Kite (Kate Bush song)

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"Kite"
Song by Kate Bush
from the album The Kick Inside
A-side "Wuthering Heights"
Released20 January 1978
Studio AIR Studios (London, England) [1]
Genre
Length2:56
Label EMI Records
Songwriter(s) Kate Bush
Producer(s) Andrew Powell

"Kite" is the fourth track from Kate Bush's 1978 album, The Kick Inside . It was also the B-side to her first single, "Wuthering Heights", released on 20 January 1978. The verses feature a reggae style.

Composition

"Kite" features two modulations created through using the ♭VII or subtonic as a pivot. [3]

Sources

  1. ↑ The Kick Inside (CD booklet). Kate Bush. EMI Records. 1978.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. 1 2 3 Kelley, Christine (January 25, 2019). "Kite". Dreams of Orgonon. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  3. ↑ Moore, Allan. "The So-Called 'Flattened Seventh' in Rock", p.196, Popular Music, Vol. 14, No. 2. (May, 1995), pp. 185-201.
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