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Kate Bush
The story about an EMI executive of documentary film, Come Back Kate, which
14 visiting Bush’s house during the 12-year follows die-hard fans and a woman who had
gap between The Red Shoes and Ariel, being never heard of Kate Bush becoming a Kate Bush
told she was going to show him what she’d been tribute act. Advertisement
working on, then presenting him with some
recently baked cakes, is false. In 2013, 300 Kate Bush impersonators,
18both male and female, re-enacted the video
Most improbable Kate Bush guest to Wuthering Heights in Brighton’s Stanmer
15 appearance: on Spirit of the Forest, a Park.
1989 Live Aid-style flop of a charity single also
featuring Iggy Pop, Kim Wilde, Fish from The news that Bush had become a mother
Marillion, the Jungle Brothers and the Ramones. 19was only made public two years after her
son’s birth, by Peter Gabriel, during an interview.
Cloudbusting was inspired by
16Austrian-American psychoanalyst Kate Bush once duetted with Rowan
Wilhelm Reich, who became convinced he had 20Atkinson, playing a lounge bar crooner
invented a machine that could form clouds and character, on a song called Do Bears … for Comic
create rain. Bush sought his son’s blessing to re- Relief. “He’s an utter creep and he drives me around
lease Cloudbusting. the bend,” sang Bush. “To alleviate the boredom I
sleep with his friends.”
Bush’s retreat from the spotlight
17 between 1993 and 2005 was the subject
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