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Kate Bush Hammersmith Apollo review: Still crazy after all these years

Would a few more hits have been such a terrible thing?

30 August 2014

9:00 AM

30 August 2014

9:00 AM

Kate Bush

Hammersmith Apollo

It says something about Kate Bush’s standing in the music world that, perhaps uniquely in the history of long-awaited live comebacks, nobody has suggested — or possibly even thought — that her motives might be financial. After all, this is a woman who’s stuck to her artistic guns ever since, aged 19, she defied EMI by insisting that her first single should be the abidingly peculiar ‘Wuthering Heights’.

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