Kate Bush CBE - A True Genius

[Pete]

Kate Bush awarded CBE in New Years Honours

This is how it started...

Kate Bush- Wuthering Heights

[Old Cruser]

  not my cup of tea - that blinking songs gives me the willies.   )

[Fly]

Classic track 

In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first woman to have a UK number one with a self-written song

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush

[Slacker]

I was going to say not a genius but a very good singer songwriter but then I thought about her only being a teenager when she started out and thinking that the ambition of someone that age now is to win X factor then she very probably is a genius by comparison.

[Fly]

At least Kate can sing  )
Even at 19 

[Pete]

She was "discovered" by Dave Gilmore aged 16 and spent a couple of years learning her craft. She also, if I remember correctly, was the first performer to use a radio microphone as she was also an accomplished dancer. FWIW