REISSUES AND BEYOND

CLASSIC POP GOES CRATE-DIGGING TO UNCOVER THE FINEST AND RAREST RELEASES FOR AN INSTANT KATE BUSH RECORD COLLECTION! FROM VINTAGE DELUXE LP REISSUES TO FOREIGN PRESSINGS, HERE’S OUR PICK...

IAN PEEL

EAT THE MUSIC

Kate Bush’s most soughtafter vinyl single is Eat The Music – the promotional UK 7” version, to be precise. The single was released as normal – as the lead single from The Red Shoes – in the US, and it became the follow-up to Rubberband Girl in the Netherlands, but in the UK it never went past promo stage and what few vinyls were pressed were all recalled. As a result, a copy of this 7” single sold on eBay in 2013 for £996 and, a year later, for £1240. But that’s nothing: in 2006 a copy – “purchased prior to ‘release’ through a friend in music retail back in 1993,” the seller explained – went on eBay for a staggering £2,250.

THEM HEAVY PEOPLE & MOVING

One of Kate’s first vinyl releases in Japan is also one of her rarest. Starting off its The Kick Inside campaign, Toshiba EMI issued Kate’s first two singles, Them Heavy People and Moving, as a DJ-only doublepack, and the sleeve – as was standard for Japan at the time – was adorned with an advert, in this case for Seiko watches. Many copies (catalogue number PRP 1046/7) were hand-delivered to DJs and media at the Seventh Tokyo Music Festival in 1978, where Kate also played live. A copy sold on eBay in 2006 for an impressive £700, helped by the seller declaring it as “the third rarest 7” from Kate in the world”!