Their set included Bush singing Nutbush City Limits.ġ4. In 1977, pub-goers in the south-east could have enjoyed a series of live performances by the KT Bush Band. She similarly paid tribute to Prince after his death, writing: “He was the most inventive and extraordinary live act I’ve seen.”ġ3. She also penned a tribute, writing: “He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, cool, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and musically.”ġ2. After David Bowie’s death, Bush recalled that she’d been at his 1973 “farewell” show and had burst into tears when he announced his retirement. Įxotic instrumentation used on Bush’s albums: the lirone, tupan, boobams, kabosy, singing bowls, strumento de porco.ġ1. Bush’s childhood musical hero was Elton John. In 1981, Bush submitted to an excruciating interview with Richard Stilgoe for BBC1’s Looking Good, Feeling Fit, on which she discussed her skincare regime while vaguely exuding the air of someone who would happily strangle him with her bare hands.ĩ. “I really do think there’s a lot in vegetables.”Ĩ. The same year, she appeared on television with Delia Smith, further expounding on her love of vegetables: “You can even cook them in Marmite,” she offered brightly. I think they’d be really sad if no one paid that much attention to them.”ħ. In 1980, Bush explained her vegetarianism thus: “I don’t think plants mind being eaten, actually. She accepted it with the words: “I’ve just come!”Ħ. In 2001, Bush made a rare public appearance to collect a Q Award for Classic Songwriter. Wuthering Heights was the first time a woman had reached No 1 in the UK with a self-written song.ĥ. The 1993 song Lily was inspired by Bush’s friend and personal “healer”, the late Lily Cornford, who believed “in the powers of angels and taught me to see them in a different light”.Ĥ.
Bush was inspired to write Wuthering Heights without having fully finished reading Emily Brontë’s novel.ģ. John Lydon once wrote a song for Bush called Bird in Hand, which concerned the illegal exportation of South American parrots.Ģ.
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