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Kate Bush pens end credits song: "Lyra"

The official film blog reports that British singer/songwriter Kate Bush will provide the song "Lyra," for the Golden Compass soundtrack. From her debut song "Wuthering Heights" (1978), Kate Bush has been a chart-topping success throughout her career, a first for solo female artists in the music industry. The Ivor Novello Award winner for Outstanding Contribution to British Music (2002) wrote and produced the title track, which features the Magdalen College Choir from Oxford, in her own studio. It will be available on the soundtrack, to be released 11 December. Read the press release here.

The latest issue of Homeground, the independent Kate Bush fanzine, reveals that Philip Pullman visited Kate at her home earlier this year, and it's known that she is a fan of his work. The song will play over the ending credits of the film.