Darren Hayes: A Coral Room by Kate Bush is the most perfect song of all time

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When the UK singer returned after a 12-year career hiatus with a song about motherhood and death, it cracked the Savage Garden singer wide open – and gave him a roadmap for his own life

was mysterious and alluring, and as I got older I started to become fascinated with artists who were producers of sound as well as poets. Kate’s indifference to fame has always given me something to hold on to in a treacherous industry.Aerial in 2005

she addressed grief in so many ways – not just the loss of her mother but the kind of grief I’ve addressed turning 50 as well: grief at how time can take things from us in slow ways. There’s this piano riff that sounds like time slowing down, and Kate describes the jug falling and breaking. The first time I heard it my heart ripped out of my chest because I realised this was her mother falling ill, or leaving this plane. Then she brings back this metaphor about the spider, and now it’s something terrifying because a little spider crawls out of the broken jug. And I think about that association we have when life leaves something and insects move in.

 

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