Kate Bush: Return of the Recluse
Adam Sweeting, Independent on Sunday, 2 October 2005
PLENTY HAS HAPPENED in the twelve years since Kate Bush last released an album. Tory sleaze has morphed into New Labour; mobile phones and iPods have transformed communications and entertainment; reality TV has made us fearful that we live in the most moronic country on earth, and England have won the Ashes.
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