Cloudbusting is from the album Hounds of Love (1985), the album that marked Kate Bush's creative heyday. The song was inspired by the book A Book of Dreams, written by Peter Reich about his father, the controversial psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, inventor of the "cloudbuster", a machine that supposedly controlled the weather and made it rain.
The video, directed by Julian Doyle, is one of the most cinematic in music history: it features Donald Sutherland as Wilhelm Reich and Kate herself as son Peter.
Released as a single in 1985, it reached #20 on the UK Singles Chart and became one of the album's most beloved tracks, showcasing Kate Bush's more orchestral and conceptual side.