Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush

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With an output of just ten studio albums over a career lasting more than three decades, she was recently introduced to a new generation through the use of her music on the TV series Stranger Things. Doyle tracks Bush’s creative impulse from writing poems as a child to spending hours creating music in her barn turned recording studio at East Wickham Farm and producing her own albums. The book's earliest chapters made me particularly wistful; I was reminded that her homelife with her big, warm, creative family was exactly what I would've loved myself, and I do envy her that.

Running Up That Hill offers a range of new ways to appreciate the single-minded inspiration that it springs from. It was well written but felt somewhat repetitive, with her need to be in control, her dedication to art above commerce, and willingness to spend as long as it takes, reiterated many times. There are third party comments about Kate and her work but also some direct quotes, particularly from a lengthy and exclusive 2005 interview that the author had with Kate. Long-term Kate Bush devotees and new teenage fans won over by Stranger Things will both find enlightenment in Tom Doyle’s prismastic portrait of the elusive artist. These short chapters touch on most of her career, from writing and recording through personal feelings and even song analysis.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. A Times Book of the Year An Uncut Magazine Book of the Year A Waterstones Music Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the Year A Louder Book of the Year ‘Probably the best Bush book to date. The main impediment, for the wannabe Kate Bushbiographer is that Kate’s family and friends – along with most people that she’s worked with over the years – are not likely to want to talk to you. She's also an amazingly creative talent with the innate ability to mesmerise you at one moment then repel you at the next. Running Up That Hill is a vibrant and comprehensive re-examination of the artist and her many creative landmarks.

Her long processes for getting things just right, discomfort around her beauty and her sheer determination to always do her best. She thought it sounded like “a bag of cats”, but Lydon, who had just left the Sex Pistols, heard a fellow renegade. They are the beehived blue eyed soul of Dusty Springfield, the most exquisite opera diva Montserrat Caballe and yes my beautiful elven Kate Bush.Split into 50 brief chapters, Doyle’s portrait stitches together a comprehensive, revealing commentary on the notoriously media-shy artist and her complicated relationship to her craft, public persona, and audience (“If you make music and you don’t let people hear it, you could almost say it doesn’t exist,” she once said).

Seventeen years later, Kate went back to number one on the world charts courtesy of 'Stranger Things' on Netflix where her 80's hit "Running up that Hill" was on heavy rotation as the driving force behind one of the show's characters. Kate Bush w 50 odsłonach” Toma Doyle’a to portret artystki luźno nawiązujący do wywiadu autora, który przeprowadził z bohaterką w 2005 roku. I was particularly moved by the final chapter charting the resurgence of 'Running Up That Hill' after it was used in Stranger Things, and the way young and new fans were discovering how great and, frankly, ahead of her time she was (a positive portrayal of same-sex love in 'Kashka from Baghdad', potential trans interpretation of 'Running Up That Hill' etc.

Bush’s infrequent interviews rarely reveal her thoughts about anything but music, as Doyle found when he spent four hours with her for a Mojo magazine feature in 2005, from which he quotes extensively. The challenge for rock journalist and fan Tom Doyle is that his subject is a secret society in her own right. The best sections refer to a lengthy interview the author did with Kate in 2005 to publicise her latest album, ‘Aerial.

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Doyle looks at the recording, the times between albums when songs were worked on, new technology tested, videos thought of, and other collaborations. RUTH is a nicely-structured book, taking readers from Kate's schooldays and earliest forays into music and songwriting, up to and including the resurgence of interest in her music after Running Up That Hill was used in Stranger Things. All of the information comes firsthand from Kate herself, her life partners, her family of origin, her musical collaborators, her fans and the record companies.