![]() ![]() So that's what we tried, really, to do a serious piece of dance." So we felt how interesting it would be to make a very simple routine between two people, almost classic, and very simply filmed. She stated that dance in music videos was "being used quite trivially, it was being exploited: haphazard images, busy, lots of dances, without really the serious expression, and wonderful expression, that dance can give. Bush wanted the dancing in "Running Up That Hill" to be more of a classical performance. Bush and Hervieu are shown wearing grey Japanese hakamas. The video was directed by David Garfath while the dance routines were choreographed by Diane Grey. The music video features Bush performing an interpretive dance with dancer Michael Hervieu. The album version of the song is listed as "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)". The song was originally titled "A Deal with God", but representatives at EMI Records feared this would make it unpopular in more religious countries. She imagined that by making "a deal with God", they could exchange places and reach a greater understanding. īush said the lyrics address the inability of men and women to understand each other. Drummer Stewart Elliott overdubbed a snare part to strengthen the Linn snare, and added some 'dramatic' fills at the end combined with sounds from the Fairlight. The signature drone part was developed by 'freezing' a 3 or 4-note chord into a Quantec digital reverb. ![]() The main riff was played on the Fairlight using its sampled cello sound: this replaced an earlier Harp sound on the Fairlight which Bush found very noisy. ![]() Once transferred to 24-track, Bush, Palmer and the engineers Paul Hardiman and Haydn Bendall built upon this version to develop the final song, spending particular time on the Fairlight parts. She wrote it in a single evening at her home, and recorded the first version onto 8-track with engineer Del Palmer, using a Fairlight CMI synthesiser and a LinnDrum drum machine looped pattern, which the vocal was built around. "Running Up That Hill" was the first song Bush composed for her fifth album, Hounds of Love (1985). The song also reached a new peak of number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Its appearance led to the song's resurgence on charts around the world, topping the charts in eight countries, including the United Kingdom for three consecutive weeks, Ireland for seven consecutive weeks and Australia for nine non-consecutive weeks. In 2022, "Running Up That Hill" received renewed attention when it was featured in the fourth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things. In 2012, a remix of the song featuring newly recorded vocals premiered during that year's Summer Olympics closing ceremony, and entered the UK top 10 for one week, at number six. Other appearances were promotional lip synced television performances, which were common at the time. Bush first performed it live in 1987 at the Secret Policeman's Third Ball, accompanied by Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour she did not perform it again until her 2014 Before the Dawn concerts. Upon its original release, "Running Up That Hill" reached number three on the UK Singles Chart and number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and was Bush's first US Top 40 hit. ![]() Bush wrote and produced "Running Up That Hill" using a Fairlight CMI synthesiser and a LinnDrum drum machine. The lyrics imagine a scenario in which a man and a woman make "a deal with God" to exchange places. It was released in the United Kingdom as the lead single from Bush's album Hounds of Love on 5 August 1985 by EMI Records. " Running Up That Hill", titled " Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" on some releases, is a song by the British singer and songwriter Kate Bush. ![]()
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