Moments Of Pleasure : The Music Of Kate Bush

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05.02.1988	The John Hughes film She's Having A Baby debuts in US theaters. Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern star as a young married couple whose lives are about to be upended by the birth of their first child. The soundtrack features Kate Bush's heart-wrenching ballad "This Woman's Work," written and recorded expressly for the movie.
07.02.1978	Wuthering Heights enters the "official" BMRB chart at number 42.
09.02.1978	Kate makes her first-ever television appearance in a disused tram depot in West Germany, for the famous Bio's Bahnhof on WDR-TV. She sings Kite live, backed effectively by the KT Bush Band, and Wuthering Heights to a backing tape. The backdrop, which is supposed to represent the Yorkshire moors, includes a volcano. Following her performance the host, Dr. Alfred Biolek, carries on an entirely one-sided onstage conversation with Kate--in German.
10.02.1986	Kate performs Hounds of Love live at the British Phonographic Industry Awards presentation. She is nominated for (but does not win) three awards: Best Album, Best Single and Best Female Singer.
12.02.1980	At the Music Week Annual Awards Gala at the Dorchester Hotel, Kate is presented with the award for Top Female Artist of 1979.
16.02.1978	Top of the Pops. She performs in high heels and slacks. Kate says later, "It was like watching myself die...a bloody awful performance."
17.02.1978	The Kick Inside (album) released
17.02.1979	The Man With the Child in His Eyes enters the U.S. Billboard Hot One Hundred, the first of Kate's singles so to do. It remains there for four weeks, peaking at number 85.
17.02.1986	The third single, Hounds of Love, is released in seven- and twelve-inch formats. Kate records a duet with Peter Gabriel for his fifth solo album. The track is called Don't Give Up. Kate abandons the plan to make a film version of The Ninth Wave side of the new album.
18.02.1979	Kate travels to Leysin [Lausanne?], Switzerland, to take part in a mammoth European television co-production. The results are carved up into three television shows, and it is planned that Kate will appear in two. For the first, an Easter Abba Special, she records a routine for Wow. At the rehearsals the cameramen and journalists break into spontaneous applause, and the press coverage verges on the hysterical. For the second programme, a Christmas programme to be called The Winter Snowtime Special, she records a version of Wuthering Heights barefoot in the snow of the Swiss Alps. [The latter film was never aired, though photos appeared in the U.K. press.]
21.02.1981	Kate is voted Best Female Singer of 1980 in the Sounds poll.
24.02.1986	Hounds of Love (song) released
25.02.1978	Kate performs live on BBC TV's Saturday Nights at the Mill, singing Moving and Them Heavy People and giving a brief interview. She also appears on the programme Magpie.
26.02.1990	Love and Anger released
27.02.1979	Kate takes part in BBC Radio 1's first-ever phone-in programme, Personal Call, answering listeners' calls for 60 minutes and jamming the Broadcasting House switchboards.
27.02.1980	At the British Rock and Pop Awards ceremony (this would eventually become known as the BPI Awards) at the Cafe Royal Kate is presented with the Top Female Singer of 1979.