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Hammer Horror
A song on the album Lionheart.
"Alone on a film set at night with just one spotlight. But who is that in the shadows?"This song is also listed in the Discography section.
Kate Bush,
The Best Of Kate Bush
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Hammond Organ
An electric organ invented in 1933 by Laurens Hammond (1895 - 1973), which produces sound through a set of ridged wheels revolving in a magnetic field. The timbre of the sound is controlled by drawbars which add overtones to the fundamental sound. By the time it turned thirty, the Hammond had become the sound of classic rock and roll. The Hammond organ is played by Duncan Mackay on the songs Kite, Wuthering Heights and James And The Cold Gun, by Francis Monkman on Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake and Fullhouse, and by Gary Brooker on And So Is Love, Constellation Of The Heart, and You're The One.
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Handsome Cabin Boy, The
A variation on a traditional song performed by Ewan MacColl, this song was released as the b-side of the single Hounds Of Love in Britain, and on the Alternative Hounds Of Love 12-inch single.
This song is also listed in the Discography section.
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Hardiman, Paul
Engineered mixes of the album The Dreaming at Advision Studios, provided the Eeyore effect on the song Get Out Of My House; engineer on the album Hounds Of Love.
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Harley, Steve
Leader of the group Cockney Rebel, in a less well known credit Harley also provided vocals for the first version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom Of The Opera. Having donated half of Cockney Rebel to the recording of the album The Kick Inside, Harley further gave of himself on 12 May 1979 by appearing at a benefit concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in memory of the late Bill Duffield, with whom Harley had worked in the past.
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Harmonium
A reed organ with compression bellows invented in the early 19th Century. According to Kate, "My father played the piano, and we also had an old harmonium in a barn next to our house, where I'd spend a lot of time just pedalling away hymns...As the harmonium got eaten up by mice, less and less of the stops that selected the sounds worked, so naturally I turned my attention to playing the piano." The harmonium (presumably a different one, in better condition) is played by Andrew Powell on the song Hammer Horror.
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Harper, Roy
Harper provides backing vocals on the song Breathing; Kate returned the favor by joining Harper for the song You (The Game Part III) on his Unknown Soldier album and the song Once on his album Once. Kate and Peter Gabriel performed his song Another Day on the television special Kate.
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Harris, Rolf
(b. 30 March 1930) An Australian performer and television personality. Starting as a painter whose work was displayed in the National Gallery in London in the late Fifties, Harris turned to performing at London's Downunder Club. He eventually rose to national fame thanks to several successful comedic records, starting with Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport, which made the Top Ten on the British charts for nine weeks in 1960. Subsequent singles include Sun Arise, Johnny Day, Bluer Than Blue, and Two Little Boys. Following an appearance on the British children's television program Jigsaw Harris moved into a new career on television, hosting a variety of programs on the BBC, including The Rolf Harris Show, It's Rolf On Saturday OK?, Cartoon Time, Rolf's Walkabout and the followup Rolf's Walkabout - 20 Years Down the Track, Rolf's Cartoon Club, Animal Hospital and Animal Hospital Week. In 1977, Rolf Harris was awarded the OBE, and in 1989 was awarded the Order of Australia.
His 1962 record Sun Arise had a profound influence on the song The Dreaming, and Harris plays digeridu on that track.
In 1980, presumably before work on The Dreaming commenced, Kate elaborated on her love of the track Sun Arise:
"I wish Rolf would do some more musical ventures. I think it's fantastic. I mean, to be the discoverer of the wobble-board, and to be able to play the digeridu, and sing and write and draw. He's a very talented man, he really is. And I think he's very underestimated because of the areas he's got into now. He's a sort of top television personality. But it seems to me he's got a great deal of musical talent, and for me this track is just magic."
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Harvey, Richard
A musician who played recorders on the song Oh England My Lionheart.
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Heads We're Dancing
A song on the album The Sensual World. According to Kate, the lyrics were inspired by a friend's chance meeting with Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), scientific leader of the Manhattan Project and father of the atomic bomb. Unaware of the man's identity, this friend had been impressed with Oppenheimer's wit and charm, and was later considerably surprised to discover his role in history. In the song, Kate evokes Hitler instead -- an ironic choice on many levels.
This song is also listed in the Discography section.
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Hello Earth
A song on the album Hounds Of Love. Kate has described this song as "a lullaby for the Earth." Hello Earth turns The Ninth Wave upside-down, finding the protagonist on the water looking up at the stars, imagining herself up in the stars and looking down at the water. Faced with gaping holes in the chorus after the verses were written, Kate borrowed a tune from the film Nosferatu. The tune is originally a traditional song called Tsintskaro ("At
The Spring") from the Kartli-Kakhetian province in the Republic of Georgia.
The message which can be heard immediately before the start of the song is as follows:
1. voice: "Columbia [Challenger?] now at nine times the speed of sound."Parts of this message were deciphered by IED, Kevin Carosso and Weiland Willker. Note: "TACAN" is a military navigational system, also used by the space shuttle. Assuming that the recordings are legitimate clips of communications with the NASA Space Shuttle, they must derive from mission STS-8, launched August 30, 1983, which was the only flight sufficiently prior to the 1985 release of the album including anyone onboard named "Dan" -- namely Daniel Brandenstein, who as pilot of the mission would be the person most likely to report flight data to the ground. That mission was flown on the orbiter Challenger, not Columbia.
2. voice: "Roger that, Dan, I've got a solid TACAN locked on, uh, TACAN two and three."
3. voice: "The, uh, tracking data, map data and pre-planned trajectory are all one line on the block."
4. voice: "Show your block decode..."
At the end of the song, the words "Tiefer, tiefer, irgendwo in der Tiefe gibt es ein Licht" are recited by Gabi Zangerl.
This song is also listed in the Discography section.
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Henry, Lenny
(b. 1958) A British comedian and actor. Having made his television debut on the talent program New Faces at the age of 16, he has starred in several television series and is now best known for his lead roles in the series Chef and the film True Identity. Henry provides backing vocals on the song Why Should I Love You?
Lenny Henry is married to Dawn French, another participant in Kate's work.
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Henry, Paul
Director of the videos for the songs There Goes A Tenner and The Dreaming.
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Hervieu, Michael
A dancer. Hervieu is teamed with Kate in the video for the song Running Up That Hill.
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Heyman, Preston
Heyman plays drums on the songs Violin, Blow Away, Egypt, Sat In Your Lap, Pull Out The Pin, Leave It Open, and Get Out Of My House; percussion on the songs Delius, Blow Away, Egypt, and The Wedding List; and provides backing vocals on the songs All We Ever Look For and The Wedding List.
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Hitchcock, Nigel
Tenor saxophone on the songs Rubberband Girl, Constellation Of The Heart, Eat The Music, and Why Should I Love You? plus baritone saxophone on the song Rubberband Girl.
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Holiday, Billie
(b. Eleanora Fagin, 1915 - 1959) Described by Kate on one occasion as "the singer of singers," Billie Holiday sang with the bands of Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, and Artie Shaw, and basically defined jazz singing as it is known today.
Asked once about her love of Billie Holiday, and singing along with favorite records, Kate was emphatic:
"I think Billie Holiday is one of the very few artists whose records I would never join in with while she's singing, she's too good. I just couldn't get near it. I think the reward you get from her is in actually listening to her voice. That is what is so beautiful about her, you can almost hear what she's been doing for the last three weeks. Her singing is extraordinary. It's just terrifying, the amount of, well, agony, and yet beauty, which comes out of just that one voice. Terrible suffering, yet so entertaining for those who listen."In tribute to this singular talent, Kate created the sculpture Strange Fruit for a Warchild celebrity charity auction.
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Holly, Buddy
(b. Charles Hardin Holley, 1938 - 1959) An American rock icon, singer and guitarist, who during a span of only two years recorded a body of work (both with his backing band the Crickets and on his own) that fundamentally altered the course of rock music, and has influenced every succeeding generation of rock musicians. Holly is named in the song Blow Away.
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Home For Christmas
A song written for the Comic Strip film Wild Turkey.
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Hopper, Ricky
A friend of John Carder Bush with music industry connections who tried to circulate Kate's early demo tapes in 1972, to no avail. Fortunately, Hopper was also a friend of Dave Gilmour, whom he had known at Cambridge University. Hopper persuaded him to listen to the demos, and Gilmour agreed to help.
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Houdini, Harry
(b. Erich Weiss, 1874 - 1926) An illusionist and escape artist. Some of his most spectacular escapes were accomplished with the covert aid of his wife Bess, as when she passed a key to the bound Houdini by mouth, seeming only to be kissing the apparently doomed performer farewell -- as depicted in the song Houdini, and on the cover of the album The Dreaming.
Like many professional stage magicians and illusionists, Houdini was an outspoken skeptic of any claims of psychic ability or supernatural phenomena. Prior to his death, Houdini and his wife agreed on a secret code phrase ("Rosabel, believe!") he would use to contact her from beyond the grave, if there was in fact such a thing as an afterlife. After his death, Bess said she had been given the code by a psychic, but later discovered that the man had obtained it from a former servant of Houdini's.
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Houdini (song)
A song on the album The Dreaming, inspired by the life and death of Harry Houdini.
This song is also listed in the Discography section.
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Hounds Of Love (album)
The fifth album by Kate Bush. After the exorbitant studio costs of The Dreaming, this album was largely recorded and produced in Kate's own home studio. She has said the album "could never have been produced in a commercial setup."
An LP version of this album bears the additional line "And a big woof for Bonnie and Clyde." Bonnie and Clyde were the two dogs seen with Kate in the front sleeve picture. Kate described in an interview that it took all day to get the dogs to settle down, and that when they first tried to take the shot Kate ended up with a dog's paw in her mouth and makeup that needed redoing. When the final picture was taken, one of the hounds actually fell asleep on her.
This album was reissued on vinyl by EMI in 1998, and also in an expanded CD edition with additional tracks and new liner notes.
This album is also listed in the Discography section.
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Hounds Of Love, Alternative
More than merely a remix, this is in fact a significantly different version of the song Hounds Of Love with altered arrangements and alternative lyrics, released as a 12-inch single.
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Hounds Of Love (song)
Title song of the album Hounds Of Love. Part of the imagery of the song was inspired by one of Kate's favorite films, Night Of The Demon, in which Maurice Denham utters the lines "It's in the trees! It's coming!" Due to the difficulty of getting a good recording, the song contains a recreation of that line rather than a sample from the original.
This song is also listed in the Discography section.
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Hughes, John
(b. March 1950) A writer, producer and director of some 25 successful Hollywood films. Hughes wrote, produced and directed the film She's Having A Baby, for which Kate composed the song This Woman's Work.
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Hurst, Gary
(28 March 1958 - 1990) A dancer who worked with Kate in both videos and live appearances. He started dancing in 1975, and won a scholarship to Holland where he studied in Rotterdam, then went on to tour with a troupe called Moving Being before continuing his studies in Sweden and France. Brought into the 1979 Tour Of Life by choreographer Anthony Van Laast, Hurst became a close friend and intimate of Kate and her regular dance partner alongside Stewart Avon-Arnold, with whom he later founded the Dance Theatre Of London. Hurst also contributed backing vocals on the songs Babooshka and All We Ever Look For. (Reportedly, during the Tour it was difficult to keep him from joining in the backing vocals whenever he had the chance.)
In 1990, Hurst died of complications related to AIDS. He is mentioned by his nickname Bubba in the song Moments Of Pleasure.