Robert John Bush is Kate Bush's father.
He worked hard to win a scholarship to the Grammar School at Grays, and later won a place at medical school to become a doctor.
He married Hannah Bush in early 1943.
Together they had three children: John Carder Bush (1944), Paddy Bush (1952), and Kate Bush (1958).
His voice can be heard in Kate Bush's songs The Fog, in the extended version of The Big Sky (The Meteorological Mix), and also among the voices calling to the heroine of The Ninth Wave between the songs Under Ice and Waking The Witch.
A documentary from about Kate Bush's live tour in 1979. Two versions of the documentary were produced: one with a German voice-over during the interviews with Kate Bush, broadcast on 17 May 1980 by German broadcaster SWF3. A version with Dutch subtitles was shown on Dutch television on 8 March 1981 by Dutch broadcaster VARA. The live performances in this film were shot in Hamburg (Germany) on 28 April 1979, and Mannheim (Germany) on 8 May 1979. The following songs are shown in this documentary: Room For The Life, Strange Phenomena, Violin, In The Warm Room (in part), Hammer Horror (in part), Kite, and Wuthering Heights. Kate is also interviewed in between the songs, as well as a rare television appearance of both her parents.