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Lionheart is the second studio album by the English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. It was released in November 1978, just nine months after Bush's successful debut album The Kick Inside. Lionheart reached no. 6 on the UK Albums Chart (her only album not to make the top 5) and has been certified Platinum by the BPI. The first single taken from the album, "Hammer Horror", missed the UK Top 40. However, the follow-up single, "Wow", was released on the back of Bush's UK tour and became a UK Top 20 hit.

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John Lydon once wrote a song for Bush called Bird in Hand, which concerned the illegal exportation of South American parrots. 2. Bush was inspired to write Wuthering Heights without having fully finished reading Emily Brontë’s novel. 15. Most improbable Kate Bush guest appearance: on Spirit of the Forest, a 1989 Live Aid-style flop of a charity single also featuring Iggy Pop, Kim Wilde, Fish from Marillion, the Jungle Brothers and the Ramones. 16. Cloudbusting was inspired by Austrian-American psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who became convinced he had invented a machine that could form clouds and create rain. Bush sought his son’s blessing to release Cloudbusting. 36. Bush was a prodigious writer in her teens: between 1973 and the release of her debut album in 1978, she apparently wrote 120 songs, most never officially released.

Often, the phrase fragment a bird in the hand is quoted in a sentence, the speaker assuming that the listener is familiar enough with the idiom or proverb to complete the thought. The origin of the proverb a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush is uncertain. Some believe it is related to the sport of falconry, the bird in the hand being the falcon and the birds in the bush being the prey. Or, the term may simply be an expression referring to strategies involved in hunting.

The Bird in Hand was adopted as a pub name in England in the Middle Ages and many with this name still survive. English migrants to America took the expression with them and 'bird in hand' must have been known there by 1734 as this was the year in which a small town in Pennsylvania was founded with that name. In German - 'Der Spatz in der Hand ist besser als die Taube.

Origin This proverb has its origins in medieval falconry, where a bird (falcon) in hand was more valuable than two in the bush (the prey). The earliest known usage in English is in the 15th century in The Life of St Katherine by John Capgrave. In its exact current form, the first use was in 1670 in A Hand-book of Proverbs by John Ray. Variations and alternatives of the proverb, with the same meaning, are found since ancient times.

Now you have no bird in hand, and there is no guarantee that you will get the two in the bush. In other words, it’s better to be sure about something smaller than to be unsure about something bigger. This idiom can be used to talk about actual things, relationships, or even concepts like advantages and disadvantages. The moral of this idiom is to not be greedy. Stick with what you have instead of going after something you’ll probably never get. Origin of A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush. The phrase, as we see it today, predates its first known publication, which appeared in the 1670 A Hand-book of Proverbs, written by John Ray. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. However, we can find variations of the phrase long before that in various sources, including this English translation from the Latin Bible: A living dog is better than a dead lion.

Kate Bush was the first woman to have a UK Number One with a self-written song; also, her 1980 album ‘Never For Ever’ made her the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts, and the first female artist ever to enter the album chart at Number One. Given that all this was attained when reaching the summit of the charts was the musical equivalent of climbing Everest, that’s a quite staggering achievement. Kate’s work has found favour in some far-flung corners of the music industry. For instance, Andre 3000 adores the music of Kate Bush. Indeed, Lydon went as far as to write a song for Kate in the form of a little number entitled ‘Bird In Hand’. The lyrics concerned - but of course! - the illegal exportation of parrots from South America. I don’t think she understood it, he said back in 2007. I think she thought it was a reference to her, which it certainly wasn’t! 4.