The Whole Story

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The Whole Story
The Whole Story cover
Compilation album by Kate Bush
Released November 10, 1986
Recorded 1977-1986
Genre Alternative Rock, Art Rock, Pop Rock
Length 48:53
Label EMI
Producer Kate Bush
Jon Kelly
Andrew Powell
Professional reviews
Kate Bush chronology
Hounds of Love
(1985)		 The Whole Story
(1986)		 The Sensual World
(1989)

The Whole Story is Kate Bush's 6th album, and her first, and to this date only, greatest hits collection. The album includes two previously unreleased recordings: a new piece entitled "Experiment IV", and a remix of Bush's first hit, "Wuthering Heights," featuring newly-recorded vocals. The album peaked at No. 1 on the UK albums chart.

A videotape also called The Whole Story was released at the same time. It includes the videos for the songs on the album (in the same order), plus the video for "The Big Sky", a song from Hounds of Love which is not included in the compilation album. The video for "Wow" as featured on this release features excerpts from Bush's live tour, as the singer was no longer fond of the original promotional video. The video for "Experiment IV" has cameos by Dawn French, Hugh Laurie and Peter Vaughan.


[edit] Track listing

  1. "Wuthering Heights" (new vocal) – 4:57
  2. "Cloudbusting" – 5:09
  3. "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" – 2:38
  4. "Breathing" – 5:28
  5. "Wow" – 3:46
  6. "Hounds of Love" – 3:02
  7. "Running Up That Hill" – 5:00
  8. "Army Dreamers" – 3:13
  9. "Sat in Your Lap" – 3:29
  10. "Experiment IV" – 4:21
  11. "The Dreaming" – 4:14
  12. "Babooshka" – 3:29

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Chart Performance

Chart (1986) Peak
position
USA Billboard 200 74
Sweden 48
Australian Albums Chart 28
France 11
Finland 10
UK Album Charts 1
Norway's album chart 10


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