Cloudbusting is from the album Hounds of Love (1985), the album that marked Kate Bush's creative heyday. The song was inspired by the book A Book of Dreams, written by Peter Reich about his father, the controversial psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, inventor of the "cloudbuster", a machine that supposedly controlled the weather and made it rain.
The video, directed by Julian Doyle, is one of the most cinematic in music history: it features Donald Sutherland as Wilhelm Reich and Kate herself as son Peter.
Released as a single in 1985, it reached #20 on the UK Singles Chart and became one of the album's most beloved tracks, showcasing Kate Bush's more orchestral and conceptual side.
For a generation of kids, an essential part of the school holidays was tuning into motorcycle competition Junior Kick Start. #OnThisDay in 1990 one of those competing was 13-year-old Dougie Lampkin who would become a successful professional trials rider with an MBE for his work.
The inspiration for "I Ran (So Far Away)" came from two very random things: Mike Score heard the phrase "I Ran" in a song by another band playing at Eric's Club in Liverpool, and shortly afterwards saw a poster on Zoo Records with a couple running from a UFO.
The low-budget video (made with aluminum foil and mirrors) became an icon at the beginning of MTV and helped explode new wave in the US (it reached #9 on the Billboard chart, but only #43 in the UK).