David Guilmore
Kate Bush
Kate Bush caught the attention of David Guilmore of Pink Floyd, whilst studying piano and violin and London, who helped fund her first demo sessions. She went on to sign a a contract with EMI when she was 16. In the first two years of her contract, Bush did not release an album, instead continued to study music and made demos of almost 200 songs.
Her first album, ‘The Kick Inside’, was released in 1978, and featured songs she had written during the previous two years, including the single ‘Wuthering Heights’, which topped the UK charts and became an international hit.
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A second album, ‘Lionheart’ was quickly recorded; Bush has often expressed disatisfaction with it, feeling she needed more time to get it right. Then there was the endless promotional work and an exhausting tour, the only one of her career. Kate disliked the exposure and the celebrity lifestyle, feeling it was taking her away from her main priority: making music. She moved into producing her own work with ‘Never for Ever’.
A pattern began to form in the eighties where Kate would disappear for up to four years while she produced her new material until it was ready for release. After the release of ‘The Red Shoes’ in 1993 there was no reason to suppose that she wouldn't reappear in three or four years with another set of songs. But the period of silence that followed her seventh studio album was much longer than anyone had anticipated.
Bush dropped out of the public eye for many years, although her name occasionally cropped up in the media in connection with rumours of a new album.
On 31 August, 2005, EMI put speculation to rest and confirmed that Kate's eighth studio album Aerial will be released on a double CD in November, after a single release "King of the Mountain" in October.
On 13 March 2006, EMI re-released all Bush's previous albums, including her greatest hits album The Whole Story, on compact disc with cardboard cases made to look like the original vinyl pressings.
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