“It is absolutely beautiful, isn't it? And its a sort of over two years before any of the other recordings she did. That is her singing at the age of 16, and having written those extraordinary lyrics — about whatever they're about.”

—  David Gilmour

Listening to The Man with the Child in His Eyes
The Kate Bush Story (2014)

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