Running Up That Hill

50 Visions of Kate Bush

Tom Doyle

• Publisher: Nine Eight Books
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788707800
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

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.' - Record Collector Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern era. Comprising fifty chapters or 'visions', Running Up That Hill 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-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.Along the way, the narrative also includes vivid reconstructions of transformative moments in her career and insights from the friends and collaborators closest to Kate, including her photographer brother John Carder Bush and fellow artists David Gilmour, John Lydon and Youth. Running Up That Hill is a vibrant and comprehensive re-examination of Kate Bush and her many creative landmarks.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Epigraph
• 1. Moving Back into the Light
• 2. Through the Back Door
• 3. The Sister in the Photographs
• 4. The Artful Bushes
• 5. The Girl at the Piano
• 6. A Songbird in the Garden of a Starman
• 7. Guest Testimony
• 8. ‘The Man That Started It All’
• 9. Round the Pubs
• 10. Live in the Studio
• 11. ‘A Bag o’ Cats!’
• 12. Public Image Limited
• 13. Lost in France
• 14. ‘Your Hair Looks Really Nice’
• 15. ‘The Fear and Sparkle’
• 16. Smash!
• 17. A Right Royal Mishap and Blunder
• 18. Echoes in the Walls
• 19. Guest Testimony
• 20. Let the Weirdness In
• 21. ‘Pull Out the Pin’
• 22. Back in the Lens
• 23. An ‘Uncommercial Record’
• 24. The Hardest Sell
• 25. Retreat, Rethink
• 26. A Night at the Laserium
• 27. ‘The Ninth Wave’
• 28. Making Rain
• 29. ‘I Used to Be Kate Bush’
• 30. ‘Under the Ivy’
• 31. ‘Something Good’
• 32. Change the Past and Future
• 33. A Remote Connection
• 34. ‘Moments of Pleasure’
• 35. The Line, the Cross and the Curve
• 36. Public Image (Further) Limited
• 37. An Inimitable Artist?
• 38. ‘Ooh, I’ve Just Come!’
• 39. A Sea and Sky of Honey
• 40. ‘A Coral Room’
• 41. Guest Testimony
• 42. ‘I Obviously Have a Very Recognisable Nose’
• 43. ‘Among Angels’
• 44. Before and Beyond the Dawn
• 45. ‘Bigger Fucking Waves’
• 46. Tory Furore
• 47. The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience . . .
• 48. ‘KT’
• 49. The End of the Day
• 50. Strange Phenomena
• Acknowledgements