Kate Bush - Lionheart (Japan) (1978)

Year: 13 November 1978 (CD Nov 2, 2005)
Label: EMI Records (Japan), TOCP-67816
Style: Art Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Kent, England (30 July 1958)
Time: 36:55
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 208 Mb

Charts: UK # 6, AUS #12, GER #25, NL #5, NZ #5, NOR #5, SWE #16, FIN #26, JAP #30. Australia, Canada, UK - Platinum; Netherlands, New Zealand - Gold. Single "Wow" - UK Top 20 hit.
Первый полноформатный релиз Кейт Буш с участием бас-гитариста и звукорежиссёра Дела Палмера, впоследствии сотрудничавшего с Буш на всех её студийных альбомах. Единственный альбом Буш, не вошедший в первую пятёрку национального альбомного чарта (достиг 6-го места).
Второй альбомный сингл "Wow", выпущенный накануне единственного концертного турне Буш The Tour of Life, поднялся до 14-го места в хит-параде UK Singles Chart. Песня и сопровождавшее её музыкальное видео стали объектом пародий британских комедийных актрис и телеведущих Фэйт Браун и Памелы Стивенсон (в телевизионной программе Not the Nine O’Clock News).
Название альбома отсылает к песне "Oh England My Lionheart", написанной от лица сбитого в бою военного лётчика, перед глазами которого за несколько мгновений до гибели проносится родная Англия.
Среди многочисленных культурных реминисценций альбома - упоминание Питера Пэна, персонажа сказочных повестей Дж. М. Барри ("In Search of Peter Pan", "Oh England My Lionheart"); цикла готических хоррор-фильмов киностудии Hammer Film Productions ("Hammer Horror"); популярного в 1970-е годы британского "полицейского" телесериала "Суини" ("Wow").
Песня "Coffee Homeground" - по признанию самой Буш, сочинённая под впечатлением от рассказа однажды подвозившего её "слегка чокнутого" таксиста - содержит аллюзии на фильм Фрэнка Капры "Мышьяк и старые кружева" по одноимённой пьесе американского драматурга Джозефа Кессельринга.
Песня "Kashka from Baghdad", посвящённая эксцентрической гомосексуальной паре, была впервые исполнена Кейт Буш 5 сентября 1978 года (до официальной премьеры альбома) в прямом эфире британской детской телевизионной передачи Ask Aspel.
Автор слов и музыки всех песен - Кейт Буш. Песня "In Search of Peter Pan" содержит фрагмент композиции "When You Wish Upon a Star" из мультфильма Уолта Диснея "Пиноккио" (1940; музыка Ли Харлайна, слова Неда Вашингтона.
(https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionheart_(альбом_Кейт_Буш))

Band History eng:

Following the success of her debut album, Kate Bush's record company EMI were eager to get another out. Bush had composed many songs throughout her teens (she was at this time 19 years old) and the majority of the tracks used for Lionheart were compositions from before her debut. Bush, however, was unhappy with the short length of time she had in which to produce the album. Recorded entirely at Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes on the French Riviera, this was to be her only album recorded outside the UK. Of the ten tracks, only "Symphony in Blue", "Fullhouse" and "Coffee Homeground" were newly composed songs, although the other songs had been reworked by Bush in preparation for the recording. The album was produced, like her first, by Andrew Powell, with Bush feeling that she was at this stage too inexperienced to produce it herself (she would go on to produce all her following albums). Since the album's release, Bush has many times said that she was unhappy with this album because of the restrictions imposed on it. In a 1989 interview she remarked: "Considering how quickly we made it it's a bloody good album, but I'm not really happy with it".
Literary references include J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in "In Search of Peter Pan" (a song which also quotes "When You Wish Upon a Star" from the Disney film Pinocchio), as well as a nod towards Arsenic and Old Lace in the song "Coffee Homeground", which despite being similar in plot to the play, was inspired by a taxi driver who drove Bush once. Film references include "Hammer Horror", while although taking its name from the Hammer Film studios, is actually about a production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The British television show The Sweeney, a popular police drama from the 1970s, was mentioned in the lyrics of the song "Wow", which is a song about the music business and show business in general. "Kashka from Baghdad", inspired by American detective series, is about the inhabitants of a town wondering about a couple living in an old house.
Lionheart was the first Kate Bush album to feature Del Palmer, who played bass and had previously been in the KT Bush Band. Palmer went on to play bass, or to engineer and record on every subsequent Kate Bush album up to and including 50 Words for Snow (2011). He and Bush also had a long-term relationship between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionheart_(Kate_Bush_album))

01. Symphony In Blue (03:36)
02. In Search Of Peter Pan (03:47)
03. Wow (04:00)
04. Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbreke (03:15)
05. Oh England My Lionheart (03:12)
06. Fullhouse (03:13)
07. In The Warm Room (03:35)
08. Kashka From Baghdad (03:56)
09. Coffee Homeground (03:38)
10. Hammer Horror (04:39)