Kate Bush and the Brontes...

[perplexed]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43897500#

Kate Bush and a handful of others have been asked to pen tributes to the Brontes. These will be inscribed on stone, and placed along a scenic walk.

I like the idea - Kate will do the Emily Bronte one, given her connection to 'Wuthering Heights'

 

[Drago]

I'm sure Kate will like then idea too, as it'll likely stimulate sales of her back catalogue.

 

[Beebo]

I'm sure Kate will like then idea too, as it'll likely stimulate sales of her back catalogue.

Money doesn’t motivate Kate Bush.
Her extremely sparse output is testament to that.
She could be as wealthy as any mega star with endless tours bashing out the hits if she was so inclined.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Money doesn’t motivate Kate Bush.
Her extremely sparse output is testament to that.
She could be as wealthy as any mega star with endless tours bashing out the hits if she was so inclined.

Indeed!
She apparently just wanted to be a proper Mum

If anyones read Mark Radcliffes book 'Thankyou For The Days', there's a chapter about setting up a meet at her house. & what he expected, & the reality

I run past 'Top Withins' each year, during the Withins Skyline fell-race http://www.woodentops.org.uk/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Indeed!
She apparently just wanted to be a proper Mum

If anyones read Mark Radcliffes book 'Thankyou For The Days', there's a chapter about setting up a meet at her house. & what he expected, & the reality

Sorry about it being the 'DM', but I did find this, slightly abridged, page about the book
The 'KB' chapter is down the page, the 'Told Bowie What To Sing' is good too


He was also the first DJ, to play Madonna, on British radio, as a favour to an 'A&R' friend

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-star-encounters-diary-DJ-Mark-Radcliffe.html

 

[Deleted member 26715]

She could be as wealthy as any mega star with endless tours bashing out the hits if she was so inclined.

Was it not because she wasn't happy on stage & suffered with nerves before performances?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

In the interview (both radio broadcast, & subsequent book), she tells Radclifffe it was in order to be a good mum & protect the lad from the media

Interview is on YouTube

 

[Drago]

Money doesn’t motivate Kate Bush.
Her extremely sparse output is testament to that.
She could be as wealthy as any mega star with endless tours bashing out the hits if she was so inclined.

Of course, she's done it for free all these years.

 

[Beebo]

Of course, she's done it for free all these years.

No body does anything for free, but if you were to create a list of musicians who are in it for the money Kate Bush would be very close to the bottom.

 

[perplexed]

Kate Bush doesn't generally conform to the pop star stereotype and I think this throws people a bit.

My take on it (without having read the book mentioned above) is that she views her music as a job. Yes, a job that she loves and has made her well off, but I get the impression she's just not interested in all the other stuff which appears to be a quasi-obligatory part of being a 'pop star'. She just wants to do her music and then crack on with her private life.

 

[Brains]

Her local (former) home

(Court Road SE9)

 

[Globalti]

I got a bit interested in her recently and got the impression that she's doing some quite experimental almost classical stuff nowadays.

The poems will presumably in English and Japanese as the Withins fingerposts on the moors are bilingual.

 

[Julia9054]

Why shouldn't musicians get paid well for what they do? Why do people have this attitude that someone should do it for the love of it?
I enjoy my job but i am "in it for the money" as i have bills to pay just like everyone else. My son is a musician - he needs to get paid for what he does and i don't see why a successful musician should not be the same.

 

[Biff600]

Exactly as Julia says, the amount of times that I've played pub gigs and barely came away with enough for a new set of strings.

 

[NorthernDave]

When I heard this news I thought
Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Unbelievable!