Re: The Lost Single (?)

[jsd@gaffa.mit.edu (Jon Drukman)]

"There Goes A Tenner" is known as the "lost" single because it was
pretty much abandoned by the record company after its release.
According to reports, EMI never really liked "The Dreaming" (cretins!)
and thought it wasn't "commercial" or "accessible" (their terminology)
or "shitty" (my word) enough for Top 40 Hit Stardom Status, so they
didn't spend a lot of money trying to make it a hit.  This is known
(in the biz) as letting a product "escape." So, they let "The
Dreaming" escape and it still got to #3 or something like that.
Pretty respectable showing, whatever the number was.  Meanwhile, Kate
keeps getting the business oriented shitheads to release singles, and
she makes videos for them, and all this great cover art, and meanwhile
the record company just sort of quietly sends these things out in what
Douglas Adams might call "a huge blaze of No Publicity At All." So,
"There Goes A Tenner" was released quietly, without fanfare, and
probably (I am not sure) vanished without trace, chart-wise.  Of
course, when "Hounds Of Love" was made, EMI got behind it 100% and it
became a phenomenal chartbusting success. 

BTW, for those interested in seeing "the real" Cloudbuster - don't get
too excited.  It's a metal tube pointing up at the sky.  Stick with
the H.R. Giger version.

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