Kate Bush’s 10 favourite albums

Kate Bush named ten favourite albums around the release of her 1980 record *Never for Ever*, offering a glimpse of the music that shaped her wide-ranging style. Her choices span rock, soul, folk and less familiar international and classical sounds, showing that her influences came from well beyond one genre.

The list includes Pink Floyd’s *The Wall*, the Eagles’ *One of These Nights*, David Bowie’s *Young Americans*, Stevie Wonder’s *The Secret Life of Plants* and the Beatles’ *Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band*. Bush linked some records to personal memories: the Eagles’ album recalled dance teacher Lindsay Kemp, while A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl’s folk collection *Blow Boys Blow* was part of her childhood; she also cited albums by the TV National Iranian Chamber Orchestra and bassist Eberhard Weber.