Trivia

1984-1985: Due to the fact MTV showed little interest in the airing the video, the clip for Kate's 1985 single "Cloudbusting" was aired in cinemas before the main attraction, 'Back to the Future (1985)'.

1993: Declined singing "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", the theme song to 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)'. Annie Lennox and Lisa Stansfield also turned it down before it went to Bryan Adams.

December 1978: Appeared on Saturday Night Live (1975) (episode: "Eric Idle/Kate Bush (1978)"). Performed "The Man With the Child in His Eyes", seated on a piano, to the accompaniment of veteran rock keyboardist Paul Shaffer; and "Them Heavy People", in a raincoat and Fedora hat. Kate was invited by Eric Idle, who is host of that edition; and is visited by Mick Jagger. Paul Simon also dropped in to watch the performance.

Movies-specifically of the Gothic horror genre have had a significant influence on Kate's back catalogue. The French revenge film The Bride Wore Black (1968), in which a widowed woman hunts the five men who killed her husband on her wedding day, provided Kate the inspiration to pen "The Wedding List", from her third album, 'Never for Ever' (1980). Other films that inspired Kate's music include, Wuthering Heights (1939) ("Wuthering Heights"), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) ("Hammer Horror"), The Innocents (1961) ("The Infant Kiss"), The Shining (1980) ("Get Out of My House"), Curse of the Demon (1957) ("Hounds of Love"), Witchfinder General (1968) (Waking the Witch"), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) ("Hello Earth"), The Red Shoes (1948) ("The Red Shoes"),.

May 1979: Declined the offer to sing the theme song to the James Bond film Moonraker (1979), saying that although it was a good song, it wasn't right for her. It went on to be recorded by Shirley Bassey instead - her third and final Bond song.

February 1987: Recorded "Be My Kind to My Mistakes", a song originally for the soundtrack to the movie 'Castaway (1986)' and released on the soundtrack album. Director Nicolas Roeg attempted to cast Kate as the female lead in the film.

December 1978: Appeared on 'Saturday Night Live (1975)' (episode: "Eric Idle/Kate Bush (1978)"). Her first and only live appearance in the US.

She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to Music.

February 1987: Award: 'Brit Awards'. Category: 'Best British Female'.

1984: Composer Michael Kamen, who scored the Terry Gilliam film Brazil (1985), originally recorded "Brazil" with vocals by Kate. This recording was not included in the actual film or the original soundtrack release; however, it has been subsequently released as "Sam Lowry's 1st Dream/Brazil" on re-pressings of the soundtrack.

March 1987: Recorded "This Woman's Work", originally released on the soundtrack to of the movie She's Having a Baby (1988). A year later, the song was included in Kate's sixth studio album, 'The Sensual World' (1989).

Remains friends with Peter Gabriel.

In 2022, her song "Running Up That Hill" gained renewed attention after it was used in season 4 of the show Stranger Things (2016). It became such a massive hit that, according to the Official Charts Company, it broke several records many countries. Not only did the song enter the Billboard Charts again and peaked at #1, it was also the oldest song to do so. Also, at the age of 63, Bush became the oldest female artist in the UK to ever reach #1 in those charts.

1999: Wrote the song "Out of the Storm" for the Disney film 'Dinosaur (2000)'. The track was ultimately not included on the soundtrack. According to the winter 1999 issue of the Kate Bush fanzine 'HomeGround', it was scrapped when Disney asked Kate to rewrite the song and Kate refused. However, according to Disney, the song was cut from the film when preview audiences did not respond well to the track. Kate eventually reworked the song to become "Lyra" for the film 'The Golden Compass (2007)'. The song was nominated for the International Press Academy's Satellite Award for 'Original Song in a Motion Picture' (2007).

March 1990: Recorded three of six pieces of music as a soundtrack for an episode of the British comedy series The Comic Strip. (The episode is called GLC: The Carnage Continues... (1990)). Also, in February/March, Kate appeared in an acting role on a different edition of the same series. (That episode is called Les Dogs (1990).).

According to the Guinness Book of World Records through 2022, Bush now holds the record for the following titles in the UK: 1) Oldest female artist to reach Number One. 2) Longest time for a track to reach Number One on the UK's Official Singles Chart after 37 years. (3) Longest gap between two Number One hits at 44 years - "Wuthering Heights" (UK / April 1978) and "Running Up That Hill" (June 2022).

The interpretive dancer performing with Kate in her 1985 "Running Up That Hill" video was Michael Hervieu who had just one day to rehearse. After this performance, he went on to appear in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Aspects of Love" in 1989.

Nephew Owen Bush (son of brother John Carder Bush) runs a bladesmith operation on the land of his grandparents where his smithy produces swords and knives for various tv shows like Game Of Thrones.

While growing up she wanted to be a psychiatrist.

In 1979 while planning her first and only tour, she asked her tour sound engineer Gordon "Gungi" Paterson if there was any way he could create a cordless, hands-free radio microphone set-up. He did utilizing a a wire hanger with a microphone on the end. Although Kate suggested they patent the device they never did. It was to prototype for the wireless microphones in use all over the world.

On 2 April 1979 at the Poole Arts Centre after a performance of her band her lighting technician Bill Duffield fell through a floor panel that was removed, falling 5 meters and was badly injured. He died a week later. It was the first night of what would be her only tour.

In 1978 she received an offer to open for Fleetwood Mac on the final leg of their high profile US tour in support of their mega-selling "Rumours" album. She turned it down.

Father Robert was a doctor, mother Hannah was a nurse or Irish ancestry.

Attended St. Joseph's Convent Grammar School in Abbey Wood.

Her favorite album is Elton John's "Madman Across The Water" (1971).

Her first band was the KT Bush Band.

Lindsay Kemp (David Bowie's mentor) taught dance and movement to her at the Collegiate Theatre and then the Dance Centre in Convent Garden. He inspired her to write "Them Heavy People" on her album "The Kick Inside".

In 1976 she studied contemporary dance and modern ballet under American Adam Darius at an arts complex in Elephant and Castle, south London.

Favorite musical artist as a girl was A.L. (Bert) Lloyd, the London-born singer and folklorist with a penchant for drinking songs and sea shanties. She recorded his rendition with Ewan MacColl of "The Handsome Cabin Boy" as the B-side of her single "Hounds Of Love".