Normally I do not
approve of a musician being called a genius (let’s reserve that for Einstein),
but in case you were wondering why Kate Bush is the best thing that happened to
music in the previous century, these are three points I would mention:
1. “The Man With The
Child In His Eyes” was written when she was 15. And you won’t find many songs more
moving and mature than that.
2. Whatever your
opinion of folk music may be, “The Jig Of Life” rips to pieces all those bands
toiling away in Ireland and elsewhere.
3. She may well be
the only artist in the world who manages to thrill you by just laughing for more than a minute during a song (“Aerial”).
I should put The Ninth Wave somewhere in there, but this has to suffice.
