1987

May: Kate records a track for the film She's Having A Baby directed by John Hughes. The track, This Woman's Work will eventually become part of her sixth album and also become one of her most celebrated songs.

March 28th/29th: Kate appears at The Secret Policeman's Third Ball concerts in aid of Amnesty International. She performs quickly rehearsed versions of Running Up That Hill and Let It Be with Dave Gilmour.

March: Kate records part of the Ferry-Aid charity single Let It Be.

February: UK release of the film Castaway, directed by Nicholas Roeg, and featuring a new track by Kate, Be Kind To My Mistakes as the title theme. The soundtrack is released in the UK in March.

1986

November: Kate's greatest hits album, The Whole Story, is released and becomes a massive success, topping the UK album charts for three weeks in January 1987. Also, the compilation is released on video and is a huge seller. It features a newly recorded vocal from Kate on Wuthering Heights, and a brand new track Experiment IV. Tracklisting:

Wuthering Heights Cloudbusting The Man With The Child In His Eyes Breathing Wow Hounds Of Love Running Up That Hill Army Dreamers Sat In Your Lap Experiment IV The Dreaming Babooshka

[note: The video version of this compilation also includes The Big Sky]

October 31st: Kate performs her new single, Experiment IV, on the UK TV show Wogan. The single, from The Whole Story, reaches No.23 in the UK chart and is accompanied by Kate's cinematic self-directed video co-starring British comedians Dawn French and Hugh Laurie.

October 20th: Release of Don't Give Up, Kate's duet with Peter Gabriel from his album So. The single reaches No.9 in the UK.

July: Kate's video EP The Hair Of The Hound, containing the videos of the four Hounds Of Love singles reaches No.1 in the UK music video sales chart.

April 24th: Release of The Big Sky, the fourth and final single from the Hounds Of Love album. It reaches No.37 in the UK. The B-side is a new track Not This Time.

Kate peforming "Do Bears..." with Rowan Atkinson.

April 4th, 5th, 6th: Kate performs Breathing live each night of the Comic Relief charity shows at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Also each night, she performs a comic duet with Rowan Atkinson called Do Bears ...?.

March: An audience of Kate's fans are involved in the filming of The Big Sky video.

March: Kate performs Under The Ivy for the Music TV programme The Tube's 100th edition.

February 17th: Release of Hounds Of Love single . It reaches No.18 in the UK and has the traditional folk song The Handsome Cabin Boy as it's B-side.

February 10th: Kate performs Hounds Of Love live at the BPI awards in London.

1985

October 4th: Release of Cloudbusting as a single which had Burning Bridge as a B-side. The single is accompanied by the acclaimed video co-starring movie actor Donald Sutherland and reaches UK No.20.

Cloudbusting video

September 16th: Hounds Of Love, Kate's fifth studio album is released to very good reviews and enters the UK album chart at No.1, staying there for 4 weeks. The album's second side is a conceptual cycle of songs about the thoughts and dreams of a person shipwrecked at night in the ocean, called The Ninth Wave. Tracklisting:

Hounds Of Love Running Up That Hill Hounds Of Love The Big Sky Mother Stands For Comfort Cloudbusting

The Ninth Wave And Dream Of Sheep Under Ice Waking The Witch Watching You Without Me Jig Of Life Hello Earth The Morning Fog

August : Kate performs her first UK single since 1982, Running Up That Hill, on the BBC TV show Wogan. It becomes a massive success reaching No.3 in the UK, the B-side is Under The Ivy . By September the single goes Top Ten in many countries world-wide. Running Up That Hill is also Kate's first 12" single.

1984

Kate spends the year working on her fifth studio album.

January: Release of The Single File, a boxed set of all Kate's 7" singles.

The Single File Box Set 

1983

December: Release of The Single File video containing all Kate's videos from Wuthering Heights (1978) to There Goes A Tenner (1982).

November 21st: Night Of The Swallow from The Dreaming album is released as a single in Ireland.

July: Kate releases the French-language single Ne T'en Fui Pas, which has a French version of her song The Infant Kiss (Un Baiser D'Enfant) as the B-side, in France and Canada.

June: EMI America release a mini-album of Kate's tracks in the USA simply entitled Kate Bush. It's tracklist is; Sat In Your Lap, James And The Cold Gun, Babooshka, Suspended In Gaffa, and Un Baiser D'Enfant. A Canadian version is released which additionally contains Ne T'en Fui Pas.

1983 is the year that Kate's own studio is constructed which will facilitate the time-consuming experimentation which is so costly in commercial studios like Abbey Road. Kate would later describe this as the best possible decision she could have made for her work.

1982

November 2nd: There Goes A Tenner is released in the UK and becomes Kate's only single which completely fails to chart there. However, Suspended In Gaffa is released in many other countries apart from the UK and becomes very successful reaching the Top Ten in most European countries and in Australia and Canada.

September: Kate's fourth studio album The Dreaming enters the UK chart at No.3. Tracklisting:

Sat In Your Lap There Goes A Tenner Pull Out The Pin Suspended In Gaffa Leave It Open The Dreaming Night Of The Swallow All The Love Houdini Get Out Of My House

August: The Dreaming, the title track from from the forthcoming album, is released in the UK but only manages to peak at No.48 in the singles chart. The B-side is an instrumental version entitled Dreamtime.

July 21: Kate performs The Wedding List live at The Princes Trust charity concert.

1981

October: Release of the video Kate Bush Live At The Hammersmith Odeon, an edited version of Kate's concert from the 13th May 1979.

June 21: Release of Sat In Your Lap single. The single marks a big departure in Kate's style from her previous work and reaches No.11 in the UK chart. The B-side is a cover version of the Donovan song Lord Of The Reedy River. Sat In Your Lap would later appear as the opening track on 1982's The Dreaming album.

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