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Kate Bush - Lionheart (1978) (Vinyl, Lp) - €10,00

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"Lionheart" is the second studio album by the English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. 
It was released in November 1978, just nine months after Bush’s successful debut album The Kick Inside. Lionheart reached no. 6 on the UK Albums Chart.
Following the success of her debut album, Kate Bush’s record company EMI were eager to get another out. 
Bush had composed many songs throughout her teens (she was at this time 19 years old) and the majority of the tracks used for Lionheart were compositions from before her debut. 
Bush, however, was unhappy with the short length of time she had in which to produce the album. Recorded entirely at Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes on the French Riviera, this was to be her only album recorded outside the UK. 
Of the ten tracks, only “Symphony in Blue”, “Fullhouse” and “Coffee Homeground” were newly composed songs, although the other songs had been reworked by Bush in preparation for the recording.
The album was produced, like her first, by Andrew Powell, with Bush feeling that she was at this stage too inexperienced to produce it herself (she would go on to produce all her following albums). 
Since the album’s release, Bush has many times said that she was unhappy with this album because of the restrictions imposed on it. In a 1989 interview she remarked: “Considering how quickly we made it it’s a bloody good album, but I’m not really happy with it”.
Literary references include J. M. Barrie‘s Peter Pan in “In Search of Peter Pan” (a song which also quotes “When You Wish Upon a Star” from the Disney film Pinocchio), as well as a nod towards Arsenic and Old Lace in the song “Coffee Homeground”, which despite being similar in plot to the play, was inspired by a taxi driver who drove Bush once. 
Film references include “Hammer Horror“, while although taking its name from the Hammer Film studios, is actually about a production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 
The British television show The Sweeney, a popular police drama from the 1970s, was mentioned in the lyrics of the song “Wow“, which is a song about the music business and show business in general. “Kashka from Baghdad”, inspired by American detective series, is about the inhabitants of a town wondering about a couple living in an old house.
Her fairytale essence wraps itself around tracks like “In Search of Peter Pan,” “Kashka From Baghdad,” and “Oh England My Lionheart,” but unravels before any substance can be heard. “Wow” does the best job at expressing her voice as it waves and flutters through the chorus, with a melody that shimmers in a peculiar but compatible manner.
Some of the tracks, such as “Coffee Homeground” or “In the Warm Room,” bask in their own subtle obscurity, a trait that Bush improved upon later in her career but couldn’t secure on this album. Lionheart acts as a gauge more than a complete album, as Bush is trying to see how many different ways she can sound vocally colorful, even enigmatic, rather than focus on her material’s content and fluidity.


Side one
1.  Symphony in Blue - 3:35
2.  In Search of Peter Pan - 3:46
3.  Wow - 3:58
4.  Don’t Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake - 3:12
5.  Oh England My Lionheart - 3:10
 
Side two
1.  Fullhouse - 3:14
2.  In the Warm Room - 3:35
3.  Kashka From Baghdad - 3:55
4.  Coffee Homeground - 3:38
5.  Hammer Horror - 4:39
 

“In Search of Peter Pan” contains an excerpt of “When You Wish Upon a Star“, written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington.

 
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Notes
Release:  1978
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Art Rock, Baroque Pop
Label:  EMI Records
Catalog#  5C 062-06859

Vinyl:  Goed (VG+)
Cover:  Goed (VG+) Gatefold

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