8 Things You Didn’t Know About Kate Bush

Kate Bush, known for her ethereal vocals, expressive dancing, and beautiful lyrics, is being discovered by a new generation. It comes nearly half a century after she began penning chart successes as a teenager, and after Netflix incorporated her song Running Up That Hill in Stranger Things, an award-winning 1980s sci-fi drama. However, there is a lot about this fantastic star that you probably didn’t know.

8 Things You Didn’t Know About Kate Bush

1. Karate Girl

Kate also practiced karate as a child, earning the moniker ‘Ee-ee’ for the squeaky sound she made when practicing. ^[1]

2. Wuthering Heights Waas A Film Adaption

Many people believe Bush created the song after reading Emily Bronte’s novel. This was not the case because the television adaption inspired her. It debuted on British television in 1978, thanks to the British Broadcasting Corporation. ^[2]

3. Share The Same Birthday As Emily Bronte

Kate Bush and Emily Bront not only wrote ‘Wuthering Heights (the song and the book that inspired the song) but they were also born on the same day. Kate is now 57, and Emily would be 197 if she was still alive. ^[3]

4. Her Celebrity Fans

John Lydon is a huge Kate Bush fan who was enthralled from the first time he heard the chart-topping hit, much to the chagrin of some of his priggish punk colleagues. ^[4]

5. A Vegetarian

When asked if plants have feelings, she said, ‘I don’t think plants mind being eaten, actually.’ She has been a vegetarian since the mid-1970s. ^[5]

6. First Female To Have UK Number One With Self Written Song

Kate Bush was the first woman to have a UK Number One with a self-written song; also, her 1980 album ‘Never For Ever made her the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts, as well as the first female artist to ever enter the album chart at Number One.

7. What Her Fans Do On Her Birthday

Fans call her birthday ‘Katemas,’ referring to it as the greatest day to put on a KB playlist and bust out some theatrical dancing moves and the occasional cartwheel.

8. Took A Huge Gap Between Her Songs

Twelve years have passed. Between Kate’s 1993 album The Red Shoes and Ariel, fans had to endure a decade of stillness, which led John Mendelssohn to write the book Waiting for Kate Bush.