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“There was a full moon and the curtains were open. Every time I looked up for ideas, I looked at the moon”: How teen prodigy Kate Bush created her timeless classic Wuthering Heights

Kate Bush in 1978.

Imagine a world in which all record companies had the final say on which songs their artists released as singles.

In such a scenario, some of the greatest and most audacious songs ever recorded would have been consigned to album track obscurity, songs such as (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by the Stones, Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana, What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye, Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan, Purple Rain by Prince and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

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