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Kate Bush releases the album Hounds Of Love in the UK.
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Her previous album, The Dreaming, had proved too willfully self-indulgent to reach a mass audience. Three years in the making, Hounds of Love was no less ambitious or experimental, but Bush took pains to ensure that standout tracks like Cloudbusting, The Big Sky and Running Up That Hill boasted glossy production values and irresistible melodic hooks. In an era when women in pop seemed content to sell themselves as sex objects, Bush set herself apart by holding fast to her maverick instincts, quirky subject matter and vocal ululations, all now standard issue for Tori Amos and a whole raft of contemporary women songwriters. “I was really pleased that album did so well,” Bush has said, “because none of my records have done anything at all out there.”
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