Running Up That Hill

Tom Doyle is a highly acclaimed music journalist and author of three books: The Glamour Chase: The Maverick Life of Billy Mackenzie; Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s; and Captain Fantastic: Elton John's Stellar Trip Through The '70s. As a journalist and interviewer, his work has appeared in Mojo, Billboard, Q, Sound On Sound, The Guardian and The Times. Over the years, he has been responsible for key magazine profiles of Paul McCartney, Elton John, Yoko Ono, Keith Richards, U2, Madonna, Kate Bush, and R.E.M., among many other artists. He lives in London, England.

Long-term Kate Bush devotees and new teenage fans won over by Stranger Things will both find enlightenment in Tom Doyle’s prismastic portrait of the elusive artist.

• 1. Moving Back into the Light 2. Through the Back Door 3. The Sister in the Photographs 4. The Artful Bushes 5. The Girl at the Piano 6. A Songbird in the Garden of a Starman 7. Guest Testimony 8. ‘The Man That Started It All’ 9. Round the Pubs 10. Live in the Studio 11. ‘A Bag o’ Cats!’ 12. Public Image Limited 13. Lost in France 14. ‘Your Hair Looks Really Nice’ 15. ‘The Fear and Sparkle’ 16. Smash! 17. A Right Royal Mishap and Blunder 18. Echoes in the Walls 19. Guest Testimony 20. Let the Weirdness In 21. ‘Pull Out the Pin’ 22. Back in the Lens 23. An ‘Uncommercial Record’ 24. The Hardest Sell 25. Retreat, Rethink 26. A Night at the Laserium 27. ‘The Ninth Wave’28. Making Rain 29. ‘I Used to Be Kate Bush’ 30. ‘Under the Ivy’ 31. ‘Something Good’ 32. Change the Past and Future 33. A Remote Connection 34. ‘Moments of Pleasure’ 35. The Line, the Cross and the Curve 36. Public Image (Further) Limited 37. An Inimitable Artist? 38. ‘Ooh, I’ve just come!’ 39. A Sea and Sky of Honey 40. ‘A Coral Room’ 41. Guest Testimony 42. ‘I Obviously Have a Very Recognisable Nose’ 43. ‘Among Angels’ 44. Before and Beyond the Dawn 45. ‘Bigger Fucking Waves’ 46. Tory Furore 47. The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience . . . 48. ‘KT’ 49. The End of the Day 50. Strange Phenomena Acknowledgments