Like the sun coming out, ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen

One of our favourite singers ever here at Dolores Delargo Towers, Miss Kate Bush celebrates her 55th birthday today.

Facts about Kate Bush:

• It is 35 years since her debut album The Kick Inside was released.
• There was (famously) a twelve-year gap between her eighth studio album (The Red Shoes) and her ninth (Aerial), and six years between that and her tenth (50 Words For Snow), which was released in 2011 (although Director's Cut, reworking some of her earlier material, was released the same year).
• Kate turned down an invitation by the organizers of the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony to perform at the event. Instead, a recording of a new remix of her 1985 hit Running Up that Hill was played at the end of the ceremony.
• Her last stage performance was a duet with Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd (who "discovered" her) in 2002, but she made a very rare personal appearance this year at Buckingham Palace to receive her CBE from HM The Queen.
• Her son with husband Dan McIntosh, Bertie, will be 15 years old in 2013.
• In May 2013, 300 Kate Bush fans gathered in a park in Brighton to break the record for the most lookalikes re-enacting the famous video for her 1978 single Wuthering Heights.

Here is the lady herself, with one of her most fabulous songs - from possibly my fave album of hers Hounds of Love...

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

Many, many happy returns!

Catherine "Kate" Bush, CBE (born 30th July 1958)