Kate Bush fits in an English visionary tradition that reaches through William Blake, John Piper, Barbara Jones writers like Arthur Machen, Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair and filmmakers such as Powell and Pressburger and Derek Jarman and performers inc. Robert Wyatt, Syd Barratt and Throbbing Gristle. The vein of exoticism that is as profoundly English as all your keeping-it-real bods and their earthy polemics.

She is a fundamental presence in that (largely untold) backstory of the nation and as such A Very Important Person.