| King Of The Mountain |  |
| King Of The Mountain | |
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• | Country: UK |
| • | Label/Number: EMI 0946 343524 7 5 | |
| • | Release date: October 24, 2005 | |
| • | Chronology: Kate's 32nd UK single; the 1st from Aerial, with her 41st non-LP track. This is the 4th of 4 (authorized) 7" picture discs. | |
| • | Highest chart position: 4 | |
| • | Cover drawing by Bertie (Kate's son) | |
| • | King Of The Mountain Lyrics | |
| • | What it's about: A lament about the loneliness and the loss of innocence and anonymity one suffers when they become famous. (But after seeing the video, it could just be "a song about Elvis"...) | |
| • | Running time: 4:45 | |
| • | Sexual Healing Lyrics | |
| • | What it's about: Ummm... Sex. | |
| • | Running time: 5:35 | |
| • | Etc: King Of The Mountain marked Kate's return from a 9 year, 4 month drought. It was her first new material since Mná na hÉireann in May, 1996. | |
| • | Etc2: It was written and recorded in 1996, but sat on the shelf for nearly 10 years. | |
| • | Etc3: Sexual Healing, a cover of the Marvin Gaye classic, was originally recorded in 1994 for Davy Spillane's East Wind CD. It was played at her 1994 Hippodrome convention, but never made it onto the Spillane CD. | |
| • | Etc4: For reasons unknown, King Of The Mountain was released in the US first -- nearly a full month earlier than the "official" commercial release in her native country. | |
| • | Etc5: UK (and internet) fans actually got the FIRST listen 6 days earlier -- on the Ken Bruce radio show on BBC2, at 10:08AM (UK time) on September 21. | |
| • | Etc6: This is credited as a UK release on this page, but it's an EU pressing (issued over a 2-3 day period all over Europe). |
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