werawhole.blogg.se

It also reached number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and its parent album, Hounds of Love, became Bush's first album to reach the top of a Billboard albums chart.īush's eclectic musical style, unconventional lyrics, performances and literary themes have influenced a diverse range of artists. In 2022, "Running Up That Hill" received renewed attention after it appeared in the Netflix series Stranger Things, becoming Bush's second UK number one and reaching the top of several other charts. Bush drew attention again in 2014 with her concert residency Before the Dawn, her first shows since 1979's The Tour of Life. She took a hiatus between her seventh and eighth albums, The Red Shoes (1993) and Aerial (2005). Bush slowly gained artistic independence in album production and has produced all her studio albums since The Dreaming (1982).

Her debut album, The Kick Inside, was released in 1978. She was signed to EMI Records after Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour helped produce a demo tape. She was the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist to enter the album chart at number one. All ten of her studio albums reached the UK Top 10, with all but one reaching the top five, including the UK number one albums Never for Ever (1980), Hounds of Love (1985) and the greatest hits compilation The Whole Story (1986). Bush has since released 25 UK Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits " The Man with the Child in His Eyes", " Babooshka", " Running Up That Hill", " Don't Give Up" (a duet with Peter Gabriel), and " King of the Mountain". In 1978, at the age of 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single " Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song.

Catherine Bush CBE (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer.