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  • Kate Bush was born
    1958
  • Kate Bush
    Lyricist, composer and performer
  • Hounds of love was released
    1985
  • Songs on Hounds of Love
    • And Dream of Sheep
    • Under Ice
    • Cloudbusting
  • Hounds of Love was Kate Bush's fifth album
  • Hounds of Love got to Number One as an album
  • Hounds of love knocked Madonna's "Like a Virgin" off of the top spot
  • The song "Running Up That Hill" was one of four singles, reaching number 3
  • Kate Bush wrote and recorded every album in her very own studio
  • Kate Bush made her own studio as the studio costs on the previous album — "The Dreaming" — had been very expensive
  • Hounds of Love song structure
    1. Verse 1
    2. Chorus 1
    3. Verse 2
    4. Chorus 2
    5. Instrumental
    6. Chorus 3
    7. Instrumental
    8. Chorus 4
    9. Instrumental
    10. Coda
  • And Dream of Sheep song structure
    1. Verse 1
    2. Link 1
    3. Verse 2
    4. Link 2
    5. Coda
  • Under Ice song structure
    Through composed
  • Kate Bush's music
    • Textural blend of synthesised sounds with traditional instrumentation
    • Influences of family connections folk and Irish
  • Instruments used
    • Whistles
    • Uilleann pipes
    • Balalaika
    • Bouzouki
    • Didgeridoo
  • This movement of music emerged from the psychedelia of the 60s
  • Psychedelia
    A life associated with drugs
  • More listening than dancing
  • Kate Bush was spotted by Dave Gilmour
  • Dave Gilmour is Pink Floyd
  • Kate Bush was signed by EMI
    16 years old
  • Kate Bush was how old when Wuthering Heights was released

    19 years old
  • Wuthering Heights was Kate Bush's debut single
  • Her debut single Wuthering Heights was number one in 4 weeks
  • Her debut single Wuthering Heights was the first to achieve number one with a self written song
  • Wuthering Heights was an international hit
  • Some of the songs in her debut album had been written when Kate Bush was only 13 years old
  • Hounds of Love was Kate Bush's 3rd producer
  • Hounds of Love was her most independent project
  • The two parts of the album were either side of the original vinyl LP. *The Ninth Wave*, on side 2, was a miniature concept album, based on Tennyson's poem about King Arthur called *Idylls of the King*
  • The use of Fairlight CMI was a signature of her studio technique. (She had first used it on her third album *Never for Ever*.) This was the first commercially available synthesiser that could process a cache of sounds, use looping and sequencing techniques and could also be used as a sampler
  • On side 2 of the vinyl of Hound of Love there was a miniature concept album named the Ninth Wave
  • The Ninth Wave, one side 2, was baes on Tennyson’s poem about king Arthur called Idylls of the King
  • Tennyson wrote a poem called Idylls of the King, this inspired the miniature concept album The Ninth wave
  • the use of Fairlight CMI was a signature of Kate Bush’s Studio technique
  • Fairlight CMI is a musical synthesiser
  • "Never for Ever" is Kate Bush’s 3rd album
  • Kate Bush's third studio album "Never For Ever" was released in 1980
  • Fairlight CMI is the first commercially avaliable synthesister
  • Fairlight CMI could process a cache of sounds, use looping and sequencing techniques and could be used as sampler