🎉🎈 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛! 🎈🎉

Catherine Bush, better known as Kate Bush, is an English singer, songwriter and record producer who was born on July 30th 1958 and celebrates her 64th birthday today. She comes from an artistic background. Her mother was an amateur traditional Irish dancer, her father was an amateur pianist and both of her brothers were involved in the local folk music scene.

🎉🎈 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐄! 🎈🎉

Photo credits: unknown (Kate Bush), Scarlet Page (2), Franck Courtès, Perou, James Sharrock, Nadav Kander / edit by Silke

The artist is best known for her hit “Running up that hill” which was covered by Placebo in 2003. Recently the original song gained new popularity thanks to its importance in the latest season of “Stranger Things” and reached top positions in charts all over the world.


🎬 𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 – 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟 (𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼)
🎵 http://bit.ly/2SBzQmp 🎵


Kate Bush began to write songs at the age of eleven. She was signed to EMI Records after Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour helped produce a demo tape. Kate's debut single “Wuthering heights” was released in 1978 when she was only 19 years old and reached no. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, where it stayed for four weeks. She was the first female artist that achieved the number one with a self-written song. Kate's first album “The kick inside“ sold over a million copies alone in the UK.
Up to now Kate Bush has released ten studio albums, all of them were in the UK Top 10, two of these albums even reached no. 1.


🎬 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 – 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟 (𝗦𝘇𝗶𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟮)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3c1C8ai 🎵

Photo credut: Picture Alliance dpa

“Tour of Life“, Kate Bush's only concert tour ever, ran for six weeks in May 1979, covering Britain and mainland Europe. In 2014 she announced her first live dates in decades. This series of 22 shows running at the Hammersmith Apollo in London was called “Before the dawn“, the tickets were sold out in only 15 minutes.
In December 2018 she published her first book, a compilation of lyrics entitled “How to be invisible“.

Kate Bush was in a long-term relationship with bassist and engineer Del Palmer from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. She is now married to guitarist Danny McIntosh, they have a son named Albert. Kate dedicaded the song “Bertie” to him.


🎬 𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗗 𝗚𝗜𝗟𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗥 – 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟
🎵 https://bit.ly/2T8Nwv2 🎵


With “Running up that hill” Kate recently scored her first ever Top 10 hit in the USA on the Billboard Hot 100 with the highest new entry at number 8. Her previous best was with the same song at number 30 in 1985. 37 years is by the way the longest ever gap between a song’s debut and its first appearance in the US Top 10. The track has also reached no. 2 in the UK Top 40. It peaked no. 1 in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and Sweden and entered top positions in many other countries all over the world. Running up that hill” climbed to number 1 on the Global Daily Spotify Chart on June 7th and was the no. 1 song in 18 different countries on Spotify and no. 1 on iTunes in Ireland, the UK and the USA. “ Last but not least it was the most searched for song in the world on the Shazam app. An impressive success, especially so many years after the original release of the single.


📀 𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 – 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟 (𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝗟𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗲 '𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮' 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘅)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3zChx9V 🎵

📌 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 📌
“Running up that hill” was the first single from Kate's 1985 album “Hounds of Love” and peaked no. 3 in the UK Singles Chart back then. It was originally named “A deal with God” but the representatives of her record label refused to release it under this title. So the single was released as “Running up that hill” but on the album the song was still listed as "Running up that hill (A deal with God)". Below you can read what Kate has to say about the meaning of the song.

Photo credit: David Redfern / Getty Images

📌 𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗢𝗡 “𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟“ 📌
📢 “It's the two people in the song, a man and a woman, that want to make a deal with God in order to swap places with each other. That if the man could be the woman, and vice-versa, they would understand what it's like from that other person's point of view and that perhaps there'd be less problems in the relationship.”
(The new music, 1985)

📢 ”I was trying to say that, really, a man and a woman can't understand each other because we are a man and a woman. And if we could actually swap each other's roles, if we could actually be in each other's place for a while, I think we'd both be very surprised! [Laughs] And I think it would lead to a greater understanding. And really the only way I could think it could be done was either... you know, I thought a deal with the devil, you know. And I thought, 'well, no, why not a deal with God!' You know, because in a way it's so much more powerful the whole idea of asking God to make a deal with you. You see, for me it is still called "Deal with God", that was its title. But we were told that if we kept this title that it would not be played in any of the religious countries, Italy wouldn't play it, France wouldn't play it, and Australia wouldn't play it! Ireland wouldn't play it, and that generally we might get it blacked purely because it had God in the title.”
(Classic Album, 1991)


🎬 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 – 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟 (𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗺 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟲)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3zgU3Vt 🎵


📌 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗟𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗟 𝗢𝗡 “𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟“ 📌
📢 ”We’re fans of Kate Bush so, when it came to this track, we thought that the lyrics had a real depth and you can’t really get that in the original because she’s singing it so fast. We wanted to slow it down and it felt really good, and we’re really proud of it.”
𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵?
“Yes we did, actually. We met and she does like it and we’re relieved by that fact because we’re big fans.”
(UnderGroundOnline, 2007)

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