As well as being one of the 1970s and ’80s best pop songstresses, Kate Bush was also an artful social commentator, using her music to address topical issues and casting them in a new light. Her 1980 single, ‘Breathing’, which sees the singer imagine a nuclear holocaust from the perspective of an unborn fetus, is the perfect example. To live through the cold war was to live in the shadow of the bomb. The so-called last phase of the geo-political conflict – from 1979 to 1985 – marked a sharp increase in the hostility between the Soviet Union and the...