In the 1970s, Elton John was the “Rocket Man,” flying high over the rock world with one hit after another that brought him international fame. It's also worth noting that Doyle makes it clear that Bush is neither as precious nor excessively "out there" as some have liked to portray her. Featuring photography from key moments in Bush’s life and detailed one-to-one conversations between the artist and author. Particular highlights for me included the band Shambush and their creation of the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, and electronic duo Utah Saints, who enjoyed a Number 4 UK hit which sampled 'Cloudbusting. A look at Kate's life through 50 chapters, from her early beginnings right up to the phenomenal success of Running Up That Hill, second time around due to the excellent tv show, Stranger Things.

In 2005 Kate Bush announced a new album, almost twelve years after her last one, The Red Shoes, which sadly did not do as well as expected. Kate herself is clearly not going to grant you an audience, so you are left with the option of trawling through various TV and press interviews, across the decades of Kate’s career, to help tell her story, which isn’t going to be easy either, since Bush is notoriously guarded when it comes to her private life and tends to keep press chatter strictly to ‘the work’.

When Doyle slightly teases her about potential singles from the album, she raises a defensive eyebrow. He regularly has the ace up his sleeve of always having a direct quote to hand, because he asked her about it at the time. A mosaic biography featuring snapshots, stories, episodes, interviews and insights that will lift the curtain on the real Kate Bush.

Established in 2009, Tippermuir seeks to add to the cultural life of Scotland by publishing interesting and worthy books in English and Scots. Running Up That Hill, by Tom Doyle, is an insightful and far more personal look at Kate Bush than what we usually get in writings about her. visions" does seem like it's going to be a very inventive radical new biography format, which it isn't really, but it still makes for an interesting read!Visions doesn’t get too bogged down with the aesthetics of these records but in particular describes the stuttering creation of The Dreaming. Bush’s infrequent interviews rarely reveal her thoughts about anything but music, as Doyle found when he spent four hours with her for a Mojo magazine feature in 2005, from which he quotes extensively. Featuring details from the author's one-to-one conversations with Kate, as well as vignettes of her key songs, albums, videos and concerts, this artful, candid and often brutally funny portrait introduces the reader to the refreshingly real Kate Bush. Doyle tracks Bush’s creative impulse from writing poems as a child to spending hours creating music in her barn turned recording studio at East Wickham Farm and producing her own albums. Kate Bush w 50 odsłonach” Toma Doyle’a to portret artystki luźno nawiązujący do wywiadu autora, który przeprowadził z bohaterką w 2005 roku.

She tells him ‘maybe’, but then responds predictably by saying that the quality might have dropped if she’d made more. I must admit that there are times where I’ve skipped radio channels over Kate Bush, and then there have been times where I positively kickstepped to Babooshka as though my life depended on it! Long-term Kate Bush devotees and new teenage fans won over by Stranger Things will both find enlightenment in Tom Doyle’s prismastic portrait of the elusive artist. I was particularly moved by the final chapter charting the resurgence of 'Running Up That Hill' after it was used in Stranger Things, and the way young and new fans were discovering how great and, frankly, ahead of her time she was (a positive portrayal of same-sex love in 'Kashka from Baghdad', potential trans interpretation of 'Running Up That Hill' etc.What was really great is Tom Boyle tracks her down in her home (she is notoriously private) and interviews her. Kate Bush has long combined her unique musicianship, deft wordplay, dancing, directing, and an eclectic flair for innovation with a certain reticence for self-promotion. She's also an amazingly creative talent with the innate ability to mesmerise you at one moment then repel you at the next. We learn about her forays into comedy and acting and her more mystical side as well as deep love of being a mother.

Split into 50 brief chapters, Doyle’s portrait stitches together a comprehensive, revealing commentary on the notoriously media-shy artist and her complicated relationship to her craft, public persona, and audience ("If you make music and you don’t let people hear it, you could almost say it doesn’t exist," she once said). The past few years I have been so into Lana Del Rey and Sufjan Stevens that you would think that they are on top of my musical mountain.

Running Up That Hill is a vibrant and comprehensive re-examination of the artist and her many creative landmarks. I just find it frustrating that people think I’m some sort of weirdo recluse that never comes out into the world,” she says. I was fortunate to have been going to and from the UK at about the time of her first recording and became a fan early on, turning some of my friends at home in the US on to her as well. One of the few positive stories amongst the global chaos of recent times has been the critical and commercial renaissance of Kate Bush thanks to Netflix's Stranger Things using 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)', and now this book has arrived with perfect timing. Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most distinctive musicians of the modern era.