It married up the love letter sensibilities that all truly great pop music should at least allude to. The first hit of ‘Running Up That Hill’ leaves you in no doubt, this is not just a pop masterpiece but an undulating and intriguing song like none that had ever been heard before. In our feature ‘The Story Behind The Song’, we’re taking this moment to look at the shining gem in the pop crown that is Bush’s album Hounds of Love and find out the track’s beginnings and it’s continued journey.
But it’s quite shocking really, isn’t it? I mean, the whole world’s gone mad.”Īrriving as the first notes of one of music’s seminal moments of theatrical and poetic pop perfection, Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ straddles the line between synth-laden operatic gold and a deeply personal and spiritual song about the quest for greater understanding. But I just never imagined that it would be anything like this. I mean, you know, it’s such a great series, I thought that the track would get some attention. Speaking of the Netflix boom to her back catalogue plays, Bush commented: “Well it’s just extraordinary. “The thought of all these really young people hearing the song for the first time and discovering it is, well, I think it’s very special,” the 63-year-old singer told Emma Barnett for an exclusive interview on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, the iconic show broadcast on weekdays from 10am. Perhaps its biggest triumph was bringing Bush out of her usually comfortable position in the shadows and garnering a brand new interview.
Since appearing on the wildly popular Netflix series Stranger Things, and the subsequent TikTok trends that now follow such a discovery, the song has shot to number one and toppled a whole host of records along the way. It’s hard to ignore the widespread furore surrounding the rediscovery of Kate Bush’s seminal single ‘Running up That Hill (Deal With God)’.