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"People would say that I'm being promoted as a sex object whether I was clad in a nun's costume or nothing at all": Men working for England's music magazines used to get very, very worked up about the idea of Kate Bush being a 'sex symbol'

The 19-year-old Kate Bush was a source of much fascination to the English music press, and the subject of some highly inappropriate writing

Louder

Bruce Springsteen becomes first non-Brit inducted into Ivors Academy

The Boss says he is proud to become a fellow after being recognised for his ‘impact on the UK’s cultural landscape’

The Guardian - UK

Cockney Rebel leader Steve Harley dies, aged 73

Musician Steve Harley passes away a month after cancelling tour dates for cancer treatment

Louder

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“We don’t have this need to party and to cling to other people doing the same thing that we are”: how Within Temptation followed their own path to make The Heart Of Everything

How Within Temptation’s 2007 album The Heart Of Everything kicked things to the next level

Metal Hammer

Julia Holter on the Yamaha CS-60, Kate Bush and the parallels between composition and production: "So much of production is thinking about organising sounds in a similar way to on a sheet of music"

The composer-producer’s new album Something In The Room She Moves continues her quest to distil feelings we never knew had a name

MusicRadar

Shooting Marianne Faithfull and more secret stories behind the greatest rock 'n' roll photos

Gered Mankowitz is the man behind some of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest photos. He recalls shooting Marianne Faithfull, Jimi Hendrix and more

Evening Standard

17 of the best Kate Bush songs to test your hi-fi system

Treat your hi-fi system to some of Kate Bush's best songs that are beautifully recorded and produced.

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From Dylan to Ishiguro: can song lyrics ever be literature?

A new book of lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro joins collections by Kate Bush and Jarvis Cocker. But can songwriting ever work on the page?

The Guardian - UK

"An album on vinyl is a beautiful thing." Kate Bush talks about her love of vinyl

Kate Bush will be an ambassador for this year's Record Store Day in April

Louder

Brian Griffin obituary

Photographer whose album covers for Echo and the Bunnymen and Depeche Mode are among the defining images of the 1980s

The Guardian - UK

“The Bulls loved it immediately. Michael Jordan loved it”: He appeared on smash hits by Kate Bush and Paul McCartney, but this unsung session guitar hero's most popular solo can be heard in one of the most iconic sports anthems of all time

The late Ian Bairnson spent decades as a first-call session man, but his most famous turn came on the Alan Parsons Project tune Sirius

Guitar World

“We broke up after debating the exact time signature of Solsbury Hill!” Before being able to enjoy lively debate with Peter Hammill, Tim Bowness dated an argumentative prog fan

If he hadn’t discovered the genre via a childhood Subbuteo tournament, he might have wound up working in flavoured crisps

Louder

“Take Jeff Beck, David Gilmour and Allan Holdsworth – Alan should be seen as being in that company”: Remembering the late Alan Murphy, the player Fender trusted as a tone consultant, who played with Kate Bush, Go West, and more

As November 2023 would have marked Alan Murphy’s 70th birthday, we look back at the man and his music, with personal recollections from the collaborators who knew him best

Guitar World

‘I’d take a mediocre album rather than nothing!’: the new music readers want to hear in 2024

Guardian readers are longing for returns by artists from Ariana Grande to Archie Shepp –and even possibly Kate Bush?

The Guardian - UK

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“She has managed to maintain her position without ever once being sucked into the creative vacuum of celebrity culture”: The less we see of Kate Bush, the more we want to know

Supported by established artists, secured in a family business and a star by the age of 21, her vision and clarity made her prog’s first pop star (and pop’s first prog star)

Louder

New vinyl edition of Kate Bush's The Dreaming out in February

Escapologist Edition of Kate Bush's fourth studio album The Dreaming is out in February

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s all magic’: Sophie Ellis-Bextor back at No 2 after 20 years with Murder on the Dancefloor

In 2001, the song reached No 2. As it gets there again – thanks to hit film Saltburn and the power of Gen-Z and TikTok – the singer talks about privilege, second chances and Liam Gallagher dancing in the nude

Guitar World

Del Palmer, Kate Bush’s bassist, engineer and former partner, dies aged 71

The songwriter’s studio linchpin played and engineered everything from Hounds of Love to sessions with Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton

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Del Palmer, Kate Bush's bassist, engineer and long-time collaborator dies, aged 71

Palmer contributed to every Kate Bush album between 1978 and 2011

Louder

Del Palmer, longtime Kate Bush bassist and engineer, dead at 71

Del Palmer played bass with Kate Bush throughout her career, and engineered some of her greatest recordings

The Guardian - UK

‘What do Saudi developers know of Heathcliff?’ Brontë country up in arms over windfarm plan

Mooted project in West Yorkshire could cause ‘heartbreaking’ disruption for wildlife and harm local tourist industry, say critics

The Guardian - UK

‘This wouldn’t have happened 20 years ago’: how women began dominating British dance music

Once reduced to nameless vocals or excluded altogether, women are now topping the charts with self-produced tracks. Kenya Grace, Piri, Venbee and Anz explain how they broke open the boys’ club

The Independent UK

Saltburn, TikTok and a naked Barry Keoghan: Sophie Ellis-Bextor rejoices over Murder on the Dancefloor’s revival

Exclusive: British pop star and ‘Saltburn’ writer and director Emerald Fennell react to a renewed appreciation for Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 hit, as it goes viral on TikTok and re-enters the charts after featuring in the class satire

Evening Standard

Ones to watch in 2024: all the music acts set to be massive this year

Start listening now, be smug later. You're welcome

Evening Standard

Why the Beatles’ song Now and Then is the most important record of the past year

It was last year’s most significant release, both a time capsule of our greatest ever band, and something genuinely new.

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