In 1986 Kate Bush released a new single to promote her Whole Story greatest hits album. I say promote, what she presented was a brilliant but extremely unsettling song with an even more unsettling video which was only shown in full on late night TV and in which she appears for a few seconds. Number 23 with a bullet.
Possibly stung by the failure of TOTP to play her terrifying video for Experiment 4, Kate then made an appearance on the otherwise grim early evening Wogan chat show on BBC 1 with a fantastic and semi theatrical mimed performance.
"The Whole Story" album in itself has to be one of the most poorly named albums in pop history, containing as it does a total of 12 singles, one of which is the above, and another is "new vocal" version of Wuthering Heights, thereby removing the actual track which first made such an impact on the nation's conciousness. No room for the hit singles "Hammer Horror", "Them Heavy People", "December Will Be Magic Again", "The Big Sky" or any album tracks at all. being released right on the cusp of CDs beginning their ascent perhaps makes it look more stingy than it was. Then again, it is still the only best of collection, or indeed any kind of complilation, available which is a bit of a crime, and that goes doubly so for video and film releases, nothing since the video casette which doubled the Whole Story album.
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