This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning, everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today.

Well, who has dominated the conversation over the past few days?

Kate Bush.

Yes.

I mean, depending on which websites you read, the fans either are madly in love with her or they think the whole thing is just a pretentious laugh.

And she's, they call her secretive.

So there was a picture this morning of her leaving the venue.

And there's obviously a photographer there.

And she's covering her face with her hand.

It's all to sort of add to the mystique, isn't it?

This is a woman who didn't even acknowledge her son, who was born in 1999. and she's covering her face with her hand. It's all to sort of add to the mystique, isn't it?

This is a woman who didn't even acknowledge her son, who was born in 1998, for five years,

until I think Peter Gabriel let it slip that she had a son who's called Bertie.

He continued to live with his mother and father in Berkshire. He's 16. He goes to school.

She says he's the inspiration, which is great. Nobody has a problem with it. But it's the, she keeps up, the whole thing is an act. I think the whole thing is

just one sort of act. Music is Bertie's passion. They're obviously quite happy as a family.

And she, I think, writes in the, in the programme and says that, you know,

this is a journey and it's a fantastic adventure and it's only just begun. It's all the kind of

ramblings of somebody who's a bit doolally. You know, they write about this. It's, oh, it's been a journey

so far and we've done this and that. Bear in mind, she's not been on stage for 35 years. She's got fantastic reviews.

The albums have started going back into the charts. People are discovering Kate Bush. Will she

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