Thunder In Our Hearts
A Kate Bush Companion MOJO
1 Roy Harper
You (The Game Part II)
To begin: Kate Bush! That, unmistakably, is her voice at the start of this duet with the antic Harper. 1980 found the pair collaborating on Bush’s Breathing and on You, a dramatic highlight of Harper’s tenth album,
The Unknown Soldier.
Another auspicious Bush connection, too, as the song’s co-writer and guest guitarist is David Gilmour, her first patron.
Written by Roy Harper. Published by Science Friction Ltd. District 6 Publishing. ©Roy Harper. From The Unknown Soldier. https://www.royharper.co.uk/
Eamonn O’Doherty courtesy Proper Records Ltd, Alamy (3), Getty (6), Shutterstock (2)
9 Planxty
Smeceno Horo
Bush’s love of folk music extends towards Ireland as well as England, and her association with the Irish group Planxty began with several of them guesting on 1982’s Night Of The Swallow, before playing key parts on
Hounds Of Love
and
The Sensual World.
This frenetically virtuoso track finds them combining Irish folk with another Bush obsession, Bulgarian traditional music.
Trad Arr by Andy Irvine/Christy Moore/Liam O’Flynn/ Matt Molloy/Dónal Lunny. Published by MCPS/ IMRO/BMI &©2022 Planxty. All rights reserved.
2 Zaine Griff
Flowers
Bush also sings on this 1982 single by Kiwi new romantic Zaine Griff. Bush and Griff met in Lindsay Kemp’s mime class, and Flowers is a tribute to their master. “Lindsay was such a powerful influence on us both – as he is on anyone who is captured by his strong magic,” wrote Bush in 1984. “It was a real pleasure to be a part of something dedicated to him.”