“She has an ability to focus on and give to the camera something special about herself which might only last a fraction of a second. It’s quite a mysterious process.” – Gered Mankowitz. Diving into The Sensual World, 1989 (TS/KEYSTONE USA/REX FEATURES)

“She succeeded in looking and sounding both utterly true to herself and yet also conveniently in tune with the mood music of the mid-Eighties: big hair and great melodic hooks.” (TOM SHEEHAN/LFI)

“If Bush had planned to seriously pursue acting, she may have needed a substantial amount of assistance.” Appearing as Angela Watkins in the Comic Strip’s 1990 film, Les Dogs.

“It was a weird, fractious, fragmented time, and nothing seemed to gel.” – Haydn Bendall. Bush puts on a brave face amidst the upheaval of making The Red Shoes and The Line, The Cross And The Curve. (TS/KEYSTONE USA / REX FEATURES)

Bush lashes out at an intrusive photographer as Del Palmer plays peacemaker, February, 1991.

“She ain’t daft. People shouldn’t be fooled by the mystical, hippie stuff. This girl is very, very tough.” – Brian Southall. A wary Bush scans the landscape for enemy fire. (KEVIN CUMMINS/GETTY IMAGES)

“Much of Bush’s creative world spins out from a very tight-knit cluster of central spokes.” Prime examples include (clockwise from top left) Terry Gilliam, Midge Ure, David Gilmour, the man who first brought her to the attention of EMI, and Peter Gabriel.
TOP LEFT: (CLIVE DIXON/REX FEATURES), TOP RIGHT: (REX FEATURES), ABOVE LEFT: (RICHARD YOUNG/REX FEATURES), ABOVE RIGHT: (DAVE HOGAN/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES)

“She turned up in an audience of her peers and got the best reception of anybody throughout the event; that was something completely undistorted by ‘the legend’, and she was knocked out by it.” – Tony Wadsworth. Bush briefly re-enters public life at the Q Awards, October 29, 2001. (RICHARD YOUNG/REX FEATURES)

An increasingly rare public appearance, attending a music industry reception at Buckingham Palace, March 1, 2005. (FIONA HANSON/TIM GRAHAM PICTURE LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES)

“Now I’ve got something really special to put on top of the Christmas tree.” Bush collects her CBE from the Queen at Windsor Castle, April 10, 2013. (©PA ARCHIVE/PA)

“What a lovely afternoon …” Bush, mannequin, puppet master and band drift into ‘A Sky Of Honey’ during Act II of ‘Before The Dawn’. (GAVIN BUSH/REX FEATURES)

“She looked both entirely ordinary and utterly remarkable: powerful, fierce, radiant, a benevolent Gothic goddess.”(GAVIN BUSH/REX FEATURES)

Bertie McIntosh as the artist in ‘Before The Dawn’. (GAVIN BUSH/REX FEATURES)

“One of the most extraordinary pieces of imaginative theatre ever staged by a popular musician.” Bush performs ‘The Ninth Wave’ during ‘Before The Dawn’. (GAVIN BUSH/REX FEATURES)