Kate Bush Gets Her Kicks
Jon Young, Trouser Press, July 1978
ALL OF A sudden Kate Bush was at the very top of the UK singles charts. 'Wuthering Heights', her first 45, was number one and her album, The Kick Inside, wasn't doing badly either, sitting in the top five LPs. Whoosis? I wanted to know.
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