Eyewitness: The Grooming Of Kate Bush
Johnny Black, Q, March 1999
It wouldn't happen now. Kate Bush was 16 when Pink Floyd's David Gilmour recommended her to EMI records. Over the next two years, the arty teenager was nurtured and cosseted by the label until she was ready for stardom...
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