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KATE BUSH The Kick Inside ORIGINAL 1978 UK EMI PRESS UNPLAYED/MINT- FULLY LAMINATED, GLOSSY COVER - GREAT SOUND

UK EMI RECORDS (EMC 3223) ORIGINAL PRESSING OF KATE BUSH'S  1978 DEBUT LP "The Kick Inside"
UNPLAYED MINT VINYL...
PRESSED ON MID-WEIGHT VINYL (140g) WITH THE FIRST ISSUE EMI LABELS
MATRIX & ETCHING: YAX 5389-2 (etched "RemBer Yourself!") / YAX 5390-1
This is the rare variant first press with mispelled "rember" etched into dead wax.
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL DEEPLY LAMINATED AND GLOSSY SINGLE SLEEVE WITH PRINTED LYRICS, MADE BY “Garrod & Lofthouse” AND DATE CODED '7802' (1978, February)
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL BOXED 'IMPORTANT NOTICE', 'CARE OF YOUR RECORD' EMI COMPANY INNER SLEEVE WITH ALL TEXT PRINTED IN BLACK AND DATE CODED '378' (March, 1978)

"Kate Bush's first album, The Kick Inside, released when the singer/songwriter was only 19 years old (but featuring some songs written at 15 and recorded at 16), is her most unabashedly romantic, the sound of an impressionable and highly precocious teenager spreading her wings for the first time.
The centrepiece is "Wuthering Heights," which was a hit everywhere except the United States (and propelled the Emily Brontë novel back onto the best-seller lists in England), but there is a lot else here to enjoy: The disturbing "Man with the Child in His Eyes," the catchy rocker "James and the Cold Gun," and "Feel It," an early manifestation of Bush's explorations of sexual experience in song, which would culminate with "Hounds of Love."
As those familiar with the latter well know, she would do better work in the future, but this is still a mightily impressive debut."

Side 1: Moving / The Saxophone Song / Strange Phenomena / Kite / The Man With The Child In His Eyes / Wuthering Heights
Side 2: James And The Cold Gun / Feel It / Oh To Be In Love / L’Amour Looks Something Like You / Them Heavy People / Room For The Life / The Kick Inside

LABELS: MINT
Clean, bright and fresh labels - no spindle traces or signs the record has ever been played
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces shine like new
VINYL Audio: MINT-
Wonderful LP with deep, warm and strong audio reproduction - a very impressive EMI cut - crystal clear, full, rich and detailed sound.
SLEEVE Excellent condition sleeve with just minor laminate scuffing on edges due to many years storage in plastic sleeve.