“Success is a label other people put on you… My success is in terms of fulfilment and perfection of my art. That’s something I never will reach. I have to accept that”: Kate Bush’s mid-80s battle for control

Kate Bush.

In 1980 future Prog writer Kris Needs, then the editor of punk magazine ZigZag, asked for an interview with Kate Bush, who’d just achieved her commercial height. The pair established an unlikely connection which led to three in-depth conversations over five years as she established control of her art. Needs summarised his impressions of the mercurial musician for Prog.

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