About the artist: Kate Bush (1958) is a British singer/songwriter, who in 1978 topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single Wuthering heights. Many hits (singles and albums) followed. She is generally seen as one of the greatest influences on a generation of female pop/rock artists who came after her. Kate Bush currently has seven songs in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time (and one as a part of a duo).
About the song: the deceptively simple ballad The man with the child in his eyes is the real gem of her 1978 debut album The kick inside. Her voice, so immature in the big hit Wuthering heights (in fact, she decided to re-record it for a greatest hits compilation), has just the right character in this peculiar love song, which she wrote at the ripe old age of fourteen - the mind boggles! A fan once aptly described it as "a song so perfect you could stick a nail in it and hang it on the wall." It was a surprising choice for the second single, but did well in its own right, reaching the UK top 10. Run time 2:40.
