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10 of the best Halloween tracks to test your hi-fi system

We've put together some of our favourite Halloween-themed tracks that are perfect for putting your kit through its paces

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"It’s the children who suffer the most in so many ways": Over 50 artists to take part in Kate Bush-backed fundraising project for War Child

They have to 'respond' to her line in Running Up That Hill

MusicRadar

Amy Winehouse’s microphone and letters from Kate Bush and Madonna to go on sale

Other items in the auction are connected to Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish.

Evening Standard

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“Dolly turned it down - and I’m glad that she did because what Kate did on it is brilliant”: How Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush brought one of the most emotive songs of the 1980s to life

What happened when two musical icons joined forces? The birth of a timeless duet with a surprising country origin…

MusicRadar

Kate Bush and artists harness power of Running Up That Hill for War Child appeal

Musician invites 52 UK visual artists to create works based on song lyric to raise money for children affected by war

The Guardian - UK

Danny Thompson obituary

Bass player and founder member of Pentangle who worked with John Martyn, Nick Drake and Kate Bush

The Guardian - UK

“She builds songs like Roman roads. She won’t let the hills and rivers of convention or compromise get in the way. It’s a straight line from her heart to yours”: Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love, by some of the artists it inspired

The Anchoress, Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel, Auri’s Johanna Kurkela, The Blackheart Orchestra’s Chrissy Mostyn and Exploring Birdsong’s Lynsey Ward celebrate the 1985 album’s enduring magic and influence

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It takes two: the best pop duets – ranked!

As Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue’s Where the Wild Roses Grow turns 30, we count down pop’s finest two-handers, from career-revivers to celebrity meta-texts

The Guardian - UK

“His body of work is unparalleled in its quality and also in the incredibly varied number of musicians he worked with”: Danny Thompson, Pentangle bassist supreme, who played for Kate Bush, Roy Orbison, Nick Drake, and more has died

Tributes have come in from Tony Visconti, Graham Coxon and others

MusicRadar

“Pentangle sold out the Royal Albert Hall and the next night I was playing in a jazz quartet for 40 quid”: From gigging in strip clubs to recording with John Martyn and Kate Bush, Danny Thompson walked a singular path in bass playing

Beginning with his early days amid London’s jazz and blues boom in the ’50s, to his famed partnership with singer-songwriter John Martyn, the late Danny Thompson excelled at everything he touched

Guitar World

“It’s weird when I look at the list. If you go folk or blues or jazz or rock, I’ve actually been there”: Danny Thompson covered more ground than even he thought possible in a career spanning seven decades

The revered double bassist worked with Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, John Martyn, Bert Jansch and countless others. On 2012 album Connected he assembled some of his proudest moments

Louder

From Kate Bush to Pentangle to T-Rex, the late Danny Thompson’s musical brilliance knew no bounds

The bassist, who has died aged 86, was an extraordinary and wildly versatile presence in British music, bringing his personality into everything he played

The Guardian - UK

“A force of nature. A player who served the song and who enriched the lives of every single person he met”: Danny Thompson, innovative bassist who played with Kate Bush, Roy Orbison, Nick Drake, Pentangle, and countless others, dies at 86

Though he grew up with a love of jazz, it wasn't long before Thompson branched out stylistically, and embarked on a career of extraordinary musical breadth

Guitar World

Pentangle and John Martyn bassist Danny Thompson has died, aged 86

Danny Thompson was a founding member of Pentangle and worked with John Martyn, Kate Bush, Nick Drake, Peter Gabriel, Talk Talk and more

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Evening Standard

Acoustic bass player Danny Thompson has died aged 86

The musician was a founding member of the British folk-rock band, Pentangle, and worked with the likes of Kate Bush, John Martyn and Roy Orbison.

The Independent UK

‘Legendary’ bass player Danny Thompson dies aged 86

The musician worked with the likes of Kate Bush, John Martyn and Roy Orbison over the course of his career

Louder

Kate Bush to release Best Of The Other Sides on CD and coloured vinyl in October

Kate Bush's The Other Sides was a collection of all the B-sides and other songs that didn't exist on any album and was originally part of 2018's Remastered II Box Set

MusicRadar

“I cannot believe that I have just heard this beautiful song for the first time”: Why you shouldn’t sleep on this forgotten Kate Bush rarity that’s cherished by fans

Poised to get a new lease of life via an upcoming compilation, this lost Bush classic can’t currently be widely streamed - and is crying out for rediscovery

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“For the first time I was meeting resistance artistically. People were saying, ‘She’s gone mad now.’ I was a complete wreck – I’d wake up in the morning and I couldn’t move”: How Kate Bush answered her critics with Hounds Of Love

Her fifth album came out of relationships, nature and old movies, along with all her nightmares in one song. It became one of her most-loved releases, featuring big hit Running Up That Hill, but she endured a challenging climb to complete it

The Guardian - UK

Top UK artists urge Starmer to protect their work on eve of Trump visit

Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Elton John among creatives arguing that Labour’s AI proposals could result in ‘an artist’s life work to be stolen’

The Guardian - UK

Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts: ‘Lady Gaga told me she wanted to be the moon for a day. I’m like: where do I go next?’

Ahead of her debut in London’s West End with the musical Hadestown, Roberts answers your questions on navigating overnight fame as a teenager and why she would drop everything to work with Kate Bush

Metal Hammer

“They asked Kate Bush, ‘Why do you write about this stuff?’ She said, ‘Well, I’m not very interesting!’ It’s the same with us”: What Sylosis learned from prog stars including Opeth, Tool and Rush

Frontman of the British metal band and his colleagues accidentally discovered a breadth of influences after feeling uninspired by their peers

Louder

“Jeff Lynne and Yes are in the music of Radiohead, Sigur Rós and Muse. It’s overlooked in theirs but not in mine. I don’t have the self-validation I’d like”: Steven Wilson is grateful for prog fans’ support, but he wishes others liked him too

Arguing that pop isn’t as all-embracing as it used to be, he examines the nature of being a nerd with an ego, and wonders if the flawed musical gear his dad built him meant he was always going to make prog sounds

MusicRadar

“The piano just started speaking to me”: How Kate Bush stunned David Gilmour with a masterpiece of songwriting she made at just 13 years old

The early song was unmistakable evidence of Bush’s boundless talents

The Conversation

The ten best songs under one minute long

Life is busy these days, so when you manage to get some well-earned free time, it’s important to use it wisely. You could, for example, invest a spare ten minutes listening to King Gizzard The Lizard Wizard’s song Crumbling Castle (2017) or Taylor Swift’s All Too Well (Taylor’s Version) (2021).

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