Happy 50th birthday today to the lovely Kate Bush!
Kate Bush at 50 in pictures
Born in Bexleyheath in Kent, Kate escaped suburban bliss when Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd heard her demo tape in the mid 70s and helped promote her weird and unique sound to the record companies. Still in school, Kate combined recording her early tracks with attending dance classes with David Bowie's choreographer Lindsay Kemp, and eventually she was launched on an unsuspecting public with one of the best albums of her career A Kick Inside.
To this day, everyone still remembers the impact she made, and you'll still find people doing flowery dance movements whenever Wuthering Heights is played. Such is the love of the British for eccentricity that she was a huge critical and commercial success for more than twenty years, selling millions of records worldwide. Even if the gaps between albums became longer and longer - as is the wont of such an artiste - she remains at the top of the league, and her "comeback" album Ariel in 2005 still sold millions of copies.
For me, my favourite album of hers is Hounds of Love, and, from this the classic single Running Up that Hill, which is definitely in my top three songs ever recorded. And so to celebrate this milestone for the weird and wonderful Kate Bush, a few excerpts from her brilliant career...
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