The Kick Inside

The Kick Inside
An East-Asian styled album cover, with a distant Bush slightly off center, holding on to a yellow kite that has a red dragon drawing.
Studio album by
Released17 February 1978 (1978-02-17)
RecordedJune 1975, July–August 1977
StudioAIR (London)[1]
Genre
Length43:13
Label
Producer
Kate Bush chronology
The Kick Inside
(1978)
Lionheart
(1978)
Singles from The Kick Inside
  1. "Wuthering Heights"
    Released: 20 January 1978
  2. "Moving"
    Released: 20 April 1978 (Japan)
  3. "The Man with the Child in His Eyes"
    Released: 26 May 1978
  4. "Them Heavy People"
    Released: September 1978 (Japan)
  5. "Strange Phenomena"
    Released: 1 June 1979 (Brazil)
Alternative cover
Artwork for the second (1978) and some subsequent US releases

The Kick Inside is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. Released on 17 February 1978 by EMI Records, it includes her UK No. 1 hit, "Wuthering Heights". The album peaked at No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart and has been certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Several progressive rock musicians were involved in the album including Duncan Mackay, Ian Bairnson, David Paton, Andrew Powell, and Stuart Elliott of the Alan Parsons Project and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.

  1. ^ "Kate Bush – the Kick Inside (1978, Vinyl)". Discogs.
  2. ^ Carr, Daphne (19 January 2019). "Kate Bush: The Dreaming". Pitchfork. Retrieved 19 January 2019.