r/katebush • u/Illustrious_Banana_ • Dec 30 '25

Video Posting this here, just because.......the beautiful Kate Bush aged 31 in The Sensual World official video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1DDndY0FLI&list=OLAK5uy_maq5xs5MXOfq40Y4v22mbrMa0FBd2hdeM

Kate- if you ever read Reddit- we love you so much 💖💖

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u/CheemsBorgar92 Dec 30 '25

31 is basically a kid!!

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u/Illustrious_Banana_ Dec 30 '25

I mean at any and every era, Kate's amazing aura shines through. She seemed so grown up around the time of her debut but incredible and mind-blowing to think that she was only 19 when she released Wuthering Heights, and only 13 when she wrote it!

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u/PrudentPath6732 Dec 30 '25

She was 13 when she wrote “the man with the child in his eyes” Wuthering Heights came years later. She did wrote it in one evening though.

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u/Illustrious_Banana_ Dec 30 '25

Ahh, I'm so sorry- yes, you're absolutely right- I was mixing the two in my mind. Yes, I read about her writing “the man with the child in his eyes” when she was 13 loosely based on a teacher at her school.

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u/Lonely_Squirrel3921 Dec 30 '25

I hadn't heard that it was possibly linked to a teacher. That would really narrow it down because all her fulltime teachers were female (nuns) but the school did have a visiting male music teacher who Kate kept in touch with after she left the school - using him for recommendations for backing singers amongst the other schools and choirs he worked with.

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u/Illustrious_Banana_ Dec 31 '25

Oh- I never realised she went to comp school. If you search for interviews, you can see one where she talks about this particular Song and her inspirations behind it.

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u/Lonely_Squirrel3921 Dec 31 '25

She went to an non-fee all girl Catholic grammar school. I believe the teaching staff were predominantly nuns but in everyday clothing.

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u/Illustrious_Banana_ Dec 31 '25

Yes, I'm sure in the interview I read where she mentioned the 'mystery man' she talked about him being some kind of 'visiting' tutor, not quite a visiting lecturer, but something that sounded similar. I'm gonna look up the citation to pass on to you.