Kate Bush- Hounds of Love -

• She was born in 1958 and is still alive
• Musical influences and styles

  • Eclectic music
  • Progressive rock
  • Folk
  • Ethnic styles
  • Electronica
  • Classical forms
• Collaborators

  • Elton John
  • Eric Clapton
  • Jeff Beck
  • David Gilmour
  • Kenedy
  • Prince
• Hounds of Love

  A concept album
• Hounds of Love was released

  1985
• Kate Bush


  • Composer, performer and producer for her music
  • Had control over her music
• Musical features incorporated

  • Fairlight CMI
  • Piano
  • Violin
  • Balika
  • Harmony vocals on Under Ice
• Inspiration for Cloud Busting

  Based on the relationship between psychoanalyst/inventor Wilhelm Reich, and his son, Peter
• Wilhelm Reich was an inventor who believed he could create rain and rid humanity's, but his attempts landed him in jail for two years for faugh §956
• The instrumentation includes acoustic guitar, drums, bass, piano, strings, and percussion.
• The lyrics describe how Peter witnessed his father's experiments with cloud busting and felt betrayed when he was sent to prison.
• The song explores themes such as love, trust, betrayal, and the consequences of scientific experimentation.
• She signed to company/record Labour  EMI when she was 16
• • “Wuthering Heights” which was her only UK number 1 
•   ‘And Dream of Sheep’ is about drifting in the sea, awaiting rescue
• ‘Under Ice’ is about in a dream-like state the narrator is skating on ice, alone. In a doppelganger-like moment she sees herself under the ice.