If Kate Bush hadn't spent her EMI advance on dance classes and learnt to move, would she have ever become the star she's remembered as today?

Kate Bush had just released her debut single Wuthering Heights – and one journalist was there to watch it all take off

Kate Bush's first album in 14 years is here — but there's a twist. On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the "Running Up That Hill" singer, along with Imogen Heap, Blur's Damon Albarn and hundreds of other musicians released a silent album in protest of AI using their work following a proposed change to the UK's copyright laws.

It's a Sunderland gig which has never been bettered - at least according to some people who were there 46 years ago.

One thousand musicians call for the UK to abandon a law change that would allow AI companies to train models on copyrighted music without artists' permission

Kate Bush might just be the last great British avant-garde artist. In 1980 she revealed the albums by other experimental entertainers that she liked the best

The album, Is This What We Want?, was released in protest as the British government weighs changes to copyright and AI policies.

Musicians including Kate Bush and Billy Ocean released a “silent record” in outrage at a proposed change to British copyright law.

THE threat of robots stealing musicians’ work has prompted more than 1,000 famous artists to join forces in protest with a “silent album”. Fears are growing over the government’s plans to change

Artists including Kate Bush and Cat Stevens made an album of white noise in empty studios, protesting a U.K. proposal to give AI firms access to copyrighted music.

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According to a statement from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), the UK's "current regime for copyright and AI is holding back the creative industries, media and AI sector from realising their full potential – and that cannot continue".