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The video for Cloud Busting was filmed at the White Horse hill in Oxfordshire, a friend of mine meet Kate and Donald Sutherland at her parents farm there. Apparently Donald didn’t accept payment for being in the video.

Nick | 18.06.22 - 8:24 a.m. | #

It's long been locally suggested (and elsewhere) that Running Up That Hill was inspired by the steep climb up the Greensand Ridge when Kate Bush was living in Crockham Hill, near Westerham in Kent.

Waterhouse | 18.06.22 - 8:51 a.m. | #

Is she really nearly 64 now? There must have been something in the air in the summer of '58. Kate Bush, Michael Jackson, and Madonna were all born within a month of each other (30th July - 29th August), and Prince was only a couple of months older.

Timbo | 18.06.22 - 8:52 a.m. | #

It was actually her fourth album The Dreaming that was deemed too "experimental", not least because of the Aboriginal influenced title track which was a bit much for the charts of 1982. As a 16 year old I loved it, though I did think it was a bit odd. Great that a new generation is discovering her genius.

dg writes: ordinal updated, thanks.

Jaco | 18.06.22 - 9:20 a.m. | #

Not having a Netflix account and not having followed the charts for at least 35 years this had completely passed me by until I saw it on the news last night!

Cornish Cockney | 18.06.22 - 9:44 a.m. | #

Well, I suppose that after 44 years it's no surprise that a Bush has been obscured by a large number of trees!

Mike Newman | Homepage | 18.06.22 - 9:52 a.m. | #

Coming soon: A trip to East Portlemouth (No.4 bus). Best to go before the house goes over the cliff though...

Frank | 18.06.22 - 9:53 a.m. | #

Re 44 Wickham Road,Brockley

I have a personal connection here as with my friends l briefly squatted the house in 1984 - with yours truly taking over the top floor flat. I don't know how my mates knew but we knew Kate Bush had lived there.

The house was empty and clearly hadn't been lived in for a while. It was hard to get in but we did eventually early one morning. We could open the front door but not a side door. That would be my undoing. Whilst settling down in the top floor flat l noticed a telephone and on picking it up the line was still live. Oh dear l thought, the Bush family must still be coming here. I rang in sick on the phone to my place of work.

First to turn up were the cops - who were nice and friendly- but advised us to leave. Then when l was upstairs by myself l heard someone come in the side door. It was Paddy Bush and two mates. He was friendly as well but said l had to leave immediately. My friends were out so l gathered all our stuff and left. I subsequently found out that the top floor flat l had briefly squatted was where Kate had written "Wuthering Heights".

Footnote: at no. 46 Wickham Road the famous actress Lilly Langtry once lived. She allegedly had an affair with the Prince of Wales at a now demolished house at 117 Lewisham Way.

Le Ver | 18.06.22 - 10:18 a.m. | #

It amazes me that she could have lived somewhere so rural and "bohemian" such a short distance from Welling itself, which is anything but!

The farm is still in the family hands, occupied by her nephew, a Blacksmith.

Mikey C | 18.06.22 - 12:44 p.m. | #

Blacksmith paragraph added, thanks.

Also, some comments from Twitter...

» Her father was my GP in a very ordinary practice in Plumstead at the time Kate broke through. He was wonderful (@fatsanj)

» Sad to see the farm sign so faded - visited Hannah (Kate’s mum) there back in the 80s - met in the garden by the hounds of love Bonnie and Clyde in the garden. Beautiful place inside and out. (@smiledarling)

» She used to live in one of the big houses in Court Road on the way to Eltham too (@hernameisAI)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.06.22 - 1:18 p.m. | #

In the late 1950's my mother and I lived in Loders Court in Dorset, where my mother was Housekeeper for Sir Edward Le Breton, a cousin of Lillie Langtry.

JohnC | 18.06.22 - 4:47 p.m. | #

Looking at the satellite view I would say that the main house looks derelict and the trees have not so much been planted as just grown up untended.

Peter | 18.06.22 - 5:18 p.m. | #

It helps a lot that the most prominent scene in the Netflix drama is an absolute banger of a scene that plays the audience like a proverbial violin, aided by some brilliant acting.

Silent Hunter | Homepage | 18.06.22 - 10:34 p.m. | #











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