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Re: Kate on Radio 2!!!

From: "Warren C. Couvillion" <billy@erc.msstate.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 10:53:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Kate on Radio 2!!!
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Alan Stonebridge wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Forward, Jonathan wrote:
> 
> > > There is a sidebar with a small photo of Kate and this text: "Kate
> > > Bush first came to the attention of the British public with a hit
> > > inspired by her love for the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights.
> >               ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >  Rather a wild inference unsupported by any known statement of Kate's.
> 
> I remember that somewhere Kate says of Wuthering Heights that she thinks
> it is the "ultimate" love story... which would seem to imply that she
> does indeed LOVE the novel.
> 
> Alan

	I remember reading that the song was inspired by either the old movie
with Orson Welles, or a BBC adaptation of the novel.  Supposedly, Kate
didn't get around to reading the book until after the song was recorded.

				BC

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