Hounds of Love - Personnel

Personnel

• Kate Bush – vocals, Fairlight CMI, piano
• Stuart Elliott – drums on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11
• Del Palmer – bass on 1, 10, handclapping on 3, backing vocals on 5, Fairlight bass on 8, Linn programming
• Alan Murphy – guitar on 1, 3, 8
• Paddy Bush – violins on 12, balalaika on 1, backing vocals on 5, didjeridu on 3, harmonic vocals on 7, fujara on 12
• Charlie Morgan – drums on 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, handclapping on 3

Additional personnel

• Jonathan Williams – cello on 2
• Youth – bass on 3
• Morris Pert – percussion on 3
• Eberhard Weber – bass on 4, 11, 12
• The Medici Sextet – strings on 5
• Dave Lawson – string arrangements on 5
• Brian Bath – backing vocals on 5, guitar on 11
• John Carder Bush – backing vocals on 5, narration on 10
• Dónal Lunny – bouzouki on 6, 11, Irish bouzouki on 10
• John Sheahan – whistles on 6
• Kevin McAlea – synthesiser sequences on 8, synthesiser on 12
• Danny Thompson – double bass on 9
• Liam O'Flynn – uilleann pipes on 10, 11
• The Richard Hickox Singers – choir on 11
• Richard Hickox – vocals, choir master on 11
• Michael Berkeley – vocal arrangements on 11
• John Williams – guitar on 12

Production

• Del Palmer – engineer
• Haydn Bendall – engineer
• Brian Tench – engineer, mixing
• Paul Hardiman – engineer
• Nigel Walker – engineer
• James Guthrie – engineer
• Bill Somerville-Large – engineer at Windmill Lane Studios
• Pearce Dunne – assistant engineer
• Julian Mendelsohn – mixing on 2, 4
• Chris Blair – digital remastering
• Ian Cooper – cutting engineer