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“In the music of the future, will our voices go unheard?” Kate Bush and others release new silent album in protest at plans to let AI firms use copyrighted work for free

Is This What We Want? includes ‘contributions’ by Bush, Damon Albarn and Hans Zimmer

MusicRadar

Stephen Fry, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Dua Lipa among artists to protest copyright law changes to AI

A group of leading British performers and creatives have described the proposed changes as ‘wholly unnecessary and counterproductive’

The Independent UK

Music stars release silent album in protest against UK AI copyright plans

Is This What We Want features recordings of empty studios, performance spaces, highlighting danger to creative trade.

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Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among major artists on silent album in protest of UK's planned changes to AI copyright laws

Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Annie Lennon, and many more have come together on the silent protest album.

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Kate Bush, Imogen Heap and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists featured on silent AI protest album

Project features recordings of empty studios and recording spaces, which musicians warn could become the reality should new AI proposals go ahead

The Independent UK

Why are creatives fighting UK government AI proposals on copyright?

More than 48,000 creators including Kate Bush and Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus say Labour’s preferred option is unfair and unworkable

The Guardian - UK

Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album

Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission

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Kate Bush and Annie Lennox have released a completely silent album – here’s why

The album features an impressive line-up of big names

The Independent UK

Musicians protest against AI copyright plans with silent album release

Kate Bush and Annie Lennox are among the high-profile artists who helped write the protest album.

Evening Standard

“There was a full moon and the curtains were open. Every time I looked up for ideas, I looked at the moon”: How teen prodigy Kate Bush created her timeless classic Wuthering Heights

“Those shrieks and warbles are beauty beyond belief,”said John Lydon

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“I’d get up in the morning, practise scales at my piano, go off dancing, and then in the evening I’d come back and play the piano all night.” The story of Kate Bush's debut album The Kick Inside

The story of how 19-year-old Kate Bush became one of the world's biggest music phenomenons, with a little help from David Gilmour and Emily Brontë

Louder

“She fell in love with Pink Floyd, The Beatles and David Bowie and combined them all in her neoclassical way”: Even though Kate Bush refused to produce Gavin Friday’s Virgin Prunes, he still loves her

Composer, actor and painter explains why her work is high art in the style of influential writer James Joyce

Louder

“She blends her beloved characteristics with those of King Crimson, Genesis and Porcupine Tree”: Tori Amos’ From The Choirgirl Hotel is prog in its truest sense

1996 album opens with arguably her proggiest song then delivers figurative lyrics, rhythmic shifts and style change-ups

Louder

“I don't really mind if people mishear lyrics or misunderstand what the story is, I think you have to let go of that when you send it out in the world”: Are all interpretations of songs correct? Kate Bush certainly thinks so

It’s easy to get precious about the true meaning of our creative endeavours, but how much authority do songwriters really have to own the definitive reading of their work?

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“Sometimes his lyrics are so indistinct they may as well be wordless. Sometimes they are actually wordless”: Jonathan Hultén’s Eyes Of the Living Night is briliant and beautiful

After channeling Nick Drake and Bert Jansch on his first record, the Swedish guitarist’s pivot from extreme metal brings him to a Kate Bush-like world

Homes & Gardens

Kate Bush's former country home was once a Georgian paper mill – the quaint, historic home is listed for approximately $14.2 million

Kate Bush's old home in the West Berkshire region of England is for sale – stand-out features include a library, orangery, cottage, and riverside grounds

The Guardian - UK

The big chill: warming, nourishing culture to help you hibernate until spring

Whether it’s wintry films and music, time-absorbing games or compelling telly and podcasts, with all this goodness to get stuck into there really is no reason to go outside

Louder

25 things we’re looking forward to in 2025

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, and we're feeling good - and here's 25 reasons why

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‘There is magic in the world. There’s something bigger’: the ecstatic visions of musician Clarissa Connelly

Recalling Kate Bush and Perfume Genius, the Copenhagen-via-Scotland artist blends the ancient and avant garde – and finds revelation in loss and death

Guitar World

Remembering the guitarists we lost in 2024

This year, we've sadly had to say goodbye to many guitar greats from across the world of music. Here, we recognize some of those guitarists, and their contributions to the instrument

Louder

"Could they be our human pods, like those from the Matrix?": Kate Bush draws parallels between Impressionist painter Monet and AI in annual Christmas message

Kate Bush has something to say

The Guardian - AU

Before the algorithm, we watched ‘surprise TV’, and it can still offer unexpected delights

Our family’s holiday tradition? We throw caution to the wind and surrender to the novelty of free-to-air television

Louder

“Success is a label other people put on you… My success is in terms of fulfilment and perfection of my art. That’s something I never will reach. I have to accept that”: Kate Bush’s mid-80s battle for control

After making an unlikely connection, three interviews with a punk magazine editor – which she said felt like psychiatrist talks – illustrate her rapid development from Never For Ever to Hounds Of Love

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Kate Bush joins campaign against AI

Music legend Kate Bush has joined a campaign against AI backing calls from musicians, actors and others in the creative industries to stop technology threatening their livelihoods.

MusicRadar

Protect This Woman's Work: Kate Bush says no to Fake Bush, as stars’ petition against AI training hits 36,000 signatures

She’s the latest high-profile musical name to join the celebrity ‘who’s who’ of star signatories

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