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Fabian, Lara

Born as Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 January 1970, Lara Fabian is the only child of a Flemish father and a Sicilian mother. During…

Fairlight CMI

The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and…

Fairweather Low, Andy

Born as Andrew Fairweather Low in Ystrad Mynach, Wales on 2 August 1948. He founded the pop group Amen Corner in the late 1960’s. The band split in…

Fairy On The Road

Fairy On The Road is an unofficial 3CD package, released by Scorpio in 2016. It features one live show (recorded at the Apollo Theatre, Manchester (UK), 10 April…

Faith and the Muse

Monica Richards, a native of Washington, D.C., is a musician/artist/poet/scholar. She met William Faith in 1992 when her band, Strange Boutique, opened for Shadow Project in Norfolk, VA….

Fall Of Boromir (the)

The Fall Of Boromir is a painting by Derby-based artist Paul Gregory. The canvas measures 8′ by 4′ and was commissioned by Kate Bush in 1988 for £9,500…

Fanzines

Kate Bush has inspired people around the world to create fanzines dedicated to her music and her career. On this page you can find a listing of all…

Fast, Larry

Born as Lawrence Roger Fast in Livingston, New Jersey on 10 December 1951, Larry Fast attended Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he obtained a degree in History. There…

Feel It

‘Feel It’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was released on the album The Kick Inside. Three voice and piano tracks were recorded on one day…

Feel It Live

Feel It Live is an unofficial album release featuring the content of the original (official) Live at Hammersmith Odeon release.It was released in 1991 by Living Legend Records,…

Felicia’s Journey

Felicia’s Journey is a 1999 psychological thriller film written and directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins. It is based on the prize-winning 1994…

Felicity

Felicity was an American drama television series created by J. J. Abrams and Matt Reeves and produced by Touchstone Television and Imagine Television for The WB. Brian Grazer…

Fenby, Eric

Eric William Fenby OBE was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire (UK) on 22 April 1906. As a youth took lessons in the piano, organ and cello. At the…

Fender Rhodes

Electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became particularly popular during the 1970’s. Like a piano, it generates sound using keys and hammers, but instead of strings, the…

Ferry Aid

On 6 March 1987, the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise, leaving Zeebrugge port in Belgium, overturned, killing nearly 200 people. Among the passengers were many British people, using…

Ferry Me Over

‘Ferry Me Over’ is a song written by Kate Bush. Recorded as a demo, presumably in 1976. The song has never been released officially, but it did end…

Figgs, the

The Figgs are a rock ‘n’ roll band formed in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1987. The original lineup of Mike Gent (guitar), Pete Donnelly (bass), and Guy…

Finding Kate

Book written by Michael Byrne and Marius Herbert, featuring an illustrated journey through five decades of the music of Kate Bush. The book sets out to visually and…

First Aid Kit

Swedish folk duo consisting of sisters Klara (vocals, guitar) and Johanna (vocals, keyboards, autoharp, bass guitar) Söderberg. Johanna was born on 31 October 1990 and Klara on 8…

First And Last Forever (the)

The First And Last Forever was an Italian Kate Bush fanzine, run by Tina d’Agostino. In the fanzine, a reasonably informative re-telling of news culled from the British…

Fish People

Record label run by Kate Bush since 2011. For a long time, it was unknown why exactly Kate chose this name, but in February 2023 this explanation was…

Five Mod Four (the)

Band from Madison, Wisconsin (USA), consisting of J. Juchemich (drums, vocals), A. Lambrect (bass, keyboards, vocals), M. Wojtasiak (guitar, bass, vocals) and T. Wood (guitar, keyboards, vocals). The…

Flower Of The Mountain

‘Flower Of The Mountain’ is a song written by Kate Bush with text from James Joyce’s Ulysses, used by kind permission of the Trustrees of James Joyce Estate….

Flowers

‘Flowers’ is a song written by Zaine Griff. It was released on Zaine Griff’s second album Figures (1982). The lyrics explicitly refer to the theatre play ‘Flowers’, written…

Flowers [performance]

Dance production by Lindsay Kemp, beased on the book ‘Our Lady Of The Flowers’ by Jean Genet (1943). Due to its sexual content the book was sold as…

Foam Amulet

Foam Amulet is Nick Shapland, who makes ‘eerie, self-confessional music’. In 2010, he released the track ‘Haunted Horse’. In 2014, Foam Amulet contributed a cover version of Bertie…

Fog (the)

‘The Fog’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was originally released on her sixth studio album ‘The Sensual World’ in 1989. The song features the voice…

Fonky Family

Fonky Family are a French hip hop group from Marseille. They are composed of four rappers, Le Rat Luciano, Menzo, Don Choa and Sat, the producer Pone, DJ…

For The Love Of Kate

For The Love Of Kate was an American fanzine devoted to Kate Bush. It was run by Gillian Gaar in Seattle. The first issue was published in 1983….

Forté, John

Born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York (USA) on 30 January 1975, John Forté studied classical violin, then graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1993. He…

Four Day Hombre

Rock band from Leeds (UK), formed in 2000 by Simon Wainwright (vocals, guitar, piano), Rich Huxley (vocals, guitar), Ed Waring (keyboards), Jason Miller (bass) and Ash (drums). In…

Fraggs, Andi

Born as Andrew Fraggs Bennett in Merseyside, England on 7 April 1986, Andi Fraggs released his first solo single, the double A-side ‘Addiction’/’November’, in 2010. A year later,…

Francis, Maja

Born as Maja Francis Alderin in Helsingborg (Sweden) on 10 November 1985, Maja Francis is a Swedish singer/songwriter. She grew up in Ängelholm and now lives in Stockholm….

French, Danielle

Canadian singer/songwriter from Calgary, AB who has been writing, recording and performing for 20 years. She released her debut album ‘Me Myself & I’ in 1995. The follow-up,…

French, Dawn

Born in Holyhead, Wales on 11 October 1957, Dawn Roma French is a British actress, writer and comedian. She was educated at the independent St Dunstan’s Abbey School,…

Friday Night Saturday Morning

Television chat show with a revolving guest host. It ran on BBC2 from 28 September 1979 to 2 April 1982. There were 64 editions over six series, broadcast…

Friedman, Maria

Born in Birmingham (UK), the daughter of Clair Llewelyn Friedman (née Sims), a concert pianist, and Leonard Friedman, a violinist for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, on 19 March…

Frightened Eyes

‘Frightened Eyes’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was recorded as a demo, presumably in 1976. The song has never been released officially, but it did…

Frozen Inertia

Frozen Inertia was founded in 1998 by Timothy Graves and Brad Palmer. Their first album, ‘The First Of The Fifth’ was released in 2004. It was a collection…

Fruitopia

Fruitopia was a pet project of Coke’s former marketing chief, Sergio Zyman. It was a fruit-flavoured drink introduced by the Coca-Cola Company in 1994 and targeted at teens…

Fry, Stephen

Stephen John Fry was born in Hampstead, London (UK) on 24 August 1957. At 17, after leaving Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, Fry absconded with a credit…

Fujare

The fujare originated in central Slovakia as a large sophisticated folk shepherd’s overtone fipple flute of unique design. It is technically a contrabass in the tabor pipe class….

Fullhouse

‘Fullhouse’ is a song written by Kate Bush in 1978. One of three new songs – along with Coffee Homeground and Symphony In Blue – written for the…

Futureheads (the)

Band formed by Barry Hyde (vocals and guitar), David “Jaff” Craig (bass), Peter Brewis (drums), and Ross Millard (vocals and guitar) at City of Sunderland College. They first…