Re: Seeking Kate promotional poster for TSW

[Chris Williams <chrisw@wwa.com>]

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:26:30 -0500
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>Several years ago (ca. 1992) I remember seeing a promotional poster at a
>record store in St. Louis, USA (Vintage Vinyl) for The Sensual World.  I
>remember the feel of the image more distinctly than the exact details,
>but at the time I had never heard of Kate Bush, and was so awestruck by
>the poster that I bought the CD soon after.

>It featured a B&W image of Kate as a kind of pirate or adventuress,
>scantily clad in a loincloth with a large knife sheathed on her hip -
>sort of a female Indiana Jones thing.  That's how I remember it, anyway.

   That's the cover of the American "Mini-LP". It's a shot from the official
video of the song Babooshka. Kate in a sort of gold bikini with a sword
in her hand, a knife on her hip. The Mini-LP (titled simply "Kate Bush")
was released to launch EMI-America's first release of "Lionheart" and
"Never Forever". The campaign was called "Looking back to see
ahead".

>Over the past several years, I've collected more of her music, and have
>gained a great appreciation of her.  I've looked through the R.M.G ftp
>archives to try to find the image that originally so intrigued me, but
>no luck.  Does anybody out there know what I'm talking about, and would
>they be willing to post or e-mail a link?  I went back to the record
>store some time later, and the poster was long gone.  I'd love to have
>it as wallpaper for my computer, it captures her perfectly.

    It is available in the Wow section of Gaffaweb:
 http://www.gryphon.com/gaffa/wow/

Chris Williams of
   Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
      chrisw@wwa.com
"How perfectly goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" - C. Crumb