Primary Facts

• 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