Love and Anger (song)

"Love and Anger" is a song written and performed by British singer Kate Bush. It was released as the third and final single from her sixth studio album, The Sensual World (1989), on 26 February 1990 in the United Kingdom, peaking at 38 on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, it received airplay in 1989 and reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart that December—it was Bush's only chart-topper on any US chart until 2022. The song features Pink Floyd member David Gilmour on guitar. "Love and Anger" was Bush's first single on her new US label, Columbia Records.

B-sides

The B-sides on the single are "Ken", "One Last Look Around the House Before We Go" and "The Confrontation", the latter two of which are instrumentals and are only available on the CD release and 12-inch version of this single. All three songs were written for the episode ' of the British TV program The Comic Strip. "Ken" was the theme music for the episode's parody of a Hollywood action movie about British politician Ken Livingstone, whom Bush describes in the song as a "funky sex machine".