“You see people who are into the glamour and ego of it. Music has nothing to do with ego. Music is like being a bank clerk – it’s work”: How Kate Bush smashed the barriers and became a star like no other

Kate Bush posing for a photograph in the late 1970s.

An enigma, a recluse, a sensitive artist who shies away from the limelight. Few people get close enough to get to know the real Kate Bush. But veteran music journalist Harry Doherty did – and he became her confidant throughout her early career. In 2005, as Bush prepared to release Aerial, her first album in 13 years, Doherty looked back on his friendship with the singer as she was poised to make her breakthrough in the late 1970s.