At 19, Kate Bush faced down a record label demanding a safe debut single and insisted instead on releasing a song about a 19th-century ghost. She won, and Wuthering Heights made her the first British female artist to top the UK charts with a fully self-written song. We explore how she reshaped pop entirely on her own terms.

From inventing a coat-hanger wireless headset mic to walking away from touring for 35 years, mastering the Fairlight synthesizer, and building her own studio for Hounds of Love, Bush let work flow through her life rather than cramming life between her work.

• Her artistic upbringing, self-taught piano, and early vocal experimentation
• The standoff with EMI and the historic success of Wuthering Heights
• The one and only Tour of Life and its wireless-mic innovation
• Building a home studio and the dual-sided masterpiece Hounds of Love
• The Stranger Things resurgence that broke global chart records decades later