KATE BUSH – LIONHEART LP – Nr MINT UK 1984

Kate Bush – Lionheart
(EMI/Fame Records  1984   FA4130941)
UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition

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.

Lionheart is the second album by the British singer Kate Bush. It was released in late 1978, just nine months after Bush’s successful debut album The Kick Inside. Lionheart reached no. 6 on the UK album chart (her only album not to make the top 5) and has been certified Platinum by the BPI. The first single taken from the album, “Hammer Horror”, missed the UK Top 40. However, the follow-up single, “Wow”, was released on the back of Bush’s UK tour and became a UK Top 20 hit.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Kate Bush, except “In Search of Peter Pan” written by Kate Bush and incorporates “When You Wish Upon a Star” (lyrics by Ned Washington and music by Leigh Harline).

Personnel

• Kate Bush – vocals, harmony vocals, piano, keyboards, recorder, arranger, assistant producer
• Ian Bairnson – acoustic, rhythm & electric guitar, vocals
• Brian Bath – guitar
• Paddy Bush – harmonica, mandolin, vocals, harmony vocals, pan flute, slide guitar, mandocello, pan pipes
• Richard Harvey – recorder, vocals
• Duncan Mackay – synthesizer, keyboards, Fender Rhodes
• Francis Monkman – harpsichord, keyboards, Hammond organ
• Del Palmer – bass, vocals
• David Paton – bass
• Stuart Elliot – percussion, drums
• Charlie Morgan – drums

• Andrew Powell – keyboards, producer
• Patrick Jaunead – assistant engineer
• David Katz – violin, orchestra contractor
• Jon Kelly – recording engineer
• Nigel Walker – assistant engineer, mixing, mixing assistant