Iconic Albums Kate Bush The Hounds Of Love Era (1985): A Track-by-Track Journey Through Kate Bush's Most Ambitious Double Album. A Landmark of 1980s ... with Beauty, Depth and Imagination - Softcover

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Kate Bush. Hounds of Love. 1985.

After the uncompromising experimentation of The Dreaming, Kate Bush retreated from the pressures of the music industry and rebuilt the way she worked. With her own studio, greater control over time and a growing command of the Fairlight CMI, she created the album that would bring together every side of her artistry.

Iconic Albums – Kate Bush – Hounds of Love Era (1985) explores the making, meaning and legacy of one of the most celebrated albums of the 1980s.

Discover the story behind Running Up That Hill, from its original title A Deal with God to the extraordinary rhythm and production that helped return Kate to the top of the charts. Explore the fear and emotional surrender behind Hounds of Love, the freedom of The Big Sky, the unsettling maternal devotion of Mother Stands for Comfort, and the remarkable true story that inspired Cloudbusting.

The book also journeys deep into The Ninth Wave, Kate’s ambitious seven-song sequence about a woman alone in the sea, drifting between consciousness, dreams, hallucination and the desperate fight to survive until morning.

From the influence of Peter Reich’s A Book of Dreams and Donald Sutherland’s appearance in the acclaimed Cloudbusting film to Kate’s return to No. 1 and her growing independence as a producer, this book follows the complete story of an era in which artistic freedom and commercial success finally came together.

For fans of Kate Bush, classic albums and the creative history of popular music, this is the story of how three years of silence led to one of the defining records of Kate Bush’s career.

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