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Full name: the Propaganda And Information Network. British punk/dub band, established in 1995. First put together from members of two seminal free festival bands: A.O.S.3 and Radical Dance…

Born as Hugh Charles Padgham n Amersham, Buckinghamshire (UK) on 15 February 1955. He was educated at St Edward’s School, Oxford. He started out as a tape operator…

Born in Genoa (Italy) on 27 October 1782 as the third of six children of Antonio and Teresa (née Bocciardo) Paganini.  Antonio Paganini was an unsuccessful ship chandler,…

‘The Painter’s Link’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was originally released on her eighth studio album Aerial in 2005. Versions There is only one studio…

Born in London on 26 April 1974, Nerina Pallot was brought up in Jersey by a half-French father and a mother from Allahabad, India, together with her sister….

Born on 3 November 1952 in Greenwich, southeast London, Del Palmer is an English singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and sound engineer, best known for his work with Kate…

Eivør Pálsdóttir was born in Syðrugøta, Faroe Islands. At 13 she had her first performance on Faroese television and won a national singing contest the same year. In…

Born 27 September 1972 in Los Angeles, CA (USA). Following early notice for her work in films such as ‘Seven’ (1995), ‘Emma’ (1996), ‘Sliding Doors’ (1998) and ‘A…

Panpipes (also known as pan flutes or syrinx) are a group of musical instruments based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually…

Duo consising of Emma Panas (vocals; born in 1992) and Duncan McDougall (electronics; born in 1986). Their debut release was ‘Stand Alight’ in 2010. In 2011 they were…

Parenthetical Girls was an experimental pop band formed in Everett, Washington (USA) in 2002, and disbanded in 2013. Begun primarily as a recording project between Zac Pennington and…

Unofficial album, featuring an audience recording of Kate’s live concert at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris (France) on 6 May 1979. Track listing The album features the following tracks:…

Unofficial album, released by Reformation and (supposedly) the Fan Club of Taiwan. The recording seems to be an audience recording of Kate’s live performance in Paris. Track listing…

Alan Frederick Parker was born in Matlock, Derbyshire (UK) on 26 August 1944. He was trained by Julian Bream at London’s Royal Academy of Music. He had a…

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon….

Particle Salad is a project by American-born musician Mark Fassett. In 1996, Particle Salad contributed a cover of The Morning Fog to the fan-made compilation album Kate Bush…

Party Of Five is an American television teen and family drama created by Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman that originally aired on Fox for six seasons from 12…

‘Passing Through Air’ is a song written by Kate Bush. Recorded as a demo in 1973 at David Gilmour‘s studio a few weeks after her 15th birthday, this…

Passing Through Air is an unofficial album release. It features twelve demos recorded in the 1970’s by Kate Bush, plus one bonus track taken from a TV special….

‘Passing Through Air’ is an unofficial album featuring 19 tracks from various sources – mostly B-sides and a few live tracks. It was released by Rock Solid in…

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 29 October 1949, David Paton grew up in the south eastern suburb of Gilmerton, Edinburgh where he attended Liberton High School. At 18…

Justin Pearson has been Principal Cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra, Guest Principal cello of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Sinfonia Orchestras. He has been Andrew…

Pebble Mill at One was a British television magazine programme that was broadcast live weekdays at 1pm on BBC1, from 2 October 1972 to 23 May 1986 and…

Unofficial compilation album, released in Bulgaria in 2021. Track listing The album features the following tracks: Running Up That Hill The Sensual World Blow Away (For Bill) Moments…

Active since his college years as a Jazz Studies major at the University of Michigan, Perhapsy is the solo project of musician/graphic-artist Derek Barber, guitarist and songwriter of…

Drumer and lead vocalist of the band Unicorn during the 1970’s. In August 1973, he was hired to play on a trio of demos recorded at Dave Gilmour‘s…

Born on 8 September 1947, Morris David Brough Pert was was a Scottish composer, drummer/percussionist, and pianist who composed in the fields of both contemporary classical and jazz-rock…

Pet The Cat was formed in Port Jefferson, New York (USA). In 2012, they released the EP ‘How Goes It?’, which included a cover version of Wuthering Heights.

Peter Pan, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up is a book written by Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), originally pulished in 1911. The book is based on a play…

German TV show, broadcast annually by ZDF between 1985 and 1993. The show was presented by Peter Illmann. With thousands in the audience and many more thousands watching…

A highly regarded and talented costume designer who began her career with the television program Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Films which bear her distinctive touch include Monty Python…

‘The Phoenix Recordings’ is an unofficial album release, supposedly released in Japan, featuring 22 demos recorded in the 1970’s by Kate Bush.The title of this release comes from…

‘π’ is a song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on her eighth studio album Aerial in 2005. The song described a man who has “a complete infatuation…

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are…

Real name: Thomas Meluch, born on 4 August 1984. He began documenting field recordings and his own lo-fi compositions on dictaphones, discarded stereos and four-track machines in the…

Alternative rock band, formed in London (UK) in 1994 by singer-guitarist Brian Molko and guitarist-bassist Stefan Olsdal. The band were soon joined by drummer Robert Schultzberg. In 1996,…

‘Playing Canasta’ 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…

The Plunging Necklines started as a trio in 1995, first heard on WLUP’s Sunday Funnies Show with Brian McCann. Jacqueline Krupka and Meg Guttman continued as a duo,…

Born as Guilhem Gallart in Toulouse (France) on 7 March 1973, he left for Marseille at the age of 19. There he met other artists who would mark…

Book, published in 1990 by Treasure Press, featuring photographic work by Harry Hammond and Gered Mankowitz. Originally published in 1984 as Hit Parade. It captures some of the…

Poppet is alter ego of California-raised musician Molly Raney. Before Poppet’s genesis in 2008, Raney spent many years training in a wide variety of musical felds from western…

Experimental, ‘noisecore/grindcore’ band from Fortaleza, Brazil, consisting of Cleiton (drums), Bulú (guitars) and Smurf (guitars). Citing influences as far apart as Frédéric Chopin and Napalm Death, they have…

Andrew Powell was born in London (UK) on 18 April 1949. He began taking piano lessons at the age of four and later attended King’s College School, Wimbledon…

Born as Michael Latham Powell in Bekesbourne, Kent (UK) on 30 September 1905, Michael Powell entered the film industry in 1925 through working with director Rex Ingram at…

Compilation DVD, released by BFI and Thunderbird in 2018. The set consists of 6 DVD’s. The collection has been put together by a team of researchers in collaboration with…

Practice Makes Perfect: Piano Demos No. 1 is an unofficial album release featuring 26 demos recorded in the 1970’s by Kate Bush. It was released by Barklee Records…

‘Prelude’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was originally released on her eighth studio album Aerial in 2005. Versions There is only one studio version of…

The idea of the Monthly Tribute Series on PRF is that a band or artist is picked at the start of the month. Musicians have the full month…

Born in Sussex, England (UK), singer/songwriter Jemima Price began her performing career as a child, appearing in musicals like Annie and Les Miserables on both sides of the…

Nick Price went to Canford School on an art scholarship, but left prematurely to work at Ogilvy Benson and Mather where he became an art director. Six years…

Born as Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) on 7 June 1958, Prince developed an interest in music as a young child. He signed a recording contract…

Prince’s Trust Rock Gala is a video release of the concert staged on 21 July 1982 at the Dominion Theatre in London. Kate performed The Wedding List live…

In 1990, Amnesty International broadcast 5 minute spots on BBC television in the UK, in which celebrities talk about the plight of political prisoners. On  12 June 1990…

Weekly programme, broadcast on CITY-TV in Canada. In December 1980, an episode was dedicated to Kate Bush. Presenter Doug Pringle interviewed her at her parents’ home. The interview…

Anonymous electronic music act, which released the 12″ single ‘Healing’ in 2007. It featured a cover version of Wuthering Heights, featuring a female vocal on a danceable backing…

‘Prologue’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was originally released on her eighth studio album Aerial in 2005. Versions There is only one studio version of…

The Prophet 5 came out in January 1978. It was the last synthesizer made by the Sequential Circuits Corporation (SCI). It was the first totally programmable synthesizer on…

Pub Choir started in Australia in 2017. The live show transforms audiences into incredible choirs. The aim is to book a licensed venue with hundreds (sometimes thousands) of…

Pull Of The Bush was a Kate Bush fanzine run by Amy Shaddick in the UK in 1989. Two issues were released; one in 1989 and one in…

‘Pull Out The Pin’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was originally released on her fourth studio album The Dreaming. The lyric of the song was…

Purple Crush was formed by Jared Selter and Isla Cheadle. After releasing a handful of singles, they released the album ‘Welcome 2 Emo Club’ on their own Crushed…

Pyewacket was a feline member of Kate’s household during the late Seventies and Eighties. With fellow cat Zoodle, he was the subject of a comic strip Kate drew…