Kate Bush: On Location (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798296530226)

On 16 September 2025, Kate Bush's timeless masterpiece, Hounds of Love, turns 40. But have you ever wondered where the album was recorded? Or maybe you've always wanted to know where the video for Running Up That Hill was filmed, or where Kate's No. 1 hit, Wuthering Heights, was penned? Well, you're about to find out.

Kate Bush: On Location brings together in one book the location secrets behind Kate's iconic career, allowing you to discover the fascinating stories and histories of over seventy locations that have played a part in her incredible journey. From recording studios to concert venues, television centres to outdoor filming locations, record company offices to vinyl record pressing plants - this fan-written book will take you on a virtual tour across the UK and the rest of the world to experience the real-life locations that have shaped Kate's music and career.

- Explore recording studios, soundstages, TV studios, tour venues, music video filming locations, and rehearsal spaces, as well as the places where Kate's early life and career began before she was signed to EMI Records.
- Use the given coordinates to pay a virtual visit to each location using online maps and Google Street View.
- Dive into the history of each real-life location and learn of its connection to Kate, with a handful of fascinating facts and trivia along the way.

Kate Bush: On Location visits a number of iconic rock music landmarks, including the legendary studios of Abbey Road, AIR London, Super Bear, and Windmill Lane; venues related to Kate's 1979 Tour such as the Rainbow Theatre, the Poole Arts Centre, and the Hammersmith Odeon; famous film studios like Shepperton, Bray, and Elstree; the Efteling Theme Park and the London Laserium; TV studios such as BBC Television Centre, Pebble Mill, ATV Birmingham, and RTÉ Dublin; EMI Records and its vinyl pressing plants; Black Park and the beautiful Vale of the White Horse; the curious home of Bio's Bahnhof; the Soho photography studio used to capture those famous 'pink leotard' portraits; and the setting for Kate's pivotal recording session with David Gilmour in 1973. And so much more.

Kate Bush: On Location. Experience the history of Kate Bush in a whole new way.

"A marvellous new book that I think every Kate Bush fan should own. I love this extensive, exhaustive and comprehensive love letter to Kate Bush. I was engrossed. A book that I think Kate Bush fans should carry around with them. Kate Bush: On Location is an exceptional, well-written and extensively researched book that is rich with essential and fascinating information." - Sam Liddicott, editor of Music Musings & Such

Author: Max Cookney
ISBN-13: 9798296530226
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2025
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d