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“They barged in with sexy photo shoots, Las Vegas residencies and Bond themes. She said ‘no.’ The brain, not the body, was her real quality”: The family business that kept Kate Bush in the charts but out of sight
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“At six years old Kate was sitting in on our rehearsals, singing along,” says eldest brother John Carder Bush.
“I remember when my mum, God rest her soul, first heard Kate Bush, she said ‘Oh, Johnny, it sounds like bag of cats!’”
The less we see of Kate Bush, the more we want to know.
She supplies me with all the clues and it’s up to me to put the answer together – well, that’s like the Quran of music John LydonWriter and academic Deborah M Withers recently published an analysis of Bush entitled Adventures In Kate Bush And Theory that considered “the polymorphously perverse Kate, the witchy Kate, the queer Kate; the Kate who moves beyond the mime” and in essence suggested that Kate Bush is many things to many people.
In fact she’s prog’s first pop star, and pop’s first prog star, always capable of delivering nothing less than the unexpected.