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Kate Bush's debut album, 'The Kick Inside'
February 19, 2022

This week in 1978, Kate Bush released her debut album, "The Kick Inside." Still a teen when it was released, it includes her No. 1 U.K. hit, "Wuthering Heights." Bush had been writing songs since her early teens, with some demos funded by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour. Artsy, cinematic, literary, her debut was a was a sensation in England — enough to get her booked that year on Saturday Night Live in the States — although the album failed to crack even the Top 200 in America, where Kate Bush would remain a cult artist. We celebrate The Kick Inside, Kate Bush’s debut, this week on Teenage Kicks.

Two of the six known versions of the cover art for Kate Bush's 1978 debut album, 'The Kick Inside.'
EMI Records
