David Gilmour says that he's been “gently” encouraging his friend and former protégé Kate Bush to play live shows again.
Gilmour 'discovered' Bush, the sister of a friend of a friend, when she was just 15, and paid for her to professionally record three songs at Air studios in London with producer/arranger Andrew Powell, and engineer Geoff Emerick, who worked with The Beatles at Abbey Road. Gilmour selected which three songs - among them The Man with the Child in His Eyes - the teenage singer should record from “40 or 50” Bush compositions he had heard and helped broker a record deal for her with EMI.
“I was convinced from the beginning that this girl had remarkable talent,” Pink Floyd's vocalist/guitarist told The New Statesman in 2005.
