Kate’s nickname for Alan Murphy. It is often interpreted as a play on the Belgian cartoon figures, the Smurfs, but it is more likely to have been derived…
Becky Jones, better known as Saint Saviour, is an English musician from Stockton-On-Tees. Formerly of the electro band The RGBs, she toured with Groove Armada as their lead…
Location of the first music video for Wuthering Heights, according to director Nick Abson. The exact location where Kate is standing for most of the video on Salisbury…
English record producers David Gates and Malcolm Stanners and percussionist and vocalist Andy Rose from Surrey made a name for themselves during the 1990s as Salt Tank. With…
Duo made up of Pierre Laplace, a singer/songwriter from Lille, France, and his niece, Léonie Gabriel. The duo started in 2010 when, during a family lunch, 15-year-old Léonie…
Late night chat show, broadcast on BBC television in the UK between 1976 and 1981. The show was presented by Bob Langley and featured many different guests. On…
Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC…
Saturday Superstore was a children’s television series, broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 until 1987. It was shown on Saturday mornings with presenters including Mike Read, Sarah Greene, Keith…
‘Saxophone Song’ is a song written by Kate Bush, released on her debut album The Kick Inside. Originally the song was recorded as a demo produced by David…
Belgian women’s choir conducted by Stijn Kolacny, and arranged and accompanied by Steven Kolacny on the piano. Formed in 1996, Scala & Kolacny Brothers won the Belgian “Choir…
Lindsay Schief is a solo recording artist living in Tucson, Arizona (USA). She was also a member of the band Lake, formed by Ashley Eriksson, Kenny Tarantino, Eli…
Birgit Schuurman was born in Utrecht on 1 July 1977. She is the younger sister of Katja Schuurman, who is a successful actress and TV presenter in the…
‘Season Of The Witch’ is an unofficial album, released by Heathcliff in 2012. It features a live recording from the Tour Of Life at the Apollo Theatre in…
Season Of The Witch – Cathy’s Home Demos is an unofficial album release featuring 29 demos recorded in the 1970’s by Kate Bush. It was released by The…
The Secret Policeman’s Ball is the name informally used for the long-running series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human…
Seiko Holdings Corporation (セイコーホールディングス株式会社), more commonly known simply as Seiko, is a Japanese company that manufactures and sells watches, clocks, electronic devices, semiconductors and optical products. Kate Bush…
The Sensual World is the sixth studio album by Kate Bush, released by EMI Records on 16 October 1989. It was written, composed and produced by Kate. As…
Sergeant Thunderhoof is a psychedelic stoner metal/doom metal band from Bath, Somerset (United Kingdom). The band consists of Dan Flitcroft, Darren Ashman, Jim Camp and Mark Sayer. It…
‘Sharpson’ is a house project from DJ and Producer Dónal Sharpson. Dónal has over 10 years experience when it comes to DJing and producing. As well as DJing…
Born as Warren Harding Sharrock in Ossining, New York (USA) on 27 August 1940, Sonny Sharrock was an American jazz guitarist. His first wife was singer, Linda Sharrock,…
She’s Having a Baby is an American romantic comedy film directed and written by John Hughes, released in cinemas on 5 February 1988. The film portrays a young…
‘She’s Leaving Home’ is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It was originally released on the Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band….
Ray Shell is an African-american singer and actor. He arrived in London in 1978 with the Gospel musical Little Willie Jr’s Resurrection. After this, he started recording tracks…
Shem ba’even (שם באבן) is the Hebrew translation of Kate Bush’s song Army Dreamers. Its literal meaning is ‘A Name On The Tombstone’. The song was created by…
Shishigokoro (ししごころ) is a Japanese band, especially formed to perform Kate Bush songs. The band consists of Tamao (lead vocals), Yuko Tsuchiya (keyboards), Kumiko Kajiyama (keyboards), Liliko (backing…
Kate participated in a charity event July 30, 1988 called ‘Shop Assistance’ to benefit the Terrence Higgins trust to help people with HIV/AIDS. She helped out in a…
German amusement TV show, featuring musical guests. Kate Bush appeared on this show on 30 August 1985 to do lipsynched performances of Running Up That Hill and Cloudbusting.
Shrubberies is an unofficial album release featuring 26 demos recorded in the 1970’s by Kate Bush. It was released by Red Robin Records. Track listing The album features…
Actually an anagram of ‘Kate Bush’, Shut Beak recorded a cover version of Army Dreamers entitled ‘Army Runners’ for the PRF Monthly Tribute Series in April 2017. According…
Beck Siàn was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her mother is Welsh, and her father was born in England, but is from an Irish family. With Welsh and Irish…
Originating from Melbourne, Australia, Emma has a solid professional background in one of the world’s most prolific jazz cities. A dedicated vocalist since her teens, Emma has performed…
Neil Sidwell – brother of Steve Sidwell – studied composition, orchestration, piano, bass guitar and trombone at the London College of Music and the Los Angeles jazz workshop….
Steve Sidwell – brother of Neil Sidwell – studied trumpet, piano, composition and orchestration at The Royal College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama….
Silk Cut is a brand of cigarettes produced by the Gallaher Group, a division of Japan Tobacco. The packaging is characterised by a distinctive stark white packet with…
Silvermoths was founded by Emma Churchley, a songwriter and clasically trained multi instrumentalist. The band bring her songs to magical life and their own uniqueness to live performances….
American model who appeared in the September 1978 issue of Penthouse magazine in the USA. Three photographs from that article were used on the back sleeve of the…
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the…
‘Sing Children Sing’ is a song written by Lesley Duncan. It was originally released in 1971 on her album of the same name. The song was re-recorded in…
Singing Bowls (also known as Tibetan Singing Bowls, rin gongs, Himalayan bowls or suzu gongs) are a type of bell, specifically classified as a standing bell. Rather than…
The Single File 1978-1983 is a box set released on 23 January 1984, containing all of Kate Bush’s 7″ singles from Wuthering Heights (1978) to There Goes A…
Sister Mantos is a music and performance art group based in Los Angeles. They use a psychedelic blend of Latin beats, punk attitude and funk rhythms. They sing…
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Hindustani music and Indian classical music. The word ‘sitar’ originally derived from Sanskrit words saptatantri veena (Sanskrit: seven…
Situations is the experimentations, meditations & complications of Ashley Altadonna, a transgender singer/songwriter, filmmaker and activist. In April 2017 Situations participated in the PRF Monthly Tribute Series dedicated…
Unofficial album release featuring a live recording of Kate’s Before The Dawn live performance at Eventim Apollo in London (UK) on 20 September 2014, the sixteenth night of…
Adam Skeaping is an English musician and audio engineer. He mainly plays different early music stringed instruments, such as viol, violone and rebec. He set up Sound Mastering,…
Also known as Joe Skeaping. An early music expert, who was a member of the British early music ensemble The City Waites during the 1970’s. He played lironi…
Born as Alan Richard James Skidmore in London (UK) on 21 April 1942. Alan began his professional career at 16 and early in his career toured with comedian…
Sky One started on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television Ltd, and was Europe’s first ever cable and satellite channel, originally broadcasting from the Orbital Test Satellite aimed…
Smash Hits was a British music magazine aimed at young adults, originally published by EMAP. It ran from 1978 to 2006. Created by journalist Nick Logan, the magazine…
Great musical artistry and originality’, the distinction given to Yvonne Smeets as she graduated the Royal Conservatory summa cum laude in 2006, a year earlier she won the…
Born to a Seychellois mother and an American father, Joe Smith, who was a band member of legendary Motown group the Four Tops, Gizelle was raised in Manchester,…
Catherine Smitko first sang in a jazz band when she was fourteen and there have been many rock bands since then including; Afterglow, Crave the Day, and an…
´Snowed In At Wheeler Street´ is a song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on her tenth studio album 50 Words For Snow in 2011. Duet with Elton…
‘Snowflake’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was originally released on her tenth studio album 50 Words For Snow in 2011. The track details the birth…
The Society Island is the musical project of Cologne, Germany-based composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Boris Rogowski. The music of The Society Islands oscillates between Neo-Folk, chamber music and…
Soft Fruit is a 1999 comedy drama film. It is an Australian American co-production produced by New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion and directed by Christina Andreef. Four adult…
Flexi disc featuring three tracks from the album Never For Ever: edited versions of Delius (Song Of Summer), Blow Away (For Bill) and Egypt. The disc was distributed…
Unofficial CD, released by Midnight Dreamer records in 2009. It features 17 tracks from Kate’s live concert at Carre in Amsterdam (Netherlands) on 29 April 1979, followed by 16 tracks…
Engineer with a long career in music engineering. At the end of the 1960’s, Somerville-Large worked at Dublin’s Eamonn Andrews studios. He joined Radio Luxembourg in 1969 and…
‘Something Good’ is a song written by Jez Willis and recorded by the Utah Saints. Originally released as a single in 1992 and included on the band’s self-titled…
‘Something Like A Song’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was recorded as a demo, presumably in 1973. The song has never been released officially, but…
‘Somewhere In Between’ 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…
‘The Song Of Solomon’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was originally released on her seventh album The Red Shoes. Versions There are two versions of…
1968 black-and-white television film co-written, produced, and directed by Ken Russell for the BBC’s Omnibus series which was first broadcast on 15 September 1968. It portrays the final…
Sorrow Stories is Tina Forlorn, a female songwriter, musician, vocalist and producer from London, England (UK). She makes acoustic, alternative and electronic music. Sorrow Stories writes all of…
Japanese TV programme, to which all of Kate’s television appearances have been credited. Broadcast on 23 June 1978, the show featured a disco-inspired version of Them Heavy People…
‘Sounds Like Friday: Leo Sayer’ was a series of six music programmes, broadcast on BBC 2 television between 27 October and 1 December 1978. Each show featured special…
The South Bank Sky Arts Award (originally The South Bank Show Award) is an accolade recognizing British achievements in the arts. The awards have been given annually since…
‘Sovay’ is a traditional English folk song about a young woman who dresses and arms herself as a highwayman in order to test her suitor. In disguise she…
Canadian singer who contributed a cover version of Reaching Out to the compilation Kate Bush Covered in 1996. In the same year, he recorded a version of XTC’s…
Danish electronic rock band consisting of the brothers Bjarke (vocals and guitar) and Gaute Niemann (bass and synths), Kasper Nørlund (synths and backing vocals), Rune Wehner (synths) and…
Project founded by Holden Martinson and Brian Adkins in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) in 2008. Between then and now they have released over twenty albums, varying in…
Paul Spong started playing trumpet with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Great Britain, and The European Youth Jazz Orchestra. Subsequently, he started playing salsa and Samba with…
Born as Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien on 16 April 1939, Dusty Springfield grew up in Enfield, Middlesex, England (UK) in a family that enjoyed music. She learned…
An all-girl Roman Catholic school in Abbey Wood, South East London. It was run by nuns with a more liberal outlook, waring modern clothes and encouraging a more…
Stars in Their Eyes is a British television talent show, based on Joop van den Ende’s Dutch TV format Soundmixshow. It featured a singing contest in which members…
American rock band founded by core members Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals) in 1972. The group name comes from a sexual…
Born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (UK) on 4 June 1972, Debra Stephenson made her first appearance on TV at age 14 in the programme ‘Opportunity…