Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush

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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. Zresztą to nie jedyne znane nazwisko wśród współpracowników Kate – nagrywała z Peterem Gabrielem czy Philem Collinsem. Like her hero David Bowie, Bush’s greatest strength was arguably never in the avant-garde but in stretching and subverting the idealism of pop music. Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush is a vibrant and comprehensive re-examination of Kate Bush and her many creative landmarks. Drawing on his 2005 interview with Bush for Mojo magazine and conversations with her friends and family, Doyle contends that her exacting creative vision—“She can see and hear exactly what she wants to get,” according to Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour—classes Bush as more “visual auteur” than celebrity musician.

Comprehensively charting her career, from The Kick Inside (1978) to Director’s Cut (2011), Doyle captures a more multidimensional view of the artist, allowing glimpses into her personal life, including the earth-shattering loss of her mother in 1992 and her friendship with David Bowie. 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. The interviews are all insightful, and when there is a question about what might have happened, Doyle gives all the sides, and lets the reader decide.Featuring details from the author's one-on-one conversations with Kateas well as vignettes of her key songs, albums, videos, and concertsthis artful, candid, and often brutally funny portrait introduces a refreshingly real Kate Bush.

Over three years in the making and featuring a raft of session players and producers, it was a lexicon of both time and craft.

The challenge for rock journalist and fan Tom Doyle is that his subject is a secret society in her own right. Running Up That Hill is a vibrant and comprehensive re-examination of Kate Bush and her many creative landmarks. 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.

It's broadly chronological, with a neat framing device of the author's interview with her as she was putting the finishing touches to Aerial. You’ll come away admiring Kate’s intellect, her determination and her achievements, but the mystery that is Kate Bush remains, and I imagine that’s just how she likes it. My only complaint is that it doesn’t have any photographs — one might expect at least a couple of them in a biography, right?In 2005 rock journalist Tom Doyle interviewed iconic songstress Kate Bush in her home for the popular music magazine Mojo. had great fun listening to each album after its relevant discussion in the book, which provided many ways to read the songs together/indicated where they were ongoing stories.

As someone fortunate enough to see her live in 2014, I loved reading about the Before the Dawn concerts (it really took me back there) and the details of how she made her albums and videos provided me with a lot of new info.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. Featuring details from the author’s one-to-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 the reader to the refreshingly real Kate Bush. While not wanting to be famous is an admirable and unusual trait for a ‘pop star’, the book never quite gets to the bottom of Kate’s lack of interest in commercial success, her dislike of touring and not wanting to grasp opportunities that others would give their right arm for.