Never for Ever
by Kate Bush
- Type: Album
- Released: 8 September 1980
- Label: EMI, EMI America, Harvest
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 37:32
- Community rating: 4.39/5 from 20 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Never for Ever', Kate Bush assumed a co-producer role, diversifying her sound palette with the pioneering use of the Fairlight CMI synthesizer alongside her piano-based compositions. The album's songs range from the wistful waltz of "Army Dreamers" to the driving rock of "Violin," drawing thematic inspiration from cinematic and literary sources like the film 'The Innocents' and the life of composer Frederick Delius. This more personal and stylistically varied collection became the first album by a British female solo artist to reach number one on the UK charts.
Genres
Descriptors: theatrical, literary, eccentric, piano, ambitious
Tracklist
- Babooshka (03:29)
- Delius (02:51)
- Blow Away (03:34)
- All We Ever Look For (03:48)
- Egypt (04:12)
- The Wedding List (04:15)
- Violin (03:15)
- The Infant Kiss (02:50)
- Night Scented Stock (00:51)
- Army Dreamers (02:58)
- Breathing (05:29)
Credits
- Kate Bush - vocals, piano, keyboards, harmony vocals, fairlight cmi digital sampling synthesizer, yamaha cs-80 polyphonic synthesizer, arranger, producer, art direction, writer
- Max Middleton - fender rhodes piano, minimoog, string arrangements
- Duncan Mackay - fairlight cmi
- Michael Moran - prophet-5 synthesizer
- Larry Fast - prophet synthesizer
- Alan Murphy - electric guitar, electric guitar solo, acoustic guitar, bass
- Brian Bath - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
- John Giblin - fretless bass, bass guitar
- Del Palmer - fretless bass, bass guitar
- Preston Heyman - drums, percussion
- Stuart Elliott - drums, bodhrán
- Paddy Bush - backing vocals, balalaika, sitar, koto, musical bow, mandolin, saw
- Kevin Burke - violin
- Adam Skeaping - viola, string quartet
- Joseph Skeaping - lironi, string quartet
- Richard James Burgess - fairlight cmi programming
- John L. Walters - fairlight cmi programming
- Roy Harper - backing vocals
- Gary Hurst - backing vocals
- Andrew Bryant - backing vocals
- The Martyn Ford Orchestra - strings
- Jon Kelly - producer, engineer
- John Carder Bush - back cover concept, photography
- Paul Maxwell Ltd. - artwork co-ordination
- Gini Hardy - costume designer
- Nick Price - front cover and centre illustration, design concept
- John Barratt - assistant engineer
- Jon Jacobs - assistant engineer
- Carol Bennett - lettering