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“Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush: Everything You Didn't Know

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Kate Bush's Death Before Dishonor

A friend of Jay's from Cambridge was this guy named Ricky Hopper, who was working in the record industry at that time for a British label called Transit Lanek. They had their first big success selling sex education records. So he was passing around this demo tape which apparently was just hours of Kate Bush demos just banging away in the piano. And they all passed. She said, of course, there was no response. But it is a band that Hopper knows from Transit Lanek called Unicorn, a band I know nothing about. Nope, it sounds very British folk. David Gilmore of Pink Floyd happened to be in attendance and suggested they all jam on Heart of Gold by Neil Yaw

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