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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 4 - The Untold Story

‘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

The Independent UK

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

Louder

“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

MusicRadar

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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

Louder

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

The Guardian - UK

“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

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“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

Louder

“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

MusicRadar

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).

The Conversation

10 Musicians Who Never Toured—But Still Got Rich

When most people think of wealthy musicians, they imagine massive world tours, sold-out stadiums, and endless nights on the road. But not every successful artist built their fortune by touring. Some avoided the grueling travel schedules entirely, focusing instead on songwriting, studio work, licensing, or other revenue streams. These artists…

Plunged in Debt

It's in the trees. It's coming! We celebrate 40 years of Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now

Prog 162 also features Mike Oldfield, Dave Cousins, Bioscope, Peter Giles, Auri, Nosound, Jump, the new Canterbury sound and loads more...

Louder

“She encourages us to ask big questions: Is there a reason to believe in a god? Are art and death aspects of the same experience? Can we just enjoy sex and stop being hung up about it?” Prog stars choose the 40 greatest Kate Bush songs of all time

Members of Marillion, King Crimson, Nightwish, Big Big Train and others compile a list of a uniqe artist’s most powerful and persuasive creations

Louder

I sat down with designers who have created work for Kate Bush and Carrie Bradshaw – this is what they had to say about interior trends

Timorous Beasties, who are approaching their 35th anniversary, say that the secret to their success is sticking to an anti-trend ethos

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“His songs are like a walk through his imagination – they draw you in and use all your senses”: Why Liv Kristine had to cover Mike Oldfield

Former Leaves’ Eyes vocalist admits she pretended to be Maggie Reilly, with a hairbrush for a microphone

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Steve Blacknell 'reliably informed' that ex-girlfriend Kate Bush penned hit song about him

Steve Blacknell and Kate Bush dated in the 1970s, and he claims one of her hit songs is about him and their romance.

The Independent UK

Antiques Roadshow host apologises for ‘melodramatic’ response to Kate Bush letter

Singer sent a ‘personal’ response to a collection of poetry from a fan

The Independent UK

Inside Kate Bush Day – the most bonkers, beautiful Wuthering Heights tribute you’ll ever experience

FIRST PERSON: As thousands of people in red dresses make their annual pilgrimage to perform a mass choreographed dance to the British singer’s iconic hit song, superfan and Folkestone local Helen Coffey gives the inside scoop on what it’s like being a lead ‘Kate’ for the day

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What is the metal song in the Stranger Things season 5 trailer? The TV show has championed another pioneering rock band

After inserting Metallica’s Master Of Puppets into season four, Stranger Things has used another hard rock classic to soundtrack the announcement of season five

Louder

Snowman romances and dancing with Oppenheimer: these are the 10 best Kate Bush deep cuts

A dive into the unparalleled British singer-songwriter's treasure trove of overshadowed tracks

Plunged in Debt

5 Artists Who Make More from Licensing Deals Than Concerts

In today’s music industry, it’s easy to assume concert tickets are the big money-maker, but that’s not always true. For some artists, licensing deals—where their songs are used in films, ads, or video games—beat tour earnings. Licensing deals offer large, upfront payments and steady royalties without the costs of riding…

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"Metallica rented our equipment but the sound guy wasn't up to his job." Former Nightwish bassist Marko Hietala on the 10 songs that changed his life

Former Nightwish bassist/songwriter Marko Hietala shares the 10 songs that changed his life

Louder

"It makes me just want to die!" The Kate Bush song that makes Kate Bush cringe with embarrassment

"Some of those early songs, you think, Did I write that?"

MusicRadar

“I sit at my piano and watch skies moving and trees blowing and that’s far more exciting than buildings and roads and millions of people”: The strange story of the Kate Bush classic Cloudbusting

“The stimulus of the countryside is fantastic,” she said

The Conversation

Four records that embody the joy of the double album – from the Beatles to Outkast

In the summer of 1966, a race was on between two very different opponents. On one side was Bob Dylan, the established and bestselling folk artist. On the other was new act The Mothers of Invention, a genre- (and mind-) bending band led by avant garde composer Frank Zappa. The…

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