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From: st@epcc.edinburgh.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:08:40 GMT
Subject: Re: (diffs) FAQ: rec.music.gaffa - Love-Hounds - Kate Bush
To: rec-music-gaffa@britain.eu.net
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Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK.
References: <m0vUJKb-000G3iC@zoodle.robin.de> <17855B3BDS86.SPACEDOG@VM.TEMPLE.EDU>
Sender: owner-love-hounds
In article <17855B3BDS86.SPACEDOG@VM.TEMPLE.EDU>, Farley Drexel Hatcher (SPACEDOG@VM.TEMPLE.EDU) wrote: > In article <m0vUJKb-000G3iC@zoodle.robin.de> > uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel) writes: > > > Books mentioning Kate Bush: > > > > Terry Pratchett - Eric > > [...] > > This footnote in "Eric" is also mentioned in David Langford's book > > "Terry Pratchett's Discworld Quizbook - The Unseen University > > Challenge", a book featuring various curious tids & bits from the > > discworld series. > > Kate is also mentioned in War for the Oaks by Emma Bull. One of the > characters briefly mentions walking in time to the beat of Cloudbusting. And also, strangely enough in "Immediate Action", ex-SAS soldier Andy McNab's autobiography. Describing an evening in the cookhouse of an Army camp in Northern Ireland: At the time, just after Christmas 1978, Debbie Harry and Kate Bush were on the same TOTP [Top of the Pops]. Debbie Harry was singing "Denis" and Kate Bush was doing "Wuthering Heights". When Kate Bush came on the whole rifle company used to shout, "Burn the witch!". -- Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, <s.telford@ed.ac.uk> University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK.(+44 131 650 5978) -- "We do want to tour again, we will tour again" - Kate Bush, Munich, 1980 --