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KATE BUSH: THE DREAMING

ROCK CLASSICS

Peter Kearns

ISBN 978-1-78952-341-6

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Publication: 30 OCTOBER 2024
th

ISBN: 9781789523416
Price: £12.99

Binding: Paperback
Format: 198 x 129 mm

Extent: 104 pp
Illustrated: 8 colour pages

Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comparative title: 9781789520972 Kate Bush On Track

• Despite its reputation for being ‘difficult’, it was
a number three hit in the UK
• Considered a masterpiece, despite relatively
poor sales
• Five singles, including number 11 hit ‘Sat In Your
Lap’
You could consider Kate Bush's The Dreaming to be her finest
moment, depending on whether you value the rejection of

Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ compromise and see that as a sign of authenticity. Or, you
may see her Hounds of Love - equal-parts artful and
Peter Kearns is a New Zealand musician, independent recording artist and accessible - as the benchmark for artistic integrity meeting
traditional producer. Since the 1980s he has performed live as keyboardist commercial success: a slippery and completely unpredictable
and/or recorded or co-written with a range of artists from in and outside of schizoid beast at the best of times.
his home country. He is half of the duo Tabacco & Kearns, and also
completely himself, mostly. As a writer he's contributed regularly to As much as The Dreaming seems to be viewed as Bush's
witchdoctor.co.nz - New Zealand's technology and music website for grown- most difficult record to consume, it's easy to forget that it was
ups, and this is his fourth book for Sonic Bond. He first heard Kate Bush in a top 20 album in multiple countries. In reality, it has a beautiful
1978 when he was 11, biking home from school, hearing 'Wuthering Heights' simplicity, if only for its intention to exist for its own sake - as
blasting from someone's house, and he stood there in the rain, transfixed, they say, 'It is what it is', and the rest is up to the listener. And
wondering if it was possible to equal something so unique. Funnily enough, what it is, is perhaps one of rock's most pure examples of a
he still feels that that's what being a musician in a world with Kate Bush in it, musician doing their thing, simultaneously (and conveniently)
is like. operating at the top of their game, and not sweating the
resulting views of others. That recipe transcends genre, and
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suggest it crosses the line into sculpture. You can walk around
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