I think musicians have a responsibility to try and do something that is good. It's so hard. It's very difficult to pull something out of the hat creatively.
English singer, pianist and songwriter (born 1958)
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At 19, she wrote and sang her way to UK number one with a song about a gothic novel — then spent the next four decades making records so strange and specific that pop music still hasn't quite caught up.
Catherine Bush was writing songs at 11 and signed to EMI after Pink Floyd's David Gilmour helped fund a demo. In 1978, "Wuthering Heights" made her the first woman to top the UK chart with an entirely self-written song. The Kick Inside followed, and by 1980's Never for Ever she'd become the first British solo woman to hit number one on the album chart. She took full production control from The Dreaming onward, released Hounds of Love in 1985 with "Running Up That Hill", then disappeared for 12 years between The Red Shoes and Aerial. Two more albums arrived in 2011; in 2014 she played her first…
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I think musicians have a responsibility to try and do something that is good. It's so hard. It's very difficult to pull something out of the hat creatively.
I'm really very happy if people can connect at all to anything I do. I don't really mind if people mishear lyrics or misunderstand what the story is.
David Bowie had everything. He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, cool, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and musically.
Now all the shows are over, it's pretty difficult to explain how I feel about it all.
For me to get into that creative process I have to have a sort of quiet place that I work from. And if I was living the life of ...
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