from Kate Bush before, and after hearing some of her music in a YouTube video today, I figured it's better late than never. Catherine Bush (better known as Kate) was born in Kent, England in 1958 into an artistic family, and took up the piano around age 11. Throughout her teenage years, she was writing music and honing her abilities, and her family shopped a demo of hers around, attempting to get her a record deal. Pink Floyd's David Gilmour got a hold of this, and paid for her to record 3 songs, and, after a strange situation where she was put on retainer by the label EMI for two years, she was finally able to release music, and in 1978 released her debut album, The Kick Inside. The album features a number of the members of her previous act, The KT Bush Band, along with studio musicians that the studio tried to get her to utilize. The album is incredible, and experimental, incorporating a wide variety of influences and sounds, and Bush's signature, high vocal timbre. This song became a massive hit single, reaching number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, and giving Bush the honor of being the first #1 female performer who had written her own music.