Every time a
slightly quirky female singer emerges comparisons with Kate Bush are never far
behind. Yet in 1975, some three years before `Wuthering Heights`, there was
Noosha Fox. Though she was not a solo artist nor penned her own material there
is something in her charismatic presentation that seems to foreshadow Bush’s
subsequent image to some extent. Noosha Fox’s time in the spotlight was
comparatively brief and she remains destined to be a footnote rather than a
chapter in the history of pop music but it’s an intriguing note
nonetheless. At a time when most of
pop’s unconventional performers were male she brought something a little
different to the party.
