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Synopsis
When Kate Bush came out of nowhere in 1978 with her jaw-droppingly eccentric debut single 'Wuthering Heights', screeching like a banshee, flapping her arms as though trying to take wing, pulling alarming faces, people either adored or loathed her. One of the former was an American underwear model, Lesley Herskovits, who, in spite of his remarkable good looks, reserved his loathing for himself. By the time Kate had taken to keeping her fans waiting literally ages between albums, he'd found himself a boarding house near Kate's birthplace that accommodated only fervent Kate fans. Only his disinclination to miss her eighth album, after waiting more than a decade for it, kept him from leaping off a multi-storey tower block. In Waiting for Kate Bush - an unusual hybrid of satirical novel and music biography - the reader will not only laugh aloud at Herskovits' attempt to make sense of his life in an alien culture, but also learn in detail what Kate Bush - known alternately as "the barmiest bird in pop", "the Pre-Raphaelite nymph with Minnie Mouse's soprano" and "the greatest artist of the last 30 years" - has been up to in the silent decade-plus since the release of her last and best album.
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Review
'To straight biography, Mendelssohn introduces elements of fiction, telling the story of uber fan Lesley Herskovits. Like the singer herself, it is baffling as well as beautiful.' The Observer.
About the Author
John Mendelssohn has been writing about music off and on since long before 'Wuthering Heights'. The Guardian said, "Worth the price [of Bloomsbury's 2003 anthology of music writing The Sound and the Fury] alone is John Mendelssohn's superb dismantling of the NWA myth..." He also writes for the stage, acts, and directs, and composes and arranges, and designs.
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- PublisherMusic Sales Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1844494896
- ISBN 13 9781844494897
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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