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Re: (diffs) FAQ: rec.music.gaffa - Love-Hounds - Kate Bush

From: Robb McCaffree <nsrjm@nursepo.medctr.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 20:30:57 -0800
Subject: Re: (diffs) FAQ: rec.music.gaffa - Love-Hounds - Kate Bush
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Scott Telford wrote:

> 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!".


Any idea why? I never considered WH particularly 'witchy' -- and 
as this was her first song and appearance, they couldn't have 
known about 'strange phenomena' or any other of the more 
mystical songs.

Robb