trivia

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'Running up that hill' reached the Top 30 and 'Hounds of Love' the Top 40 in the USA

A rehersal for 'There goes a tenner' video took place in a mail carriage of a train.

Fish of Marillion has said that the person he would most like to work with is Kate.

In circulation there is a Dutch miss-press of 'Running up that hill' with Baltimora's 'Tarzan boy' on the B-Side.

Kate backed No1 singer Whitney Houston on German Top of the pops in 1985.

Kate donated 'The wedding list' to the Prince's Trust L.P.

Kate never listens to her early albums now, because thay are old.

Kate spent two weeks promoting 'Hounds of love' all over the world. First stop was Germany where she performed 'Running up that hill' live on TV. Second stop was the USA where she did a Personal Apperance in the big record store in NY, then she went onto France and performed Cloudbusting' live.

Kate suffers from pain in her ears whilst flying, whenever the plane is climbing and decending.

Kate was a guest at the wedding of Kate St John of Dream Acadamy fame.

Kate was invited to be a presenter at a Fashion Aid Show at the Royal Albert Hall.

Kate was voted 10th in a poll of producers once - by Music Week.

Originally, the Tour Of Life was to have opened in Birmingham on March 4th.

Paddy Bush wrote music for 'Take Hart' on BBC Television.

The masked man in the 'Hammer horror' video was Anthony Van Laast.

When Kate moved into her country cottage in the autumn of 1982, the first song she composed was 'Running up that hill'.

The 13 songs on The kick inside had been chosen from a list of 200.

There is in circulation 90 special press packs produced especially for 'Hounds of love'. The packs have a wrap-a-round cover bound with a purple ribbon, and contains 3 promotional photo's and a press-release sheet.

When asked, not that long ago what was her favourite track - Kate replied 'Infant kiss'.

H.R.Giger who designed the creature in Alien, also designed the Cloudbusting machine in the Cloubusting video.

Kate left School with 10 O' Levels and dedicated her life to music.

On the Tour of Life, a tradition on last night was to play tricks, two roadies donned a camel costume and strolled onto the stage during "Egypt", unfortunately the short stint was held up as Kate grabbed the camel by the neck and proceeded to do the entire song.

Later in the same show a roadie appeared in full frogman gear and accompanied dancers during 'Wow'.

Kate was offered the chance to support Fleetwood Mac on a U.S Tour.

She has been asked several times to do a 'Bond' movie theme.

When Cliff Richard did a stage play on 'Wuthering heights' titled 'Heathcliff' it was widely rumoured that Kate would naturally play Cathy on stage.

Kate's adolescent poetry was regularly published in the school magazines at her school, with titles such as "A tear and a raindrop met" and the "Crucifixion".

Her earliest written song, around the age of 11-13 would later become her second single: The man with the child in his eyes.

Kate has a fear of flying since she was in a plane that nearly crashed while landing.

Kate wrote Wuthering heights in one night, precisely, the night of March 7, 1977, a full moon night, which was exactly one year before the song became No. 1

With her one and only tour of life, Kate became a pioneer for the cordless microphone, to have space for her dancing her technicians invented a mike on a coat hanger-like wire that was put around her head and kept in front of her mouth and allowed her to sing without holding a mike in her hand.