CONFIRMED Kate Bush fan John Lydon can remember the reaction when he played her debut single “Wuthering Heights” to his mother: “Oh Johnny, it sounds like a bag o’cats.” The 19-year-old Bush’s strident vocals and taste for interpretive dance divided opinions, Melody Maker not far off the mark when it described her 1978 debut album as “a cross between Linda Lewis and ’s three witches”. However, Tom Doyle’s excellent compendium, , shows how the wide-eyed hippie came to be fêted as a great pop visionary.
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Oct 13, 2022
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