Never for Ever

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Never for Ever
Never for Ever cover
Studio album by Kate Bush
Released September 8, 1980
Recorded 1979
Genre Alternative Rock, Art Rock
Length 37:16
Label EMI
Producer(s) Kate Bush,
Jon Kelly
Professional reviews
Kate Bush chronology
Lionheart
(1978)		 Never for Ever
(1980)		 The Dreaming
(1982)


Never for Ever (1980) is the third album by Kate Bush. The singer co-produced the album with Jon Kelly; perhaps as a result, it features a more eclectic production than Bush's previous records, The Kick Inside and Lionheart, which had sounded very similar in their mixture of influences from art rock and classical music.

Never for Ever was the first record by a female British artist to top the UK album chart.

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[edit] Overview

Never for Ever saw Bush's second foray into production (her first was for the Live On Stage EP earlier in the year), aided by the engineer of Lionheart, Jon Kelly.[1] The first two albums had resulted in a definite sound which was evident in every track, with lush orchestral arrangements supporting the live band sound. The range of styles on Never for Ever is much more diverse, veering from the straightforward rocker, The Wedding List, to the sad, wistful waltz of hit single, Army Dreamers. Never for Ever was the first Kate Bush album to be composed on synthesizers and drum machines (in particular, the Fairlight CMI [1] which was programmed by Richard James Burgess and John L. Walters), her earlier albums being composed on the piano.

Never for Ever proved to be Bush's first record to reach the top position in the UK album charts, also making her the first female Briton ever to achieve that status. [2]

Bush's literary and cinematic influences were at work once more. The Infant Kiss was inspired by the 1961 film The Innocents, starring Deborah Kerr and Michael Redgrave, which in turn had been inspired by The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, while The Wedding List drew from François Truffaut's 1968 film The Bride Wore Black. Never for Ever is, to date, the only album by Bush not to share a title with one of its own tracks.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Kate Bush

  1. "Babooshka" – 3:20
  2. "Delius (Song of Summer)" – 2:51
  3. "Blow Away (For Bill)" – 3:33
  4. "All We Ever Look For" – 3:47
  5. "Egypt" – 4:10
  6. "The Wedding List" – 4:15
  7. "Violin" – 3:15
  8. "The Infant Kiss" – 2:50
  9. "Night Scented Stock" – 0:51
  10. "Army Dreamers" – 2:55
  11. "Breathing" – 5:29

[edit] Personnel

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Kate Bush. NNDB. Retrieved on April 3, 2007.
  2. ^ Williamson, Nigel. The Mighty Bush. Scotland on Sunday. Retrieved on April 3, 2007.
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