Kate Bush: Live at the Hammersmith Odeon

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Kate Bush:Live at Hammersmith Odeon
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Live album by Kate Bush
Released 1994
Recorded May 1979
Genre Alternative rock, art rock, pop rock
Length 53:22
Label EMI on PMI International Video
Professional reviews
Kate Bush chronology
The Sensual World
(1989)
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon
(1994)
This Woman's Work
(1990)


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Live at Hammersmith Odeon
Live at Hammersmith Odeon

Live at Hammersmith Odeon is Kate Bush's only live album release, which only came out on CD along with a box set version of the VHS.

In September of 1979 she released an EP of 4 tracks recorded at the final dates of her only major tour, called On Stage. The Hammersmith performance had been added at the last moment as a benefit for 21 year old Bill Duffield, her lighting director, who had died at the Poole Arts Centre during the tour. Although it was rumoured that Bush did not tour again due to this accident, coupled with other factors including a much rumoured fear of flying, she has since claimed that it was the toll of extensive travelling and performing to large audiences that deterred her from more tours.

In 1981 a video of the concert was released, which is included in the 1994 boxed edition, including a compact disc of the audio.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Kate Bush.

  1. "Moving" – 3:32
  2. "Them Heavy People" – 4:02
  3. "Violin" – 3:32
  4. "Strange Phenomena" – 3:26
  5. "Hammer Horror" – 4:25
  6. "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake" – 4:00
  7. "Wow" – 4:00
  8. "Feel It" – 3:14
  9. "Kite" – 6:12
  10. "James and the Cold Gun" – 8:44
  11. "Oh England, My Lionheart" – 3:23
  12. "Wuthering Heights" – 4:50

[edit] On Stage EP

  1. "Them Heavy People" – 4:02
  2. "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake" – 4:00
  3. "James and the Cold Gun" (6'32)
  4. "L'Amour Looks Something Like You" (2'35)

For years, On Stage was the only legal release of performances from the Hammersmith show.

[edit] Personnel

Taken from the Tour programme. additional personnel may be involved


[edit] See also