Bush "fans"

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Fred and Judy Vermerol (sp?) were on Radio 4's Midweek programme
this morning. Fred, who wrote an unofficial "pop biog" on Kate Bush
was described as an expert "on the fan in history". He and his wife
apparently have some new book out on fans (as in pop or film fans).
The presenter made some reference to a description in the book of
one Kate fan who apparently tried to collect Kate's bath water from
the overflow pipe outside her house! This led on to a discussion of
Fred's strange behaviour when he was writing his book. This included
following Kate around and trying to climb up her drainpipe whilst drunk.
He claimed that he was trying to understand the obsessive behaviour
of many fans and just chose Kate as a suitable victim (my word). He
likened his book to an absurdist novel. I have never read his biog. of
Kate but it sounded like a load of <expletive deleted>.

For info. Kate was not on Monday's edition of Wogan but still two
more chance this week. Also, further transcription of the Int. Musician
article has been delayed but will follow soon.
Neil
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