Stoking the star-maker machinery : 1980 : Kate Bush, EMI Records & Metro Radio

"I'm SO sorry," I grovelled to the petite musician on whose foot I had just accidentally trodden. We were stood side-by-side in the record library - my 'office' - of local commercial station 'Metro Radio' in Newcastle. Kate Bush was kindly autographing several copies of the new album she was visiting to promote, which were about to be awarded as competition prizes to listeners. She had just been interviewed live on-air by one of the station's daytime presenters and was soon to be whisked away by car to visit yet another local station somewhere across the country.