Del Palmer, long-time Kate Bush bassist and engineer, dies at 71

Del Palmer, the long-time bass participant and former romantic companion of Kate Bush, has died on the age of 71.

In a message posted by his niece Debbii Louise Palmer, it was confirmed that Palmer handed away on Friday (January 5), surrounded by his household. In line with fan web site Kate Bush News, Palmer had been coping with well being points for a number of years.

The musician, songwriter and sound engineer performed on each Kate Bush album from 1978’s ‘Lionheart’ to her most up-to-date file, 2011’s ‘50 Phrases for Snow’.

Palmer started taking part in bass in 1967, forming a number of bands together with his good friend Brian Bathtub, together with Conkers, who launched a sequence of singles on Dice Information within the early Nineteen Seventies.

In 1977, Kate Bush recruited Palmer and Bathtub, in addition to Vic King, to type the KT Bush Band, who performed on the pub circuit round London.

Palmer went on to play bass on ‘Lionheart’, Bush’s second studio album, and joined her on tour the next 12 months. Along with taking part in on the albums, Palmer was additionally credited as an engineer on the basic albums ‘Hounds of Love’ (1985), ‘The Sensual World’ (1989), ‘The Crimson Footwear’ (1993) and ‘Aerial’ (2005).

Palmer and Bush had been romantically connected for a few years up till the early Nineteen Nineties, and remained associates and collaborators for the remainder of their careers.

Palmer additionally holds the excellence of being the one man ever to look on the duvet of a Kate Bush album, taking part in the ‘Houdini’ character that’s getting ready to have a key handed to him mouth-to-mouth by Bush on 1982’s ‘The Dreaming’. The imagery was invoked not too long ago by Dua Lipa’s promotion for her single ‘Houdini’.

Palmer additionally recorded three solo albums since 2007, most not too long ago ‘Level of Protected Return’ in 2015, and has additionally collaborated with artists together with Roy Harper and Midge Ure.