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Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released as a single on 27 June 1980 and subsequently included on the album Never For Ever. According to Kate, the song…
American cover band focused on Kate Bush’s repertoire. The band was formed in late 2017 in San Diego, USA by Natasha Kozaily, Lexi Pulido, Nancy Ross, Nina Deering,…
Unofficial album released by Observation Records in 1991. It features B-sides (and a few A-sides, too) from singles released by Kate Bush between 1978 and 1986. Track listing…
Bonnie Bailey signed to the UK dance label Hed Kandi and contributed her vocals to over 200 compilations worldwide. She went top 20 in the USA with her…
Born as James Stewart Bain in Newtonmore, England (UK) on 19 December 1947. He played bass guitar in several amateur bands as a teen. When his family emigrated…
Born in Lerwick, Shetland Isles, Scotland on 3 August 1953, Ian Bairnson is best known for being one of the core members of The Alan Parsons Project. He…
The balalaika is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body and three strings. Two strings are usually tuned to the same note and…
Founded in 1987 by Romanian-born first violinist Alexander Balanescu, the Balanescu String Quartet achieved fame through the release of several complex cover versions of songs by German experimental…
Band founded by Brian Vaughan, Dave Winer, Davey Smith, Kurt Stephens, Mia Park and Tony Mugica. They released their debut album ‘Plastico Del Mundo’ in 1997. In 1998,…
Noise rock band, formed by twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh and childhood friend William Brookshire in Athens, Georgia (USA) in 2008. The band moved to Brooklyn, New…
Bananas was a television programme on German channel WDR, broadcast between March 1981 and November 1984. The program consisted of in-studio performances of national and international artists, produced…
Bank Heist is a band from Vancouver (Canada). In 2011 they released two singles. Their first single was a cover version of Running Up That Hill. Their second…
Bardo State consists of the duo Frank Wijn and Dorian Broekhuyse. Frank is the son of Jan Wijn, a famous Dutch concert pianist, while Dorian attended the conservatory…
Engineer at Abbey Road Studios. He worked on Kate’s albums Never For Ever and The Dreaming, as well as the single December Will Be Magic Again. In 1981,…
Older brother of Mike Barson, who played keyboards with Madness, Ben actually played with Clive Langer & The Boxes (featuring Suggs’ wife on vocals) in 1979 and 1980….
Born 30 November 1952, Brian Bath started playing the guitar at a young age. Together with Chris Pye he learns to play the guitar and they join the…
Song written by Kate Bush, originally written for the soundtrack of the movie ‘Castaway’ (1987) and released on the soundtrack album. The line “Be kind to my mistakes”…
Born as Geoffrey Arnold Beck in Wallington (UK) on 24 June 1944, Jeff Beck learned to play on a borrowed guitar as a teenager and repeatedly tried to…
On Kate’s track Room For The Life, Andrew Powell and Ian Bairnson played beer bottles. According to Bairnson: ‘We simply wanted the sound of tuned bottle blows so…
The Beethoven Orchester Bonn is a German symphony orchestra based in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia. It dates back to 1907, when the town of Bonn signed a contract with…
Announced on 21 March 2014, Before The Dawn was the first set of live dates by Kate Bush since the Tour Of Life in 1979. Originally, 15 live…
Live album by Kate Bush, released by Fish People on 25 November 2016. It is a selection of recordings made during Kate’s live concerts in 2014, also entitled…
Unofficial album release featuring a live recording of Kate’s Before The Dawn live performance at Eventim Apollo in London (UK) on 26 and 27 August 2014, the first…
Unofficial album release featuring a live recording of Kate’s Before The Dawn live performance at Eventim Apollo in London (UK) on 26 and 27 August 2014, the first…
Unofficial album release featuring a live recording of Kate’s Before The Dawn live performance at Eventim Apollo in London (UK) on 29 August 2014, the third night of…
Unofficial album release featuring a live recording of Kate’s Before The Dawn live performance at Eventim Apollo in London (UK) on 12 September 2014, the eleventh night of…
Unofficial album release featuring a live recording of Kate’s Before The Dawn live performance at Eventim Apollo in London (UK) on 1 1 October 2014, the final night…
Born in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, England (UK), Andy Bell was educated at the King’s School in the city. He joined the band The Viod for two weeks in the…
Jaclyn Bell was born in 1987. As a student of Barrhead High School in Glasgow, Scotland (UK), she participated in a talent show, singing Wuthering Heights when she…
Beloved was formed by Kim Gravel, Denise Clark, and Amy Goins in Georgia (USA). Kim Gravel was a former Miss Georgia and had been singing since she was…
Born as Patricia Mae Andrzejewski in Brooklyn, New York City (USA) on 10 January 1953. Benatar became interested in theater and began voice lessons, singing her first solo…
Born in Essex (UK) on 13 April 1951, Haydn Bendall began his career with Steinway & Sons as a piano tuner. He joined Ken Townsend’s Abbey Road team…
Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, CBE was born on 29 May 1948. One of three sons of the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley, Berkeley was educated at…
Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on her eighth studio album Aerial in 2005. Cover versions ‘Bertie’ was covered by Foam Amulet. Kate about ‘Bertie’ He’s such…
Compilation DVD, released by MK Dreams S.L. and EMI in 2011. Subtitled ‘Videoclips Que Marcaron Una Época ’80’, the disc, which was released in Spain, presents twelve videos…
Book, originally published by EMI in 1981. The book features piano sheet music for 13 songs, as well as several pages with colour and black and white photographs…
Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on her sixth studio album The Sensual World in 1989. Cover versions ‘Between A Man And A Woman’ was covered by…
Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska (USA), Kathleen Bielawski holds a Master’s degree in Music Composition from the New England Conservatory of Music. She is a voting member…
Born as Antwan André Patton on 1 February 1975, Big Boi is an American rapper, songwriter, actor and record producer, best known for being a member of American…
Situated in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the Big City Orchestre formed in 1979. Almost comedically prolific, BCO sailed through the cassette culture movement of the 1980’s…
Scottish rock band, formed in Dunfermline, Fife in 1981. The band comprised Stuart Adamson (formerly of Skids, vocals/guitar/keyboards), Bruce Watson (guitar/mandolin/sitar/vocals), Tony Butler (bass guitar/vocals) and Mark Brzezicki…
Street newspaper, founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick as a response to the increasing numbers of homeless people in London. The Body Shop provided a starting capital….
Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on her fifth album Hounds Of Love in 1985, it was released as the fourth and final single from the album…
Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released as the B-side of the single Rubberband Girl in the UK. Subsequently released on her seventh album The Red Shoes. Versions…
Bigawatt is Marisa Demarco, a journalist, musician and event curator in the high desert, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA). In 2014, Bigawatt contributed a cover of Get…
Binary Marketing Show consists of Abram Morphew and Bethany Carder. They started in the Pacific Northwest (USA) in 2004. Between then and now, they have released 13 albums…
Bio’s Bahnhof was the title of an entertainment show hosted by Alfred Biolek, which was broadcast by ARD in Germany from 9 February 1978 to 28 October 1982…
Song written by Johnny Rotten especially for Kate Bush. She rejected the song and didn’t record it. Johnny Rotten about ‘Bird In Hand’ I love and adore Kate…
Born in London on 14 December 1946, Jane Birkin was raised in Chelsea, and described herself as a “shy English girl.” She attended Miss Ironside’s School in Kensington….
Born in Lambeth, South London on 6 September 1952, Steve Blacknell started out as a toilet cleaner in a mental hospital in Bexley, Kent. During this time he…
American singer/songwriter from Anacortes, Washington (USA) who releases his music through a subscription service called the ‘Kelp Lunacy Advanced Plagiarism Society’. He has played in several bands over…
Theo Bleckmann was born on 28 May 1966 in Dortmund, West Germany. He grew up appreciating both traditional music from his native Germany as well as American popular…
Poem written by Kate Bush, published in the school magazine at St. Joseph’s Convent Grammar School in 1971/1972.
Song written by Kate Bush. It was dedicated to Bill Duffield. The phrase ‘Put out the Light, then put out the light’ comes from Shakespeare’s Othello, in the…
Electronic music duo, started in 1990 by British musician Martin Glover a.k.a. Youth and American female singer Durga McBroom. Their debut single ‘Naked In The Rain’ was an…
Bob’s Burgers is an American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Belcher family – parents Bob and Linda…
The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm (10 to 26 in) in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm (14…
Born as Mark Feld in Hackney, East London (UK) on 30 September 1947. At 15, he was expelled from school for bad behaviour. He briefly joined a modelling…
Stoyanka Boneva was born on 3 February 1938 in the Petrich village of Marikostinovo (Bulgaria). She grew up in a family with six children. She started working at…
Boo bams are a percussion instrument of the membranophone family consisting of an array of tubes with membranes stretched on one end, the other end open. The tuning…
Book written by Peter Reich. According to the writer: “This book wrote itself in the summer of 1970. (…) Most of the childhood passages are virtually as they…
Unofficial book, compiled as a non-profit fan-made product. Published on 29 November 2014, the 124 page book features all of the lyrics of Kate’s officially released songs and…
Although Kate Bush has never written an autobiography or has given permission for a biography to be written, there are several books that are dedicated to her life…
The bouzouki is a Greek musical instrument that was brought to Greece in the 1900s by Greek immigrants from Asia Minor, and quickly became the central instrument to…
David Bowie was born as David Robert Jones in South London’s Brixton neighborhood on 8 January 1947. His first hit was the song “Space Oddity” in 1969. The…
Bassist, designer and composer, mxing solo work, band projects as well as working and improvising with other musicians. Weaving together improvisation with a sparse, minimalist aesthetic, Boyd creates…
For over a decade the Brothers Grimm have been performing string music together on guitar, cello, and Chinese string instruments. Separately, Brian studied Chinese music in Hong Kong…
German teen magazine, first published on 26 August 1956. Initially subtitled ‘the magazine for film and television’, it quickly included the latest music stars on its pages as well….
Title song from the 1985 British film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown and Tom Stoppard. Ary Barroso’s 1939 song ‘Aquarela Do Brasil’ (‘Watercolor…
Canadian fanzine dedicated to Kate Bush. The first issue of Break-through appeared in October/November 1983. Six issues appeared every two months for a year, but after that the…
Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released as the lead single from Kate’s third album Never For Ever. The lyrics of the song are about a foetus, very…
Peter Brewis is a composer and instrumentalist. Brewis studied composition at the Royal College of Music where he won the Cobbett Prize for composition. After graduation he took…
The Bride Wore Black (French: La Mariée était en noir) is a 1968 French film directed by François Truffaut and based on the novel of the same name…
Stage name of Rod Thomas, born in Neath, Wales (UK) in 1982 or 1983. He learned to play several instruments as a child including the piano. His first…
The Brit Awards (often simply called the Brits) are the British Phonographic Industry’s annual pop music awards, and the British equivalent of the American Grammy Awards. Kate Bush…
Broke City was formed in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) by Joel Pack, Rob Moffitt and Ryan Sanders. They toured throughout the USA and canada with bands like…
Originated by writer Michael Stewart, the Brontë Stones project features four new, original works of writing, engraved onto stones n different locations connecting the Brontë sisters’ birthplace n…
Born in Hackney Hospital, East London on 29 May 1945, Gary Brooker grew up in Hackney until the family moved out to Middlesex. His father Harry Brooker was…
Born as Eunice Irene Carroll in Liverpool (UK) on 28 May 1944, Faith Brown was a singer in a vocal group with her brothers (The Carrolls), and then…
The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over greatly extended distances. It dates to the Paleolithic period,…
48 track studio in South London, where artists such as David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Tina Turner, Pet Shop Boys and the Stereophonics have recorded tracks. The studio was…
Kevin Burke was born in 1950 in London, England to parents from County Sligo in Ireland. He took up the fiddle at the age of eight, studied under…
Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released as the B-side of the single Cloudbusting in 1985. According to Kate, it’s just a positive and trivial song, with superficial…
Unofficial album release featuring the content of the original (official) Live at Hammersmith Odeon release, but apparently recorded from a vinyl record. It was released in 1989 by…
Born on June 20, 1918, Hannah Patricia Bush was Kate’s mother. She worked as a staff nurse at Epsom Grove Hospital and was one of 12 children who…
John Carder Bush, also known as Jay, was born in 1944. He is Kate’s eldest brother. He has taken many of the famous photographs and album cover photos…
Paddy Bush was born on 9 December 1952. He is an English musician, instrument maker, music critic, producer and artist. He is also the older brother of Kate….
Born on 4 April 1920 in South Ockendon, Robert John Bush worked hard to win a scholarship to the Grammar School at Grays, and later won a place…
Unofficial CD, released by Scorpio in 1988. It features various tracks taken from TV and live performances. Track listing The album consists of the following tracks: Wuthering Heights…