of Love, Ron Moy, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005
Kate Bush: A Visual Documentary, Kevin Cann and Sean Mayes, Omnibus Press, 1988
Kate Bush Biography, Fred & Judy Vermorel, Target Books, 1980
Kate Bush: The Biography, Rob Jovanovic, Portrait, 2005
Kate Bush: The Whole Story, Kerry Juby, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988
Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music And Musicians In Transition, Donna A. Buchanan, University Of Chicago Press, 2006
The Secret History Of Kate Bush, Fred Vermorel, Omnibus Press, 1983
Thank You For The Days, Mark Radcliffe, Simon & Schuster, 2009
The Third MOJO Collection, edited by Colin McLear and Jim Irvin, Canongate, 2003
Waiting For Kate Bush, John Mendelsshon, Omnibus Press, 2004
Selective Discography
ALBUMS & EPS
The Kick Inside (1978)
‘Moving’, ‘The Saxophone Song’, ‘Strange Phenomena’, ‘Kite’, ‘The Man With The Child In His Eyes’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, ‘James And The Cold Gun’, ‘Feel It’, ‘Oh To Be In Love’, ‘L’Amour Looks Something Like You’, ‘Them Heavy People’, ‘Room For The Life’, ‘The Kick Inside’.
Lionheart (1978)
‘Symphony In Blue’, ‘In Search Of Peter Pan’, ‘Wow’, ‘Don’t Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake’, ‘Oh England, My Lionheart’, ‘Full House’, ‘In The Warm Room’, ‘Kashka From Baghdad’, ‘Coffee Homeground’, ‘Hammer Horror’.
On Stage EP (1979)
‘Them Heavy People’, ‘Don’t Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake’, ‘James And The Cold Gun’, ‘L’Amour Looks Something Like You’.
Never For Ever (1980)
‘Babooshka’, ‘Delius (Song Of Summer)’, ‘Blow Away (For Bill)’, ‘All We Ever Look For’, ‘Egypt’, ‘The Wedding List’, ‘Violin’, ‘The Infant Kiss’, ‘Night Scented Stock’, ‘Army Dreamers’, ‘Breathing’.
The Dreaming (1982)
‘Sat In Your Lap’, ‘There Goes A Tenner’, ‘Pull Out The Pin’, ‘Suspended In Gaffa’, ‘Leave It Open’, ‘The Dreaming’, ‘Night Of The Swallow’, ‘All The Love’, ‘Houdini’, ‘Get Out Of My House’.
Hounds Of Love (1985)
‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)’, ‘Hounds Of Love’, ‘The Big Sky’, ‘Mother Stands For Comfort’, ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘And Dream Of Sheep’, ‘Under Ice’, ‘Waking The Witch’, ‘Watching You Without Me’, ‘Jig Of Life’, ‘Hello Earth’, ‘The Morning Fog’.
The Whole Story (1986)
‘Wuthering Heights’, ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘The Man With The Child In His Eyes’, ‘Breathing’, ‘Wow’, ‘H
ounds Of Love’, ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)’, ‘Army Dreamers’, ‘Sat In Your Lap’, ‘Experiment IV’, ‘The Dreaming’, ‘Babooshka’.
The Sensual World (1989)
‘The Sensual World’, ‘Love And Anger’, ‘The Fog’, ‘Reaching Out’, ‘Heads We’re Dancing’, ‘Deeper Understanding’, ‘Between A Man And A Woman’, ‘Never Be Mine’, ‘Rocket’s Tail’, ‘This Woman’s Work’, ‘Walk Straight Down The Middle’ (CD and cassette only).
This Woman’s Work (1990)
Box set containing Bush’s first six studio albums in their entirety, plus:
Disc 7
‘The Empty Bullring’, ‘Ran Tan Waltz’, ‘Passing Through Air’, ‘December Will Be Magic Again’, ‘Warm And Soothing’, ‘Lord Of The Reedy River’, ‘Ne T’Enfui Pas’, ‘Un Baiser d’Enfant’, ‘Under The Ivy’, ‘Burning Bridge’, ‘My Lagan Love’, ‘The Handsome Cabin Boy’, ‘Not This Time’, ‘Walk Straight Down The Middle’, ‘Be Kind To My Mistakes’.
Disc 8
‘I’m Still Waiting’, ‘Ken’, ‘One Last Look Around The House Before We Go …’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, ‘Experiment IV’, ‘Them Heavy People (Live)’, ‘Don’t Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake (Live)’, ‘James And The Cold Gun (Live)’, ‘L’Amour Looks Something Like You (Live)’, ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)’, ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘Hounds Of Love (Alternative)’, ‘The Big Sky (extended remix)’, ‘Experiment IV (extended remix)’.
The Red Shoes (1993)
‘Rubberband Girl’, ‘And So Is Love’, ‘Eat The Music’, ‘Moments Of Pleasure’, ‘The Song Of Solomon’, ‘Lily’, ‘The Red Shoes’, ‘Top Of The City’, ‘Constellation Of The Heart, ‘Big Stripey Lie’, ‘Why Should I Love You?’, ‘You’re The One’.
Live At Hammersmith Odeon (1994)
‘Moving’, ‘Them Heavy People’, ‘Violin’, ‘Strange Phenomena’, ‘Hammer Horror’, ‘Don’t Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake’, ‘Wow’, ‘Feel It’, ‘Kite’, ‘James And The Cold Gun’, ‘Oh England, My Lionheart’, ‘Wuthering Heights’.