Travis Elborough

Kate Bush – always quite hippy, dippy, ‘out there’

With Bush, the unexpected is about the only certainty, having the bravado to do what she wants rather than pandering to the public’s longing for hits

Kate Bush, photographed in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1985, promoting her Hounds of Love album. [Getty Images]
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