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(Conscientious Questions may have importance approaching that of the answers they evoke.) Wilhelm Reich was a Freudian, Marxist and early Sexual Revolutionary. He realized that most people have no interest in religion as such, but most are fascinated by sex. So he counseled that rather than trying to convert a seminarian by logical arguments, you just need to sexually corrupt him. (It's alleged that French students participating in large scale civil disobedience in Paris in 1970, threw copies of Wilhelm Reich's "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" at Police.) Reich died in prison. He was engaged in radiation experimentation which the...

Nearly 40 years after Kate Bush released "Running Up That Hill" in 1985, the song has found new life after being used in the fourth season of Stranger Things. The Netflix show boosted the track to the top of the charts and reportedly earned Bush millions of dollars in streaming revenue. According to Luminate (formerly known as SoundScan), the resurgence of the song - — which has just entered its third week at No. 1 on the U.K. singles chart — has brought roughly $2.3 million in streaming royalties, according to CBS News. Because Bush owns the copyright to her...

In 1985, English singer-songwriter Kate Bush released a song called “Running Up That Hill.” It did pretty well — reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. But 37 years after its release, the tune — featured in last week’s episode of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” — bumped Harry Styles’ “As It Was” to No. 2 on the US Billboard Top 10. The unexpected success also makes her both the oldest and the youngest woman to have a self-written No. 1 in the United Kingdom, Billboard reported.

As soon as Stranger Things: Season 4 dropped on Netflix, English singer-songwriter Kate Bush's 1985 hit, Running Up That Hill (Deal With God) started sprinting up the iTunes and Spotify charts, as a new generation of audience started to discover the powerful song after it was featured significantly in the show. According to LA Times, Running Up That Hill was top on iTunes on Sunday (May 29). It is also currently #13 on Spotify's Daily Top 200. People have also apparently been searching for the song after the season debuted last week, so Google-search traffic has also spiked. The song...

Full details about the line-up for the musical extravaganza that will bring the London Games to an end are being kept a closely-guarded secret, but some acts have confirmed they are playing and there are strong rumours about others. Fans of Bush had their hopes raised when a new 2012 remix of her classic song Running Up That Hill appeared on the Amazon website with a release date of this Sunday, the day of the closing ceremony. The listing was later removed and there has been no official confirmation that reclusive 54-year-old British singer-songwriter, who has not toured since 1979,...