Tom Doyle

Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most distinctive musicians of modern times. Featuring details from the author's conversations with Kate and other luminaries--as well as vignettes of key songs, albums, videos, and concerts--this artful, candid, and often brutally funny portrait introduces a refreshingly real Kate Bush.

50 Visions of Kate Bush

Running Up that Hill

Steffi Colberg

They were suggesting that you didn't have to let other people hear it. But the way I see it is .. look at a Shakespeare play. That wouldn't exist without the audience. And actually what I think is really important about art is not so much the art, it's the relationship between the observer and the art. Without wanting to sound awfully pretentious,‘ she added, laughing and adopting her mock upper-class tone, ‚it's a lot to do with where the observer stands in relation to it all. To stand in a place of wonder at the planet is maybe exactly the most important thing that we can do being here. 'As the observer - receiving the Shakespeare play or seeing the beautiful painting... without your presence, it doesn't really exist in the same way. So, if you make music and you don't let people hear it, you could almost say it doesn‘t exist.‘

How can you ever say, "If only? You can't, can you? You can live all these scenarios in your head. But there's no point, it's of no purpose, because what happened is what happened, isn't it?

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