Classic Rock

A DEAL WITH GOD

You’d have to be living under a planet-sized mountain of Jubilee bunting not to have heard that Kate Bush’s 1985 single has made an extraordinary comeback in recent weeks, topping the Spotify and iTunes charts and winning the approval of a new generation. This resurgent popularity has been chiefly – okay, totally – initiated by the track’s key placement in Season Four of the Netflix sci-fihorror hybrid and teen favourite set in the 80s and frequently giving fresh legs to cult-ish hits of the era. The same season dusts off and delivers new oxygen to Talking Heads’ Dead Or Alive’s and The Cramps’

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