Kate Bush Announces Four-Disc Rarities Album, Shares "Rocket Man" Video from 1991

Kate Bush has announced a new four-CD collection titled The Other Sides will be dropping March 8 via Rhino. The release consists of rarities like B-sides, alternate takes, soundtrack songs for films such as Brazil, The Golden Compass, and Castaway, plus covers of Elton John’s “Rocket Man” and “Candle in the Wind,” as well as George and Ira Gershwin’s “The Man I Love.” Today, she’s shared a self-directed video for “Rocket Man” from 1991 which won The Observer readers' award for Greatest Cover of all time in 2007. On her website, Bush says this about the cover and video:

“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!”

Videos “Under The Ivy” and “The Man I Love,” are reported to come out this week. The Other Sides follows last year's reissuing of Bush’s entire back catalog on vinyl and CD. She also released her first book, a collection of her song lyrics spanning the past 40 years titled How To Be Invisible: Selected Lyrics at the end of 2018. Check out the tracklist and watch the rather hilarious throwback video for “Rocket Man” below.