CTS Album Review: KATE BUSH-THE RED SHOES

Taken from Season 4, Episode 28, this is our fourth time covering an album from Kate Bush. Previously, we covered these albums:
"The Kick Inside" (Season 2, Bonus Episode 15)
"The Dreaming" (Season 3, Bonus Episode 5)
"Hounds of Love" (Season 3, Episode 16)
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Now Kate typically doesn't take direct experiences from her own life there are a couple of tracks on this album which are directly related to her life. 📍Moments Of Pleasure - includes references to friends & family that Kate has lost over the years. So we have: her aunt Maureen, dancer Gary Hurst (Bubba), guitarist Alan Murphy (Smurph), Abbey Road sound engineer John Barrett (Teddy), film director Michael Powell, and lighting engineer Bill Duffield. The reference to "whose who will survive" was referring to her Mother who was seriously ill at the time, as if Kate was willing her to live. Sadly, her mother die a little while later after Kate had completed the album. 📍You're The One - Is Kate's break-up song with her long term partner Del Palmer. The desperation is written in the Lyrics "You're the only one I want". Despite breaking up with Kate, Del Palmer continued to work with Kate on her albums. (A sad footnote is that Del Palmer died on the 5th of January 2024, aged 71.) So with these two tracks it means by Kate's standards this is a very personal album. So after the death of her Mother and the break up with Del Palmer together the recent (at the time) death of Alan Murphy was a featured guitarist on her albums, it was really no surprise that Kate took a break. What nobody suspected was that it would last so long. === It would be very nice if you could get round to "Never For Ever" which Kate co-produced.

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Thanks so much for the context on the songs. It caused me to go back and re-listen to a couple of them, especially "Moments of Pleasure" with the added knowledge of the lyrics. We're on a little bit of a Kate hiatus as we continue through the 90s (she is in her dormant period now), but I think we'll find a way to revisit her at some point!