Running Up That Hill
50 Visions of Kate Bush- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2023
Summary
"Praiseworthy."—The Guardian
The most comprehensive book on Kate Bush to date, featuring exclusive interview content with Kate herself, close friends, and collaborators
Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most distinctive musicians of the modern era. Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush is a multi-faceted biography of this famously elusive figure, viewing her life and work from fresh and illuminating angles. Featuring details from the author’s one-on-one conversations with Kate—as well as vignettes of her key songs, albums, videos, and concerts—this artful, candid, and often brutally funny portrait introduces a refreshingly real Kate Bush. Tom Doyle also intertwines vivid reconstructions of transformative moments in her career and insights from the friends and collaborators closest to her, including her photographer brother John Carder Bush and fellow artists David Gilmour, John Lydon, and Youth.
With Netflix’s Stranger Things inspiring a new generation of fans, Kate Bush has made an incredible resurgence in popularity and has broken new records. Running Up That Hill is a vibrant and comprehensive re-examination of the artist and her many creative landmarks.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2023
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-5381-8116-4
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-5381-8117-1
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 358
- Product type
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- 1. Moving Back into the Light No access Pages 1 - 16
- 2. Through the Back Door No access Pages 17 - 19
- 3. The Sister in the Photographs No access Pages 20 - 24
- 4. The Artful Bushes No access Pages 25 - 31
- 5. The Girl at the Piano No access Pages 32 - 39
- 6. A Songbird in the Garden of a Starman No access Pages 40 - 48
- 7. Guest Testimony No access Pages 49 - 52
- 8. “The Man That Started It All” No access Pages 53 - 58
- 9. Round the Pubs No access Pages 59 - 64
- 10. Live in the Studio No access Pages 65 - 71
- 11. “A Bag o’ Cats!” No access Pages 72 - 73
- 12. Public Image Limited No access Pages 74 - 79
- 13. Lost in France No access Pages 80 - 88
- 14. “Your Hair Looks Really Nice” No access Pages 89 - 97
- 15. “The Fear and Sparkle” No access Pages 98 - 111
- 16. Smash! No access Pages 112 - 122
- 17. A Right Royal Mishap and Blunder No access Pages 123 - 125
- 18. Echoes in the Walls No access Pages 126 - 133
- 19. Guest Testimony No access Pages 134 - 136
- 20. Let the Weirdness In No access Pages 137 - 147
- 21. “Pull Out the Pin” No access Pages 148 - 149
- 22. Back in the Lens No access Pages 150 - 154
- 23. An “Uncommercial Record” No access Pages 155 - 158
- 24. The Hardest Sell No access Pages 159 - 166
- 25. Retreat, Rethink No access Pages 167 - 179
- 26. A Night at the Laserium No access Pages 180 - 181
- 27. “The Ninth Wave” No access Pages 182 - 186
- 28. Making Rain No access Pages 187 - 195
- 29. “I Used to Be Kate Bush” No access Pages 196 - 204
- 30. “Under the Ivy” No access Pages 205 - 208
- 31. “Something Good” No access Pages 209 - 215
- 32. Change the Past and Future No access Pages 216 - 229
- 33. A Remote Connection No access Pages 230 - 234
- 34. “Moments of Pleasure” No access Pages 235 - 239
- 35. The Line, the Cross and the Curve No access Pages 240 - 245
- 36. Public Image (Further) Limited No access Pages 246 - 252
- 37. An Inimitable Artist? No access Pages 253 - 260
- 38. “Ooh, I’ve Just Come!” No access Pages 261 - 267
- 39. A Sea and Sky of Honey No access Pages 268 - 282
- 40. “A Coral Room” No access Pages 283 - 286
- 41. Guest Testimony No access Pages 287 - 289
- 42. “I Obviously Have a Very Recognizable Nose” No access Pages 290 - 298
- 43. “Among Angels” No access Pages 299 - 306
- 44. Before and Beyond the Dawn No access Pages 307 - 319
- 45. “Bigger Fucking Waves” No access Pages 320 - 323
- 46. Tory Furore No access Pages 324 - 329
- 47. The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience . . . No access Pages 330 - 334
- 48. “KT” No access Pages 335 - 338
- 49. The End of the Day No access Pages 339 - 345
- 50. Strange Phenomena No access Pages 346 - 355
- Acknowledgments No access Pages 356 - 358
