Kate Bush has introduced The Other Side the discharge of a 4-disc rarities assortment. For the primary time, she’s additionally formally launched the video for her 1991 cowl of Elton John’s “Rocket Man.” Watch it under. The rarities set, first compiled for final 12 months’s 18-LP catalog reissue, arrives March 8. It additionally options her takes on Elton’s “Candle In The Wind” and George and Ira Gershwin’s “The Man I Love,” rarities from movies together with The Golden Compass and Nic Roeg’s Castaway, and beforehand unreleased early demo “Humming.”
Writing in regards to the “Rocket Man” cowl on her web site, Bush says:
I bear in mind shopping for this when it got here out as a single by Elton John. I couldn’t cease taking part in it – I liked it a lot. Most artists within the mid seventies performed guitar however Elton performed piano and I dreamed of with the ability to play like him….
I needed to make it completely different from the unique and thought it may very well be enjoyable to show it right into a reggae model. It meant an incredible deal to me that they selected it to be the primary single launch from the album.
That meant I additionally had the prospect to direct the video which I liked doing – making it a efficiency video, shot on black and white movie, that includes all of the musicians and… the Moon!
Read the total assertion on her website. Videos for 2 extra rarities, “Under The Ivy” and “The Man I Love,” will come out this week, Bush’s publicist says.
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