There is this linear theme if you will, that surfaces though her music and lyrics and through the images she creates in all of her work including this video.

Take the reading of “Rocket Man,” written by another soulmate, Elton John, arranged with fiddle and uilleann pipes into loping Celtic reggae (something to do, perhaps, with the “high as a kite” line? The 12” versions, more extensions than reinventions, include the unhinged “meterological mix” of the Hounds Of Love single “Big Sky,” pumped up with machine-gun handclaps and didgeridoo drones. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada A veteran Canadian broadcaster, Bob Mersereau specializes in popular music writing.Classic Pop magazine rated the set 9/10, stating "it's hard to believe these gems were mere flip-sides". Bob is the author of the Top 100 Canadian Albums, a national best-seller published in 2007, and The Top 100 Canadian Singles, published in September 2010, both from Goose Lane Editions.

Track 4-6 taken from Brazil (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Milan 74321 11124-2, 1992). To promote the release, Kate has officially published the 1991 video for Rocket Man for the very first time. Vincent Clark, whose confession of tipsy karaoke-ing “Wuthering Heights” is one of the highlights of that delicious 2014 Bush documentary. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. They gave me complete creative control and although it was a bit daunting to be let loose on one of my favourite tracks ever, it was really exciting.

Anyone who has even the slightest interest in her should treat themselves to this excellent collection, because it should appeal equally both to the avid fan and also to anyone who just enjoys delicious and intelligent music. The four CDs celebrate b-sides, 12-inch mixes, rare tracks and cover versions - with one CD being devoted to covers including Kate's versions of Elton John's 'Rocket Man' and 'Candle in the Wind,' and George and Ira Gershwin's 'The Man I Love'. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Kate Bush will release her The Other Sides B-side compilation as a standalone 4CD set and has also officially made available the video for her 1991 cover of Elton John‘s Rocket Man and spoken about the making of the song and the video.This set finally bundles the evidence: 34 tracks, including some of the avant-pop auteur’s most gorgeous, extravagant, intimate, and bonkers material — b-sides, remixes, and an album’s-worth of stray, often strange covers. Back in November, Rhino had a hand in releasing two box sets – or possibly four box sets, depending on whether you favor CDs or LPs, respectively – which were widely considered among the best reissues of 2018: Kate Bush’s REMASTERED sets. This song was always my favorite Elton John song and when she sang it, her version became my favorite.