Kate Bush

Catherine "Kate" Bush, CBE (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 35 years. In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first woman to have a UK number one with a self-written song. She has since released ten albums, three of which topped the UK Albums Chart. She has had 25 UK Top 40 hit singles, including the Top 10 hits "Wuthering Heights", "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 1987, she won a Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist, and in 2002, her songwriting ability was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. During the course of her career, she has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards. After her 1979 tour – the only concert tour of her career – Bush released the 1980 album Never for Ever, which made her the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist ever to enter the album chart at Number 1. She is also the first (and to date only) female artist to have Top 5 albums in the UK charts in five successive decades. Bush was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to music. She received the award from Queen Elizabeth II on 10 April 2013 at Windsor Castle.==Links To Peel== Peel was not keen on Kate Bush's music. In fact he was once quoted as saying he never took her music seriously with her falsetto voice. Perhaps because of his dislike of opera with falsetto voices, that he never really liked her music. When reviewing the Reading Festival in 1995, Peel wrote in the Guardian (later reprinted in the Olivetti Chronicles):


 * "The global success of Bjork has been built on her exotic background, the projection of herself as plain weird and a singing style so mannered as to make Kate Bush sound pedestrian by comparison."

On record, Peel did play a Kate Bush record, Wuthering Heights, covered by China Drum on 21 April 1995 and later played the song again when China Drum were performing the song at the Reading Festival on 25 August 1995. After Peel's death in 2004, Rob Da Bank took over the Peel show and when Kate Bush released her Aerial album after an absence of twelve years in 2005, Rob Da Bank enthusiatically played her King Of The Mountain single and called the track as '''vintage vintage Kate Bush'. ''. The single ultimately reached number 42 on the 2005 Festive Fifty, hosted by Rob Da Bank and Stephen Huw.

Festive Fifty Entries

 * 2005 Festive Fifty: King Of The Mountain #42

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