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Kate Bush's first UK number one single was "Wuthering Heights" in 1978, which topped the chart for four weeks. It made her the first female artist to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart with a song she had written entirely herself. Guinness World Records also confirmed she was the first female artist in pop history to have written every track on a million-selling debut album.
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd received a demonstration tape of over fifty Bush compositions from a mutual family friend named Ricky Hopper. Impressed, Gilmour financed a more professional demo tape for the sixteen-year-old Bush, produced by Andrew Powell and engineered by Geoff Emerick. That tape was sent to EMI executive Terry Slater, who signed her.
"Running Up That Hill" gained renewed popularity in May 2022 after it was incorporated into the plot of the fourth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things. Actress Winona Ryder said she had pushed for the song to be included. It became the most streamed song on Spotify simultaneously in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and globally, and on the 17th of June 2022 it reached number one in the UK, Bush's second chart-topper.
The song set three UK chart records: it gave Bush the longest gap between two number ones at forty-four years, surpassing Tom Jones's forty-two-year record; it made Bush the oldest female solo artist to top the UK singles chart, at sixty-three years and eleven months; and it broke the record for the longest time taken by any single to reach number one, beating the previous holder "Last Christmas" by Wham! by a year.
For her 1979 Tour of Life, Bush needed both hands free to perform her expressionist dance choreography while singing. Sound engineers fashioned a headset microphone from a wire coat hanger and a radio microphone. It was the first use of such a device by a rock performer since the Spotnicks used a rudimentary version in the early 1960s, and the approach was later adopted by artists including Madonna and Peter Gabriel.
The Dreaming, released in September 1982, is Bush's lowest-selling album, earning only a silver disc in the UK. It entered the UK chart at number three but received a mixed critical reception, with reviewers finding its dense soundscapes difficult. In a 1993 interview with Q magazine, Bush described it as her "'She's gone mad' album."