Vermorel, Fred. The Secret History of Kate Bush (The Strange Art of Pop). Omnibus Press, 1983. pp. 94. In very good condition.

Let's time-travel back to the early eighties of the last century, when both pop and writing about pop could be strange. 

This title, an exploration of fandom disguised as a pop artist biography, recently got reissued--first in French translation, by the independent French press Le Gospel, and then in English again, by Antenna Books. 

Asked by Le Gospel's founder Adrian Durand to describe the book, Vermorel says: "I was interested in producing a book about the music industry, and I was very interested in why people become fans and why they become so obsessed with celebrities, who often aren't very interesting people. I thought that the best way I could understand this would be from the inside; not looking at fans and asking them, but by being a fan myself. And Kate Bush was the only person I could consider that I might be a fan of."

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"I wanted to do something which played with the idea of celebrity, and which would be kind of a pisstake of the way that the media treats celebrity. It was actually a pamphlet, not a book, and I deliberately produced it to look like an EMI Records brochure – it was very glossy and stupid. It followed her career and ended on the night of her conception, that’s how silly it was. To my amazement, it worked a treat. I think people were buying it for the vibe and for the pictures as much as anything else. Also, at that time there was very little information about her, because she was resisting giving interviews or doing any kind of normal publicity."

Meanwhile, Kate Bush is still going strong and strange.