Moments Of Pleasure : The Music Of Kate Bush

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03.09.1979	Release of Kate Bush Live On Stage, with Them Heavy People as the leading track.
05.09.1978	Kate debuts one of the tracks from Lionheart on a U.K. children's television programme, Ask Aspel. She later explains that she wanted to sing In the Warm Room, but felt that it was too risque for a children's show. She sings Kashka From Baghdad, a song about two gay lovers, instead.
06.09.1993	Rubberband Girl released
07.09.1980	Never for Ever (album) released
07.09.1993	Eat the Music (released in the US)
08.09.1980	Never For Ever is released. Kate undertakes a very heavy promotional schedule.
09.09.1985	Kate's fifth album, Hounds of Love, is launched at a massive party at the London Laserium, at which the whole album is played and accompanied by a dramatic laser light show. Kate appears for the first time in public in the company of her boyfriend of seven years, the bassist and engineer Del Palmer.
10.09.1982	Kate appears live at a special Radio 1 Roadshow from Covent Garden Piazza to be interviewed briefly about her new album.
11.09.1980	The album's head is wetted at a huge party for dealers in Birmingham. Kate is meanwhile engaged in a personal appearance tour, signing albums in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester (where she kisses over 600 fans), Birmingham and London (where the queue awaiting her stretches over 100 yards outside the record shop and down Oxford Street).
13.09.1982	The Dreaming (album) released
13.09.1982	The album The Dreaming is released. Written, arranged and produced by Kate around the rhythm box and the Fairlight CMI. The radio programmers and most of the British reviewers are mystified. The album demands more of them than they can give.
14.09.1982	Kate makes a personal appearance at the Virgin Megastore in London's Oxford Street. The queue again exceeds 100 yards in length.
16.09.1980	The album enters the official chart at number 1. Kate is the first British solo female artist ever to reach the number 1 position on the British album charts.
16.09.1985	Kate Bush's album Hounds Of Love surpasses Madonna's Like A Virgin for the #1 spot on the UK chart. Featuring the hit single "Running Up That Hill," it's the second charttopper for the British singer-songwriter.
16.09.1985	The Hounds of Love album is released to very good reviews.
16.09.1985	Hounds of Love (album) released
18.09.1989	The Sensual World (song) released - Inspired by James Joyce's novel Ulysses, earns Kate a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Performance.
20.09.1985	Hounds of Love enters the official album chart at number 1. The Cloudbusting video is made partly on location in the Vale of the White Horse in Oxfordshire. It features Donald Sutherland as Wilhelm Reich, with the design of the cloudbusting machine itself undertaken by the artist H. R. Giger [constructed by Ken Hill].
21.09.1982	Kate makes an appearance on the commercial TV programme Razzmatazz, performing There Goes a Tenner, which is to be the next single.
22.09.1980	Army Dreamers released