Cloudbusting

"Cloudbusting" was released on October 14, 1985 and made the top twenty in the UK Singles Chart, climbing to number 20. In the United States the song was also released as a single from The Whole Story, Bush's greatest hits album.

The song is a look at a special relationship between a boy and his father. It describes psychologist Wilhelm Reich's arrest and imprisonment through the eyes of his son, Peter, who wrote his father's story in A Book Of Dreams, published in 1973, on which the song is based. Wilhelm Reich is the inventor of the cloudbuster, which looks very much like the machine that is pictured on the cover of this single.

The music video, directed by Julian Doyle and conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush, features Donald Sutherland playing the father, Wilhelm, and, most famously, Bush playing the young boy, Peter.

The B-Side to the single was "Burning Bridge", in which a woman desperately pleads with her lover to step up his level of commitment to her. The 12" featured the additional track "My Lagan Love", a traditional Irish melody with lyrics by Bush.

Utah Saints sampled the song's line "I just know that something good is going to happen" for their song Something Good (1992) as well as scenes from the video for their video. It reached #4 on the UK pop charts (later reaching #8 when re-released in 2008), charting higher than the original song.

Italian metal band Novembre covered this song as well as American rock band The Twilight Singers.

American singer-songwriter Charlotte Martin covered this song in 2007 on her all covers album "Reproductions".