Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights

Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and producer who's career started in 1975.

This singer is very known for her eclectic musical style and incredibly unique voice that made her one of the most successful solo female performers of the United Kingdom of the last years.

Bush is also the owner of big hits like Running Up that Hill, Babooshka and Don't Give Up.

She already won a Brit Award in 1987 for Best British Female Solo Artist, an Ivor Novello Award in 2002 for Outstanding Contribution to British music and was nominated the Grammy Awards several times.

With 10 studio albums - The Kick Inside (1978), Lionheart (1978), Never For Ever (1980), The Dreaming (1982), Hounds Of Love (1985), The Sensual World (1989), The Red Shoes (1993), Aerial (2005), Director's Cut (2011) and 50 Words For Snow (2011), besides a live album released in 1994 and some EP's.

Wuthering Heights is Kate Bush's debut single in January 1978. Taken from The Kick Inside, the song was written by Bush when she was eighteen years old and it's based on the novel with the same name.

Kate Bush was inspired to write Wuthering Heights by the last ten minutes of the 1970 movie of that novel. It's possible to see several quotes from Catherine Earnshaw (main character), specially on the chorus "Let me in! I'm so cold". She also used them to confess Catherine's confession to her master "bad dreams in the night".

This romantic scene has a sinister turn when Catherine is in fact a ghost that's calling her love, Heathcliff.

"Oh it gets dark, it gets lonely

On the other side from you

I pine a lot, I find the lot

Falls through without you

I'm coming back love, cruel Heathcliff

My one dream, my only master"

The Beatles, Paperback Writer

The Beatles, probably one of the most recognized bands in the music history.

Since 1962 the band was composed by John Lennon (guitar/vocals), Paul McCartney (bass/vocals), George Harrison (guitar/vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums/vocals).
Initially, the first band formation were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (bass) and Pete Best (drums).

Their status and recognition made them being commonly refereed about their phenomenon on the press as "Beatlemania".
The first Beatles hit success was "Love Me Do" beginning in this way, one of the most talked bands until nowadays.

On their first years, The Beatles built their reputation on Liverpool and Hamburg pubs. But during that time, in 1961, Pete Best decided to leave the band and he was replaced by Ringo Starr on the next year.

The band work intensively until 1966, break up in 1970. Each member pursuit a solo career. John Lennon was killed in 1980 by a fan and George Harrison died of cancer in 2001. Only McCartney and Starr are still alive and working.

The critics consider their album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has one of the best Beatles album and is usually referred as a master piece.

They were honored with 8 Grammy Awards and 15 Ivor Novello Awards. They are part of Time's Magazine Top List of the 100 most influence people from the XX Century.

With 13 released albums: Please Please Me (1963), With the Beatles (1963), A Hard Day's Night (1964), Beatles for Sale (1964), Help! (1965), Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Magical Mystery Tour (1967), The Beatles [also known as "White Album"] (1968), Yellow Submarine (1969), Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), besides several compilations and re-releases.

Paperback Writer appears the side A from the single "Rain", later appearing on some The Beatles compilations like Hey Jude or The Beatles 1962-1966.

Paperback Writer was written by McCartney/Lennon but the original idea was from McCartney and it's one of the few songs that don't talk about love, but "a letter from an aspiring author addressed to a publisher. The author badly needs a job and has written a paperback version of a book by a "man named Lear." (...) a reference to the Victorian painter Edward Lear, who wrote nonsense poems and songs of which Lennon was very fond (though Lear never wrote novels)." as we can see on wikipedia.
There are several theories about it, one is that McCartney got an inspiration from a letter sent by a fan, there is also another mention revealed by Paul himself on an interview in 2007: "recalled that he wrote the song after reading in the Daily Mail about an aspiring author". The Daily Mail was usually read by John Lennon and it was possible to find many copies at his home, where he and McCartney wrote their songs.

"It's a dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand
His son is working for the daily mail
It's a steady job, but he wants to be a paperback writer"

Bat for Lashes - Horse and I

Bat for Lashes is the stage name of Natasha Khan, an English musician, she was born in 1979.
Her first album was released in 2006 and was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize.
In 2008, she received two BRIT Award nominations for Best Breakthrough Artist and Best Female Solo Artist.
In 2010, she won the UK Asian Music Awards - Best alternative act - and Ivor Novello Awards for Best contemporary song (Daniel -  from her second album).

This song is from her first album, Fur and Gold. I was hearing this album during my study today and decided I had to share this artist with you guys today.

After graduation she worked as a nursery school teacher and in that time she wrote the material for this album.

Whenever I'm writing music it's a very visual place in my mind. It has a location full of characters and colours and landscapes, so those two things really complement each other, and they help the other one to blossom and support the other. They are like brother and sister.


The whole album is very melodious and calm. A good one to hear when you're studying or when you just want/need to relax. I will definitively going to hear the other album she released in 2009, Two suns.

The smell of redwood giants.
The banquet for the shadows.
Horse and I, we're dancers in the dark.
Came upon the headdress.
It was gilded, dark and golden.
The children sang.
I was so afraid I took it to my head and prayed.

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