Kate Bush Announces Rarities Album, Shares “Rocket Man” Cover Video: Watch

Kate Bush has announced The Other Side, a 4-disc rarities collection. For the first time, she’s also officially released the video for her 1991 cover of Elton John’s “Rocket Man.” Watch it below. The rarities set, first compiled for last year’s 18-LP catalog reissue, arrives March 8. It also features her takes on Elton’s “Candle In The Wind” and George and Ira Gershwin’s “The Man I Love,” rarities from films including The Golden Compass and Nic Roeg’s Castaway, and previously unreleased early demo “Humming.”

Writing about the “Rocket Man” cover on her website, Bush says:

I remember buying this when it came out as a single by Elton John. I couldn’t stop playing it - I loved it so much. Most artists in the mid seventies played guitar but Elton played piano and I dreamed of being able to play like him....

I wanted to make it different from the original and thought it could be fun to turn it into a reggae version. It meant a great deal to me that they chose it to be the first single release from the album.

That meant I also had the chance to direct the video which I loved doing - making it a performance video, shot on black and white film, featuring all the musicians and... the Moon!

Read the full statement on her website. Below, check out a rare TV performance of Bush’s rarity “Under the Ivy.”

The Other Side:

Disc One: 12" mixes

01 Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
02 The Big Sky (Metereological Mix)
03 Cloudbusting (The Organon Mix)
04 Hounds Of Love (Alternative Mix)
05 Experiment 1V (Extended Mix)

Disc Two: The Other Side 1

01 Walk Straight Down The Middle
02 You Want Alchemy
03 Be Kind To My Mistakes
04 Lyra
05 Under The Ivy
06 Experiment 1V
07 Ne t’enfuis pas
08 Un baiser d’enfant
09 Burning Bridge
10 Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 2012 Remix

Disc Three: The Other Side 2

01 Home For Christmas
02 One Last Look Around The House Before We Go…….
03 I’m Still Waiting
04 Warm And Soothing
05 Show A Little Devotion
06 Passing Through The Air
07 Humming
08 Ran Tan Waltz
09 December Will Be Magic
10 Wuthering Heights (Remix)

Disc Four: In Others’ Words

01 Rocket Man
02 Sexual Healing
03 Mna Na Heireann
04 My Lagan Love
05 The Man I Love
06 Brazil (Sam Lowry’s First Dream)
07 The Handsome Cabin Boy
08 Lord Of The Reedy River
09 Candle In The Wind

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