Kate Bush @katebushmusic performing the Holiday version of ‘Babooshka’ in 1980. Released as a single in the summer of 1980, ‘Babooshka’ reached No.5 in the UK and later appeared on Kate Bush’s album ‘Never for Ever’. That record marked a turning point in British chart history, becoming the first UK No.1 by a British female solo artist. It was pop success powered by narrative ambition, theatricality as well as psychological depth. Bush later explained that she didn’t realise the word “babushka” w