On This Day: Kate Bush’s The Sensual World was released

On October 16, 1989, British singer-songwriter Kate Bush released her sixth studio album, The Sensual World.

James Joyce’s novel Ulysses inspired Bush to write the album’s title track. She realized that Molly Bloom’s final monologue fit the music she had written. When the rights holders refused permission to use the text, Bush wrote her own lyrics that echoed the passage.

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Translation editor: Ловушкин А.