KATE BUSH – NEVER FOR EVER LP – Nr MINT A3/B3 UK 1980 BABOOSHKA 

Kate Bush – Never For Ever
(EMI Records  1980  EMA794)
Matrix No’s: A3/B3 – UK Pressing

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Catherine “Kate” Bush, CBE (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. She first came to note in 1978 when, at the age of 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single “Wuthering Heights”, becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number-one with a self-written song. She has since released twenty-five UK Top 40 singles, including the top ten hits “The Man with the Child in His Eyes”, “Babooshka”, “Running Up That Hill”, “Don’t Give Up” (a duet with Peter Gabriel) and “King of the Mountain“. She has released ten studio albums, all of which reached the UK Top 10, including the UK number-one albums Never for Ever (1980) and Hounds of Love (1985). She is the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist ever to enter the album chart at number-one.

Bush has received widespread critical acclaim for her eclectic and idiosyncratic music as well as her theatrical performances. She has been nominated 13 times for British Phonographic Industry accolades, and in 1987 she won a Brit Award for Best British Female Artist. During the course of her career, she has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards. In 2002, she was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Bush was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to music. A diverse range of artists have claimed Bush as an influence on their work.

Never for Ever is the third album by the British singer Kate Bush. Released in 1980, it was Bush’s first no.1 album and was also the first ever album by a British female solo artist to top the UK album chart as well as being the first album by any female solo artist to enter the chart at no.1. It has since been certified Gold by the BPI. Bush co-produced the album with Jon Kelly.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Kate Bush.

Personnel

• Ian Bairnson: Guitar, Bass vocals
• Brian Bath: Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Background Vocals
• Andrew Bryant: Vocals, Background Vocals
• Kevin Burke: Violin
• Kate Bush: Piano, Arranger, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Harmony Vocals, Fairlight CMI, Yamaha CS-80
• Paddy Bush: Harmonica, Mandolin, Balalaika, Bass Vocals, Sitar, Vocals, Background Vocals, Koto, Banshee, Saw, Mando, Delius
• Stuart Elliot: Drums, Bodhran
• Larry Fast: Keyboards, Prophet Synthesizer
• Martyn Ford: Orchestra
• John Giblin: Bass, Fretless Bass
• Roy Harper: Vocals, Background Vocals
• Preston Heyman: Percussion, Drums, Background Vocals
• Gary Hurst: Vocals, Background Vocals
• Jon Jacobs: Assistant Engineer
• Jon Kelly: Producer, Engineer
• Duncan Mackay: Keyboards, Fairlight
• Max Middleton: Keyboards, Moog synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, String Arrangements
• Mike Moran: Keyboards, Prophet 5
• Alan Murphy: Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Acoustic & Electric Bass
• Del Palmer: Bass, Vocals, Fretless Bass
• Morris Pert: Percussion, Timpani
• Roland: Percussion
• Adam Sceaping: Viol, String Arrangements
• Jo Sceaping: Lironi, String Arrangements
• Adam Skeaping: Viola
• Joseph Skeaping: Lironi
• John L. Walters and Richard James Burgess: Fairlight CMI