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Mackay, Duncan

Duncan Mackay was born in Leeds (UK) on 26 July 1950. After earning a music scholarship in Shrewsbury Public School, he finished his studies in 1967 obtaining his…

MacMillan, Keith

Keith Stuart Macmillan (a.k.a. Keef) is a UK photographer and designer who created many album covers for Vertigo, Neon (RCA) and Nepentha in the 1970s. He later started…

Magician (the)

Song written by Paul Webster and composed by Maurice Jarre for the film The Magician of Lublin. Kate Bush recorded vocals for this song in February 1979 with…

Magician Of Lublin (the)

1979 film co-written and directed by Menahem Golan. The film is based on the novel ‘The Magician Of Lublin’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In the story, Yasha Mazur…

Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)

Song written by Steve Harley and originally recorded by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. It was released as the lead single from the band’s 1975 album ‘The Best…

Malmberg, Myrra

Born as Anna Myrra Malmberg in the Stockholm suburb of Farsta on 20 December 1966, she spent her childhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) and her teenage years in…

Man I Love (the)

Song written by George & Ira Gershwin. Originally written for the 1927 Fred and Adele Astaire musical, ‘Lady Be Good’. The song received a lukewarm reception and was…

Man With The Child In His Eyes (the)

Song written by Kate Bush, released on her debut album The Kick Inside. Bush wrote the song when she was 13 and recorded it at the age of…

Manchester Apollo 1979

Unofficial album. The recording was made on 10 April 1979 at the Manchester Apollo. Track listing The album features the following tracks:  

Mandocello

The mandocello is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It is larger than the mandolin, and is the baritone/bass instrument of the mandolin family. Its eight…

Mandolin

A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or “pick”. It commonly has four courses of doubled metal…

Mankowitz, Gered

Gered Mankowitz was born in London (UK) on 3 August 1946 as the first of four sons to the late English writer Wolf Mankowitz and Ann Margaret Seligman….

Married Monk

Married Monk is a French rock band, formed in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine (France) in 1993. Christian Quermalet, Philippe Lebruman and Franck Dorange formed the band. Between 1993 and 2008…

Martin, Charlotte

Born as Charlotte Ann Martin on 31 October 1976. She grew up in Charleston, Illinois (USA) where she won the Miss Illinois Teen USA contest in 1994. She…

Martin, George

Sir George Henry Martin CBE was born in Highbury, London (UK) on 3 January 1926. Following his graduation, he worked for the BBC’s classical music department, then joined…

Martin, Pat

Pat Martin showed an early talent for music. In 1963, he started playing rhythm guitar at all the local youth clubs with The Senders. Three years later, he…

Martini, Mia

Born as Domenica Bertè in Bagnara Calabra, Italy on 20 September 1947, ‘Mimi’ (as she was known) spent her childhood in Macerata. In 1962, she convinced her mother…

Martyn Ford Orchestra

Martyn Ford is an English musician, best known for his orchestral contributions to rock music albums of the 1970s and 1980s. Ford was originally classically trained; he studied…

Marvin, Sandra

Sandra starred as Queenie in the musical ‘Showboat’ at the Sheffield Crucible, and then at the New London Theatre. She went on to play in the musical ‘Stepping…

Maskell, Tracy

Tracey Maskell, a 35 year old woman from Kent, England (UK) fulfilled a ‘lifetime ambition’ when she performed Wuthering Heights in the 2 May 1998 episode of the…

Matches

Band from Youngstown, Ohio, fronted by Austin Meyers. Debuted in December 2013 with the album ‘Crossing The Sea’. In February 2015, Matches released ‘Rubberband Girl’, an album of…

Maximum Kate Bush

Unofficial album, released by Chrome Dreams in 2005. The album is basically a spoken word biography, going through Kate’s career until the release of Aerial. Track listing The…

Maxwell

Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York (USA) on 23 May 1973. Maxwell’s father died in a plane crash when Maxwell was three years old. His mother grew…

Mays (the)

The Mays is an annual publication with a selection of the best and most exciting new writing and artwork from students at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford….

McAlea, Kevin

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 10 April 1949. Having played keyboards with bands like Skid Row and having done session work with X-Ray Specs vocalist Poly Styrene,…

McDonald, Glenn

Glenn McDonald grew up in Dallas. He studied filmmaking and photography at Harvard University. Works at eRoom Technology as a user-interface designer. Avid music collector, who has thousands…

McInnerny, Tim

Tim McInnerny was born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire (UK) on 18 September 1956. He was educated at Marling School, Stroud, and Wadham College, Oxford. One of McInnerny’s first…

McIntosh, Albert

Born in 1998, Albert McIntosh, also known as Bertie, is the son of Kate Bush and Danny McIntosh. Kate dedicated the song Bertie to him, and also credited…

McIntosh, Danny

Born on 4 May 1956 in London (UK). While Dan studied English Literature, he is best known as a guitarist and had developed a keen interest in playing…

Mendelsohn, Julian

Australian record producer, audio engineer and mixer. After completing school in Australia Mendelsohn moved to the UK and secured his first job in 1974 at Milner Sound Fulham…

Mercer, Bob

Bob Mercer was born in Preston, Lancashire on 17 October 1944. He graduated from the University of Manchester with a business degree in statistics. In the late 1960s…

Mery, Thomas & the Desert Fox

Thomas Mery is a singer/songwriter from Paris (France) who sang and played guitar in the post-pop-rock band Purr between 1995 and 2000, together with Stéphane Bouvier (now touring…

Meyer, Skot

Skot Meyer is a guitarist based in Secaucus, New Jersey (USA). He has released dozens of tracks on the digital Bandcamp platform, including a cover version of Running…

Miami Vice

Miami Vice was an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson as James…

Middleton, Max

David Maxwell “Max” Middleton was born 4 August 1946 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. After being introduced to Beck by bassist Clive Chaman during 1970, he played keyboards on…

Mighty High

DJ collective, consisting of Mark Summers, Giles Goodman and Billie Godfrey. Mark Summers is the English CEO, sound engineer and music producer of Scorccio, a music production company…

MiniDisc

Magneto-optical disc-based data storage format, introduced in 1983 by Kees Schouhamer Immink and Joseph Braat. The idea was commercialized by Sony in 1992. It was targeted as a…

Minimoog

The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Bill Hemsath and Robert Moog. It was released in 1970 by R.A. Moog Inc. (Moog Music after 1972), and…

Miss Platnum

Born as Ruth Maria Renner in Timisoara, Romania. She moved to Berlin with her family when she was eight years old. She starts hearing (and singing) black music…

Mistraldespair

Official animation to accompany a segment from Misty. The animation was released on YouTube on 25 November 2011, four days after the release of the album 50 Words…

Misty

Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on her tenth studio album 50 Words For Snow in 2011. At 13 minutes and 30 seconds, it’s the longest track…

Mitchell, David

David Stephen Mitchell was born in Southport, Lancashire (UK) on 12 January 1969. He was educated at Hanley Castle High School and at the University of Kent, where…

Mná na hÉireann

Poem written by Ulster poet Peadar Ó Doirnín (1704–1796). It is most famous as a song, and especially set to an air composed by Seán Ó Riada (1931–1971)….

Moddi

Born on the island Senja, Norway on 18 February 1987, Pål Moddi Knutsen is a singer, songwriter and author. He debuted when he was 5 years old on…

Mojo

Monthly magazine about popular music, published monthly in the United Kingdom. The magazine was first published on 15 October 1993 by Emap. Bob Dylan and John Lennon were…

Moments Of Pleasure

Song written by Kate Bush. Premiered on television (see below) and officially released on her seventh album The Red Shoes. The song was subsequently also released as a…

Moments Of Pleasure: The Best Works 1978-1993

Japanese compilation album, released by EMI Records in Japan for promotion only. It has become one of the rarest and most wanted official releases. It features most of…

Monday Night At The London Palladium

Unofficial album. It contains a completely unedited audience recording of the show at the London Palladium in London on 16 April 1979. Track listing Moving The Saxophone Song…

Monkman, Francis

Born in Hampstead (UK) on 9 June 1949, Francis Monkman was a pupil at Westminster School where he studied organ and harpsichord, later studying at the Royal College…

Moon, Keith

Born in Nortwest London (UK) on 23 August 1946, Keith John Moon was an English drummer who played with the English rock band The Who, together with Roger…

Moran, Mike

Michael (Mike) Moran was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire on 4 March 1948. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London prior to becoming a session…

Morgan, Charlie

Born as John Charles Morgan on 9 August 1955, Charlie Morgen became a professional drummer in 1973. He joined the original KT Bush band in the mid-1970’s. He…

Morning Fog (the)

Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on her fifth studio album Hounds Of Love. Seventh and last track of The Ninth Wave suite. Versions There is only…

Most Wuthering Heights Day (the)

In 2013, 300 Kate Bush lookalikes gathered together in a park in Brighton (UK) to reenact Kate Bush’s first music video for Wuthering Heights (the so-called ‘red dress…

Mother Stands For Comfort

Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on the album Hounds Of Love in 1985. The track seems to be the most skeletal of the album. A flat…

Moulin, Pierre

Trumpet player who released one single in 1981. ‘Greenland’, a composition by Gunske and Weitzl, was backed with an instrumental cover version of Wuthering Heights. The single was…

Mourik, Maarten

Maarten Mourik was one of the original members of the Dutch acapella group Montezuma’s Revenge, which started in 1985. He left the group in 1994 to concentrate on…

Mouse

Mouse was formed in 1990 at Cafe Express in Evanston. Jackson Wilson and Jenny McNeilly were reprimanded and permanently separated from working shifts together for talking too much,…

Moviegoers (the)

Liam Davis and Worth Wagers met at Kenyon College in the late 1980’s as members of the college’s all-male a cappella singing group, The Kokosingers. After reuniting with…

Moving

Song written by Kate Bush, included on her debut album The Kick Inside. The song is a tribute to Lindsay Kemp, who was her mime teacher in the…

Moving [Unofficial album]

Unofficial album, released by Keri in the late 1980’s. Made in Germany although the disc label contains the words ‘Made in France’. The album features live tracks from…

Mpho

Mpho Skeef was born in apartheid South Africa. Her very birth was a crime, because her mother was white and her father was black, which was illegal until…

Mr. Conte featuring Laura Valente

Mr. Conte is an anonymous dance act from Italy. For their version of Wuthering Heights they used the vocal talents of Laura Valente, who was born on 3…

Mr. Floppy

Mr Floppy were an Australian alternative rock, punk rock and oi! band formed in 1989 by Tim Aylward on guitar (ex-The Swarm), Mick Carroll on guitar, Paul Johnson…

Mrs. Bartolozzi

Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on her eighth studio album Aerial in 2005. Cover versions ‘Mrs. Bartolozzi’ was covered by Göteborgs Symfoniker, The Hounds Of Love…

Multi-coloured Swap Shop

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, commonly known simply as Swap Shop, was a British children’s entertainment programme that was broadcast on Saturday mornings on BBC1 for 146 episodes in six…

Murphy, Alan

Born on 18 November 1953, Alan Murphy was an English rock session guitarist, best remembered for his collaborations with Go West, Level 42 and Kate Bush. His first…

Murphy, Hope

Born in Upminster, Essex (UK) in 1986, Hope Murphy participated in the TV talent show ‘Britain’s got talent’ in 2012. She auditioned with This Woman’s Work, which in…

Música & Som

Portuguese music magazine, founded in 1977. Under the direction of António Luís Mendonça it initially appeared biweekly. From November 1978 onwards, it became a monthly magazine. Special editions related…

Musical Chairs

On 7 March 1979, Kate Bush appeared on this news magazine on TV in the UK. It was a report about Keith “Keef” MacMillan‘s work, including the making…

Muziek Expres

Dutch music magazine, first published in January 1956. Initially the magazine appeared in black and white; from June 1963 onwards there were also pages in colour. Until the…

My Computer

Song written by (The Artist Formerly Known As) Prince. Released as the ninth track on the third disc of his 19th album ‘Emancipation’, released on 19 November 1996….

My Lagan Love

‘My Lagan Love’ is a song to a traditional Irish air collected in 1903 in northern Donegal. The English lyrics have been credited to Joseph Campbell (1879–1944, AKA…

My Scarlet Life

Four-piece band from Chicago featuring Preston Klik on keyboards, percussionist Paul Fini, bassist Amy Spina, and vocalists Julie Schreiber and Christy Cameron Smith. Between 1995 and 2000 they…

Myers, Meg

Born as Janice Sue Meghan Myers in Nashville, TN (USA) on 6 October 1986), Meg Myers was raised by her father, a truck driver, and her mother, both…

Myrdal, Jay

Jay Myrdal studied at the University of Montana and became a professional photographer in January 1968. Ten years into his career, he photographed Kate for the cover of…

Mystic Lady

‘Mystic Lady’ is an unofficial album release featuring the content of the original (official) Live at Hammersmith Odeon release. It was released by Eclipse, a label specializing in…