'I stopped doing all the things that were expected.'Īstonishingly, Bush decided to withdraw from public life at the height of her fame. She was left devastated by the death of 21-year-old lighting director Bill Duffield, who fell through the stage after a warm-up show at Poole in Dorset.Īnd embittered by what she saw as pressure by her record company, she later complained: 'They took me away from everything familiar and I figured out then that music was a priority, not publicity, and that completely changed my life. 'I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much and I think I probably still do. My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely and that would really upset me badly. But I learned to get hurt and I learned to cope with it. She once told The Mirror: 'School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. And while it's no surprise that Millennials and Gen Z have become hooked on her diaphanous style, what is surprising is that it's happened 37 years after the track was first released.īut then again, Kate has always been an enigma.īorn in July 1958, to Robert, a doctor, and Hannah, a nurse, Catherine Bush was fascinated with music by the age of three and soon learned to play an old organ kept in a barn behind their farmhouse in Welling, Kent.Īlthough she had a loving family, Kate had a hard time at nearby St Joseph's convent school where she was badly bullied. Tonight will see Kate celebrated in a three-hour special on BBC2.

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