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Kate Bush
Catherine Bush is an English singer, songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer. She is noted for her eclectic style, unconventional lyrics and innovative dance performances. Her sound and choreography have influenced a range of artists.
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entertainment · English singer-songwriter (born 1958) · record producer · mime artist · recording artist · film actor · singer · songwriter · film director · composer · musician · also Kate Bush, Bush
Born 30 July 1958 · Q636
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2026· 4 entries
Bristol Motor Speedway: Kyle Bush's first triple sweep at Bristol that made NASCAR history
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Far Out Magazine: Placebo proved that even emos cannot ruin Kate Bush
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Public attention spiked: 16,186 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.7× the usual 2,407, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM
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2025· 5 entries
Published video “Little Shrew - Short Clip”.
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The Guardian: Kate Bush and artists harness power of Running Up That Hill for War Child appeal
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The Guardian: My cultural awakening: Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman
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Released album “Best of the Other Sides”.
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The Guardian: Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: Kate Bush joins campaign against AI using artists’ work without permission
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The Guardian: Babooshkas rejoice! Kate Bush is every woman’s teenage soul – which is why men don’t get her | Barbara Ellen
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The Guardian: Kate Bush: Little Shrew review – this devastating film will make you weep at war’s violence against children
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The Guardian: Kate Bush shares plans to make new music: ‘I’ve got lots of ideas’
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Published video “Little Shrew (Snowflake)”.
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2023· 7 entries
Published video “Hounds of Love (reissue) - Baskerville Edition - short”.
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Published video “The Boxes of Lost at Sea Unboxing Video”.
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Published video “Hounds of Love (reissue) - The Lost At Sea Boxes - short”.
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Published video “The Baskerville Edition Unboxing Video”.
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2023).
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Published video “Kate Bush - The Book Playlist - How To Be Invisible”.
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The Guardian: Kate Bush ‘shocked and honoured’ to earn place in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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2022· 5 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Kate Bush, the singer and composer behind the song “Running Up That Hill” said, “Some think it’s literally about running up a hill, but it’s not. I’ve never even seen a hill, let alone run up one.”” Originated as Satire.
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Published video “Running Up That Hill 2022 Edit”.
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Published video “Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill - Live on Wogan 1985”.
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Published video “Running Up That Hill 2022 Edit - 16:9 Widescreen”.
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After it appeared in the Netflix series Stranger Things, "Running Up That Hill" became Bush's second UK number-one single and her highest entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, at number three, and topped several internation
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2020· 2 entries
Grazia magazine conducted an interview with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
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And inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023
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2019· 2 entries
French record producer Pone, who is paralysed from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, released Kate & Me, an entire album created from samples of Kate Bush's work
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Bush published a statement on her website saying that she was not a Conservative Party supporter, that she felt May was an improvement over the previous Prime Minister, and that she had intended only to defend women in p
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2018· 8 entries
Released album “The Other Sides”.
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Released album “Remastered in Vinyl III”.
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Released ep “Selection from ‘The Other Sides’”.
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Released album “Remastered, Part II”.
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Released album “Remastered, Part I”.
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Released album “Remastered in Vinyl I”.
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Released album “Remastered in Vinyl II”.
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2021 and 2022, and was inducted in 2023, but did not attend the ceremony
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2016· 2 entries
Released album “Before the Dawn”.
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The Canadian news magazine Maclean's published an interview in which Bush was asked about people being afraid of women holding political power
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2015· 1 entry
Adele stated that the release of her third studio album 25 was inspired by Bush's 2014 comeback to the stage
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2014· 2 entries
Were replaced with versions by Bush's son Bertie
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Bush's son, Bertie, featured in her 2014 residency Before the Dawn.
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2013).
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Bush became the only female artist to have top five albums in the UK charts in five successive decades
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Apollo Theater Manchester 1979 Complete Version”.
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2011· 9 entries
Released album “50 Words for Snow”.
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Released album “Butterfly Kisses”.
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Released album “Director’s Cut”.
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Released ep “Hounds of Love (collector’s edition)”.
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Released album “Monday Night at the London Palladium”.
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Elton John collaborated with Bush once again on "Snowed in at Wheeler Street" for her most recent album 50 Words for Snow
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“It was enormously enjoyable. But physically it was absolutely exhausting.”
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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
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John praised her talents as a musician, stating "I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “On the Box”.
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2007· 4 entries
It was voted by readers of The Observer newspaper as the greatest ever cover version
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Bush was asked to write a song for The Golden Compass soundtrack which made reference to the lead character, Lyra Belacqua
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Released album “My Lagan Love”.
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Bush's cover won The Observer readers' award for Greatest Cover of all time
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Early Demos (1973-1980) & Additional Rare Tracks”.
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Aerial”.
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Released album “Fruit”.
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On the UK download chart after featuring in a British television advertisement for the charity NSPCC
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2002· 4 entries
Awarded Ivor Novello Awards (2002).
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Singing the Pink Floyd song "Comfortably Numb" at the Royal Festival Hall in London
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Received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music
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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
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2001· 1 entry
Bush was awarded a Q Award as Classic Songwriter
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “The Kick Inside / Never for Ever”.
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1999· 1 entry
VH1 named Bush the 46th-greatest woman in rock and roll
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1998· 5 entries
“As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process. You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.”
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An asteroid was named after Bush
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Bush and guitarist Danny McIntosh have a son, Albert McIntosh, known as Bertie, born in 1998.
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Bush gave birth to Albert, known as "Bertie", fathered by guitarist Dan McIntosh, whom she met in 1992
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“I think musicians have a responsibility to try and do something that is good. It's so hard. It's very difficult to pull something out of the hat creatively. Although I say it's their responsibility, it's really just people trying to do the best that they can.”
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “Lionheart / The Dreaming”.
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Released album “Gold Ballads”.
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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
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “The Kick Inside / Lionheart”.
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1994· 3 entries
Bush covered George Gershwin's "The Man I Love" for the tribute album The Glory of Gershwin
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And also received a small number of cinema screenings around the world
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Released album “Alchemy”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “The Red Shoes”.
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Released album “Moments of Pleasure: The Best Works 1978-1993”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “1979 Television Special”.
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Released album “The Kick Inside / Lionheart / Never for Ever”.
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1991· 5 entries
Released album “Cathy’s Home Demos”.
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Released album “Back Sides”.
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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
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Bush released a cover of Elton John's "Rocket Man", which reached number 12 on the UK singles chart, and reached number two in Australia
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Released album “Hounds of Love / Lionheart / The Kick Inside”.
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1990· 4 entries
Released album “This Woman’s Work: Anthology 1978–1990”.
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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 featuring the majority of her singles' B-sides recorded from 1978 to 1990
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Released ep “Aspects of the Sensual World”.
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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
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “The Sensual World”.
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The Sensual World was described by Bush herself as "her most honest, personal album"
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Released album “Live at Hammersmith Odeon”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Alone at My Piano”.
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1987· 2 entries
As well as seven nominations for Grammy Awards
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Sang a verse on the Beatles cover charity single "Let It Be" by Ferry Aid
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1986· 3 entries
Released ep “The Hair of the Hound”.
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Released album “The Whole Story”.
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Released album “Under The Ivy”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “Hounds of Love”.
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1984· 2 entries
Released album “Kate Bush”.
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Released album “The Single File 1978–1983”.
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1982· 3 entries
Released album “The Dreaming”.
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Released album “Sampler”.
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Bush criticised the choice: "People weren't even generally aware that I wrote my own songs or played the piano
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Never for Ever”.
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1979· 3 entries
Released ep “On Stage”.
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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
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And her mother Hannah, to whom she was exceptionally close
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1978· 7 entries
Released album “Lionheart”.
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Released album “The Kick Inside”.
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Released ep “Kate Bush”.
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Released ep “4 Sucessos”.
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Bush surpassed Tom Jones's 42-year gap between number ones and replaced Cher as the oldest female solo chart-topping artist at 63 years and 11 months
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At the age of 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 fully self-written song
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“The Man with the Child in His Eyes”
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-07-30.
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